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Specimens of American poetry
with critical and biographical notices
1.
VOL. I.
PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
COTTON MATHER.
ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON.
ON THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER.
Some offers to Embalm the Memory of the truly reverend and renowned John Wilson; the first Pastor of Boston, in New England; Interr'd (and a great part of his Country's Glory with him) August 11, 1667. Aged 79.
REMARKS
ROGER WOLCOTT.
[Brief Account of the Agency of the Honorable John Winthrop, Esq. in the Court of King Charles the Second, Anno Dom. 1662; when he obtained a Charter for the Colony of Connecticut.]
MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH.
VANITY OF VANITIES.
THE DAY OF DOOM.
BENJAMIN COLMAN.
ON ELIJAH'S TRANSLATION,
JANE TURELL.
A PARAPHRASE OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOURTH PSALM.
TO MY MUSE.
ON THE POEMS OF SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE.
AN INVITATION INTO THE COUNTRY, IN IMITATION OF HORACE.
JOHN ADAMS.
ADDRESS TO THE SUPREME BEING,
[Version of the Apocalypse]
[Translation of an Ode of Horace]
JAMES RALPH.
ZEUMA, OR THE LOVE OF LIBERTY.
FROM THE FIRST BOOK.
FROM THE THIRD BOOK.
JOHN MAYLEM.
THE CONQUEST OF LOUISBOURG.
THOMAS GODFREY.
THE COURT OF FANCY.
EPISTLE TO A FRIEND.
NATHANIEL EVANS.
EPISTOLARY ODE TO A FRIEND.
ODE ON THE PROSPECT OF PEACE. 1761.
ODE TO MY INGENIOUS FRIEND, MR THOMAS GODFREY.
HYMN TO MAY.
VERSES FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1762.
ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF MR THOMAS GODFREY.
JOHN OSBORN.
A WHALING SONG.
ELEGIAC EPISTLE,
MATHER BYLES.
THE CONFLAGRATION.
THE GOD OF TEMPEST AND EARTHQUAKE.
ELEGY,
HYMN WRITTEN DURING A VOYAGE.
JOSEPH GREEN.
[Lines on Byle's Voyage]
A MOURNFUL LAMENTATION FOR THE DEATH OF MR OLD TENOR.
[Law bears the name, but money has the power]
Extempore on the fourth latin school being taken down to make room for enlarging the chapel church.
WILLIAM LIVINGSTON.
PHILOSOPHIC SOLITUDE.
BENJAMIN CHURCH.
THE TIMES.
LINES ON THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE II.
JAMES ALLEN.
LINES ON THE MASSACRE.
THE RETROSPECT.
AN INTENDED INSCRIPTION FOR THE MONUMENT ON BEACON-HILL, IN BOSTON.
ON WASHINGTON'S VISIT TO BOSTON. 1789.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
PAPER.
JOHN TRUMBULL.
M'FINGAL.
JONATHAN MITCHELL SEWALL
WAR AND WASHINGTON.
FRANCIS HOPKINSON.
THE BATTLE OF THE KEGS.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
LINES ON THE QUARREL AMONG THE STUDENTS IN ANATOMY IN PHILADELPHIA.
ANN ELIZA BLEECKER.
TO MISS TEN EYCK.
TO MR BLEECKER, ON HIS PASSAGE TO NEW YORK.
AN EVENING PROSPECT.
PEACE.
RETURN TO TOMHANICK.
MARGARETTA V. FAUGERES.
THE HUDSON.
ON A PAINTER.
TIMOTHY DWIGHT.
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE PEQUODS.
THE FARMER'S ADVICE TO THE VILLAGERS.
COLUMBIA.
THE CRITICS.
THE WORSHIP OF THE GIBEONITES.
BATTLE BEFORE THE WALLS OF AI.
EVENING AFTER A BATTLE.
PROCESSION OF ISRAELITISH VIRGINS TO MEET THE RETURNING ARMY.
LAMENTATION OF SELIMA FOR THE DEATH OF IRAD.
DAVID HUMPHREYS.
ADDRESS TO THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES.
