To arm for our country is never too late_The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 3 (of 3)

No fetters are yet on our feet;

Our hands are more free, and our hearts are as great

As the best in the enemy's fleet:

And look at the list of their navy, and think,

How many are left, to burn, capture, and sink!

Let the nations of Europe surrender the sea,

Or crouch at the foot of a throne;

In liberty's soil we have planted her tree,

And her rights will relinquish to none:

Then stand to your arms,

Then stand to your arms--half the battle is done!

And bravely accomplish what valor begun.

The day is approaching, a day not remote,

A day with impatience we hail,

When Decatur and Hull shall again be afloat,

And Bainbridge commission'd to sail;

To raise his blockades, will advance on the foe,

And bulwark with Bull to the bottom shall go.

On the waves of Lake Erie we show'd the old brag

We, too, could advance in a line,

And batter their frigates and humble their flag;

"I have met them," said Perry, "they're mine!"

And so, my dear boys, we can meet them again

On the waves of the sea, or the waves of Champlain.

To the new Independence then, pour out a glass,

And drink, with the sense of a man:

She soon will be ready, this pride of her class,

Sir Thomas[A] to meet on his plan:

He hates our torpedoes--then teaze him no more,

Let him venture his luck with our Seventy-four.

Then stand to your arms, you shall ne'er be enslav'd,

Let the battle go on till the nation is saved!

[A] Sir Thomas Hardy, of the Ramillies 74.--_Freneau's note._

[211] The _Independence_ was one of the four 74-gun frigates authorized

by Congress at the opening of the war. It was launched late in 1814, too

late to play any part in the war.

THE BROOK OF THE VALLEY

The world has wrangled half an age,

And we again in war engage,

While this sweet, sequester'd rill

Murmurs through the valley still.

All pacific as you seem:

Such a gay elysian stream;--

Were you always thus at rest

How the valley would be blest.

But, if always thus at rest;

This would not be for the best:

In one summer you would die

And leave the valley parch'd and dry.

Tell me, where your waters go,

Purling as they downward flow?

Stagnant, now, and now a fall?--

To the gulph that swallows all.

Flowing, peaceful, from your urn

Are your waters to return?--

Though the same you may appear,

You're not the same we saw last year.

Not a drop of that remains--

Gone to visit other plains,

Gone, to stray through other woods,

Gone, to join the ocean floods!

Yes--they may return once more

To visit scenes they knew before;--

Yonder sun, to cheer the vale

From the ocean can exhale

Vapors, that your waste supply,

Turn'd to rain from yonder sky;

Moisture, vapors, to revive

And keep your margin all alive.

But, with all your quiet flow,

Do you not some quarrels know!

Lately, angry, how you ran!

All at war--and much like man.

When the shower of waters fell,

How you raged, and what a swell!

All your banks you overflow'd,

Scarcely knew your own abode!

How you battled with the rock!

Gave my willow such a shock

As to menace, by its fall,

Underwood and bushes, all:

Now you are again at peace:

Time will come when that will cease;

Such the human passions are;

--You again will war declare.

Emblem, thou, of restless man;

What a sketch of nature's plan!

Now at peace, and now at war,

Now you murmur, now you roar;

Muddy now, and limpid next,

Now with icy shackles vext--

What a likeness here we find!

What a picture of mankind!

APPENDIX

A. THE AMERICAN VILLAGE, &C.

B. LIST OF OMITTED POEMS.

C. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE POETRY OF PHILIP FRENEAU.

THE AMERICAN VILLAGE.[212]

WHERE yonder stream divides the fertile plain,

Made fertile by the labours of the swain;

And hills and woods high tow'ring o'er the rest,

Behold a village with fair plenty blest:

Each year tall harvests crown the happy field;

Each year the meads their stores of fragrance yield,

And ev'ry joy and ev'ry bliss is there,

And healthful labour crowns the flowing year.

THOUGH _Goldsmith_ weeps in melancholy strains,

Deserted Auburn and forsaken plains,

And mourns his village with a patriot sigh,

And in that village sees Britannia die:

Yet shall this land with rising pomp divine,

In it's own splendor and Britannia's shine.

O muse, forget to paint her ancient woes,

Her Indian battles, or her Gallic foes;

Resume the pleasures of the rural scene,

Describe the village rising on the green,

It's harmless people, born to small command,

Lost in the bosom of this western land:

SO shall my verse run gentle as the floods,

So answer all ye hills, and echo all ye woods;

So glide ye streams in hollow channels pent,

Forever wasting, yet not ever spent.

Ye clust'ring boughs by hoary thickets borne!

Ye fields high waving with eternal corn!

Ye woodland nymphs the tender tale rehearse,

The fabled authors of immortal verse:

Ye Dryads fair, attend the scene I love,

And Heav'n shall centre in yon' blooming grove.

What tho' thy woods, AMERICA, contain

The howling forest, and the tiger's den,

The dang'rous serpent, and the beast of prey,

Men are more fierce, more terrible than they.

No monster with it's vile contagious breath,

No flying scorpion darting instant death;

No pois'nous adder, burning to engage,

Has half the venom or has half the rage.

What tho' the Turk protests to heav'n his ire,

With lift up hand amidst his realms of fire;

And Russia's Empress sends her fleets afar,

To aid the havock of the burning war:

Their rage dismays not, and their arms in vain,

In dreadful fury bathe with blood the plain;

Their terrors harmless, tho' their story heard,

How this one conquer'd, or was nobly spar'd:

Vain is their rage, to us their anger vain,

The deep Atlantic raves and roars between.

TO yonder village then will I descend,

There spend my days, and there my ev'nings spend;

Sweet haunt of peace whose mud' wall'd sides delight,

The rural mind beyond the city bright:

Their tops with hazles or with alders wove,

Remurmur magic to the neighb'ring grove;

And each one lab'ring in his own employ,

Comes weary home at night, but comes with joy:

The soil which lay for many thousand years

O'er run by woods, by thickets and by bears;

Now reft of trees, admits the chearful light,

And leaves long prospects to the piercing sight;

Where once the lynx nocturnal sallies made,

And the tall chestnut cast a dreadful shade:

No more the panther stalks his bloody rounds,

Nor bird of night her hateful note resounds;

Nor howling wolves roar to the rising moon,

As pale arose she o'er yon eastern down.

Some prune their trees, a larger load to bear

Of fruits nectarine blooming once a year:

See groaning waggons to the village come

Fill'd with the apple, apricot or plumb;

And heavy beams suspended from a tree,

To press their juice against the winter's day:

Or see the plough torn through the new made field,

Ordain'd a harvest, yet unknown to yield.

The rising barn whose spacious floor receives

The welcome thousands of the wheaten sheaves,

And spreads it's arms to take the plenteous store,

Sufficient for its master and the poor:

For as Eumoeus us'd his beggar guest

The great Ulysses in his tatters drest:

So here fair Charity puts forth her hand,

And pours her blessings o'er the greatful land:

No needy wretch the rage of winter fears,

Secure he sits and spends his aged years,

With thankful heart to gen'rous souls and kind,

That save him from the winter and the wind.

A LOVELY island once adorn'd the sea,

Between New-Albion and the Mexic' Bay;

Whose sandy sides washed by the ocean wave,

Scarce heard a murmur but what ocean gave:

Small it's circumference, nor high it's coast,

But shady woods the happy isle could boast;

On ev'ry side new prospects catch'd the eye,

There rose blue mountains to the arched sky:

Here thunder'd ocean in convulsive throws,

And dash'd the island as it's waters rose:

Yet peaceful all within, no tumults there,

But fearless steps of the unhunted hare;

And nightly chauntings of the fearless dove,

Or blackbird's note, the harbinger of love.

