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My Mind and its Thoughts, in Sketches, Fragments, and Essays

Morton, Sarah Wentworth (1759-1846)

My Mind AND ITS THOUGHTS, IN SKETCHES, FRAGMENTS, AND ESSAYS;

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CHARACTERISTIC SONGS.

SUCCESSFUL LOVER.

TO A BEAUTIFUL INFANT.

LINES TO A LADY, DANCING.

LINES IMPROMPTU,

TRIBUTARY LINES

TO THE HON. JOHN JAY.

TO HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN JAY,

SONNET, TO MAJOR GENERAL LINCOLN.

SONNET TO THE FULL SUMMER MOON.

SONNET TO ADVERSITY.

STANZAS TO AARON BURR.

LINES TO MRS. MONTGOMERY.

THE AFRICAN CHIEF.

CHARACTERISTIC PORTRAIT.

THE STAR GAZER.

MORTAL AND IMMORTAL.

MONODIES, Elegies, and Stanzas.

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Let her imploring tear and sigh,
Yield to the thought that ye are nigh;
Guarding with blest paternal eye,
The action of her woes.