THE MONKEY WHO SHAVED HIMSELF AND HIS FRIENDS.
LEMUEL HOPKINS.
[The Anarchiad]
ON A PATIENT KILLED BY A CANCER QUACK.
THE HYPOCRITE'S HOPE.
PHILIP FRENEAU.
THE DYING INDIAN.
THE WILD HONEYSUCKLE.
THE MAN OF NINETY.
THE INDIAN STUDENT: OR, FORCE OF NATURE.
THE HURRICANE.
THE FIVE AGES.
EPISTLE TO A GAY YOUNG LADY WHO WAS MARRIED TO A DOATING OLD DEACON.
THE INDIAN BURYING GROUND.
TO THE MEMORY OF THE BRAVE AMERICANS UNDER GENERAL GREENE, IN SOUTH CAROLINA, WHO FELL IN THE ACTION OF SEPTEMBER 8, 1781.
PORT ROYAL.
ELIJAH FITCH.
THE BEAUTIES OF RELIGION.
SARAH PORTER
THE ROYAL PENITENT. PART II.
WILLIAM MOORE SMITH
THE FALL OF ZAMPOR.
ODE TO MEDITATION.
LAMPOON.
JOHN D. M'KINNON
THE MOHAWK.
SAMUEL LOW
WINTER.
TO A VIOLET.
TO A SEGAR.
TO THE GENIUS OF POETRY.
BENJAMIN PRATT
DEATH.
JOSEPH LATHROP
THE EXISTENCE OF A DEITY.
STEPHEN SEWALL
ON THE DEATH OF GEORGE II.
JAMES BOWDOIN
WOMAN.
JOHN LOWELL
LINES.
PETER OLIVER
[Lines]
WILLIAM LADD.
AROUET TO AMANDA.
REMONSTRANCE OF ALMASA ALLICAWN, WIFE OF ALMAS ALLICAWN, TO WARREN HASTINGS.
THE WAR HORSE.
RETIREMENT.
WHAT IS HAPPINESS?
EDWARD CHURCH.
THE DANGEROUS VICE *********.
SAMUEL EWING.
REFLECTIONS IN SOLITUDE.
ST GEORGE TUCKER.
STANZAS.
J. HOPKINSON.
HAIL COLUMBIA.
RICHARD B. DAVIS
TO A SLEEPING INFANT.
THOU ART THE MUSE.
TO EMMA.
2.
VOL. II.
JOEL BARLOW.
THE HASTY PUDDING.
1.
CANTO I.
2.
CANTO II.
3.
CANTO III.
FROM THE VISION OF COLUMBUS.
EMBASSY OF ROCHA.
GEORGE RICHARDS
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
MERCY WARREN.
SIMPLICITY.
THOMAS DAWES
THE LAW GIVEN AT SINAI.
RICHARD DEVENS
[Paraphrase of Job]
SAMUEL DEXTER
THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE.
ST JOHN HONEYWOOD
ON THE PRESIDENT'S FAREWELL ADDRESS.
ON THE CAPTURE OF ROME BY THE FRENCH.
MODERN ARGUMENTATION.
ROYALL TYLER
COUNTRY ODE FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY.
MY MISTRESSES.
ADDRESS TO DELLA CRUSCA.
CHOICE OF A WIFE.
ON A RUINED HOUSE IN A ROMANTIC COUNTRY.
THE TOWN ECLOGUE.
RICHARD ALSOP.
ECHO NO. I.
VERSES TO THE SHEARWATER—ON THE MORNING AFTER A STORM AT SEA.
THE INCANTATION OF ULFO.
THEODORE DWIGHT.
AFRICAN DISTRESS.
ECHO NO. 14.
LINES ON THE DEATH OF WASHINGTON.
LINES ADDRESSED TO A MOTHER, WHO HAD BEEN ABSENT FROM HOME SEVERAL WEEKS, ON HER SEEING HER INFANT CHILD ASLEEP.
SARAH WENTWORTH MORTON
THE AFRICAN CHIEF.
JOSIAS LYNDON ARNOLD
A MODERN ECLOGUE.
