Poems, dramatic and miscellaneous

Warren, Mercy Otis (1728-1814)

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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

To Mrs. MONTAGUE, Author of “Observations on the Genius and Writings of Shakespeare.”

To TORRISMOND.

A POLITICAL REVERIE.

To Mr. ---.

On a Survey of the Heavens.

On the Death of Mrs. S. ---, who died within a few Days after her Marriage.

The SQUABBLE of the SEA NYMPHS;

To a Young Lady,

To the Hon. J. WINTHROP, Esq.

To FIDELIO,

To Honoria, on her Journey to Dover, 1777.

LINES,

To a Young Gentleman, residing in France.

To a patriotic Gentleman, who presented a small Book of Bark, requesting a POEM might be written therein, on PRIMITIVE SIMPLICITY.

SIMPLICITY.

On the Death of the Hon. JOHN WINTHROP, Esq. L. L. D. Hollisian Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy, at Harvard College, Cambridge.

LINES,

To an amiable Friend,

The Genius of America weeping the absurd Follies of the Day.—October 10, 1778.

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Grey Neptune rose, and from his sea green bed,
He wav'd his trident o'er his oozy head;
He stretch'd, from shore to shore, his regal wand,
And bade the river deities attend:
Triton's hoarse clarion summon'd them by name,
And from old ocean call'd each wat'ry dame.

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