So peaceful was this haunt that nature gave,

Still as the stars, and silent as the grave;

No loud applause there rais'd the patriot breast,

No shouting armies their mad joy confest,

For battles gain'd, or trophies nobly won,

Or nations conquer'd near the rising sun;

No clam'rous crews, or wild nocturnal cheer,

Or murd'rous ruffians, for no men were here.

On it's east end a grove of oak was seen,

And shrubby hazels fill'd the space between;

Dry alders too, and aspin leaves that shook

With ev'ry wind, conspired to shade a brook,

Whose gentle stream just bubbling from the ground,

Was quickly in the salter ocean drown'd:

Beyond whose fount, the center of the isle,

Wild plumb trees flourish'd on the shaded soil.

In the dark bosom of this sacred wood,

Secluded from the world, and all it's own,

Of other lands unknowing, and unknown.

Here might the hunter have destroy'd his prey,

Transfix'd the goat before the dawn of day;

And trudging homeward with his welcome load,

The fruit of wand'rings thro' each by-way road:

Thrown down his burthen with the needless sigh,

And gladly feasted his small family.

Small fields had then suffic'd, and grateful they,

The annual labours of his hands to pay;

And free his right to search the briny flood

For fish, or slay the creatures of the wood.

THUS spent his days in labour's pleasant pain,

Had liv'd and dy'd the homely shepherd swain:

Had seen his children and his children's heirs,

The fruit of love and memory of years

To agriculture's first fair service bent,

The work of mortals, and their great intent.

So had the Sire his days of pleasure known,

And wish'd to change no country for his own:

So had he with his fair endearing wife,

Pass'd the slow circle of a harmless life;

With happy ignorance divinely blest,

The path, the centre and the home of rest.

Long might the sun have run his bright career,

And long the moon her mantled visage rear;

And long the stars their nightly vigils kept,

And spheres harmonious either sung or wept:

He had not dream'd of worlds besides his own,

And thought them only stars, beyond the moon;

Enjoy'd himself, nor hear'd of future hell,

Or heav'n, the recompence of doing well;

Had scarcely thought of an eternal state,

And left his being in the hands of fate.--

O had this isle such souls sublime contain'd,

And there for ages future sons remain'd:

But envious time conspiring with the sea,

Wash'd all it's landscapes, and it's groves away.

It's trees declining, stretch'd upon the sand,

No more their shadows throw across the land.

It's vines no more their clust'ring beauty show,

Nor sturdy oaks embrace the mountain's brow.

Bare sands alone now overwhelm the coast,

Lost in it's grandeur, and it's beauty lost.

THUS, tho' my fav'rite isle to ruin gone,

Inspires my sorrow, and demands my moan;

Yet this wide land it's place can well supply

With landscapes, hills and grassy mountains high.

O HUDSON! thy fair flood shall be my theme,

Thy winding river, or thy glassy stream;

On whose tall banks tremendous rocks I spy,

Dread nature in primæval majesty.

Rocks, to whose summits clouds eternal cling,

Or clust'ring birds in their wild wood notes sing.

Hills, from whose sides the mountain echo roars,

Rebounding dreadful from the distant shores;

Or vallies, where refreshing breezes blow,

And rustic huts in fair confusion grow,

Safe from the winds, secur'd by mountains high,

That seem to hide the concave of the sky;

To whose top oft' the curious hind ascends,

And wonders where the arch'd horizon bends;

Pleas'd with the distant prospects rising new,

And hills o'er hills, a never ending view.

Through various paths with hasty step he scours,

And breathes the odours of surrounding flow'rs,

Caught from their bosoms by the fragrant breath,

Of western breezes, or the gale of death.[A]

Then low descending, seeks the humble dome,

And centres all his pleasures in his home,

'Till day returning, brings the welcome toil,

To clear the forest, or to tame the soil;

To burn the woods, or catch the tim'rous deer,

To scour the thicket, or contrive the snare.

[A] South wind.--_Freneau's note._

SUCH was the life our great fore-fathers led,

The golden season now from Britain fled,

E'er since dread commerce stretch'd the nimble sail,

And sent her wealth with ev'ry foreign gale.--

Strange fate, but yet to ev'ry country known,

To love all other riches but it's own.

Thus fell the mistress of the conquer'd earth,

Great ROME, who owed to ROMULUS her birth.

Fell to the monster Luxury, a prey,

Who forc'd a hundred nations to obey.

She whom nor mighty CARTHAGE could withstand,

Nor strong JUDEA'S once thrice holy land:

She all the west, and BRITAIN could subdue,

While vict'ry with the ROMAN eagles flew;

She, she herself eternal years deny'd,

Like ROME she conquer'd, but by ROME she dy'd:

But if AMERICA, by this decay,

The world itself must fall as well as she.

No other regions latent yet remain,

This spacious globe has been research'd in vain.

Round it's whole circle oft' have navies gone,

And found but sea or lands already known.

When she has seen her empires, cities, kings,

Time must begin to flap his weary wings;

The earth itself to brighter days aspire,

And wish to feel the purifying fire.

NOR think this mighty land of old contain'd

The plund'ring wretch, or man of bloody mind:

Renowned SACHEMS once their empires rais'd

On wholesome laws; and sacrifices blaz'd.

The gen'rous soul inspir'd the honest breast,

And to be free, was doubly to be blest:

'Till the east winds did here COLUMBUS blow,

And wond'ring nations saw his canvas flow.

'Till here CABOT descended on the strand,

And hail'd the beauties of the unknown land;

And rav'nous nations with industrious toil,

Conspir'd to rob them of their native soil:

Then bloody wars, and death and rage arose,

And ev'ry tribe resolv'd to be our foes.

Full many a feat of them I could rehearse,

And actions worthy of immortal verse:

Deeds ever glorious to the INDIAN name,

And fit to rival GREEK or ROMAN fame,

But one sad story shall my Muse relate,

Full of paternal love, and full of fate;

Which when ev'n yet the northern shepherd hears,

It swells his breast, and bathes his face in tears,

Prompts the deep groan, and lifts the heaving sigh,

Or brings soft torrents from the female eye.

FAR in the arctic skies, where HUDSON'S BAY

Rolls it's cold wave and combats with the sea,

A dreary region lifts it's dismal head,

True sister to the regions of the dead.

Here thund'ring storms continue half the year,

Or deep-laid snows their joyless visage rear:

Eternal rocks, from whose prodigious steep

The angry tiger stuns the neighb'ring deep;

While through the wild wood, or the shrouded plain,

The moose deer seeks his food, but often seeks in vain:

Yet in this land, froze by inclement skies,

The Indian huts in wild succession rise;

And daily hunting, when the short-liv'd spring

Shoots joyous forth, th' industrious people bring

Their beaver spoils beneath another sky,

PORT NELSON, and each BRITISH factory:

In slender boats from distant lands they sail,

Their small masts bending to the inland gale,

On traffic sent to gain the little store,

Which keeps them plenteous, tho' it keeps them poor.

Hither CAFFRARO in his flighty boat,

One hapless spring his furry riches brought;

And with him came, for sail'd he not alone,

His consort COLMA, and his little son.

