The poems of Philip Freneau. Written chiefly during the late war.
- Title
- The poems of Philip Freneau. Written chiefly during the late war.
- Author
- Freneau, Philip Morin, 1752-1832.
- Publication
- Philadelphia: :: Printed by Francis Bailey, at Yorick's Head, in Market Street.,
- MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]
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- Subject terms
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry.
- Poems -- 1786.
- Link to this Item
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- Cite this Item
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Contents
- half title
- title page
- CONTENTS.
- ADVERTISEMENT.
- THE POETICAL HISTORY OF THE PROPHET JONAH.
- THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT. A DIALOGUE.
- THE MONUMENT OF PHAON.
- THE POWER OF FANCY.
- THE PRAYER OF ORPHEUS.
- THE DESERTED FARM-HOUSE.
- THE CITIZEN's RESOLVE.
- EPITAPH
- EPITAPH OF PETER ABELARD.
- THE DYING ELM.
- COLUMBUS TO FERDINAND.
- THE RISING GLORY OF AMERICA.
- RETIREMENT.
- DISCOVERY.
- THE DISTREST ORATOR.
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Libera nos, Domine —DELIVER US, O LORD. - GENERAL GAGE's SOLILOQUY.
- THE MIDNIGHT CONSULTATIONS, OR, A TRIP TO BOSTON.
- THE DESOLATE ACADEMY.
- THE SEA-FARING BACHELOR.
- ON THE CONQUEROR OF AMERICA SHUT UP IN BOSTON.
- THE VERNAL AGUE.
- FEMALE FRAILTY.
- MAC SWIGGEN; A SATIRE.
- THE HOUSE OF NIGHT: A VISION.
- THE JAMAICA FUNERAL.
- THE BEAUTIES OF SANTA CRUZ.
- PSALM CXXXVII VERSIFIED.
- AMERICA INDEPENDENT— AND Her EVERLASTING DELIVERANCE from BRITISH TYRANNY and OPPRESSION.
- STANZAS On the New AMERICAN FRIGATE ALLIANCE.
- ON THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN NICHOLAS BIDDLE, Commander of the RANDOLPH Frigate, Blown up near Barbadoes—1776.
- CAPTAIN JONES's INVITATION.
- GEORGE III. HIS SOLILOQUY FOR 1779.
- THE RETORT.
- A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY and Mr. Fox.
- THE BRITISH PRISON SHIP.
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ON THE MEMORABLE VICTORY OBTAINED By the gallant captain PAUL JONES, of the
Good Man Richard , over theSeraphis , &c. under the command of captain PEARSON. - TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON.
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COPY OF AN INTERCEPTED LETTER FROM A
New-York TORY, to his friend inPhiladelphia , 1781. -
TO LORD CORNWALLIS, At YORK—VIRGINIA,
October 8, 1782. - DIALOGUE BETWEEN The Lords DUNMORE and MANSFIELD, 1781.
- AN EPISTLE FROM Lord CORNWALLIS to Sir HENRY CLINTON.
- A MORAL THOUGHT.
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ON THE FALL OF GENERAL EARL CORNWALLIS, Who, with above seven thousand Men, surrendered themselves prisoners of war, to the renowned and illustrious General GEORGE WASHINGTON, com|mander in chief of the allied armies of France and America, on the memorable 19th of
October , 1781. -
TO THE MEMORY OF THE Brave AMERICANS, under General GREENE, who fell in the action of
September 8, 1781. - PLATO, the PHILOSOPHER, TO His FRIEND THEON.
- PROLOGUE.
- STANZAS OCCASIONED By the Ruins of a Country INN, unroofed and blown down in a Storm.
- THE ROYAL ADVENTURER.
- LORD DUNMORE's PETITION TO THE Legislature of VIRGINIA.
- EPIGRAM OCCASIONED By the Title of Rivington's ROYAL GAZETTE being scarcely legible.
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LINES OCCASIONED By Mr. Rivington's New Titular Types to his ROYAL GAZETTE, of
February 27, 1782. - ON MR. RIVINGTON's New Engraved KING'S ARMS TO His ROYAL GAZETTE.
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A SPEECH THAT Should have been spoken by the King of the Island of
Britain to his Parliament. - RIVINGTON's LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.
- A PROPHECY.
