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The works, in verse and prose, of the late Robert Treat Paine, Jun. Esq

With notes

Paine, Robert Treat (1773-1811)

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1.

PART I. JUVENILE POEMS.

[Bright is the sun beam, smiling after showers]

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF BOWDOIN.

[Blest be the sage, whose voice has sung]

[Ye, who enjoy the bliss of social ease]

[Vice lives coeval with the age of time]

ON SENSIBILITY.

[The unweeting swain, while Nature round him spreads]

THE REFINEMENT OF MANNERS AND PROGRESS OF SOCIETY.

A VALEDICTORY POEM

THE NATURE AND PROGRESS OF LIBERTY.

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REFLECTIONS ON A LONELY HILL, WHICH COMMANDED THE PROSPECT OF A BURYING GROUND.

[When ---'s graces bid the pencil break]

[Sage Cadmus, hail! to thee the Grecians owed]

TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST ECLOGUE OF VIRGIL.

TRANSLATION OF THE TENTH ODE, SECOND BOOK OF HORACE.

TRANSLATION OF THE FIFTH ODE, FIRST BOOK OF HORACE

STANZAS ON RECEIVING A FROWN FROM CYNTHIA.

TRANSLATION OF THE NINTH ODE, THIRD BOOK, OF HORACE.

THE LAURELLED NYMPH.

ODE TO COMPASSION.

THE GOLDEN AGE.

[Such bounteous flowerets from so fair a hand]

VERSES TO A YOUNG LADY, LATELY RECOVERED FROM SICKNESS.

TRANSLATED FROM SAPPHO.

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PART II. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

EDWIN AND EMMA.

A MONODY, TO THE MEMORY OF W. H. BROWN.

SELF-COMPLACENCY.

[Where'er the vernal bower, the autumnal field]

ADDRESSED TO MISS B.

SONNET TO ELIZA.

SONNET TO BELINDA.

MENANDER TO PHILENIA.

PHILENIA TO MENANDER.

MENANDER TO PHILENIA.

SONNET TO PHILENIA, ON A STANZA, IN HER ADDRESS TO MYRA.

THE COUNTRY GIRL TO MENANDER.

STANZAS TO THE COUNTRY GIRL.

THE COUNTRY GIRL TO MENANDER.

SONNET TO THE COUNTRY GIRL.

SONNET, TO ANNA-LOUISA, ON HER ODE TO FANCY.

STANZAS TO ANNA, ON HER VISIT TO PHILADELPHIA.

STANZAS TO A YOUNG LADY ON A BAMBOO FAN, ACCIDENTALLY TORN.

THE PRIZE PROLOGUE:

THE INVENTION OF LETTERS:

THE RULING PASSION;

DEDICATORY ADDRESS;

EPILOGUE TO THE SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER.

[Farewell, a long farewell! dear patrons, friends]

EPILOGUE TO THE CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTER.

EPILOGUE TO THE POOR LODGER.

MONODY ON THE DEATH OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR JOHN MOORE.

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PART III. ODES AND SONGS.

ODE. RISE COLUMBIA.

ODE. ADAMS AND LIBERTY.

SONG. TO ARMS, COLUMBIA!

SONG. RULE NEW-ENGLAND.

ODE. THE STREET WAS A RUIN.

ODE. SPIRIT OF THE VITAL FLAME.

SONG. THE YEOMEN OF HAMPSHIRE.

SONG. THE GREEN MOUNTAIN FARMER.

ODE. SPAIN, COMMERCE AND FREEDOM.

ELEGIAC SONNET,

[True, gentle bard, should lovely Grace]

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So fair a form was ne'er by Heaven designed
But with its charms to enslave and bless mankind.
So pure a mind, such high unrivalled worth,
But to recall a paradise on earth!

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Then, ye fair Nine, the trembling muse inspire;
In raptured notes awake her feeble lyre;
Now swell your boldest strains! Maria's praise
Claims all the majesty of Homer's lays.