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Poems of Freneau

Freneau, Philip Morin (1752-1832)

PART ONE POEMS OF FREEDOM

PART TWO POEMS OF ROMANTIC FANCY

The HISTORY of the PROPHET JONAH

The PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT

THE POWER of FANCY.

THE PRAYER OF ORPHEUS.

The AMERICAN VILLAGE, &c.

THE DESERTED FARM-HOUSE.

THE CITIZEN'S RESOLVE.

THE DYING ELM.

ON RETIREMENT:

The PICTURES OF COLUMBUS,

The BEAUTIES OF SANTA CRUZ

THE JEWISH LAMENTATION at Euphrates.

ON AMANDA'S SINGING BIRD:

CAPTAIN J. P. JONES'S INVITATION.

THE SEA VOYAGE

The VANITY OF EXISTENCE.

TO AN OLD MAN

STANZAS

THE ARGONAUT;

SCANDINAVIAN WAR SONG.

THE PROPHECY of King TAMMANY

THE DYING INDIAN:

THE HURRICANE

Written AT PORT ROYAL

THE SEASONS MORALIZED.

On THE VICISSITUDES OF THINGS

TO SYLVIUS:

THE WILD HONEY SUCKLE.

On A BOOK CALLED UNITARIAN THEOLOGY

AMANDA IN A CONSUMPTION.

THE INDIAN BURYING GROUND.

THE INDIAN STUDENT:

MAN OF NINETY.

ALCINA'S ENCHANTED ISLAND.

HORACE, LIB. I. ODE 15.

ON THE SLEEP OF PLANTS.

STANZAS,

The ORATOR OF THE WOODS.

The DRUNKARD'S APOLOGY

To a DECEASED DOG.

JACK STRAW:

EPISTLE to a Student of Dead Languages.

HERMIT'S VALLEY.

TO A NIGHT-FLY,

THE INDIAN CONVERT.

On ARRIVING IN SOUTH CAROLINA, 1798.

LINES WRITTEN AT SEA.

THE NAUTICAL RENDEZVOUS.

A BACCHANALIAN DIALOGUE.

OCTOBER'S ADDRESS:

To A CATY-DID.

On Passing BY AN OLD CHURCHYARD.

ON A HONEY BEE,

REFLECTIONS on the Constitution, or Frame of Nature.

SCIENCE,

The BROOK OF THE VALLEY.

Lines on the ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW THEATRE

BELIEF AND UNBELIEF:

On the UNIVERSALITY AND OTHER ATTRIBUTES of the GOD OF NATURE.

On the UNIFORMITY AND PERFECTION of NATURE.

ON THE RELIGION OF NATURE.

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TO A NIGHT-FLY,

Approaching a Candle.

Attracted by the taper's rays,
How carelessly you come to gaze
On what absorbs you in its blaze!

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O Fly! I bid you have a care:
You do not heed the danger near;
This light, to you a blazing star.

Already you have scorch'd your wings:
What courage, or what folly brings
You, hovering near such blazing things?

Ah me! you touch this little sun—
One circuit more and all is done!—
Now to the furnace you are gone!—

Thus folly with ambition join'd,
Attracts the insects of mankind,
And sways the superficial mind:

Thus, power has charms which all admire,
But dangerous is that central fire—
If you are wise in time retire.—

1797