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Poems
Canning, Josiah D. (1816-1892)
[section]
[dedication]
THE PROPHECY.
VISION OF POESY.
FIRE-SIDE MUSINGS
EPISTLE TO A BROTHER IN VIRGINIA.
A SKETCH FROM LIFE.
THE WISCONSIN MOON.
LIFE—ITS DISCONTENTS.
A VISION.
THE RETURN.
AUTUMN.
ON READING BEATTIE'S “MINSTREL.”
EPISTLE TO T. S********.
INDEPENDENCE.
TO A MINK,
A FRAGMENT.
TO ÆOLUS.
[O, ye who make so much ado]
[Whene'er we ope the Holy Book]
THE FIRST PSALM.
ELEGY,
INVOCATION OF THE MUSES.
LINES
SOLITUDE.
HAPPINESS—AN ACROSTIC.
LOGAN.
[My patriot fathers, where are ye]
A FRAGMENT.
LINES TO A BULLET.
RETROSPECTION.
APOSTROPHE TO NEW-ENGLAND.
[Ye woodlands mourn, ye fields, ye streams, ]
BY UMPACHENA'S RUSHING STREAM.
LETTER
EPIGRAM,
DEATH SONG.
[Oft in the silent watches of the night]
[Life's like a stream whose waters run ]
THE REVIEW.
A TALE OF OTHER DAYS.
EPISTLE
TO A PET LAMB,
TO THE “SALT” OF ****
[Fear not to put your trust in God ]
MASSACHUSETTS.
TO THOSE WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
ON THE FALL OF A MIGHTY OAK.
AURORA BOREALIS.
[Connecticut, the stream that flows ]
EPITAPH
IN VIEWING A RUINED HABITATION.
A DIRGE
TO HYPOCHONDRIA.
EPISTLE TO A YOUNG LADY.
ON A CERTAIN INVETERATE PRATER.
SECOND EPISTLE TO JNO. FRISSELL, M. D.
ON A CERTAIN LAWYER.
The character of a certain mischief-making person given in short.
DESPONDENCY
A CHARITABLE EPITAPH.
EPISTLE TO SWAN,
FRAGMENT OF AN UNFINISHED POEM.
LETTER TO THE EDITORS OF THE OLD COUNTY PAPER.
DAY DREAMS—NO FICTION.
ODE TO ADVERSITY.
THE INDIAN GONE!
TO MY FIDDLE.
WINTER.
SECOND EPISTLE TO MINSTREL SWAN.
TO TOBACCO.
LINES WRITTEN IN A BIBLE.
MONODY,
TO A BLACKBIRD,
VERSES TO AN ABORIGINAL RELIC,
AMOR PATRIAE—A FRAGMENT.
MORNING PRAYER
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EPITAPH
For a lady famed for her virtues.
We ask no tears from sympathetic eyes—
To grieve for one who cannot grieve is wrong;
But mixed with gratitude be your surprise,
And
angel
deigned to dwell on earth so long.
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