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American poems, selected and original

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SELECTED POETRY.

ELEGY ON THE TIMES.

The PROPHECY of BALAAM.

The DOWNFALL of BABYLON.

THE SPEECH OF PROTEUS TO ARISTÆUS,

The TRIAL of FAITH.

ADDRESS OF THE GENIUS OF COLUMBIA,

The SEASONS Moralized.

EPISTLE to Col. HUMPHRYES.

The PROSPECT of PEACE.

The GENIUS of AMERICA.

An EPISTLE to DR. DWIGHT.

THE HYPOCRITE's HOPE.

ON GENERAL ETHAN ALLEN.

PHILOSOPHIC SOLITUDE.

DESCRIPTIVE LINES,

INVOCATION TO HOPE.

PRAYER TO PATIENCE.

ALFRED TO PHILENIA.

PHILENIA TO ALFRED.

ALFRED TO PHILENIA.

PHILENIA TO ALFRED.

AN INTENDED INSCRIPTION

THE COUNTRY SCHOOL.

THE SPEECH OF HESPER.

[“Help! oh, help! thou God of Christians]

NEW YEAR's WISH.

From a Gentleman, to a Lady, who had presented him with a Cake Heart.

[Let sage discretion the gay world despise]

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ELLA. A Norwegian Tale.

EULOGIUM ON RUM.

THE COUNTRY MEETING.

Written at SEA, in a heavy GALE.

[The Lord of light has journey'd down the sky]

ORIGINAL POETRY.

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They upward gaze—a warrior struck their sight;
He bore aloft his lance,
All sheath'd in arms, insufferably bright,
Where beamy splendours dance.