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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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ODE TO FORTUNE.

Fair lady with the bandaged eye!
I'll pardon all thy scurvy tricks,
So thou wilt cut me, and deny
Alike thy kisses and thy kicks:
I'm quite contented as I am,
Have cash to keep my duns at bay,
Can choose between beefsteaks and ham,
And drink Madeira every day.
My station is the middle rank,
My fortune—just a competence—
Ten thousand in the Franklin Bank,
And twenty in the six per cents.;
No amorous chains my heart enthrall,
I neither borrow, lend, nor sell;
Fearless I roam the City Hall,
And “bite my thumb” at Sheriff Bell.

James L. Bell, the High Sheriff of the County.


The horse that twice a week I ride,
At Mother Dawson's

Robert Dawson, the keeper of a livery stable at No. 9 Dey Street.

eats his fill;
My books at Goodrich's

A. T. Goodrich & Co., booksellers at the corner of Broadway and Cedar Street, who kept a popular circulating library.

abide,
My country-seat is Weehawk hill;
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My morning lounge is Eastburn's shop,
At Poppleton's I take my lunch,
Niblo prepares my mutton-chop,
And Jennings

Chester Jennings, the lessee of the City Hotel, on Broadway, between Cedar and Thames Streets.

makes my whiskey-punch.
When merry, I the hours amuse
By squibbing Bucktails, Guards, and Balls,
And when I'm troubled with the blues,
Damn Clinton and abuse canals:
Then, Fortune! since I ask no prize,
At least preserve me from thy frown!
The man who don't attempt to rise,
'Twere cruelty to tumble down.
H. and D.
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