THE WARRIOR'S DEATH SONG.
FRAGMENT, DESCRIPTIVE OF THOSE EXTRAORDINARY ANIMALS WHOSE BONES HAVE BEEN FOUND IN THE WESTERN COUNTRY.
SONG.
WILLIAM BOYD
WOMAN.
WILLIAM CLIFFTON.
MARY WILL SMILE.
TO A ROBIN.
TO FANCY.
A FLIGHT OF FANCY.
ROBERT TREAT PAINE.
ADAMS AND LIBERTY.
THE STREET WAS A RUIN.
ODE SUNG AT THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE FAUSTUS ASSOCIATION.
JOHN LATHROP.
SPEECH OF CANONICUS.
JOSEPH STORY.
FROM THE POWER OF SOLITUDE.
DAVID EVERETT
A BRANCH OF THE MAPLE.
THOMAS GREEN FESSENDEN.
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF WASHINGTON.
AN ODE.
TABITHA TOWZER.
SIGNIOR SQUEAK'S DANCING ADVERTISEMENT.
JOHN BLAIR LINN
THE POWERS OF GENIUS.
JOHN SHAW.
THE AUTUMNAL FLOWER.
SONG.
WILLIAM LEIGH PIERCE
THE YEAR.
LUCIUS M. SARGENT
THE PLUNDERER'S GRAVE.
WILLIAM RAY.
TRIPOLI.
THE WAY TO BE HAPPY.
VILLAGE GREATNESS.
WILLIAM CRAFTS
RAPIDS IN LOVE.
SERENADE SONG.
SELLECK OSBORN.
THE RUINS.
THE QUARRELS OF LOVE.
THE SAILOR.
WASHINGTON ALLSTON
THE PAINT KING.
WILLIAM MAXWELL
THE REVERY.
THE PRIZE.
TEA.
TO A FAIR LADY.
ROBERT S. COFFIN
SONG.
WILLIAM B. WALTER
ROMANCE.
RICHARD DABNEY
THE SPRING OF LIFE.
A WESTERN WAR SONG.
THE HEROES OF THE WEST.
TURN NOT TO THE EAST.
TO A LADY.
WASHINGTON IRVING
THE FALLS OF THE PASSAIC.
HENRY T. FARMER
THE BATTLE OF THE ISLE.
1.
PART I.—THE ISLE.
2.
PART II.—THE NIGHT.
3.
PART III.—THE VISIT.
4.
PART IV.—THE BATTLE.
JAMES K. PAULDING
THE BACKWOODSMAN.
PAUL ALLEN.
NOAH.
2.
CANTO. II.
[section]
CRYSTALINA.
LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY.
EXCUSE FOR NOT FULFILLING AN ENGAGEMENT.
THE CORAL INSECT.
DEATH OF AN INFANT.
WITH WILD FLOWERS TO A SICK FRIEND.
MISSOLONGHI.
BURIAL OF THE YOUNG.
TO THE MOON.
A VISION OF THE ALPS.
CONNECTICUT RIVER.
FLORA'S PARTY.
MUSING THOUGHTS.
ROBERT C. SANDS
YAMOYDEN.
PROEM.
[section]
SONG.
ODE TO THE MANITTO OF DREAMS.
SONG OF THE POW-WAHS.
ROBERT DINSMOOR
THE BRAES OF GLENNIFFER.
SAMUEL WOODWORTH
THE BUCKET.
THE LANDSEND.
LOVE'S EYES.
THE PRIDE OF THE VALLEY.
WREATH OF LOVE.
JOHN PIERPONT.
AIRS OF PALESTINE.
THE PILGRIM FATHERS.
WARREN'S ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS, BEFORE THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL.
ON LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT.
INDEPENDENCE.
FOR A LADY'S ALBUM.
HENRY PICKERING
TO A BEAUTIFUL LAKE.
DAPHNE.
FLOWERS.
I THOUGHT IT SLEPT.
TO THE FRINGILLA MELODIA.
THE WATERFALL.
DESCRIPTIVE SONNETS.
