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The poetical works of Samuel Woodworth

Woodworth, Samuel (1784-1842)

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Vol. I.
  
[dedication]
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PASTORAL POEMS.
  
THE BUCKET.
  
THE VILLAGE CLOCK.
  
MY FATHER'S FARM.
  
THE HAY-MAKERS.
  
HARVEST-HOME.
  
THE WATERMELON.
  
SWEET SECLUSION.
  
THE MILKMAID.
  
THE MOONBEAM.
  
COME TO MY COT.
  
MORN OF MAY.
  
THE COTTAGE LASS.
  
THE PRIDE OF THE VALLEY.
  
DANCING GAYLY.
  
THE BALM OF THE HEART.
  
EVENING.
  
I LOVE TO HEAR.
  
YES OR NO.
  
GOOD-MORNING.
  
COME, LET US TRIP IT LIGHTLY.
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SENTIMENTAL.
  
TO MY WIFE.
  
THE SIGH.
  
A SMILE FROM THEE.
  
THE WREATH OF LOVE.
  
THE PORTRAIT.
  
LOVE'S LEGER.
  
TO SOMEBODY.
  
THE GARLAND.
  
TO A NOSEGAY.
  
PEACEFUL HOME.
  
LOVE AND JEALOUSY.
  
MUSIC THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE.
  
I LOVE ONLY THEE.
  
LOVE'S EYES.
  
LOVE AND VALOR.
  
A KISS.
  
GIVING AND RECEIVING.
  
TO MARIA.
  
AND DID I UPBRAID YOU?
  
NATURE AND THE PASSIONS.
  
I HAD A LYRE.
  
THE MEETING.
  
A DREAM.
  
THE SMILE OF LOVE.
  
I HEARD A SWEET STRAIN.
  
HARRIET'S FAVORITE POEMS.
  
MABELLA.
  
THE VOYAGE OF LIFE.
  
THE GAMUT.
  
TO HARRIET.
  
AND MAY I HOPE?
  
TO CAROLINE.
  
WE ARE ONE.
  
RETURNING HOME.
  
BANKRUPTCY OF THE HEART.
  
A NUPTIAL SONG.
  
THE WIDOWED IVY.
  
CHRISTMAS GAMBOLS.
  
LAND'S END.
  
THE TEAR OF GRATITUDE.
  
SPRING AND AUTUMN.
  
TO ADELAIDE FELICITY.
  
TO MISS SARAH HOWARD.
  
THE KALEIDOSCOPE.
  
THE IMPRISONED DEBTOR.
  
THE FLOWERS OF LIFE.
  
EDWIN DELISLE.
  
FRIENDSHIP.
  
HIBERNIA'S TEARS.
  
CALUMNY.
  
OH TRUST NOT HOPE.
  
AN IMITATION FROM THE FRENCH.
  
THE DEAF AND DUMB.
  
BEAUTY, SWEET MYSTERIOUS POWER.
  
THE MINSTREL.
  
A DUETT
  
CONFIDING WOMAN.
  
HARLEM MARY.
  
THE BASHFUL LOVER.
  
THE NEEDLE.
  
WILLIAM'S GRAVE.
  
THIS LIFE IS NOT THE VALE OF WO.
  
A TRIO.
  
THE TOMB OF HENRY.
  
NO MORE SHALL HOPE'S ILLUSIVE DREAM.
  
YOU HESITATE—OH THEN 'TIS YOU.
  
A REQUEST.
  
TO A LADY.
  
DEDICATION OF AN ALBUM.
  
ANSWER TO A LADY,
  
OH WHAT IS VIRTUE?
  
RONDEAU.
  
TO MARY.
  
AWAY WITH CARE AND SORROW.
  
WRITTEN IN MY NIECE'S ALBUM.
  
A TURKISH SONG.
  
AWAKE, MY DEAR JANE.
  
THE SICILIAN KNIGHT.
  
THE KISS OF LOVE.
  
HOPE AND MEMORY.
  
THE HARP THAT I STRUNG.
  
THE HAPPY FAMILY.
  
TO MISS HARRIET T---N,
  
TO MISS MARY JANE Y---G,
  
EPITHALAMIUM.
  
LOVES SHE LIKE ME?
  
I SIGH NOT FOR GLORY.
  
TO A LADY,
  
LADY, ACCEPT THIS LITTLE BOOK.
  
YES, LOVE HAS ITS SORROWS.
  
THE LOCK OF HAIR.
  
MY CARD-RACK.
  