While yet from land o'er the deep wave he plough'd,

And tow'rds the shore with manly prowess row'd.

His barque unfaithful to it's trusted freight,

Sprung the large leak, the messenger of fate;

But no lament or female cry was heard,

Each for their fate most manfully prepar'd,

From bubbling waves to send the parting breath

To lands of shadows, and the shade of death.

O FATE! unworthy such a tender train,

O day, lamented by the Indian swain!

Full oft' of it the strippling youth shall hear,

And sadly mourn their fortune with a tear:

The Indian maids full oft' the tale attend,

And mourn their COLMA as they'd mourn a friend.

NOW while in waves the barque demerg'd, they strive,

Dead with despair, tho' nature yet alive:

Forth from the shore a friendly brother flew,

In one small boat, to save the drowning crew.

He came, but in his barque of trifling freight,

Could save but two, and one must yield to fate.

O dear CAFFRARO, said the hapless wife,

O save our son, and save thy dearer life:

'Tis thou canst teach him how to hunt the doe,

Transfix the buck, or tread the mountain snow,

Let me the sentence of my fate receive,

And to thy care my tender infant leave.

He sigh'd, nor answer'd, but as firm as death,

Resolv'd to save her with his latest breath:

And as suspended by the barque's low side,

He rais'd the infant from the chilling tide,

And plac'd it safe; he forc'd his COLMA too

To save herself, what more could mortal do?

But nobly scorning life, she rais'd her head

From the flush'd wave, and thus divinely said:

OF life regardless, I to fate resign,

But thou, CAFFRARO, art forever mine.

O let thy arms no future bride embrace,

Remember COLMA, and her beauteous face,

Which won thee youthful in thy gayest pride,

With captives, trophies, victors at thy side;

Now I shall quick to blooming regions fly,

A spring eternal, and a nightless sky,

Far to the west, where radiant Sol descends,

And wonders where the arch'd horizon ends:

There shall my soul thy lov'd idea keep,

And 'till thy image comes, unceasing weep.

There, tho' the tiger is but all a shade,

And mighty panthers but the name they had;

And proudest hills, and lofty mountains there,

Light as the wind, and yielding as the air;

Yet shall our souls their ancient feelings have,

More strong, more noble than this side the grave.

There lovely blossoms blow throughout the year,

And airy harvests rise without our care:

And all our sires and mighty ancestors,

Renown'd for battles and successful wars,

Behold their sons in fair succession rise,

And hail them happy to serener skies.

There shall I see thee too, and see with joy

Thy future charge, my much lov'd Indian boy:

The thoughtless infant, whom with tears I see,

Once sought my breast, or hung upon my knee;

Tell him, ah tell him, when in manly years,

His dauntless mind, nor death nor danger fears,

Tell him, ah tell him, how thy COLMA dy'd,

His fondest mother, and thy youthful bride:

Point to my tomb thro' yonder furzy glade,

And show where thou thy much lov'd COLMA laid.

O may I soon thy blest resemblance see,

And my sweet infant all reviv'd in thee.

'Till then I'll haunt the bow'r or lonely shade,

Or airy hills for contemplation made,

And think I see thee in each ghostly shoal,

And think I clasp thee to my weary soul.

Oft, oft thy form to my expecting eye,

Shall come in dreams with gentle majesty;

Then shall I joy to find my bliss began

To love an angel, whom I lov'd a man!

She said, and downward in the hoary deep

Plung'd her fair form to everlasting sleep;

Her parting soul it's latest struggle gave,

And her last breath came bubbling thro' the wave.

THEN sad CAFFRARO all his grief declares,

And swells the torrent of the gulph with tears;

And senseless stupid to the shore is borne

In death-like slumbers, 'till the rising morn,

Then sorrowing, to the sea his course he bent

Full sad, but knew not for what cause he went,

'Till, sight distressing, from the lonely strand,

He saw dead COLMA wafting to the land.

Then in a stupid agony of pray'r,

He rent his mantle, and he tore his hair;

Sigh'd to the stars, and shook his honour'd head,

And only wish'd a place among the dead!

O had the winds been sensible of grief,

Or whisp'ring angels come to his relief;

Then had the rocks not echo'd to his pain,

Nor hollow mountains answer'd him again:

Then had the floods their peaceful courses kept,

Nor the sad pine in all it's murmurs wept;

Nor pensive deer stray'd through the lonely grove,

Nor sadly wept the sympathising dove.--

Thus far'd the sire through his long days of pain,

Or with his offspring rov'd the silent plain;

Till years approaching, bow'd his sacred head

Deep in the dust, and sent him to the dead:

Where now perhaps in some strange fancy'd land,

He grasps the airy bow, and flies across the strand;

Or with his COLMA shares the fragrant grove,

It's vernal blessings, and the bliss of love.

FAREWELL lamented pair, and whate'er state

Now clasps you round, and sinks you deep in fate;

Whether the firey kingdom of the sun,

Or the slow wave of silent Acheron,

Or Christian's heaven, or planetary sphere,

Or the third region of the cloudless air;

Or if return'd to dread nihility,

You'll still be happy, for you will not be.

NOW fairest village of the fertile plain,

Made fertile by the labours of the swain;

Who first my drowsy spirit did inspire,

To sing of woods, and strike the rural lyre:

Who last shou'd see me wand'ring from thy cells,

And groves of oak where contemplation dwells,

Wou'd fate but raise me o'er the smaller cares,

Of Life unwelcome and distressful years,

Pedantic labours and a hateful ease,

Which scarce the hoary wrinkled sage cou'd please.

Hence springs each grief, each long reflective sigh,

And not one comfort left but poetry.

Long, long ago with her I could have stray'd,

To woods, to thickets or the mountain shade;

Unfit for cities and the noisy throng,

The drunken revel and the midnight song;

The gilded beau and scenes of empty joy,

Which please a moment and forever die.

Here then shall center ev'ry wish, and all

The tempting beauties of this spacious ball:

No thought ambitious, and no bold design,

But heaven born contemplation shall be mine.

In yonder village shall my fancy stray,

Nor rove beyond the confines of to-day;

The aged volumes of some plain divine,

In broken order round my hut shou'd shine;

Whose solemn lines should soften all my cares,

And sound devotion to th' eternal stars:

And if one sin my rigid breast did stain,

Thou poetry shou'dst be the darling sin;

Which heav'n without repentance might forgive,

And which an angel might commit and live:

And where yon' wave of silent water falls,

O'er the smooth rock or Adamantine walls:

The summer morns and vernal eves should see,

MILTON, immortal bard my company;

Or SHAKESPEARE, DRYDEN, each high sounding name,

The pride of BRITAIN, and one half her fame:

Or him who wak'd the fairy muse of old,

And pleasing tales of lands inchanted told.

Still in my hand, he his soft verse shou'd find

His verse, the picture of the poets mind:

Or heav'nly POPE, who now harmonious mourns,

"Like the rapt seraph that adores and burns."

Then in sharp satire, with a giant's might,

Forbids the blockhead and the fool to write:

And in the centre of the bards be shown

The deathless lines of godlike ADDISON;

Who, bard thrice glorious, all delightful flows,

And wrapt the soul of poetry in prose.

NOW cease, O muse, thy tender tale to chaunt,

The smiling village, or the rural haunt;

New scenes invite me, and no more I rove,

To tell of shepherds, or the vernal grove.