SUNLIGHT ON THE WATER.
AUTUMNAL PICTURE: A SKETCH.
THE RAINBOW AFTER A SUMMER TEMPEST.
EVENING SUNLIGHT.
HENRY C. KNIGHT
THE COUNTRY OVEN.
F. S. KEY
STAR SPANGLED BANNER.
KATHARINE A. WARE.
THERE IS A VOICE.
GREECE.
THE PARTING.
SARAH J. HALE.
THE FATHER'S CHOICE.
THE VICTOR'S CROWN.
THE LIGHT OF HOME.
THE GIFTS.
THE MOTHER TO HER CHILD.
ENOCH LINCOLN
THE VILLAGE.
JOHN C. M'CALL
THE TROUBADOUR.
EDWIN C. HOLLAND
THE PILLAR OF GLORY.
RISE COLUMBIA.
DANIEL BRYAN
LAFAYETTE.
ALONZO LEWIS.
DEATH SONG.
THE MINSTREL'S LOVE.
THE WANDERER OF AFRICA.
NATHANIEL APPLETON HAVEN
LINES ON FREDERIC THE GREAT.
THE PURSE OF CHARITY.
AUTUMN.
JAMES N. BARKER
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD.
GEORGE WASHINGTON DOANE
THAT SILENT MOON.
OH! THAT I HAD WINGS LIKE A DOVE.
LINES, SUGGESTED BY A VERY BRILLIANT SUN-SETTING.
SPIRIT OF SPRING.
ON A VERY OLD WEDDING RING.
THE CLOUD BRIDGE: A REMEMBERED VISION.
NATHANIEL H. WRIGHT
THE ISLE OF FLOWERS.
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.
SOLYMAN BROWN
LADY BYRON TO HER HUSBAND.
THE EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL.
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
JAMES ABRAHAM HILLHOUSE
HADAD. SCENE III.
AN APOLOGUE.
THOMAS WELLS
AT MUSING HOUR.
SOLITUDE.
A VISION.
THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS.
SONNET.
WILLIAM B. TAPPAN
RETROSPECTION.
WHY SHOULD WE SIGH?
WHEN DEATH SHALL LAY.
O COME FROM A WORLD.
TO THE NORTH STAR.
SAMUEL H. JENKS
O! MAY WE NOT WEEP?
THE PATRIOT'S GRAVE.
POWERS OF RHYME.
ANTHONY BLEECKER.
ON REVISITING THE COTTAGE OF ROSA IN EARLY SPRING, AFTER A LONG ABSENCE.
TRENTON FALLS, NEAR UTICA.
JUNGFRAU SPAIGER'S APOSTROPHE TO HER CAT.
EPITAPH OF MORNAI DU PLESSIS, IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF GROTIUS.
G. A. GAMAGE
MY EARLY DAY.
ALBERT G. GREENE
LINES.
LUCIFER.
WILLIAM H. BRADLEY
GIUSEPPINO.
SAMUEL DEANE.
THE POPULOUS VILLAGE.
SAMUEL GILMAN.
HISTORY OF A RAY OF LIGHT.
3.
VOL. III.
RICHARD H. DANA
THE BUCCANEER.
JAMES GATES PERCIVAL.
[Pleasures of Childhood]
NIGHT WATCHING.
THE DESERTED WIFE.
THE CORAL GROVE.
TO SENECA LAKE.
CONSUMPTION.
THE SERENADE.
THE GRAVES OF THE PATRIOTS.
SPRING.
THE DESOLATE CITY.
WILLIAM E. GALLAUDET
LINES TO THE WESTERN MUMMY.
EDWARD EVERETT.
DIRGE OF ALARIC, THE VISIGOTH,
JOHN EVERETT
SAINT PAUL'S CHURCH, BOSTON.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
TO FANNI IN A BALL DRESS.
THOMAS O. FOLSOM
CLOUDS.
WAR SONG.
JONATHAN M. SCOTT
[Land of the East, whose fertile vales unfold]
GEORGE BANCROFT
THE FAIRY OF THE WENGERN-ALP.
