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Specimens of American poetry

with critical and biographical notices

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VOL. I.
  
PREFACE.
  
INTRODUCTION.
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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
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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.]
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MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH.
  
VANITY OF VANITIES.
  
THE DAY OF DOOM.
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BENJAMIN COLMAN.
  
ON ELIJAH'S TRANSLATION,
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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.
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JOHN ADAMS.
  
ADDRESS TO THE SUPREME BEING,
  
[Version of the Apocalypse]
  
[Translation of an Ode of Horace]
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JAMES RALPH.
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ZEUMA, OR THE LOVE OF LIBERTY.
  
FROM THE FIRST BOOK.
  
FROM THE THIRD BOOK.
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JOHN MAYLEM.
  
THE CONQUEST OF LOUISBOURG.
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THOMAS GODFREY.
  
THE COURT OF FANCY.
  
EPISTLE TO A FRIEND.
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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.
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JOHN OSBORN.
  
A WHALING SONG.
  
ELEGIAC EPISTLE,
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MATHER BYLES.
  
THE CONFLAGRATION.
  
THE GOD OF TEMPEST AND EARTHQUAKE.
  
ELEGY,
  
HYMN WRITTEN DURING A VOYAGE.
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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.
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WILLIAM LIVINGSTON.
  
PHILOSOPHIC SOLITUDE.
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BENJAMIN CHURCH.
  
THE TIMES.
  
LINES ON THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE II.
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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.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
  
PAPER.
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JOHN TRUMBULL.
  
M'FINGAL.
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JONATHAN MITCHELL SEWALL
  
WAR AND WASHINGTON.
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FRANCIS HOPKINSON.
  
THE BATTLE OF THE KEGS.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
LINES ON THE QUARREL AMONG THE STUDENTS IN ANATOMY IN PHILADELPHIA.
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ANN ELIZA BLEECKER.
  
TO MISS TEN EYCK.
  
TO MR BLEECKER, ON HIS PASSAGE TO NEW YORK.
  
AN EVENING PROSPECT.
  
PEACE.
  
RETURN TO TOMHANICK.
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MARGARETTA V. FAUGERES.
  
THE HUDSON.
  
ON A PAINTER.
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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.
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DAVID HUMPHREYS.
  
ADDRESS TO THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES.
  
THE MONKEY WHO SHAVED HIMSELF AND HIS FRIENDS.
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LEMUEL HOPKINS.
  
[The Anarchiad]
  
ON A PATIENT KILLED BY A CANCER QUACK.
  
THE HYPOCRITE'S HOPE.
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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.
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ELIJAH FITCH.
  
THE BEAUTIES OF RELIGION.
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SARAH PORTER
  
THE ROYAL PENITENT. PART II.
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WILLIAM MOORE SMITH
  
THE FALL OF ZAMPOR.
  
ODE TO MEDITATION.
  
LAMPOON.
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JOHN D. M'KINNON
  
THE MOHAWK.
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SAMUEL LOW
  
WINTER.
  
TO A VIOLET.
  
TO A SEGAR.
  
TO THE GENIUS OF POETRY.
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BENJAMIN PRATT
  
DEATH.
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JOSEPH LATHROP
  
THE EXISTENCE OF A DEITY.
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STEPHEN SEWALL
  
ON THE DEATH OF GEORGE II.
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JAMES BOWDOIN
  
WOMAN.
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JOHN LOWELL
  
LINES.
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PETER OLIVER
  
[Lines]
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WILLIAM LADD.
  
AROUET TO AMANDA.
  
REMONSTRANCE OF ALMASA ALLICAWN, WIFE OF ALMAS ALLICAWN, TO WARREN HASTINGS.
  
THE WAR HORSE.
  
RETIREMENT.
  
WHAT IS HAPPINESS?
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EDWARD CHURCH.
  
THE DANGEROUS VICE *********.
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SAMUEL EWING.
  
REFLECTIONS IN SOLITUDE.
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ST GEORGE TUCKER.
  
STANZAS.
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J. HOPKINSON.
  
HAIL COLUMBIA.
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RICHARD B. DAVIS
  
TO A SLEEPING INFANT.
  
THOU ART THE MUSE.
  
