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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But now the time was come, our fair
Should all the plagues of passion share,
And after ev'ry heart she'd won,
By sad disaster lose her own.
So true the ancient proverb sayeth,
‘Edge-tools are dang'rous things to play with;’

The fisher, ev'ry gudgeon hooking,
May chance himself to catch a ducking;
The child that plays with fire, in pain
Will burn its fingers now and then;
And from the dutchess to the laundress,
Coquettes are seldom salamanders.

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