- Full Text
- In this wide world the scene of woe,
let virtue be thy choice
From her clear stream, all comforts flow,
that can the soul rejoice.
- Listed on Page Number
- 332
- Sampler Worked By
- Elizabeth Groveer
- Date of Sampler
- July 16, 1784
- Place Sampler Made
- Philadelphia, PA
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 49
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- “Verses from a Lady to her Daughter, upon her Birth-day, the 15th of December.” Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Vol. 49, Issue 344, Dec. 1771, London: John Hinton and W. Bent, p. 318 And “Verses from a Lady to her Daughter, upon her Birth-day, the 15th of December.” The Gentleman’s Magazine, Sylvanus Urban, ed. Vol. 41, Dec. 1771, London: D.
- Notes
- Also stitched by:
Lewis, Elizabeth. n.d., n.p., p. 60;
Cutler, Abigail Bigelow. 1808, Rockingham, VT, p. 145;
Dockray, Mary. 1829, n.p., p. 149;
Harding, Mary. 1820, Medway, p. 168;
Hatfield, Emeline. Cir. 1823, NY, p. 170;
Lane, Judith. 1811, n.p., p. 186.
https://archive.org/details/sim_new-universal-magazine-or-miscellany_1771_49_344urce.
And
https://archive.org/details/s2492id1330012
This anonymous poem appears in the same month and year in both these sources.