Autograph of 'Sonnet | By the Revd John Moultrie', beginning 'Now Lady, that our parting is so nigh'.
Author:
Rev. John Moultrie (1799-1874), Church of England clergyman, poet and hymn writer; educated at Eton College; teacher at Rugby School and friend of Dr Thomas Arnold
Publication details:
Place not stated. 3 May 1825.
£95.00
SKU: 12931
1p., 4to. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with loss to one corner and edge from breaking of wafer. Removed from an album, and with '90' in another hand in one corner. Headed 'Sonnet | By the Revd John Moultrie', and with 'May 3d. 1825.' at the foot. With four minor autograph emendations. The sonnet begins: 'Now Lady, that our parting is so nigh, | Fain would I think that thou, in future hours, | Amidst thine own Dunedins queenly towers, | Or haply Scotland's mountain scenery, | Wilt tow'rd the South turn no unkindly eye,'. Docketted in pencil at foot: 'Pupil of Geo Keate | published Poem "Godiva" | At Rugby with Dr Arnold'. Published, with the text as amended, in Robert Fletcher Housman's 1835 'Collection of English Sonnets', and as 'Sonnet X' in the 1838 edition of Moultrie's 'Poems'.