[212] "The American Village," Freneau's first distinct poetical

publication, was for many years known only from his description of it in

a letter to Madison (see Vol. I, page xxii, _supra_). It was supposed to

have been lost, until a copy was discovered in a volume of miscellaneous

pamphlets which had been purchased by the Library of Congress in

November, 1902. A second copy, still more recently discovered, is now in

the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. I have reproduced the

entire text of this little volume with the original punctuation and

spelling, using however the modern form of the "s", and correcting the

_errata_ noted by the author.

THE FARMER'S WINTER EVENING

A POEM

_To the_ NYMPH _I never saw_.

FAR be the pleasures of the day,

And mirth and festive joy from me,

When cold December nips the plains,

Or frozen January reigns.

Far he the hunts-man's noisy horn,

And coursers fleet thro' thickets borne,

Swift as the wind, and far the sight,

Of snowy mountains, sadly white;

But thou, O night, with sober charms,

Shall clasp me in thy sable arms.

For thee I love the winter eve,

The noisy day for thee I leave.

Beneath some mountain's tow'ring height,

In cottage low I hail the night,

Where jovial swains, with heart sincere,

And timely mirth dishearten care:

Each tells his tale, or chaunts a song

Of her for whom he sigh'd so long;

Of CLARA fair, or FLORA coy,

Disdaining still her shepherd boy,

While near the hoary headed sage,

Recalls the days of youthful age,

Describes his course of manly years,

His journey thro' this vale of tears;

How champion he with champions met,

And fiercely did they combat it,

'Till envious night in ebon chair,

Urg'd faster on her chariotteer,

And robb'd him, O for shame, of glory

And feats fit for renown in story.--

Thus spent in tales the ev'ning hour,

And quaffing juice of sober pow'r,

Which handsome KATE with malt did steep,

To lead on balmy visag'd sleep,

While her neat hand the milk pail strains,

A sav'ry supper for the swains.

And now the moon exalted high,

Gives lustre to the earth and sky,

And from the mighty ocean's glass,

Reflects the beauty of her face:

About her orb you may behold,

A thousand stars of burnish'd gold,

Which slowly to the west retire,

And lose awhile their glitt'ring fire.

O COULD I here find my abode,

And live within this fancy'd wood,

With thee the weeks and years to pass,

My pretty rural shepherdess;

With thee the cooling spring to sip,

Or live upon thy damask lip:

Then sacred groves, and shades divine,

And all ARCADIA should be mine.

Steep me, steep me some poppies deep

In beechen bowl, to bring on sleep;

Love hath my mind in shackles kept,

Thrice the cock crew, nor once I slept.

O gentle sleep, wrap me in dreams,

Of fields and woods, and running streams;

Of rivers wide, and castles rare,

And be my lovely FLORA there:

A larger draught, a larger bowl

To gratify my drowsy soul;

"A larger draught is yet in store,

Perhaps with this you wake no more."

Then I my lovely maid shall see thee

Drinking the deep streams of LETHE,

Where now dame ARETHUSA scatters

Her soft stream with ALPHEUS' waters,

To forget her earthly cares,

Lost in LETHE, lost in years!

And I too will quaff the water,

Lest it should be said, O daughter

Of my giddy, wand'ring brain,

I sigh'd for one I've never seen.

THE MISERABLE LIFE OF A PEDAGOGUE[213]

TO form the manners of our youth,

To guide them in the way of truth,

To lead them through the jarring schools,

Arts, sciences, and grammar rules;

Is certainly an arduous work,

Enough to tire out Jew or Turk;

And make a christian bite his nails,

For do his best, he surely fails;

And spite of all that some may say,

His praise is trifling as his pay.

FOR My part I, tho' vers'd in booking,

Still sav'd my carcase from such cooking;

And always slyly shunn'd a trade,

Too trifling as I thought and said;

But at a certain crazy season,

When men have neither sense or reason;

By some confounded misadventure,

I found myself just in it's centre.

ODD'S fish and blood, and noun and neuter,

And tenses present, past and future:

I utter'd with a wicked sigh,

Where are my brains, or where am I?

The dullest creature of the wood,

Knows how to shun the distant flood;

Whales, dolphins, and a hundred more,

Are not the fools to run ashore.

WELL, now contented I must be,

Forc'd by the dame Necessity,

Who like the tribunal of Spain,

Let's you speak once, but not again;

And swift to execute the blow,

Ne'er tells you why or whence it's so.

NOW I am ask'd a thousand questions,

Of ALEXANDERS and EPHESTIONS;

With sly designs to know if I

Am vers'd in GRECIAN history;

And then again my time destroy,

With aukward grace to tell of TROY:

From that huge giant POLYPHEMUS,

Quite down to ROMULUS and REMUS.

Then I'm oblig'd to give them lectures,

On quadrants, circles, squares and sectors;

Or in my wretched mem'ry bear,

What weighs a cubic inch of air.

"SIR, here's my son, I beg you'd mind,

The graces have been very kind,

And on him all their blessings shed,

[Except a genius and a head]

Teach him the doctrine of the sphere,

The sliding circle and the square,

And starry worlds, I know not where:

And let him quickly learn to say,

Those learned words Penna, Pennae;

Which late I heard our parson call

As learning, knowledge all in all."

AND then a city dame approaches,

Known by her horsemen, chairs and coaches:

"Sir, here's my son, teach him to speak

The Hebrew, Latin, and the Greek:

And this I half forgot, pray teach

My tender boy--the parts of speech--

But never let this son of me,

Learn that vile thing astronomy:

Upon my word it's all a sham,"--

O I'm your humble servant ma'am.

There certainly is something in it--

"Boy, drive the coach off in a minute."

And thus I'm left in street or road,

A laughing stock to half the crowd,

To argue with myself the case,

And prove its being to my face.

A plague I say on such employment,

Where's neither pleasure nor enjoyment:

Whoe'er to such a life is ty'd,

Was born the day he should have dy'd;

Born in an hour when angry spheres

Were tearing caps, or pulling ears:

And Saturn slow 'gainst swift Mercurius,

Was meditating battles furious;

Or comets with their blazing train,

Decreed their life, a life of pain.

[213] This poem was undoubtedly written while Freneau was conducting his

school at Flatbush early in 1772. See Vol. I, page xxi.

UPON A VERY ANCIENT DUTCH HOUSE ON LONG ISLAND.[214]

Behold this antique dome by envious time,

Grown crazy, and in ev'ry part decay'd;

Full well, alas, it claims my humble rhyme,

For such lone haunts and contemplation made.

Ah see the hearth, where once the chearful fire

Blaz'd high, and warm'd the winter trav'lers toes;

And see the walls, which once did high aspire,

Admit the storms, and ev'ry wind that blows.

In yonder corner, now to ruin gone,

The ancient housewife's curtain'd bed appear'd,

Where she and her man JOHN did sleep alone,

Nor nightly robber, nor the screech owl fear'd.

There did they snore full oft' the whole night out,

Smoking the sable pipe, 'till that did fall,

Reft from their jaws by Somnus' sleepy rout,

And on their faces pour'd its scorched gall.

And in the compass of yon' smaller gang,

The swain BATAVIAN once his courtship made,

To some DUTCH lass, as thick as she was long;

"Come then, my angel, come," the shepherd said,

"And let us for the bridal bed prepare;

For you alone shall ease my future life,

And you alone shall soften all my care,

My strong, my hearty, and industrious wife."

Thus they--but eating ruin now hath spread

Its wings destructive o'er the antique dome;

The mighty fabrick now is all a shed,

Scarce fit to be the wand'ring beggar's home.

