The poetical works of John Trumbull .

Trumbull, John (1750-1831)

VOL. I.

M'FINGAL,

CANTO I. THE TOWN-MEETING, A.M.

CANTO II. THE TOWN-MEETING, P. M.

CANTO III. THE LIBERTY POLE.

CANTO IV. THE VISION.

VOL. II.

THE PROGRESS OF DULNESS.

PREFACE.

PART I. OR THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BRAINLESS.

PART II. OR THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF DICK HAIRBRAIN.

PART III. OR THE ADVENTURES OF MISS HARRIET SIMPER.

PREFACE TO PART THIRD.

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THE GENIUS OF AMERICA;

LINES ADDRESSED TO MESSRS. DWIGHT AND BARLOW,

ODE TO SLEEP.

TO A YOUNG LADY, Who requested the Writer to draw her Character.

THE SPEECH OF PROTEUS TO ARISTÆUS, CONTAINING THE STORY OF ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE;

THE PROPHECY OF BALAAM.

THE OWL AND THE SPARROW.

PROSPECT OF THE FUTURE GLORY OF AMERICA:

ON THE VANITY OF YOUTHFUL EXPECTATIONS.

ADVICE TO LADIES OF A CERTAIN AGE.

CHARACTERS.

AN ELEGY, ON THE DEATH OF MR. BUCKINGHAM ST. JOHN.

THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON:

AN ELEGY ON THE TIMES:

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Tom Brainless, at the close of last year,
Had been six years a rev'rend Pastor,
And now resolved, to smooth his life,
To seek the blessing of a wife.
His brethren saw his amorous temper,
And recommended fair Miss Simper,
Who fond, they heard, of sacred truth,
Had left her levities of youth,
Grown fit for ministerial union,
And grave, as Christian's wife in Bunyan.

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