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The poetical writings of Fitz-Greene Halleck, with extracts from those of Joseph Rodman Drake

Halleck, Fitz-Greene (1790-1867)

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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
  
MARCO BOZZARIS.
  
ALNWICK CASTLE.
  
BURNS.
  
WYOMING.
  
ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE,
  
TWILIGHT.
  
PSALM CXXXVII.
  
TO ---.
  
THE FIELD OF THE GROUNDED ARMS.
  
RED JACKET.
  
LOVE.
  
A SKETCH.
  
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.
  
MAGDALEN.
  
FROM THE ITALIAN.
  
TRANSLATION.
  
WOMAN.
  
A POET'S DAUGHTER.
  
CONNECTICUT.
  
MUSIC.
  
ON THE DEATH OF LIEUT. WILLIAM HOWARD ALLEN,
  
TO WALTER BOWNE, ESQ.,
  
THE IRON GRAYS.
  
AN EPISTLE TO ---.
  
FANNY.
  
THE RECORDER.
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YOUNG AMERICA.
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III.
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IV.
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V.
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ADDITIONAL POEMS.
  
A FRAGMENT.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
ADDRESS.
  
THE RHYME OF THE ANCIENT COASTER.
  
LINES
  
TRANSLATION FROM THE FRENCH OF VICTOR HUGO.
  
ALBUM VERSES.
  
ODE TO GOOD-HUMOR.
  
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF GENERAL LALLEMAND.
  
THE VISION OF ELIPHAZ.
  
A POETICAL EPISTLE.
  
THE BLUEBIRD.
  
HONOR TO WOMAN.
  
TO ELLEN.
  
MEMORY.
  
RELIGION.
  
THE TEMPEST.
  
LINES
  
IN HER ISLAND HOME.
  
TRANSLATION FROM THE GERMAN.
  
FORGET-ME-NOT.
  
THE PILGRIMS.
  
A FAREWELL TO CONNECTICUT.
  
TO LOUIS GAYLORD CLARK, ESQ.
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THE CROAKERS.
  
TO ENNUI.
  
ON PRESENTING THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY
  
THE SECRET MINE,
  
BONY'S FIGHT.
  
TO MR. POTTER,
  
TO MR. SIMPSON,
  
THE NATIONAL PAINTING.
  
THE BATTERY WAR.
  
TO CROAKER, JUNIOR.
  
A VERY MODEST LETTER FROM ONE GREAT MAN TO ANOTHER.
  
TO THE SURGEON-GENERAL OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
  
TO JOHN MINSHULL, ESQ.,
  
THE MAN WHO FRETS AT WORLDLY STRIFE.
  
TO E. SIMPSON, ESQ.,
  
TO JOHN LANG, ESQ.
  
TO DOMESTIC PEACE.
  
TO E. SIMPSON, ESQ.,
  
TO CAPTAIN SEAMAN WEEKS,
  
ABSTRACT OF THE SURGEON-GENERAL'S REPORT.
  
TO AN ELDERLY COQUETTE
  
TO ---, ESQUIRE.
  
ODE TO IMPUDENCE.
  
TO MRS. BARNES,
  
TO SIMON,
  
A LOVING EPISTLE
  
THE FORUM.
  
ODE TO FORTUNE.
  
THE LOVE OF NOTORIETY.
  
AN ODE TO SIMEON DE WITT, ESQ.,
  
TO E. SIMPSON, ESQ.,
  
THE COUNCIL OF APPOINTMENT AT ALBANY.
  
THE MILITIA OF THE CITY.
  
AN ADDRESS
  
EPISTLE TO ROBERT HOGBIN, ESQ.,
  
LAMENTINGS.
  
TO QUACKERY.
  
TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE ACADEMY OF ARTS.
  
CUTTING.
  
THE DINNER-PARTY.
  
THE NIGHTMARE.
  
THE MODERN HYDRA.
  
THE TEA-PARTY.
  
THE MEETING OF THE GROCERS.
  
THE KING OF THE DOCTORS.
  
TO THE BARON VON HOFFMAN,
  
A LAMENT FOR GREAT MEN DEPARTED.
  
THE GREAT MORAL PICTURE.
  
GOVERNOR CLINTON'S SPEECH

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LAMENTINGS.

“I cannot but remember such things were,
And were most precious to me.”
Macduff.

Oh! where are now the lights that shed
A lustre o'er my darkened hours,
The priests of pleasure's fane, who spread,
Each night beneath my weary head,
Endymion's moonlight couch of flowers?
No more in chains of music bound,
I listen to those airy reels,
When quavering Philipps cuts around
Fantastic pigeon-wings of sound,
Like Byrne,

Mr. Byrne, a dancer from Paris, was performing at the Park Theatre.

who, without touching ground,
Eleven times can cross his heels.
No longer Cooper's tongue of tongues,
Pumps thunder from his stormy lungs;
Turner

Mr. Turner and Mr. Magenis were public lecturers in the rooms of the City Hotel.

has shut his classic pages,
Southward his face Magenis

Mr. Turner and Mr. Magenis were public lecturers in the rooms of the City Hotel.

turns,
And for the halls of Congress spurns
The mansion of our civic sages.
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And Wallack,

James W. Wallack and Mrs. Bartley were great favorites with the theatre-goers of that day. The melologue referred to in the poem was written for Mrs. B. by Thomes Moore.

too, no longer dips
In bathos, for the tragic prize;
And Bartley,

James W. Wallack and Mrs. Bartley were great favorites with the theatre-goers of that day. The melologue referred to in the poem was written for Mrs. B. by Thomes Moore.

a melalogue that slips
Melodious from her honeyed lips,
No more in murmured music dies.
Yet, though fell Fortune has bereft
My heart of all, one mode is left
In slumber's vision to restore 'em;
Weekly I'll buy with pious pence,
A dose of opiate eloquence,
And sleep in quiet at the Forum.
D.
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