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Melodies, duets, trios, songs, and ballads, pastoral, amatory, sentimental, patriotic, religious, and miscellaneous

Together with metrical epistles, tales and recitations
Woodworth, Samuel (1784-1842)
 
[dedication]

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MELODIES.
 
[Whate'er the charms of mead or grove]
 
[Ye fair, who seek a splendid lot]
 
[No more pursue the city's fleeting toys]
 
[And now relieved from day's turmoil]
 
[The fortune I crave, and I covet no more]
 
Smile of Affection.
 
[While flocks and herds in safety feed]
 
[While slaves of ambition sell comfort for fame]
 
[In life's fair morn, when sunshine warm'd the scene]
 
[Now sober Pomona has won]
 
Variety.
 
Beside a Streamlet.
 
[How oft, reclined beside a babbling stream]
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MELODIES.
 
THE BUDDING HOPES.
 
[My gentle Muse on Heliconia strays]
 
[While folly's shrine attracts the fair]
 
THE NOSEGAY.
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MELODIES.
 
[Eve shuts her windows—let me now advance]
 
NOW AMITY, HOPE, AND PLEASURE.
 
A FAIR VOCALIST.
 
[The Muse no more in foreign climes shall roam]
 
[Clear and transparent, like a crystal vase]
 
FASHION.
 
FRIENDSHIP.
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MELODIES.
 
A MASONIC ODE.
 
HAIL, LA FAYETTE!
 
LA FAYETTE.
 
PROGRESS OF IMPROVEMENT.
 
[Fair Science her portals of light shall unfold]
 
MY LYRE.
 
THE GRAND CANAL.
 
CRITICISM.
 
OUR COUNTRY.
 
TO A YOUNG LADY,
 
OUR COUNTRY.
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POEMS.
 
[O be a man, and let proud reason tread]
 
THE HARD-HEARTED LANDLORD.
 
POETRY.
 
[Sacred to Virtue, let this marble stand]
 
EPITAPH.
 
EPIGRAM.
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POEMS.
 
OUR NATIVE LAND.
 
[The cross is rear'd, the Turkish cresent wanes]
 
TO AMY.
 
REJECTED ADDRESS.
 
[That minstrel wakes the song in vain]
 
AN ADDRESS,
 
EPILOGUE,
 
TO CAPT. J. B. AND LADY,
 
EPITAPH.
 
MASONIC ODE.
 
EPITAPH.

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[The fortune I crave, and I covet no more]

[_]

Air—Cottage on the moor.

The fortune I crave, and I covet no more,
Is health, rural pleasures, apparel, and food,
The friend that I love, and the girl I adore,
In a neat little cottage that stands near a wood
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