LOVE.
  
THE WHITE COTTAGE.
  
AUTUMNAL REFLECTIONS.
  
MARY'S GRAVE.
  
THE ORPHAN MAID.
  
TO MARY ANN.
  
THE BOOK OF THE HEART.
  
FOR VIOLA'S ALBUM.
  
DUETT.
  
TO ELIZA.
  
TO A YOUNG LADY.
  
THE SILENT CONFESSION.
  
OH SAY, CAN THIS BE LOVE?
  
KATHLEEN O'MOORE.
  
TO A---.
  
TO IANTHE.
  
SMILE OF AFFECTION.
  
THE ADIEU.
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RELIGIOUS AND ELEGIAC.
  
THE NATIVITY.
  
THE INCARNATION.
  
REDEMPTION.
  
GOD IN HIS TEMPLE.
  
THE WORLD OF MIND.
  
THE WORLD OF MIND.
  
MIRIAM'S SONG.
  
OPEN THE DOOR.
  
HOW SHALL I COME BEFORE HIM?
  
HAPPINESS.
  
CONSECRATION.
  
SIN NO MORE.
  
AND DID I SAY?
  
THE PARALYTIC'S DEPRECATION.
  
BE WISE!
  
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION.
  
WEEPING MARY.
  
NEW JERUSALEM.
  
REGENERATION.
  
BRIGHT IS THE WORD.
  
ON THE CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH.
  
SEEK YE THE LORD.
  
“FATHER, THOU ART GOOD!”
  
THE WIDOW.
  
SUNDAY-SCHOOL HYMN.
  
ON HEARING A SERMON ON THE PLEASURES OF RELIGION.
  
FAITH.
  
THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
  
MY MOTHER'S GRAVE.
  
SHE IS NOT HERE.
  
ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD.
  
ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT.
  
FLORIAN—A MONODY.
  
ON THE DEATH OF MISS ANNA GREENLEAF.
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EPITAPHS.
  
ON A YOUTH.
  
ON A WIFE AND MOTHER.
  
AH! SEEK NOT READER.
  
ON AN INFANT.
  
ON A CHARMING AND MUCH LAMENTED FEMALE.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
  
A COLLOQUY WITH THE MUSE.
  
NAY, ASK ME NOT FOR WIT OR RHYME.
  
FASHIONS.
  
AN ODE,
  
THE GRAND CANAL.
  
DURANT'S ADDRESS.
  
THE ÆRONAUT'S ADDRESS.
  
AN ÆRONAUT'S FAREWELL.
  
NEWSPAPERS.
  
THE ZODIAC.
  
THE SEASONS.
  
THE FIREMAN,
  
NEW YORK.
  
YALE COLLEGE.
  
TO MRS. MARY WORTHINGTON MORRIS,
  
MORNING.
  
TO ARTHUR KEENE THE VOCALIST.
  
THREE IMPROMPTUS ON THE ROOM IN WHICH SHAKESPEARE WAS BORN.
  
CRITICS.
  
TO MRS. --- ON HER EMBARKING FOR HAVRE.
  
TO MY FRIEND, MR. E. PARMLY,
  
TO THEODORE S. FAY,
  
THE PAST.
  
THE MINSTREL'S FAREWELL TO HIS LYRE.
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Vol. II.
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BALLADS AND HUMOROUS PIECES.
  
THE HUNTERS OF KENTUCKY.
  
THE WATERMAN.
  
RIGHTS OF WOMAN.
  
WILLIAM'S PROMOTION.
  
DOCTOR STRAMONIUM.
  
TO BELINDA.
  
THE FEMALE INVINCIBLES.
  
LIFE IN LONDON.
  
LIFE IN CLOVER.
  
OH, WOMEN ARE ANGELS.
  
HUNGER AND AN EMPTY PURSE;
  
A FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION.
  
BARNEY BROOKE AND BETSEY BAKER.
  
THE RECONCILATION.
  
THE LOVER AND THE ECHO.
  
THE REPULSE.
  
TIT FOR TAT;
  
PRINTER, FOOL ENOUGH.
  
THE WHISKERS.
  
THE EXPERT FRISEUR.
  
RAISING THE WIND.
  
THE FIRST OF MAY;
  
EPIGRAM,
  
POETICAL EPISTLE.
  
ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING EPISTLE.
  
A CHARADE AND SOLUTION.
  
A SONNET ON SONNETS.
  
ELEGIAC LINES.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
TIME'S AUCTION.
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CONVIVIAL SONGS AND GLEES.
  
