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Poems of Freneau

Freneau, Philip Morin (1752-1832)

PART ONE POEMS OF FREEDOM

The RISING GLORY OF AMERICA.

DISCOVERY.

A POLITICAL LITANY.

TO THE AMERICANS,

ON A HESSIAN DEBARKATION. 1776.

AMERICA INDEPENDENT;

On the new AMERICAN FRIGATE ALLIANCE.

On the Death OF CAPTAIN NICHOLAS BIDDLE,

GEORGE THE THIRD'S SOLILOQUY.

THE BRITISH PRISON SHIP

CANTO I. The CAPTURE.

CANTO II. The PRISON SHIP.

CANTO III. The HOSPITAL PRISON SHIP.

On THE MEMORABLE VICTORY,

TO LORD CORNWALLIS,

ON THE FALL OF GENERAL EARL CORNWALLIS,

TO THE MEMORY Of the brave AMERICANS,

ARNOLD'S DEPARTURE.

THE POLITICAL BALANCE; OR, THE FATES OF BRITAIN AND AMERICA COMPARED: A TALE.

BARNEY'S INVITATION.

SONG,

A PICTURE OF THE TIMES,

To A CONCEALED ROYALIST

Occasioned By GENERAL WASHINGTON'S Arrival in Philadelphia,

On the EMIGRATION TO AMERICA and Peopling the Western Country

LITERARY IMPORTATION.

STANZAS

Epistle to THE PATRIOTIC FARMER.

ON THE PROSPECT OF A REVOLUTION IN FRANCE

THE DISTREST THEATRE.

The New England SABBATH-DAY CHACE.

On the Death of DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

EPISTLE

THE DEPARTURE:

THE AMERICAN SOLDIER.

Occasioned by A LEGISLATION BILL

To the PUBLIC.

LINES WRITTEN ON A PUNCHEON OF JAMAICAN SPIRITS.

A WARNING TO AMERICA.

On the FOURTEENTH OF JULY,

TO CRISPIN O'CONNER,

CRISPIN'S ANSWER.

To SHYLOCK AP-SHENKIN.

To MY BOOK.

To a PERSECUTED PHILOSOPHER.

TO AN ANGRY ZEALOT:

On the Demolition of the FRENCH MONARCHY.

On the FRENCH REPUBLICANS.

On MR. PAINE'S RIGHTS OF MAN.

ODE TO LIBERTY.

ODE

On the Death of a REPUBLICAN PRINTER:

On The ANNIVERSARY

To SHYLOCK AP-SHENKIN.

To a NOISY POLITICIAN.

Addressed to a POLITICAL SHRIMP,

To MY BOOK.

On the DEATH OF CATHARINE II.

PREFATORY LINES TO A PERIODICAL PUBLICATION.

THE REPUBLICAN FESTIVAL:

TO DUNCAN DOOLITTLE,

The MILLENNIUM—

To the SCRIBE OF SCRIBES.

TO THE AMERICANS OF THE UNITED STATES.

To the DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY EDITORS.

REFLECTIONS

The POLITICAL WEATHERCOCK.

REFLECTIONS

STANZAS

ON THE ABUSE OF HUMAN POWER

STANZAS

On the SYMPTOMS OF HOSTILITIES.

LINES ADDRESSED TO MR. JEFFERSON,

On the BRITISH COMMERCIAL DEPREDATIONS.

MILITARY RECRUITING

On the LAKE EXPEDITIONS.

The BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE

The VOLUNTEER'S MARCH.

The BATTLE OF STONINGTON

On the CONFLAGRATIONS AT WASHINGTON;

To THE LAKE SQUADRONS.

ROYAL CONSULTATIONS;

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,

Picture I. Columbus making Maps.

Picture II. The Cell of an Inchantress.

Picture III. The Mirror.

Picture IV. Columbus addresses King Ferdinand.

Picture V. Ferdinand and his First Minister.

Picture VI. Columbus addresses Queen Isabella.

Picture VII. Queen Isabella's Page of Honour writing a reply to Columbus.

Picture VIII. Columbus at the Harbour of Palos, in Andalusia.

Picture IX. A Sailor's Hut, near the Shore Thomas and Susan

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Picture X. Bernardo, a Spanish Friar, in his canonicals.

11.

Picture XI. Orosio, a Mathematician, with his scales and compasses.

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Picture XII. Columbus and a Pilot.

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Picture XIII. Discontents at Sea.

14.

Picture XIV. Columbus at Cat Island.

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Picture XV. Columbus in a Tempest, on his return to Spain.

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Picture XVI. Columbus visits the Court at Barcelona.

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Picture XVII. Columbus in Chains.

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Picture XVIII. Columbus at Valladolid.

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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On the LAKE EXPEDITIONS.

Where Niagara's awful roar
Convulsive shakes the neighboring shore,
Alarm'd I heard the trump of war,
Saw legions join!

And such a blast, of old, they blew,
When southward from St. Lawrence flew
The indian, to the english true,
Led by Burgoyne.

United then, they sail'd Champlain,
United now, they march again,
A land of freedom to profane
With savage yell.

For this they scour the mountain wood;
Their errand, death, their object, blood:
For this they stem thy subject flood,
O stream Sorel!

Who shall repulse the hireling host,
Who force them back through snow and frost,
Who swell the lake with thousands lost,
Dear freedom? say!—

Who but the sons of freedom's land,
Prepared to meet the bloody band;
Resolved to make a gallant stand
Where lightnings play.

Their squadrons, arm'd with gun and sword,
Their legions, led by knight and lord
Have sworn to see the reign restored
Of George, the goth;

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Whose mandate, from a vandal shore,
Impels the sail, directs the oar,
And, to extend the flames of war,
Employs them both.

1815