These lovely volumes are sure to land a treasured place on your shelves if only for their decorative look. But if you dare to open and read, you won't likely leave them there. You will weep when you read "Poems on the Death of Three Children", not one but actually three poems written as an eyewitness account of the loss of three children to a contagious illness in mid-19th century America. As difficult as the poems are to read, they present in vivid fashion the hard reality of life in an earlier era. The author of this collection of works is Jean Ingelow, a masterful American poet and woman of Christian faith who once was among America's prominent authors, but has since slipped into the recesses of our literature. Own this beautiful and moving collection of poems, capturing the delights of love, birth, marriage, faith, death and other episodes of life in 19th century America. You'll be glad you did!