Three poems, one of which was written February 1830

Three handwritten poems: "The Birthday" which begins "Sixteen years have before me rolled/The seventeenth I've met/And may I live as though my soul/Would meet an after life." "Thoughts on Contemplating the Close of Life" which begins "My friends mourn not for me/But rather for yourselves/Mourn not that I am called from thee/To dwell with Christ above." Untitled poem - lines composed upon an address to the scholars by the minister of the town. Poem dated February 1830. Poem begins "May I in future recollect/And ever keep in mind/Those words which were so kindly spoke/To instruct the youthful mind."