JOHN RUDOLPH SUTERMEISTER
A CONTRASTED PICTURE.
THE LAMENT.
FADED HOURS.
MARY A. BROOKS.
ZOPHIEL.
EDWARD COATE PINKNEY
ITALY.
A HEALTH.
SONG.
A PICTURE SONG.
JOHN NEAL
THE EAGLE.
BATTLE OF NIAGARA.
GOLDAU.
THE BIRTH OF A POET.
AMBITION.
THE SLEEPER.
INCANTATION.
ODE TO PEACE.
JOSEPH HAZARD
THE FASHIONABLE RAKE.
NATHANIEL H. CARTER
HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS.
PAINS OF THE IMAGINATION.
MOSES Y. SCOTT
POCAHONTAS.
HENRY WARE, JR.
THE VISION OF LIBERTY.
SEASONS OF PRAYER.
JOHN E. HALL
REFLECTIONS OF A RECLUSE.
CARLOS WILCOX
THE RELIGION OF TASTE.
SAMUEL B. BEACH
ESCALALA.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
THE AGES.
THANATOPSIS.
TO A WATERFOWL.
THE MURDERED TRAVELLER.
AN INDIAN STORY.
HYMN TO THE NORTH STAR.
SONG OF THE STARS.
AUTUMN WOODS.
THE CLOSE OF AUTUMN.
SAMUEL WEBBER
LOGAN.
LEVI FRISBIE
MORNING HYMN.
EVENING HYMN.
DREAM. TO ***
MRS LITTLE
THANKSGIVING.
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK
[There have been loftier themes than his]
ALNWICK CASTLE.
MARCO BOZZARIS.
TO ****
LOVE.
CONNECTICUT.
TWILIGHT.
WEEHAWKEN.
JOSEPH HUTTON
THE FIELD OF ORLEANS.
CHARLES SPRAGUE
PROLOGUE, ON THE OPENING OF THE NEW YORK THEATRE, SEPTEMBER 1, 1821.
PROLOGUE ON THE OPENING OF THE NEW PHILADELPHIA THEATRE, DECEMBER 1, 1822.
SHAKSPEARE ODE.
TO MY CIGAR.
THE WINGED WORSHIPPERS.
ART.
JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD.
THE FALL OF NIAGARA.
EPITHALAMIUM.
ON A LATE LOSS.
COLONIZATION SOCIETY.
THE CAPTAIN. A FRAGMENT.
THE DEEP.
THE INDIAN SUMMER.
THE TWO COMETS.
ADDRESS TO CONNECTICUT RIVER.
[The dead leaves strow the forest walk]
ROBERT WALN
SONG.
YOU SAID, DEAR GIRL.
HUNTING SONG.
RUFUS DAWES
THE SPIRIT OF BEAUTY.
SUNRISE FROM MOUNT WASHINGTON.
ANNE BULLEN.
RICHARD PENN SMITH
THE COTTAGE LOVERS.
FRAGMENT.
NORMAN PINNEY.
SABBATH MORNING.
TO ---
SUMNER LINCOLN FAIRFIELD.
HOUSEHOLD HOURS.
JAMES NACK
THE MINSTREL BOY.
WILLIAM LEGGETT
SONG.
THE WARRIOR'S RETURN.
A SONG AT SEA.
HANNAH F. GOULD
THE MERMAID'S SONG.
A FUNERAL PIECE.
THE CONQUEROR.
CUPID'S WARNING.
TO THE AUTOMATON CHESS PLAYER.
H. W. LONGFELLOW
HYMN OF THE MORAVIAN NUNS, AT THE CONSECRATION OF PULASKI'S BANNER.
THE INDIAN HUNTER.
THE SEA DIVER.
GEORGE D. PRENTICE
THE OCEAN.
TO A LADY.
CHARLES WEST THOMSON
BIRDS.
THE WILD BOY.
MICAH P. FLINT
THE HUNTER.
JAMES A. JONES
A MOOR'S CURSE ON SPAIN.
THE LAY OF A MOUNTAIN SPIRIT.
THE FAY.
NATHANIEL P. WILLIS
ABSALOM.
