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My Mind and its Thoughts, in Sketches, Fragments, and Essays

Morton, Sarah Wentworth (1759-1846)

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My Mind AND ITS THOUGHTS, IN SKETCHES, FRAGMENTS, AND ESSAYS;
 
RUSTIC LINES,
 
ODE TO MERCY.
 
LINES TO POVERTY.
 
SOUVENIR.
 
TO GEORGE HENRY APTHORP.
 
LINES
 
LINES
 
LINES
 
PRAYER TO PATIENCE.
 
CHARACTER FROM LIFE.
 
MAUDLA.
 
LINES TO JOHN C. WARREN, M. D. OF BOSTON, MASS.
 
STANZAS
 
STANZAS TO DISAPPOINTMENT.
 
TO MR. STUART.
 
INSCRIPTION,
 
SONG.
 
INSCRIPTIONS. Intended for a little Island upon the Schuylkill, belonging to the proprietor of the Woodlands; at whose request the following were hastily written.
 
PHILADELPHIA.
 
STANZAS.
 
BATAVIA,
 
ELEGY.
 
SONG OF THE RUNIC BARD.
 
IMITATION,
 
ODE
 
ODES TO TIME.
 
SECOND ODE TO TIME.
 
DISINTERESTEDNESS,
 
LINES,
 
SECOND ADDRESS
 
TO LEWIS HERVEY, ESQ.
 
INJUNCTION TO D. W. L.
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CHARACTERISTIC SONGS.
 
SUCCESSFUL LOVER.
 
SONG.
 
TO A BEAUTIFUL INFANT.
 
LINES TO A LADY, DANCING.
 
IMPROMPTU,
 
LINES IMPROMPTU,
 
LINES,
 
LINES,
 
EPISTLE,
 
ODE FOR MUSIC.
 
TRIBUTARY LINES
 
TO THE HON. JOHN JAY.
 
TO HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN JAY,
 
SONNET, TO MAJOR GENERAL LINCOLN.
 
SONNET TO THE FULL SUMMER MOON.
 
SONNET TO ADVERSITY.
 
STANZAS TO AARON BURR.
 
LINES TO MRS. MONTGOMERY.
 
STANZAS,
 
STANZAS,
 
CONCILIATION.
 
INSCRIPTION.
 
STANZAS.
 
STANZAS.
 
THE AFRICAN CHIEF.
 
CHARACTERISTIC PORTRAIT.
 
STANZAS
 
PROPHECY,
 
NAVAL SONG,
 
DIRGE.
 
ODE,
 
SONG,
 
THE STAR GAZER.
 
MORTAL AND IMMORTAL.
 
THE SABBATH.
 
LINES
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HYMNS.
 
REANIMATION.
 
DEDICATION HYMN.
 
HYMN.
 
HYMN.
 
HYMN.
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TWO HYMNS,
 
[HYMN 1st.]
 
HYMN 2d.
 
STANZAS.
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MONODIES, Elegies, and Stanzas.
 
MONODY,
 
EPITAPH,
 
ELEGIAC LINES,
 
TO THE MEMORY
 
AUX MANES DE JULIE.
 
MEMENTO,
 
MONODY,
 
RECOLLECTIONS,
 
STANZAS,
 
LAMENTATIONS
 
STANZAS,
 
STANZAS,
 
LINES
 
APOSTROPHE,
 
LINES,
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INVOCATION,
 
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Apology.

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IMPROMPTU,

FOR A LADY SINGING TO A RIOTOUS AND INSENSIBLE COMPANY.

Enchantress, cease! what though Amphion's song
Could draw the herds and softening wilds along,
No equal power thy carol'd words impart,
To move and melt the vegetating heart;
Though sweet their breathings as his gifted lyre,
They wake no wonder, and no praise inspire!
He, blest musician, poured his soul, and then
Rocks seemed to feel, and brutes appeared as men—
Reversed—the magic of thy charmed strain,
Now falls on men turned rocks or brutes again!
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