WorkJames Freeman Clarke

“untitled prayer-poem ('Father! we ask...'), 'The Bridge, by Moonlight”

James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888) · from the Boston Pearl, Niagara, June 17, 1834

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Documented 1839

Journals

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1846

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Journal April 1839

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“Father! we ask / The strong conviction which thy spirit brings / To touch the secret springs / And kindle life in natures cold & weak. ... God!”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal April 1839." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (Box A); Box 5 (99).

The first poem is an untitled spiritual/prayer lyric on pp. 63–64, also signed J.F.C. Both poems cataloged in a single row per the manuscript de-duplication rule.