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Miscellaneous poems

(1762-1824)

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THE BIRTH OF GENIUS.

ODE TO SENSIBILITY.

ODE, ON THE BIRTH DAY OF JOHN ADAMS, Esquire , PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1799.

EULOGY TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esquire .

HYMN TO THE DEITY.

STORMY EVENING.

THE ROSES OF LIFE.

THE STANDARD OF LIBERTY.

RIGHTS OF WOMAN.

WOMEN AS THEY ARE.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

SONNET V.—DAY-BREAK.

6.

TO THE ROSE.

1.

SONNET I—MORNING.

2.

SONNET II.—NOON.

3.

SONNET III.—EVENING.

4.

SONNET IV.—NIGHT.

ON THE DEATH OF Miss JULIANA KNOX.

TO A YOUNG LADY, WHO REQUESTED THE AUTHOR TO WRITE SOMETHING ON HER.

PARODY ON THE MARSEILLES HYMN, ADAPTED FOR THE SONS OF COLUMBIA.

MORAL REFLECTION.

THE LITTLE SAILOR BOY.

TRUXTON's VICTORY.

KISS THE BRIM, AND BID IT PASS.

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TO THE ROSE.

Lovely, blushing, fragrant Rose,
Emblem of life's transient joys,
Ere half thy sweets thou canst disclose,
One rude touch thy bloom destroys.

Though the sweetness thou dost yield
Can pleasure to each sense impart;
The thorn, beneath thy leaves conceal'd,
Oft wounds the unsuspecting heart.