Columbia's Ships (Our Ships)

DESCRIPTION: Columbia's ships are as wide ranging "as those from ... realms that boast dominion over the sea." They range "from zone to zone, from pole to pole." "Hurrah for ...Columbia's ships and ... seamen bold"
AUTHOR: Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865) (source: sundry poetry web sites)
EARLIEST DATE: 1849 (copyright date for "Poems for the Sea," although it was not published until 1850)
KEYWORDS: pride travel commerce sea ship patriotic America China England India nonballad sailor whaler
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Frank-JollySailorsBold 53, "Columbia's Ships" (1 text, 3 tunes)
ADDITIONAL: Mrs. L[ydia] H[untley] Sigourney, _Poems for the Sea_, H. S. Parsons & Co., Hartford, 1850 (available on Google Books), pp. 11-14, "Our Ships" (1 text)
NOTES [38 words]: Lydia Huntley Sigourney was a productive poet; Granger's Index to Poetry lists fourteen of her poems, four of them with music. This piece is not one of them, and I didn't recognize any of the other poems by their titles. - RBW
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File: FJSB053

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