And none but me it's piteous fate lament,

None, none but me o'er it's sad ashes mourn,

Sent by the fates, and by APOLLO sent,

To shed their latest tears upon it's silent urn.

[214] This is the germ of the poem, "The Deserted Farm-House," Vol. I,

p. 40, _supra_. A comparison of the two versions will illustrate the

thorough way in which Freneau often revised his poems.

B. LIST OF OMITTED POEMS.

It has been found necessary for various reasons to omit some of the

poems that appear in the various editions of Freneau. For the most part

this omitted material has no historic or poetic significance. Nothing

would be gained by resurrecting it. It is only just to the poet,

however, to state that aside from a single piece, nothing has been

omitted on account of coarseness alone. In each case the earliest known

title is given in the list that follows. When a title was significantly

changed in later editions, the variation has been given in a foot note,

with date of edition.

FROM THE 1786 EDITION.

Epitaph Intended for the Tombstone of Patrick Bay, an Irish

Soldier and Innholder, Killed by an Ignorant

Physician.--1769.[215]

Epitaph on Peter Abelard. From the Latin.

The Distrest Orator. [Occasioned by R---- A----'s memory

failing him in the midst of a public discourse he had got by

rote.][216]

The Retort.[217]

The Flagellators.

Humanity and Ingratitude; A Common Case. [From the French.]

December 1784.[218]

Elegaic Verses on the Death of a favorite Dog, 1785.[219]

The Five Ages.

New Year's Verses, Addressed to the Customers of the

Pennsylvania Evening Post, by the Printer's Lad who carries

it. January 4, 1783.

The Literary Plunderers.[220]

FROM THE 1788 EDITION.

The Scornful Lady.

The Prisoner.

Few Honest Coblers; A Poem. In Imitation of Dr. Watts's

_Indian Philosopher_.

The Almanac Maker.

Female Caprice; or, the Student's Complaint.

The Drunken Soldier. A Parody.

St. Preux to Eloisa.

The Fiddler's Farewell.[221]

The Modern Miracle.[222]

The Dull Moralist.[223]

The Misfortune of March. [Written in the pastoral style of the

old British Poets.][224]

Elegaic Lines.

Highland Sawney.[225]

FROM THE 1795 EDITION.

Epistolary Lines on the Death of a Fiddler.

Farmer Dobbins's Complaint.

The Debtor's Soliloquy.

The Fair Buckle-Thief.

Advice to the Ladies, Not to Neglect the Dentist.

Lines to the memory of a young American Lady; who died soon

after her Arrival in London.

The Market Girl.

Elegaic Stanzas on a Young Gentleman Drowned in a Mill-Pond.

The Drunkard's Apology.[226]

On a Painter who was Endeavouring to Recover, from Memory, the

Features of a Deceased Young Lady.

Marriage A-la Mode; (Or the Run-a-way Match.)

The Bridge of Delaware.

Minerva's Advice.

Mars and Venus.

Charity A-la-Mode.[227]

The Invalid.

Under the Portraiture of Martha Ray.

Epistle to a Gay Young Lady that was Married to a Doating old

Deacon.[228]

The Menace.[229]

The Prudent Philosopher.

The Origin of Wars.

Lines Written in a Severe February on a Shad, &c., caught in a

Mild January.

Epitaph on Frederick the Second, late King of Prussia. [From

the French.]

A Dialogue between Shadrach and Whiffle.

To the memory of a Lady.[230]

To Clarissa: a handsome Shop-Keeper.

To Cynthia.

To a Very Little Man, Fond of Walking with a Very Long Cane.

The Rural Bachelor.

To Messieurs Fungus, Froth, and Co.

Shadrach and Pomposo: A Tale.

On Pest-Eli-Hali, the Traveling Speculator.[231]

Elegiac lines on a Theological Script-Monger.

On the Approaching Dissolution of Transatlantic Jurisdiction

in America.

FROM THE 1809 EDITION.

Translation of the Third Elegy of the First Book of Ovid's

Tristia.

Description of the Plague which Happened at Athens ... From

the Sixth Book of Lucretius on the Nature of Things.

Love's Suicide. Stanzas Intended for the Tomb Stone of a

Person who Killed Himself in Consequence of his Suit being

Rejected by a Young Lady.

Translation, from Ovid's Tristia. Book 3d, Elegy 3d.

Stanzas Written near a Certain Clergyman's Garden.

On a Nocturnal View of the Planet Jupiter, and several of his

Satellites, through a Telescope.

The Fading Rose.

A College Story.

On a Man Killed by a Buffaloe (or wild Cow.)

To the Dog Sancho, on his being Wounded in the Head with a

Sabre, in a Midnight Assault and Robbery, near the Neversink

Hills, 1778.

Science, Favourable to Virtue.

Reflections on the Constitution, or Frame of Nature.

On the Powers of the Human Understanding.

Lines Written in a very Small Garden.

Nereus and Thetis.

A Usurer's Prayer.

Suicide: the Weakness of the Human Mind. A Marine Anecdote.

The Gougers: on Seeing a Traveller Gouged, and otherwise ill

treated by some Citizens of Logtown, near a Pine Barren.

Lines written for Mr. Ricketts, on the Exhibitions at his

Equestrian Circus.

Monumental Lines, Addressed to a Disconsolate Person, that was

Successively Enamoured of Two Sisters, who Died of a

Consumption within about Two Years of Each other, in the Prime

of Youth and Beauty.

Esperanza's March: being Stanzas, Addressed to a Person who

Complained "He was always unfortunate."

FROM THE 1815 EDITION.

The New Age; or Truth Triumphant.

On Superstition.

The Royal Apprentice, A London Story.

The Modern Jehu; or, Nobility on Four Wheels.

On a Lady, Now Deceased, that had been both Deaf and Blind

Many Years.

The Mistake; a Modern Short Story.

Lines written in a french novel, Adelaide and Durval.

Human Frailty.

On Happiness, as proceeding from the practice of Virtue.

Ode to Good Fortune.

Reflections on doctor Perkins' metallic points, or tractors.

Publius to Pollia. Supposed to have been written during a

cruising expedition.

On the Uniformity and Perfection of Nature.

Translation of Gray's Ode, Written at the grand Chartreuse.

On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature.

On the Religion of Nature.

The Reward of Innocence.

On the Evils of Human Life.

The Scurrilous Scribe.

Belief and Unbelief: humbly recommended to the serious

consideration of creed makers.

Susanna's Tomb.

Stanzas on a Political Projector, who was making interest, to

be employed on an embassy to Constantinople.

Nature's Debt.

New Year's Eve.

The Order of the Day: to readers of the history of wars

ancient and modern.

The Bethlehemite; or, fair solitary.

The Hermit and the Traveller.

Lines on the Establishment of the New Theatre, and the

management of the house being placed in the hands of Mr.

Cooper.

The Musical Savage. Supposed to express, to the musician, the

extatic emotions of a missouri indian, on his first hearing

the violin played, or band of music, that accompanied captain

Lewis on his expedition to the Columbia-River.

Epitaph on a worthy person, whose decease closed a series of

fortune and misfortune in his 50th year.

Written at Poplar-Hill,--Pennsylvania.

The Blast of November. Occasioned by a fatal accident on the

Hudson.

The Duelists.

On Seeing a Beautiful Print of a Shipwrecked Sailor sitting on

a Rock.

Heaving the Lead: a Marine Story, Founded on Fact.

