Poems by St. John Honeywood . :: :: University of Virginia Library

Poems by St. John Honeywood .

with some pieces in prose

Honeywood, St. John (1763-1798)

[section]

On General Washington's declining a Re-election to the Presidency of the United States.

The ROSE-BUD: A Song.

The MOB-CALL, or the Charter of Sedition.

INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS On the Publication of a Newspaper.

The News-Monger's Song for the Winter of 1788.

DARBY AND JOAN.

A NEW SONG.

IMPROMPTU: On reading an Order of the Corporation of Albany ordering all the Dogs in the City to be killed.

THE PURSE: ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND.

The Sweets of Matrimony Triumphant, or one Bachelor CONVERTED.

SPEECH OF A DEMOCRATIC LION.

The Selfish Man's Prayer on the Prospect of War.

POETICAL ADDRESS to the CITIZEN ADET.

VERSES WRITTEN A SHORT TIME AFTER THE POPE FLED FROM ROME, AND THE CITY FELL INTO THE POSSESSION OF THE FRENCH ARMY.

EXTEMPORARY REFLECTIONS ON SEEING A BULL SLAIN IN THE COUNTRY.

POETICAL EPISTLE TO A YOUNG LADY, ON LETTER WRITING.

LINES WRITTEN IN ANSWER TO AN HIEROGLYPHICAL LETTER FROM A LADY.

IMPROMPTU: WRITTEN IN A ROOM AT A SMALL COUNTRY INN WHICH HAD ONCE BEEN THE RESIDENCE OF A LADY OF THE AUTHOR'S ACQUAINTANCE.

IMPROMPTU.

CONGRESS DUELISTS: A NEW SONG, TO THE TUNE OF YANKEE DOODLE.

ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MAJOR WYLLYS,

MODERN ARGUMENTATION.

LINES ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND.

ON CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.

Collapse All | Expand All expand section

IMPROMPTU: On reading an Order of the Corporation of Albany ordering all the Dogs in the City to be killed.

'Tis done! the dreadful sentence is decreed!
The town is mad, and all the dogs must bleed!
Ah me! what boots it that the dogs are slain,
Since the whole race of puppies yet remain!