TO EMMA.
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VOL. II.
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JOEL BARLOW.
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THE HASTY PUDDING.
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CANTO I.
 2. 
CANTO II.
 3. 
CANTO III.
  
FROM THE VISION OF COLUMBUS.
  
EMBASSY OF ROCHA.
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GEORGE RICHARDS
  
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
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MERCY WARREN.
  
SIMPLICITY.
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THOMAS DAWES
  
THE LAW GIVEN AT SINAI.
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RICHARD DEVENS
  
[Paraphrase of Job]
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SAMUEL DEXTER
  
THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE.
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ST JOHN HONEYWOOD
  
ON THE PRESIDENT'S FAREWELL ADDRESS.
  
ON THE CAPTURE OF ROME BY THE FRENCH.
  
MODERN ARGUMENTATION.
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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.
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RICHARD ALSOP.
  
ECHO NO. I.
  
VERSES TO THE SHEARWATER—ON THE MORNING AFTER A STORM AT SEA.
  
THE INCANTATION OF ULFO.
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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.
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SARAH WENTWORTH MORTON
  
THE AFRICAN CHIEF.
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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.
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WILLIAM BOYD
  
WOMAN.
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WILLIAM CLIFFTON.
  
MARY WILL SMILE.
  
TO A ROBIN.
  
TO FANCY.
  
A FLIGHT OF FANCY.
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ROBERT TREAT PAINE.
  
ADAMS AND LIBERTY.
  
THE STREET WAS A RUIN.
  
ODE SUNG AT THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE FAUSTUS ASSOCIATION.
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JOHN LATHROP.
  
SPEECH OF CANONICUS.
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JOSEPH STORY.
  
FROM THE POWER OF SOLITUDE.
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DAVID EVERETT
  
A BRANCH OF THE MAPLE.
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THOMAS GREEN FESSENDEN.
  
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF WASHINGTON.
  
AN ODE.
  
TABITHA TOWZER.
  
SIGNIOR SQUEAK'S DANCING ADVERTISEMENT.
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JOHN BLAIR LINN
  
THE POWERS OF GENIUS.
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JOHN SHAW.
  
THE AUTUMNAL FLOWER.
  
SONG.
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WILLIAM LEIGH PIERCE
  
THE YEAR.
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LUCIUS M. SARGENT
  
THE PLUNDERER'S GRAVE.
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WILLIAM RAY.
  
TRIPOLI.
  
THE WAY TO BE HAPPY.
  
VILLAGE GREATNESS.
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WILLIAM CRAFTS
  
RAPIDS IN LOVE.
  
SERENADE SONG.
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SELLECK OSBORN.
  
THE RUINS.
  
THE QUARRELS OF LOVE.
  
THE SAILOR.
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WASHINGTON ALLSTON
  
THE PAINT KING.
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WILLIAM MAXWELL
  
THE REVERY.
  
THE PRIZE.
  
TEA.
  
TO A FAIR LADY.
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ROBERT S. COFFIN
  
SONG.
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WILLIAM B. WALTER
  
ROMANCE.
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RICHARD DABNEY
  
THE SPRING OF LIFE.
  
A WESTERN WAR SONG.
  
THE HEROES OF THE WEST.
  
TURN NOT TO THE EAST.
  
TO A LADY.
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WASHINGTON IRVING
  
THE FALLS OF THE PASSAIC.
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HENRY T. FARMER
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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.
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JAMES K. PAULDING
  
THE BACKWOODSMAN.
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PAUL ALLEN.
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NOAH.
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CANTO. II.
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[section]
  
CRYSTALINA.
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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.
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ROBERT C. SANDS
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YAMOYDEN.
  
PROEM.
  
[section]
  
SONG.
  
ODE TO THE MANITTO OF DREAMS.
  
SONG OF THE POW-WAHS.
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ROBERT DINSMOOR
  
THE BRAES OF GLENNIFFER.
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SAMUEL WOODWORTH
  
THE BUCKET.
  
THE LANDSEND.
  
LOVE'S EYES.
  
THE PRIDE OF THE VALLEY.
  
WREATH OF LOVE.
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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.
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HENRY PICKERING
  
TO A BEAUTIFUL LAKE.
  
DAPHNE.
  
FLOWERS.
  
I THOUGHT IT SLEPT.
  