Translated from the Third Book of Lucretius _de natura rerum_,

or, On the nature of Things.

The Two Genii: Addressed to a young Lady, of a consumptive

habit, departing from New-York, by sea, for South-Carolina, in

1805.

The Hypochondriac.

On Finding a Terrapin in the Woods, which had A. D. 1756

Marked on the Back of his Shell.

Pythona: or the Prophetess of En-Dor.

To Ismenia.

[215] Epitaph Intended for the Tombstone of Patrick Bay, Innholder,

Killed by an Ignorant Physician.--1809.

[216] Lines on a Distrest Orator, at a Public Exhibition.--1809. This

was an undergraduate skit by Freneau on his college mate Robert

Archibald, of the Class of 1772.

[217] To My Lord Snake, [A Title Hunter.]--1795. The Impertinent.--1809.

[218] Humanity and Ingratitude, A Common Case. [Translated from the

French.]--1795.

[219] To a Deceased Dog.--1795.

[220] Devastations in a Library.--1795. On Devastations Committed in a

Bookseller's Library, by Rats, Mice, &c.--1809.

[221] The Minstrel's Complaint.--1795.

[222] Susanna's Revival.--1795.

[223] To the Grand Mufti.--1795.

[224] Palaemon: or, the Skaiter.--1795.

[225] Highland Sawney, or the Emigrant Beau.--1795.

[226] An Apology for Intemperance.--1809.

[227] Merchantile Charity.--1809.

[228] The Preposterous Nuptials: or, January and June.--1809.

[229] The Nova Scotia Menace.--1809.

[230] To the Memory of Mrs. Burnet of Elizabeth-town, N. J. By

Request.--1809.

[231] On a Travelling Speculator.--1809.

C. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE POETRY OF PHILIP FRENEAU

The following is a list of the individual and collected poetical

publications of Freneau. For a more complete view of the poet's literary

activities the reader is referred to the painstaking and admirable

"Bibliography of the separate and collected works of Philip Freneau," by

Mr. Victor Hugo Paltsits (N. Y., Dodd, Mead & Co., 1903). Opportunity

has been taken here to bring the list up to date, to correct a few

omissions and errors in Mr. Paltsits' volume, and to locate copies whose

existence he overlooked. To avoid confusion the abbreviations used by

him have been retained, viz: AAS = American Antiquarian Society,

Worcester, Mass.; BA = Boston Athenæum, Boston, Mass.; BM = British

Museum, London, England; BPL = Boston Public Library, Boston, Mass.;

BU = Brown University Library, Providence, R. I.; C = Library of

Congress, Washington, D. C.; GSMT = General Society of Mechanics and

Tradesmen, N. Y. City; HC = Harvard University Library, Cambridge,

Mass.; HSP = Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.;

LCP = Library Company of Philadelphia, Pa.; MHS = Massachusetts

Historical Society, Boston, Mass.; NA = New York Public Library, Astor

Foundation, N. Y. City; NJSL = New Jersey State Library, Trenton, N. J.;

NkPL = Newark Free Public Library, Newark, N. J.; NL = New York Public

Library, Lenox Foundation, N. Y. City; NYHS = New York Historical

Society, N. Y. City; NYSL = New York State Library, Albany, N. Y.;

PU = Princeton University Library, Princeton, N. J.; SPL = Springfield

Public Library, Springfield, Mass.

1772

The | American Village,| a Poem.| To which are added,| Several other

original Pieces in Verse.| By Philip Freneau, A. B.| [_Quotation of two

lines from Horace._]

New York:| Printed by S. Inslee and A. Car, on Moor's Wharf.| M, DCC,

LXXII.| 12mo; pp. [1]-27, [1].

See Vol. I, xxii, and Vol. III, Appendix A, _supra_. _Copies_: BU, C.

1772

Delivered at the Public Commencement at | Nassau-Hall, September 25,

1771. |[_Quotation of six lines from Seneca._]|

Philadelphia:| Printed by Joseph Crukshank, for R. Aitken,| bookseller,

opposite the London-coffee-|house, in Front-Street.| M, DCC, LXXII.|

12mo; pp. [3]-27.

See Vol. I, xxi, and 49, _supra_. _Copies_: BU, C, HSP, MHS,

NYHS, PU.

1775

American Liberty,| a | Poem.| [_Quotations one line from Virgil and two

lines from Pope_].|

New-York:| Printed by J. Anderson, at Beekman-Slip.| MDCCLXXV.| 12mo;

pp. 3-12.

See Vol. I, 142, _supra_. _Copies_: C, LCP.

1775

General Gage's Soliloquy. New York: Printed by Hugh Gaine, 1775.

No printed copy of this has thus far been discovered. A manuscript

copy of unknown origin is in the Du Simitière collection of the

Library Company of Philadelphia. Endorsed upon it are the words

"Printed in New York August. 1775. By Gaine." See Vol. I, 152

_supra_.

1775

A | Voyage | to | Boston. | A | Poem.| [_Quotation of five lines from

Shakespeare._] By the Author of American Liberty, a Poem: General |

Gage's Soliloquy, &c.|

New-York: Printed by John Anderson,| at Beekman's Slip.| 12mo; pp.

[III]-IV, [5]-24.

See Vol. I, 158, _supra_. _Copies_: C, LCP, NYHS.

1775

A | Voyage | to | Boston. | A | Poem.| [_Quotation of five lines from

Shakespeare._]| By the Author of American Liberty, a Poem: General |

Gage's Soliloquy, &c.|

Philadelphia: | Sold by | William Woodhouse, | in Front street.| M, DCC,

LXXV.| 12mo; pp. [III]-iv, [5]-24.

A reprint of the Anderson edition. _Copies_: AAS, HSP, NYHS, PU.

1775

General Gage's | Confession,| Being the Substance of | His Excellency's

last Conference,| With his Ghostly Father, Friar Francis.| [_Quotation

of one line from Virgil._]| By the Author of the Voyage to Boston. | A

Poem, &c.|

Printed in the Year, 1775.| Small 8vo; pp. [3]-8.

The copy in the possession of the Library Company of Philadelphia is

at present believed to be unique. Written on the title page by a

contemporary hand are the words "By Gaine. Published October 25:

1775."

1778

to London.| To which are added,| American Independence,| an |

everlasting deliverance | from | British Tyranny: | a Poem.|

Philadelphia: | Printed, by Robert Bell, in Third-Street.| M DCC

LXXVIII.| 12mo.

The main work is by James Murray. Freneau's poem, pp. [113]-126

of the volume, has the title page:

British Tyranny.| A Poem.| By Philip F----, Author of the American

Village,| Voyage to Boston, &c.| [_Quotation of six lines from

Shakespeare._]|

Philadelphia: Printed, by Robert Bell, in Third-Street.| M DCC

LXXVIII.|

The same sheets were used to form part VI of "Miscellanies | for

| Sentimentalists," published the same year by Bell.

See Vol. I, 271, _supra_. _Copy_: HSP.

1779

Sir Henry Clinton's Invitation to the Refugees.

The only evidence at present of the separate publication of this piece

is the entry in Frank Moore's _Songs and Ballads of the American

Revolution_ (N. Y. 1856, p. 259): "We have it in a ballad sheet,

dated 1779."

See Vol. II, p. 7, _supra_.

1781

The British Prison-Ship:|A | Poem,| in four Cantoes.|

{ 1. The Capture,

{ 2. The Prison-Ship,

Viz. Canto { 3. The Prison-Ship, continued,

{ 4. The Hospital-Prison-Ship.

