The poem was penned earlier at Constable Hall while visiting his cousin, Mary McVicker, in what is now known as Constableville, NY.Ī Visit from St. Moore had not wished at first to be connected with the unscholarly verse, given his public reputation as an erudite professor. Moore himself acknowledged authorship when he included it in the 1844 anthology of his works Poems, at the insistence of his children, for whom he had originally written the piece. The poem was first attributed in print to Moore in 1837. The poem, “arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American”, was first published anonymously in the Troy, New York, Sentinel on December 23, 1823, having been sent there by a friend of Moore. Located on land donated by the “Bard of Chelsea” himself, the seminary still stands today on Ninth Avenue between 20th and 21st Streets. Moore was an American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in New York City.
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