TO THE FRINGILLA MELODIA.
  
THE WATERFALL.
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DESCRIPTIVE SONNETS.
  
SUNLIGHT ON THE WATER.
  
AUTUMNAL PICTURE: A SKETCH.
  
THE RAINBOW AFTER A SUMMER TEMPEST.
  
EVENING SUNLIGHT.
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HENRY C. KNIGHT
  
THE COUNTRY OVEN.
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F. S. KEY
  
STAR SPANGLED BANNER.
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KATHARINE A. WARE.
  
THERE IS A VOICE.
  
GREECE.
  
THE PARTING.
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SARAH J. HALE.
  
THE FATHER'S CHOICE.
  
THE VICTOR'S CROWN.
  
THE LIGHT OF HOME.
  
THE GIFTS.
  
THE MOTHER TO HER CHILD.
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ENOCH LINCOLN
  
THE VILLAGE.
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JOHN C. M'CALL
  
THE TROUBADOUR.
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EDWIN C. HOLLAND
  
THE PILLAR OF GLORY.
  
RISE COLUMBIA.
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DANIEL BRYAN
  
LAFAYETTE.
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ALONZO LEWIS.
  
DEATH SONG.
  
THE MINSTREL'S LOVE.
  
THE WANDERER OF AFRICA.
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NATHANIEL APPLETON HAVEN
  
LINES ON FREDERIC THE GREAT.
  
THE PURSE OF CHARITY.
  
AUTUMN.
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JAMES N. BARKER
  
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD.
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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.
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NATHANIEL H. WRIGHT
  
THE ISLE OF FLOWERS.
  
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.
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SOLYMAN BROWN
  
LADY BYRON TO HER HUSBAND.
  
THE EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL.
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JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
  
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
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JAMES ABRAHAM HILLHOUSE
  
HADAD. SCENE III.
  
AN APOLOGUE.
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THOMAS WELLS
  
AT MUSING HOUR.
  
SOLITUDE.
  
A VISION.
  
THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS.
  
SONNET.
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WILLIAM B. TAPPAN
  
RETROSPECTION.
  
WHY SHOULD WE SIGH?
  
WHEN DEATH SHALL LAY.
  
O COME FROM A WORLD.
  
TO THE NORTH STAR.
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SAMUEL H. JENKS
  
O! MAY WE NOT WEEP?
  
THE PATRIOT'S GRAVE.
  
POWERS OF RHYME.
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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.
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G. A. GAMAGE
  
MY EARLY DAY.
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ALBERT G. GREENE
  
LINES.
  
LUCIFER.
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WILLIAM H. BRADLEY
  
GIUSEPPINO.
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SAMUEL DEANE.
  
THE POPULOUS VILLAGE.
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SAMUEL GILMAN.
  
HISTORY OF A RAY OF LIGHT.
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VOL. III.
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RICHARD H. DANA
  
THE BUCCANEER.
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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.
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WILLIAM E. GALLAUDET
  
LINES TO THE WESTERN MUMMY.
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EDWARD EVERETT.
  
DIRGE OF ALARIC, THE VISIGOTH,
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JOHN EVERETT
  
SAINT PAUL'S CHURCH, BOSTON.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
TO FANNI IN A BALL DRESS.
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THOMAS O. FOLSOM
  
CLOUDS.
  
WAR SONG.
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JONATHAN M. SCOTT
  
[Land of the East, whose fertile vales unfold]
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GEORGE BANCROFT
  
THE FAIRY OF THE WENGERN-ALP.
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JOHN RUDOLPH SUTERMEISTER
  
A CONTRASTED PICTURE.
  
THE LAMENT.
  
FADED HOURS.
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MARY A. BROOKS.
  
ZOPHIEL.
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EDWARD COATE PINKNEY
  
ITALY.
  
A HEALTH.
  
SONG.
  
A PICTURE SONG.
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JOHN NEAL
  
THE EAGLE.
  
BATTLE OF NIAGARA.
  
GOLDAU.
  
THE BIRTH OF A POET.
  
AMBITION.
  
THE SLEEPER.
  
INCANTATION.
  
ODE TO PEACE.
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JOSEPH HAZARD
  
THE FASHIONABLE RAKE.
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NATHANIEL H. CARTER
  
HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS.
  