To which is added,| A Poem on the Death of Capt. N. Biddle,| who was

blown up, in an Engagement with the | Yarmouth, near Barbadoes.|

[_Quotation of thirteen lines from Milton._]|

Philadelphia:| Printed by F. Bailey, in Market-Street.| M. DCC. LXXXI.|

12mo; pp. [3]-23.

See Vol. II, p. 18, _supra_. _Copies_: BU, LCP, NYHS.

1783

New Year Verses,| Addressed to those Gentlemen who have been | pleased

to favour Francis Wrigley, News Car-|rier, with their Custom.| January

1, 1783.| Folio, broadside.

See Vol. II, p. 197, _supra_. _Copy_: C.

1783

New Year's Verses, addressed to The Customers of the Pennsylvania

Evening Post, by the Printer's Lad who carries it. January 4, 1783.

This is known only through the version in the 1786 edition of

Freneau's poems, pp. 383-385. It was undoubtedly first issued

as a broadside.

1783

New Year's | Verses | Addressed to the Customers of | The Freeman's

Journal,| By the Lad who carries it.| January 8th, 1783.| Folio,

broadside.

See Vol. II, p. 198, _supra_. _Copy_: C.

1784

New-Year | Verses, | For those who Carry the | Pennsylvania Gazette | to

the | Customers.| January 1, 1784.| Small folio, broadside.

Reprinted in the 1786 edition, pp. 387-388; in the 1795 edition, p.

265; and in the 1809 edition, Vol. II, pp. 161-162. In the two latter

versions, with the title changed to "A News-man's Address," the

original first line:

"How things are chang'd since last New Year"

was altered to read:

"What tempests gloomed the by-past year--"

See Vol. II, p. 238, _supra_. _Copy_: HSP.

1784

New Year's Verses, Addressed To the Customers of the Freeman's Journal,

by the Lad who carries it. January 7, 1784.

The original broadside has not been found. The only version at present

known is in the 1786 edition, pp. 389-390. See Vol. II, p. 240,

_supra_.

1785

New Year's Verses, addressed to the Customers of the Freeman's Journal,

by the Lad who Carries it. January 1, 1785.

The first trace of this is to be found in the 1786 edition,

pp. 391-393. It was doubtless first issued as a broadside.

See Vol. II, p. 284, _supra_.

1786

New Year's Verses, for 1786. [Written for the Carriers of the _Columbian

Herald_.]

The first trace to be found of this is in the 1788 edition,

pp. 142-144. This is signed "Charleston (S. C.) _Jan. 1786_."

It doubtless appeared as a broadside. See Vol. II, p. 301, _supra_.

1786

The | Poems | of | Philip Freneau.| Written chiefly during the late

War.|

Philadelphia:| Printed by Francis Bailey, at | Yorick's Head, in Market

street. | M DCC LXXXVI.|

Small 8vo; pp. [v]-vii, [1]-407.

This is the first collected edition of Freneau's poems. See Vol. I,

p. xxxix-xli, _supra_. _Copies_: BM, BPL, BU, C, HSP, LCP, MHS, NA,

NL, NYHS, NYSL, PU.

1787

Burlington and South-Amboy.| By | Robert Slender, Stocking Weaver.|

Extracted from the Author's Journals.| [_Quotation of two lines

from Horace._]

Philadelphia; Printed by Francis Bailey, at Yorick's Head, in |

Market-street.| M DCC LXXXVII.| 12mo; pp. vi, [7]-28.

See Vol. II, p. 388, _supra_. _Copies_: BU, C, NYHS, PU.

1788

New Year's Verses for 1788. [Supposed to be written by the Printer's

lad, who supplies the customers with his weekly paper.]

The first trace of this is in the 1788 edition, pp. 393-395. It was

doubtless first issued as a broadside for some newspaper. See Vol. II,

p. 383, _supra_.

1788

Essays,| and | additional Poems.|

Philadelphia:| Printed by Francis Bailey, at Yorick's | Head, in Market

Street.| M DCC LXXXVIII.| Small 12mo; pp. xii [1]-429.

The second collected edition of Freneau's poems. It contained no

poems that had been published in the first collection. See Vol. I,

p. xliii, _supra_. _Copies:_ BM, BPL, BU, C, HSP, LCP, MHS, NA, NL,

NYHS, NYSL, PU.

1794

The | Village Merchant: | A | Poem. To which is added the | Country

Printer. | [_Four lines from section five of The Village Merchant._]|

Philadelphia: | Printed by Hoff and Derrick,| M, DCC, XCIV.| Small 8vo;

pp. [3]-16.

See Vol. II, p. 14, _supra_. _Copies:_ BU, HSP.

1795

Poems | Written between the Years 1768 & 1794,| by | Philip Freneau,|

of | New Jersey: | A New Edition, Revised and Corrected by the | Author;

Including a considerable number of | Pieces never before published.|

[_Pyramid of fifteen stars, followed by two lines of Latin from

Page 435._]|

Monmouth | [N. J.] | Printed | At the Press of the Author, at

Mount-Pleasant, near | Middletown-Point; M, DCC, XCV: and, of

|--American Independence--| XIX.| 8vo; pp. xv, [1]-455, [1].

The third collected edition of Freneau. See Vol. I, pp. lxvi-lxviii,

_supra_. _Copies:_ AAS, BA, BM, BPL, BU, C, HC, HSP, LCP, MHS,

NL, NYHS, NYSL, PU, SPL, GSMT, NkPL.

1797

delivered in the New Dutch Church, | on the | Fourth of July, 1797.|

Being the twenty-first | Anniversary of our Independence.| By G. J.

Warner.| [_Ten lines from Freneau's poem To a Republican with Mr.

Paine's Rights of Man._]|

New York: | Printed at the Argus Office,| for | Thomas Greenleaf and

Naphtali Judah.| 1797.| 8vo; pp. [7]-22.

On pp. 20-21 Ode | (Composed for the Occasion, by P. Freneau.)

The Musick performed | by the Uranian Musical Society.| See

Vol. III, p. 152, _supra_. _Copy:_ NL.

1797

Megara and Altavola. To a female satirist (an English actress) on

receiving from her no. 1 of a very satirical and biting attack.

Six copies only were printed, of which none is at present known

to exist. See the 1809 edition, Vol. II, p. 30; and Vol. III,

p. 146, _supra_.

1798

New Year's Verses.

Issued as a broadside for the _Time Piece_ and dated "January 1,

1798." The only copy that is known at present is bound with the

file _Time Piece_ in the library of the New York Historical

Society. See Vol. III, p. 194, _supra_.

1809

Poems | written and published during the | American Revolutionary War,|

and now | republished from the original Manuscripts;| interspersed |

with Translations from the Ancients,| and other Pieces not heretofore in

| Print.| By Philip Freneau.| [Four lines of poetry.]| The Third

Edition, in two Volumes.| Vol. I. [II.]|

Philadelphia: From the Press of Lydia R. Bailey, No. 10.| North-Alley.|

1809.| 2 vols.; 12mo; Vol. I, pp. 280, iv; Vol. II, pp. 302, XII.

This is generally known as the fourth collected edition. See

Vol. I, p. lxxxiv-lxxxvi, _supra_. _Copies_: BM, BPL, BU, C,

HSP, LCP, NL, NYHS, NYSL, PU, NJSL.