THY RUBY LIPS MUST KISS THE BRIM.
  
TARGET-SHOOTING.
  
THE KROUT FEAST.—NO. 1.
  
THE KROUT FEAST.—NO. 2.
  
WHEN EYES ARE BRIGHT.
  
AMITY, HOPE, AND PLEASURE.
  
YE CARELESS, SMILING SONS OF MIRTH.
  
LET POLITICIANS RAIL AND FIGHT.
  
FILL A BUMPER, LET IT PASS.
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MARTIAL AND PATRIOTIC PIECES.
  
FREEDOM'S STAR.
  
FREEDOM'S CONSTELLATION.
  
FREEDOM'S JUBILEE.
  
THE VICTOR COMES, HUZZA!
  
DEATH ON THE BATTLE-FIELD.
  
YES, YES, I GO.
  
WAR.
  
THE ONSET.
  
'T WAS WAR.
  
THE BATTLE.
  
THE BUGLE.
  
INDEPENDENCE.
  
HARK! THE CLAMOROUS BUGLE.
  
THE GOD OF BATTLE.
  
THE PATRIOTIC DIGGERS.
  
THE JUBILEE.
  
FREEDOM, LOVE, AND FAME.
  
COLUMBIA, THE PRIDE OF THE WORLD.
  
ODE,
  
THE SONS OF COLUMBIA.
  
LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENCE.
  
INAUGURATION ODE.
  
OUR COUNTRY.
  
WASHINGTON'S BIRTH.
  
THE BIRTH OF WASHINGTON.
  
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY.
  
HE LEFT THE PLOUGH.
  
CENTENNIAL ODE ON WASHINGTON.
  
LAFAYETTE'S WELCOME.
  
A TRIBUTE TO LAFAYETTE.
  
WHEN THE LILY OF GALLIA.
  
A DIRGE
  
A MONODY,
  
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
  
THE EXILED HARPER.
  
THE IRISH ORPHAN.
  
BOLIVAR'S LAST WORDS.
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ODES ON THE NAVAL VICTORIES.
  
CONSTITUTION AND GUERRIERE.
  
WASP AND FROLIC.
  
UNITED STATES AND MACEDONIAN.
  
CONSTITUTION AND JAVA.
  
HORNET AND PEACOCK.
  
ENTERPRISE AND BOXER.
  
PERRY AND M'DONOUGH:
  
SARATOGA AND MORGIANNA.
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TYPOGRAPHICAL ODES.
  
HAIL TO THE ART.
  
WHILE AROUND THE FESTIVE BOARD.
  
PRINTERS' ODE.
  
PRINTING AND INDEPENDENCE.
  
AWAKE THE LOUD TRUMPET.
  
PRINTERS' JUBILEE
  
SONS OF FAUST.
  
ART OF PRINTING.
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DRAMATIC AND THEATRICAL.
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THE NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NEW YORK MIRROR, JULY, 1831.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
 4. 
SCENE IV.
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SHOOTING STARS: OR, THE BATTLE OF THE COMETS.
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ACT I.
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SCENE I
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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ACT II.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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SCENE V.
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SCENE VI.
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SCENE VII.
  
ADDRESS
  
ADDRESS
  
PRIZE ADDRESS,
  
ADDRESS,
  
EPILOGUE, TO COX'S OPERA OF ROKEBY.
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ACROSTICS.
  
IN AN ALBUM.
  
SCIENCE AND GENIUS HAPPILY COMBINED.
  
ALTHOUGH, DEAR GIRL.
  
ART THOU, DEAR NIECE.
  
EPITAPH—ACROSTIC.
  
ELEGIAC ACROSTIC.

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OH SAY, CAN THIS BE LOVE?

Why does my heart so strangely start,
Each pulse so wildly play?
Why can not willing lips impart
What feeling bids them say;—
Cease, busy heart!—Can this be love?
Why do n't the trembler rest?
Why does it throb as if a dove
Were caged within my breast?
'T is not the throb of anguish—
It can not fatal prove—
And yet I sigh and languish!
Oh say, can this be love?
Cease, busy heart!—Why throbs it so,
With such an anxious thrill?
It seems to have a fever's glow,
And yet I am not ill!
Warm on my cheek I feel the flame,
Its light illumes my eye;
Still, if my lips attempt the name,
'T is whispered in a sigh.
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'T is not the sigh of anguish—
So that can nothing prove,
And yet I daily languish—
Oh say, can this be love?
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