- THE POLITICAL BALANCE; OR, THE Fates of BRITAIN and AMERICA compared.
- SIR HARRY's CALL.
- A DIALOGUE, At HYDE-PARK Corner.
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ON THE LATE Royal Sloop of War,
Gen. MONK, [Formerly the WASHINGTON] Mounting Six quarter deck▪ Wooden Guns. - TRUTH ANTICIPATED.
- THE SAILOR's INVITATION.
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SONG, ON Captain BARNEY's victory over the ship
General Monk . - ON Sir HENRY CLINTON'S RECALL.
- SIR GUY CARLETON's ADDRESS TO THE AMERICANS.
- THE ENGLISH QUIXOTE OF 1778; OR, MODERN IDOLATRY.
- THE PROJECTORS.
- ON A LADY's SINGING BIRD, A NATIVE OF The Canary Islands, confined in a very small Cage.
- LINES, OCCASIONED BY Gen. Robertson's PROCLAMATION.
- THE TENTH ODE OF HORACE'S Book of EPODES, imitated.
- PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS.
- PRINCE WILLIAM HENRY's SOLILOQUY.
- THE FLAGELLATORS.
- SATAN's REMONSTRANCE.
- TO A WRITER WHO SUBSCRIBES HIMSELF "A FOE TO TYRANTS."
- TO THE "FOE TO TYRANTS."
- TO THE "FOE TO TYRANTS," ON His FAREWELL.
- THE NEW-YORK REFUGEES PETITION TO Sir GUY CARLETON.
- SIR GUY's ANSWER.
- TO THOSE WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
- TO THOSE WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
- THE PROPHECY OF KING TAMMANY.
- RIVINGTON's REFLECTIONS.
- RIVINGTON's REFLECTIONS.
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CITY ofNEW-YORK, Jan.1, 1783 . -
STANZAS, OCCASIONED BY The Departure of the BRITISH from CHARLESTON,
December 14, 1782. -
STANZAS, OCCASIONED BY The King's SPEECH, recommending Peace with the American States—
March , 1783. -
A NEW-YORK TORY's EPISTLE TO One of his Friends in PENNSYLVANIA.—Written previous to his departure for
Nova-Scotia . - RIVINGTON's CONFESSIONS.
- NEW-YORK.
- RIVINGTON's CONFESSIONS.
- THE DYING INDIAN, OR LAST WORDS of SHALUM.
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LINES, INTENDED FOR Mr. Peale's EXHIBITION, Philadelphia,
May 10, 1784. - VERSES, OCCASIONED BY General WASHINGTON'S arrival in Philadelphia, on his way to his seat in Virginia.
- HUMANITY AND INGRATITUDE; A COMMON CASE. [FROM THE FRENCH.]
- PEWTER PLATTER ALLEY.
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VERSES MADE At SEA, in a
heavy gale . - ELEGIAC VERSES ON THE DEATH of a favourite DOG.
- THE PROGRESS OF BALLOONS.
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LINES OCCASIONED BY The Death of General JOSEPH REED—
March , 1785. - THE FIVE AGES.
- TO THE GREAT—THE WARLIKE—THE UN|ITED —THE INDEPENDENT AMERICANS!
- STANZAS ON The EMIGRATION to AMERICA, and peopling the Western Country.
- THE SEASONS MORALIZED.
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NEW YEAR's VERSES, ADDRESSED To those Gentlemen who have been pleased to favour
Francis Wrigley , News Carrie, with their custom. - NEW YEAR's VERSES, ADDRESSED TO The Customers of the PENNSYLVANIA EVENING POST, by the Printer's Lad who carries it.
- NEW YEAR's VERSES, ADDRESSED TO The Customers of the FREEMAN's JOURNAL, by the Lad who carries it.
- NEW YEAR's VERSES, FOR Those who carry the PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE to the Customers.
- NEW YEAR's VERSES, ADDRESSED To the Customers of the FREEMAN'S JOURNAL, by the Lad who carries it.
- NEW YEAR's VERSES, ADDRESSED To the Customers of the FREEMAN'S JOURNAL, by the Lad who carries it.
- THE LITERARY PLUNDERERS.
- SKETCHES OF AMERICAN HISTORY.
- SKETCHES OF AMERICAN HISTORY.