BETTER MOMENTS.
THE SOLDIER'S WIDOW.
THE HINDOO MOTHER.
EXTRACT FROM A POEM DELIVERED AT THE DEPARTURE OF THE SENIOR CLASS OF YALE COLLEGE, IN 1826.
JAMES WILLIAM MILLER
A POET'S REVERIE.
JAMES G. BROOKS
GREECE.
THE DIRGE.
FREDERIC S. HILL
MUSINGS.
A FRAGMENT.
PERSIAN SONGS.
THE MAIDEN TO HER LOVER.
THE LOVER'S REPLY.
OLIVER C. WYMAN
THE DEVOTEE.
TO THE CLOUDS.
THE BRIDAL.
SONG OF THE BEE.
W. G. CROSBY
TO A LADY, WITH A WITHERED LEAF.
ASA M. BOLLES
THE ALBUM.
HENRY J. FINN
THE TRIBUTE OF TRUTH.
THE FUNERAL AT SEA.
EMMA C. EMBURY
JANE OF FRANCE.
STANZAS.
HENRY WHITING
ONTWA.
GEORGE W. PATTEN
THE ISLE OF LOVE.
THE WARRIOR.
THE MOTHER.
WILLIS G. CLARK
LINES WRITTEN AT AN UNKNOWN GRAVE.
EXTRACT FROM A NEW YEAR ADDRESS.
ROBERT MORRIS
THE BROKEN HEARTED.
EBENEZER BAILEY
THE TRIUMPHS OF LIBERTY.
ADDRESS TO THE MERMAID.
GRENVILLE MELLEN
DREAM OF THE SEA.
MOUNT WASHINGTON.
THE AIR VOYAGE.
CHARLES J. LOCKE
A DREAM OF THE OCEAN.
THE HARP OF THE BATTLE.
THE QUEEN OF THE MIST.
FREDERIC MELLEN
SABBATH EVENING.
THE HERDSMAN'S GRAVE.
WILLIAM B. O. PEABODY
HYMN OF NATURE.
ON SEEING A DECEASED INFANT.
T. W. STONE.
THE BAY OF NAPLES.
I. M'LELLAN
THE PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE.
J. B. VAN SCHAICK
JOSHUA COMMANDING THE SUN AND MOON TO STAND STILL.
JOHN W. WHITMAN
THE JERSEY PRISON SHIP.
JOSEPH H. NICHOLS
BENNETT'S BRIDGE.
THE FALLS OF THE HOUSATONICK.
JAMES O. ROCKWELL
TO THE ICE MOUNTAIN.
MILTON WARD.
THE LYRE.
GEORGE LUNT
THE GRAVE OF BYRON.
MARY E. BROOKS
ROMANCE.
PSALM CXXXVII.
GEORGE P. MORRIS
WOMAN.
THE MINIATURE.
WHAT CAN IT MEAN?
G. WALLINGFORD CLARKE
THE BURIED MAID.
INSCRIPTION.
THE NUN.
WILLIAM CROSWELL.
CONFIRMATION.
DRINK AND AWAY.
HOME.
SONNET VINDICATORY.
SOUTH SEA MISSIONARIES.
CHRISTMAS.
JAMES HALL
WEDDED LOVE'S FIRST HOME.
A. M. WELLS.
HOPE.
THE TAMED EAGLE.
R. H. WILDE
A FRAGMENT.
SAMUEL BARTLETT PARRIS
ON A SPRIG OF JUNIPER, FROM THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON, PRESENTED TO THE AUTHOR.
WILLIAM CUTTER
THE VALLEY OF SILENCE.
CHARLES C. BEAMAN
THE WATER EXCURSION.
EVENING THOUGHTS.
LOUISA P. SMITH
THE HUMA.
RECOLLECTIONS.
J. G. WHITTIER
THE SICILIAN VESPERS.
F. S. ECKHARD
THE RUINED CITY.
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Specimens of American poetry
Specimens of American poetry
with critical and biographical notices
S. G. Goodrich & Co.
Boston
[1829]
Specimens of American poetry