PAINS OF THE IMAGINATION.
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MOSES Y. SCOTT
  
POCAHONTAS.
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HENRY WARE, JR.
  
THE VISION OF LIBERTY.
  
SEASONS OF PRAYER.
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JOHN E. HALL
  
REFLECTIONS OF A RECLUSE.
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CARLOS WILCOX
  
THE RELIGION OF TASTE.
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SAMUEL B. BEACH
  
ESCALALA.
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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.
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SAMUEL WEBBER
  
LOGAN.
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LEVI FRISBIE
  
MORNING HYMN.
  
EVENING HYMN.
  
DREAM. TO ***
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MRS LITTLE
  
THANKSGIVING.
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FITZ-GREENE HALLECK
  
[There have been loftier themes than his]
  
ALNWICK CASTLE.
  
MARCO BOZZARIS.
  
TO ****
  
LOVE.
  
CONNECTICUT.
  
TWILIGHT.
  
WEEHAWKEN.
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JOSEPH HUTTON
  
THE FIELD OF ORLEANS.
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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.
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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]
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ROBERT WALN
  
SONG.
  
YOU SAID, DEAR GIRL.
  
HUNTING SONG.
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RUFUS DAWES
  
THE SPIRIT OF BEAUTY.
  
SUNRISE FROM MOUNT WASHINGTON.
  
ANNE BULLEN.
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RICHARD PENN SMITH
  
THE COTTAGE LOVERS.
  
FRAGMENT.
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NORMAN PINNEY.
  
SABBATH MORNING.
  
TO ---
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SUMNER LINCOLN FAIRFIELD.
  
HOUSEHOLD HOURS.
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JAMES NACK
  
THE MINSTREL BOY.
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WILLIAM LEGGETT
  
SONG.
  
THE WARRIOR'S RETURN.
  
A SONG AT SEA.
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HANNAH F. GOULD
  
THE MERMAID'S SONG.
  
A FUNERAL PIECE.
  
THE CONQUEROR.
  
CUPID'S WARNING.
  
TO THE AUTOMATON CHESS PLAYER.
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H. W. LONGFELLOW
  
HYMN OF THE MORAVIAN NUNS, AT THE CONSECRATION OF PULASKI'S BANNER.
  
THE INDIAN HUNTER.
  
THE SEA DIVER.
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GEORGE D. PRENTICE
  
THE OCEAN.
  
TO A LADY.
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CHARLES WEST THOMSON
  
BIRDS.
  
THE WILD BOY.
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MICAH P. FLINT
  
THE HUNTER.
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JAMES A. JONES
  
A MOOR'S CURSE ON SPAIN.
  
THE LAY OF A MOUNTAIN SPIRIT.
  
THE FAY.
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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.
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JAMES WILLIAM MILLER
  
A POET'S REVERIE.
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JAMES G. BROOKS
  
GREECE.
  
THE DIRGE.
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FREDERIC S. HILL
  
MUSINGS.
  
A FRAGMENT.
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PERSIAN SONGS.
  
THE MAIDEN TO HER LOVER.
  
THE LOVER'S REPLY.
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OLIVER C. WYMAN
  
THE DEVOTEE.
  
TO THE CLOUDS.
  
THE BRIDAL.
  
SONG OF THE BEE.
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W. G. CROSBY
  
TO A LADY, WITH A WITHERED LEAF.
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ASA M. BOLLES
  
THE ALBUM.
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HENRY J. FINN
  
THE TRIBUTE OF TRUTH.
  
THE FUNERAL AT SEA.
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EMMA C. EMBURY
  
JANE OF FRANCE.
  
STANZAS.
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HENRY WHITING
  
ONTWA.
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GEORGE W. PATTEN
  
THE ISLE OF LOVE.
  
THE WARRIOR.
  
THE MOTHER.
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WILLIS G. CLARK
  
LINES WRITTEN AT AN UNKNOWN GRAVE.
  
EXTRACT FROM A NEW YEAR ADDRESS.
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ROBERT MORRIS
  
THE BROKEN HEARTED.
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EBENEZER BAILEY
  
THE TRIUMPHS OF LIBERTY.
  
ADDRESS TO THE MERMAID.
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GRENVILLE MELLEN
  
DREAM OF THE SEA.
  
