The miscellaneous essays and occasional writings of Francis Hopkinson, Esq

Hopkinson, Francis (1737-1791)

VOLUME I.

VOLUME II.

VOLUME III.

TO THE Rev. Mr. WILLIAM SMITH,

ODE ON MUSIC.

SONG.

To Miss ---,

To THE MEMORY OF Mr. WILLIAM WILLCOCKS,

On THE LATE SUCCESSFUL EXPEDITION AGAINST LOUISBOURG.

A PROLOGUE

EPILOGUE FOR TAMERLANE,

A PROLOGUE

CHARITY, A POEM.

DESCRIPTION OF A CHURCH.

TO A VERY YOUNG LADY.

TO THE MEMORY OF Mrs. MARY M'KEAN.

POLITICAL BALLADS,

The BATTLE OF THE KEGS.

A CAMP BALLAD.

THE TOAST.

The BIRDS, the BEASTS, and the BAT.

THE MOST GRACIOUS ADDRESS

IN MEMORY OF Mr. JAMES BREMNER.

SONG I. Come, fair Rosina, come away

SONG II. My love is gone to sea

SONG III. Beneath a weeping willow's shade

SONG IV. Enraptur'd I gaze when my Delia is by

SONG V. See down Maria's blushing cheek

SONG VI. O'er the hills far away, at the birth of the morn

SONG VII. My gen'rous heart disdains

SONG VIII. The traveller benighted and lost

AN ORATION,

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To Miss ---,

On HER KIND ASSISTANCE IN THE VOCAL PARTS OF AN ORATORICAL EXERCISE, PERFORMED AT THE COLLEGE OF Philadelphia.

I.

The pleasing task be mine, sweet maid!
To spread thy growing fame;
For early virtues such as thine
An early honour claim.

II.

'Twas nobly done, to lend thy voice
And soft harmonious song,
When Freedom was the rapturous theme
That warbled from thy tongue.

III.

Yet lovely fair! thy voice, tho' sweet,
We should not most admire;
Good-nature, and the kind intent,
A nobler praise require.

IV.

Let not the merit all be plac'd
In thy harmonious skill;
'Tis not the deed obliges most,
The virtue's in the will.

V.

Thus still proceed, above all pride;
Such themes be ever thine:
So to the good shalt thou be dear,
And favour'd by the Nine.

Alluding to a song which she sung in praise of Freedom.

University of Virginia Library

To Miss ---,

On HER KIND ASSISTANCE IN THE VOCAL PARTS OF AN ORATORICAL EXERCISE, PERFORMED AT THE COLLEGE OF Philadelphia.

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