The poetical works of John Trumbull .

Trumbull, John (1750-1831)

VOL. I.

M'FINGAL,

CANTO I. THE TOWN-MEETING, A.M.

CANTO II. THE TOWN-MEETING, P. M.

CANTO III. THE LIBERTY POLE.

CANTO IV. THE VISION.

VOL. II.

THE PROGRESS OF DULNESS.

PREFACE.

PART I. OR THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BRAINLESS.

PART II. OR THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF DICK HAIRBRAIN.

PART III. OR THE ADVENTURES OF MISS HARRIET SIMPER.

PREFACE TO PART THIRD.

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THE GENIUS OF AMERICA;

LINES ADDRESSED TO MESSRS. DWIGHT AND BARLOW,

ODE TO SLEEP.

TO A YOUNG LADY, Who requested the Writer to draw her Character.

THE SPEECH OF PROTEUS TO ARISTÆUS, CONTAINING THE STORY OF ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE;

THE PROPHECY OF BALAAM.

THE OWL AND THE SPARROW.

PROSPECT OF THE FUTURE GLORY OF AMERICA:

ON THE VANITY OF YOUTHFUL EXPECTATIONS.

ADVICE TO LADIES OF A CERTAIN AGE.

CHARACTERS.

AN ELEGY, ON THE DEATH OF MR. BUCKINGHAM ST. JOHN.

THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON:

AN ELEGY ON THE TIMES:

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Now to some pop'lous city sent,
She comes back prouder than she went;
Few months in vain parade she spares,
Nor learns, but apes, politer airs;
So formal acts, with such a set air,
That country manners far were better.
This springs from want of just discerning,
As pedantry from want of learning;
And proves this maxim true to sight,
The half-genteel are least polite.

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