MOUNT WASHINGTON.
  
THE AIR VOYAGE.
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CHARLES J. LOCKE
  
A DREAM OF THE OCEAN.
  
THE HARP OF THE BATTLE.
  
THE QUEEN OF THE MIST.
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FREDERIC MELLEN
  
SABBATH EVENING.
  
THE HERDSMAN'S GRAVE.
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WILLIAM B. O. PEABODY
  
HYMN OF NATURE.
  
ON SEEING A DECEASED INFANT.
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T. W. STONE.
  
THE BAY OF NAPLES.
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I. M'LELLAN
  
THE PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE.
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J. B. VAN SCHAICK
  
JOSHUA COMMANDING THE SUN AND MOON TO STAND STILL.
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JOHN W. WHITMAN
  
THE JERSEY PRISON SHIP.
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JOSEPH H. NICHOLS
  
BENNETT'S BRIDGE.
  
THE FALLS OF THE HOUSATONICK.
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JAMES O. ROCKWELL
  
TO THE ICE MOUNTAIN.
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MILTON WARD.
  
THE LYRE.
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GEORGE LUNT
  
THE GRAVE OF BYRON.
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MARY E. BROOKS
  
ROMANCE.
  
PSALM CXXXVII.
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GEORGE P. MORRIS
  
WOMAN.
  
THE MINIATURE.
  
WHAT CAN IT MEAN?
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G. WALLINGFORD CLARKE
  
THE BURIED MAID.
  
INSCRIPTION.
  
THE NUN.
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WILLIAM CROSWELL.
  
CONFIRMATION.
  
DRINK AND AWAY.
  
HOME.
  
SONNET VINDICATORY.
  
SOUTH SEA MISSIONARIES.
  
CHRISTMAS.
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JAMES HALL
  
WEDDED LOVE'S FIRST HOME.
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A. M. WELLS.
  
HOPE.
  
THE TAMED EAGLE.
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R. H. WILDE
  
A FRAGMENT.
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SAMUEL BARTLETT PARRIS
  
ON A SPRIG OF JUNIPER, FROM THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON, PRESENTED TO THE AUTHOR.
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WILLIAM CUTTER
  
THE VALLEY OF SILENCE.
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CHARLES C. BEAMAN
  
THE WATER EXCURSION.
  
EVENING THOUGHTS.
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LOUISA P. SMITH
  
THE HUMA.
  
RECOLLECTIONS.
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J. G. WHITTIER
  
THE SICILIAN VESPERS.
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F. S. ECKHARD
  
THE RUINED CITY.

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THE CAPTAIN. A FRAGMENT.

Solemn he paced upon that schooner's deck,
And mutter'd of his hardships:—“I have been
Where the wild will of Mississippi's tide
Has dash'd me on the sawyer;—I have sail'd
In the thick night, along the wave-wash'd edge
Of ice, in acres, by the pitiless coast
Of Labrador; and I have scraped my keel
O'er coral rocks in Madagascar seas—
And often in my cold and midnight watch,
Have heard the warning voice of the lee shore
Speaking in breakers! Ay, and I have seen
The whale and sword-fish fight beneath my bows;
And when they made the deep boil like a pot,
Have swung into its vortex; and I know
To cord my vessel with a sailor's skill,
And brave such dangers with a sailor's heart;
—But never yet upon the stormy wave,
Or where the river mixes with the main,
Or in the chafing anchorage of the bay,
In all my rough experience of harm,
Met I—a Methodist meeting-house!
[OMITTED]
Cat-head, or beam, or davit has it none,
Starboard nor larboard, gunwale, stem nor stern!
It comes in such a “questionable shape,”
I cannot even speak it! Up jib, Josey,
And make for Bridgeport! There, where Stratford Point,
Long Beach, Fairweather Island, and the buoy,
Are safe from such encounters, we'll protest!
And Yankee legends long shall tell the tale,
That once a Charleston schooner was beset,
Riding at anchor, by a Meeting-House.
 

The Bridgeport paper of March, 1823, said; “Arrived, schooner Fame, from Charleston, via New London. While at anchor in that harbor, during the rain storm on Thursday evening last, the Fame was run foul of by the wreck of the Methodist Meeting-House from Norwich, which was carried away in the late freshet.”

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