American poems, selected and original. Vol. I.
- Title
- American poems, selected and original. Vol. I.
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- Litchfield [Conn.]: :: Printed by Collier and Buel. (The copy-right secured as the act directs.),
- [1793]
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- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry.
- Poems -- 1793.
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Contents
- title page
- PREFACE.
- POSTSCRIPT.
- CONTENTS.
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AMERICAN POEMS. SELECTED POETRY.
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ELEGY OF THE TIMES. First printed at
BOSTON, Sept. 20 th,1774. -
AN ELEGY, On the death of Mr.
BUCKINGHAM ST. JOHN; who was drowned in his passage from New-Haven to Norwalk,May BY THE SAME.5 th,1771. - AMBITION. AN ELEGY. BY THE SAME.
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THE PROPHECY OF BALAAM. Numbers: Chap. xxiii.
24 . AnIRREGULAR ODE . Written,Anno BY THE SAME.1773. -
THE DOWNFALL OF BABYLON. An Imitation of sundry passages in the thirteenth and fourteenth Chapters of the Prophecy of Isaiah, and the eighteenth Chapter of the Revelations of St. John. Written,
anno 1775. BY THE SAME. -
THE SPEECH OF PROTEUS TO ARISTAEUS, CONTAINING THE STORY OF ORPHEUS AND EURIDICE Translated from the fourth Book of Virgil's Georgies. A Collegiate Exercise: Written,
Anno 1770. BY THE SAME. - THE TRIAL OF FAITH.
- THE TRIAL OF FAITH. BY THE SAME.
- THE TRIAL OF FAITH. BY THE SAME.
- ADDRESS OF THE GENIUS OF COLUMBIA, TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CONTINENTAL CONVENTION. BY THE SAME.
- COLUMBIA. BY THE SAME.
- THE SEASONS MORALIZED. BY THE SAME.
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A HYMN, Sung at the PUBLIC EXHIBITION of the SCHOLARS, be|longing to the Academy in Greenfield,
May 2d, 1788. BY THE SAME. - A SONG. BY THE SAME.
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THE CRITICS. A FABLE. Written
September 1785. 'To every general rule there are exceptions.'—Common Sense. BY THE SAME. -
EPISTLE TO COL. HUMPHRYES. GREENFIELD,
1785. BY THE SAME. - THE PROSPECT OF PEACE.
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A POEM,
Spoken at the PUBLIC COMMENCEMENT at YALE-COL|LEGE, in NEW-HAVEN,
Sept. 12, 1781. BY THE SAME. -
AN ELEGY On the late honorable TITUS HOSMER, Esq. one of the Counsellors of the State of Connecticut, a Member of Congress, and a Judge of the Maritime Court of Appeals for the United States of America. INSCRIBED TO MRS. LYDIA HOSMER, Relict of the late honorable
TITUS HOSMER , Esq. As a testimony of the Author's veneration for the many amiable virtues which rendered her the delight and ornament of so worthy a Consort, and still render her an honour to a very numerous and respectable acquaintance. BY THE SAME. -
AN ELEGY On the burning of
FAIRFIELD, inCONNECTICUT . Written on the spot,—anno 1779. - AN ELEGY ON LIEUTENANT DE HART, Vol. Aid to Gen. Wayne. BY THE SAME.
- MOUNT VERNON: AN ODE. BY THE SAME.
- AN ODE. ADDRESSED TO LAURA. BY THE SAME.
- THE GENIUS OF AMERICA. A SONG. Tune,—The watry God, &c. BY THE SAME.
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AN EPISTLE TO DR. DWIGHT. On board the Courier de l'Europe,
July 30, 1784. BY THE SAME. - A SONG. Translated from the French. BY THE SAME.
- EPITAPH On a Patient killed by a Cancer Quack.
- THE HYPOCRITE's HOPE. BY THE SAME.
- ON GENERAL ETHAN ALLEN. BY THE SAME.
- AN ORATION, Which might have been delivered to the Students in Ana|tomy, on the late Rupture between the two Schools in this city.
- PHILOSOPHIC SOLITUDE.
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DESCRIPTIVE LINES, Written at the request of a Friend, upon the surrrounding Prospect from
BEACON-HILL inBOSTON . - ODE TO THE PRESIDENT, On his visiting the Northern States. BY THE SAME.
- INVOCATION TO HOPE. BY THE SAME.
- PRAYER TO PATIENCE. BY THE SAME.
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LINES, Addressed to the inimitable
Author of thePoems under the signature ofDella Crusca . BY THE SAME. - ALFRED TO PHILENIA.
- PHILENIA TO ALFRED.
- ALFRED TO PHILENIA.
- PHILENIA TO ALFRED.
- POEM, Written in Boston, at the commencement of the late Revolution.
- AN INTENDED INSCRIPTION, Written for the Monument on Beacon-Hill, in Boston, and ad|dressed to the Passenger. BY THE SAME.
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ELEGIAC ODE, Sacred to the Memory of General
GREENE . - THE COUNTRY SCHOOL.
- THE SPEECH OF HESPER.
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From the New-Haven Gazette, and Connecticut Magazine, for
1788. TO THE PRINTER. - NEW YEAR's WISH.
- From a Gentleman, to a Lady, who had presented him with a CAKE HEART. BY THE SAME.
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From the American Magazine, for
May UTRUM HORUM MAVIS, ELIGE.1788. - ELLA. A NORWEGIAN TALE.
- EULOGIUM ON RUM.
- THE COUNTRY MEETING.
- WRITTEN AT SEA, IN A HEAVY GALE.
- TO ELLA.
- TO ELLA.
- TO ELLA.
- poem
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ELEGY OF THE TIMES. First printed at
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ORIGINAL POETRY.
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AN ELEGY, WRITTEN IN
FEBRUARY 1791. - VERSIFICATION OF A PASSAGE FROM THE FIFTH BOOK OF OSSIAN'S TEMORA. BY THE SAME.
- HABAKKUK, CHAP. III. BY THE SAME.
- RUNIC POETRY. TWILIGHT OF THE GODS; OR DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD. FROM THE EDDA, A SYSTEM OF ANCIENT SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. BY THE SAME.
- EXTRACT FROM THE CONQUEST OF SCANDINAVIA; BEING THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FOURTH BOOK. BY THE SAME.
- ODE TO CONSCIENCE.
- COLOLOO,—AN INDIAN TALE, Thrown into English Verse.
- ODE TO TIME.
- AN ODE, ADDRESSED TO MISS ****.
- MESSAGE OF MORDECAI TO ESTHER. FROM A MANUSCRIPT POEM. BOOK II,—THE CONCLUSION.
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ESTHER AND MORDECAI.
BOOK III. —(The Beginning.)
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AN ELEGY, WRITTEN IN
- LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS.
- ERRATA.