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American poems, selected and original


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PREFACE.
  
POSTSCRIPT.
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SELECTED POETRY.
  
ELEGY ON THE TIMES.
  
An ELEGY,
  
AMBITION.
  
The PROPHECY of BALAAM.
  
The DOWNFALL of BABYLON.
  
THE SPEECH OF PROTEUS TO ARISTÆUS,
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The TRIAL of FAITH.
 1. 
Part I. Daniel, Chap. I.
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PART II. Daniel, Chap. II.
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PART III. Daniel, Chap. III.
  
ADDRESS OF THE GENIUS OF COLUMBIA,
  
COLUMBIA.
  
The SEASONS Moralized.
  
A HYMN,
  
A SONG.
  
THE CRITICS.
  
EPISTLE to Col. HUMPHRYES.
  
The PROSPECT of PEACE.
  
A POEM,
  
An ELEGY
  
An ELEGY
  
An ELEGY
  
MOUNT VERNON:
  
AN ODE.
  
The GENIUS of AMERICA.
  
An EPISTLE to DR. DWIGHT.
  
A SONG.
  
EPITAPH
  
THE HYPOCRITE's HOPE.
  
ON GENERAL ETHAN ALLEN.
  
AN ORATION,
  
PHILOSOPHIC SOLITUDE.
  
DESCRIPTIVE LINES,
  
ODE
  
INVOCATION TO HOPE.
  
PRAYER TO PATIENCE.
  
LINES,
  
ALFRED TO PHILENIA.
  
PHILENIA TO ALFRED.
  
ALFRED TO PHILENIA.
  
PHILENIA TO ALFRED.
  
POEM,
  
AN INTENDED INSCRIPTION
  
ELEGIAC ODE,
  
THE COUNTRY SCHOOL.
  
THE SPEECH OF HESPER.
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[“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]
  
ELLA. A Norwegian Tale.
  
EULOGIUM ON RUM.
  
THE COUNTRY MEETING.
  
Written at SEA, in a heavy GALE.
  
TO ELLA.
  
TO ELLA.
  
TO ELLA.
  
[The Lord of light has journey'd down the sky]
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ORIGINAL POETRY.

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The western sun beam round his helmet flies,
He more than man appears;
And more than mortal seem'd to sound the voice
That rang upon their ears.
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