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Specimens of American poetry

with critical and biographical notices

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VOL. I.
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VOL. II.
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JOEL BARLOW.
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GEORGE RICHARDS
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MERCY WARREN.
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THOMAS DAWES
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RICHARD DEVENS
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SAMUEL DEXTER
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ST JOHN HONEYWOOD
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ROYALL TYLER
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RICHARD ALSOP.
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THEODORE DWIGHT.
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SARAH WENTWORTH MORTON
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JOSIAS LYNDON ARNOLD
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WILLIAM BOYD
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WILLIAM CLIFFTON.
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ROBERT TREAT PAINE.
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JOHN LATHROP.
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JOSEPH STORY.
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DAVID EVERETT
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THOMAS GREEN FESSENDEN.
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JOHN BLAIR LINN
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JOHN SHAW.
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WILLIAM LEIGH PIERCE
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LUCIUS M. SARGENT
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WILLIAM RAY.
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WILLIAM CRAFTS
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SELLECK OSBORN.
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WASHINGTON ALLSTON
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WILLIAM MAXWELL
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ROBERT S. COFFIN
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WILLIAM B. WALTER
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RICHARD DABNEY
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WASHINGTON IRVING
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HENRY T. FARMER
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JAMES K. PAULDING
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PAUL ALLEN.
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LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY.
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ROBERT C. SANDS
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ROBERT DINSMOOR
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SAMUEL WOODWORTH
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JOHN PIERPONT.
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HENRY PICKERING
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HENRY C. KNIGHT
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F. S. KEY
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KATHARINE A. WARE.
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SARAH J. HALE.
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ENOCH LINCOLN
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JOHN C. M'CALL
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EDWIN C. HOLLAND
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DANIEL BRYAN
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ALONZO LEWIS.
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NATHANIEL APPLETON HAVEN
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JAMES N. BARKER
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GEORGE WASHINGTON DOANE
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NATHANIEL H. WRIGHT
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SOLYMAN BROWN
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JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
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JAMES ABRAHAM HILLHOUSE
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THOMAS WELLS
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WILLIAM B. TAPPAN
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SAMUEL H. JENKS
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ANTHONY BLEECKER.
  
ON REVISITING THE COTTAGE OF ROSA IN EARLY SPRING, AFTER A LONG ABSENCE.
  
TRENTON FALLS, NEAR UTICA.
  
JUNGFRAU SPAIGER'S APOSTROPHE TO HER CAT.
  
EPITAPH OF MORNAI DU PLESSIS, IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF GROTIUS.
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G. A. GAMAGE
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ALBERT G. GREENE
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WILLIAM H. BRADLEY
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SAMUEL DEANE.
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SAMUEL GILMAN.
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VOL. III.

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RAPIDS IN LOVE.

There are rapids in love, but they fall as they flow,
Thus pleasure inhabits the bodies of wo,
And the tears of their union though sunbeams illume,
They meet in the rainbow, and part in the gloom.
There are rapids in love, but they must be past o'er
By those who will not be confined to the shore;
Even danger has charms when it points to delight,
And morning is lovelier for following night.
Let us risk the descent—our barks shall combine,
Our hopes and our hearts shall together incline:
Love beckons us on to the perilous wave,
One moment shall ruin us both, or shall save.
Protect us, ye stars of the fond and the true,
The dangers of lovers are sacred to you;
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The rapids are over,—surviving, secure,
In the sea of delight our barks we will moor.
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