1809

to New York, | by | Way of Burlington and South Amboy.| By Philip

Freneau, |Author of Poems written during the American Revo-|lutionary

War, and lately published in this City | by Lydia R. Bailey, in two

Volumes, Duodecimo.| Persons of the Poem.| [Nine lines for nine

characters.]|

Philadelphia: | Printed for Thomas Neversink.| December 20, 1809.| 12mo;

pp. [3]-24.

A reprint with few variations of the 1787 edition. See Vol. II,

p. 338, _supra_. _Copies_: BU, HSP, LCP.

1815

A | Collection of | Poems,| on | American Affairs, and a variety of

other Subjects,| chiefly moral and political;| written between the Year

1797 and the pre-|sent Time.| By Philip Freneau,| Author of Poems

written during the Revolutionary | War, Miscellanies, &c. &c.| In two

Volumes.| [_Four lines from Freneau's poem On the British Commercial

Depredations._]| Vol. I. [II.]|

New York: Published by David Longworth,| At the Dramatic Repository,|

Shakespeare-Gallery.| 1815.| 2 vols.; small 12mo; Vol. I, pp. viii,

[13]-188; Vol. II, pp. 176.

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Princeton N.J. | the University Library | 1902 |.

8^o; 3 vols. pp. CXII, 294; X, 407; XIV, 430 (Vol. II, 1903, Vol. III,

1907).

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INDEX

Adams, John, i. liv; iii. 207, 210

Adams, Samuel, i. 193

Aitken, R., i. 49

Albertson, Captain, ii. 346

Algiers, pirates of, ii. 302, 344, 381

Amanda poems, ii. 318, 319, 321, 326, 328, 392

"American Crisis, The," ii. 16

_American Museum_, i. lxvii; ii. 313

Americus Vespucius, ii. 268

Amherst, Sir Jeffrey, i. 156; ii. 117

_Analectic Magazine_, i. xci

Anderson, Alexander, i. xcii

Anderson, publisher, i. 142, 158, 185

André, Major John, ii. 39

Annapolis, Md., iii. 15

Arbuthnot, Admiral Marriot, ii. 90

_Argus_, i. lxxii

Arnold, Benedict, ii. 39ff., 103, 336

Asgill, Capt. Charles, ii. 193, 291

Auchmuty, Rev. Samuel, ii. 209

Bache, Benjamin F., i. lviii

Bailey, Commander of packet, ii. 346

Bailey, Francis, i. xxxiv, xxxvi, xl, xliiiff., lxiii, lxiv, lxxx;

ii. 18, 75, 338

Bailey, Lydia H., i. lxxxviii

Bainbridge, Commodore Joseph, iii. 311

Balfour, Nesbit, ii. 155

Balloons, ii. 265, 276; iii. 142

Barlow, Joel, i. c, ci, 279

Barney, Capt. Joshua, ii. 142, 147, 149

Bastille, Fall of, iii. 72, 102

Bauman, Col., i. lxxx

Beckley, Mr., i. lxix

Bell, Capt. Archibald, i. xlv

Bell, Robert, publisher, i. xxviii, 271; ii. 260

Bellamont, Richard, Earl of, iii. 40

Bermuda, i. xxviii, 266, 283; ii. 318, 319, 393

Bernard, Sir Francis, i. 80

Biddle, Capt. Nicholas, i. cvi, 288

Blackbeard, pirate, iii. 229

Blanchard, balloonist, iii. 142

Bolingbroke, Lord, iii. 47

Bompard, Captain of _Ambuscade_, iii. 106

_Bon Homme Richard_ and _Serapis_, ii. 75

Bonaparte, Napoleon, iii. 135, 333, 334

Boston, Mass., i. 84, 152, 158, 171, 185, 193; ii. 196

Bradford, William, Papers, i. xvii

Brackenridge, H. H., i. xvi, xx, xxii, xxviii, xxix

Brown, Gen. Jacob, iii. 329

Burgoyne, General, i. 164, 165, 171; ii. 96, 140

Burke, Aedanus, i. xlix, lxxix; iii. 243

Burke, Edmund, ii. 13; iii. 84, 164

Burns, Robert, iii. 337

Burr, Aaron, i. xvi;

Theodosia, iii. 312

Campbell, Thomas, ii. 370

Cannon, Capt. William, i. xliv

Carey, John, iii. 82;

Matthew, i. lxvii; ii. 313;

Thomas, i. xc

Carleton, Sir Guy, i. 79; ii. 153, 156, 169, 172, 173, 190, 194

Catharine of Russia, ii. 17; iii. 97, 136

Chandler, Bishop Samuel, ii. 303

Charles V of Spain, ii. 15

Charleston, S. C., i. xiv, xxxix, xliii, xlviii, lxxv, lxxxi; ii. 214,

399, 401, 402, 404; iii. 3, 199, 201

Chatham, Capt. Brig _Rebecca_, i. xxx

Childs, Francis, i. lii

Churchill, Charles, ii. 175

Churchman, John, ii. 398, 406

Clarkson, Matthew, i. lvi

Clinton, Sir Henry, ii. 7, 41, 57, 89, 153

Cobbett, William, iii. 167. See "Peter Porcupine"

Cochrane, Sir Alexander, iii. 362

Cockburn, Sir George, iii. 343, 356, 362

Cockneys in America, iii. 185

Colden, Cadwallader, ii. 203

Colles, Christopher, ii. 214

Columbia, S. C., ii. 399, 401, 402

Columbus, Christopher, i. ci, 46, 89

Commerce, the hope of America, iii. 220

Concord and Lexington, i. 168

Connecticut, iii. 8

Cooper, President Miles, ii. 209

Corcoran, Dr., poetaster, ii. 184

Cornwallis, Captain, ii. 143;

Earl of, ii. 84, 86, 88, 89, 92, 93, 97, 117, 140

Cosins, John, ii. 126

Courtney, Captain of the _Boston_, iii. 106

Crukshank, Joseph, publisher, i. 49

Currie, Dr. William, iii. 159

Dacres, Capt., of _Guerrière_, iii. 310

Dartmouth College, iii. 33

Dartmouth, Lord, i. 189

Dauphin of France, birth, ii. 167

Davis, Matthew L., i. lxxv

Dayton, Jonathan, iii. 151

Dickinson, John, ii. 380

Digby, Admiral, ii. 112

Dodd, Dr. William, ii. 16

Dornin, Bernard, ii. 139

Downie, Capt. George, iii. 349

Dunmore, Gov., of Virginia, i. 140; ii. 87, 114, 115; iii. 17

Duponceau, iii. 92

Dwight, Timothy, i. lxi, xcvii, c, ci; iii. 9

Edgeworth, Maria, ii. 313

Ellsworth, Oliver, iii. 226;

Mrs. Oliver, i. lix

Emigration, ii. 280; iii. 228

England, National debt, ii. 134

"Eugenie," Beaumarchais' comedy, ii. 108

Eutaw Springs, Battle of, ii. 101

"Father Bombo's Pilgrimage," i. xvii

Fayal, fight in harbor of, iii. 363

"Features of Mr. Jay's Treaty," iii. 133

Fenno, John, i. li

Fitch, John, and steam navigation, ii. 406

Fontaine, John, traveller, i. xiv

Forman, Eleanor, marries Freneau, i. xlviii.

Fort George, N. Y., destroyed, iii. 24, 40

Fox, Charles James, ii. 9;

George, quaker, iii. 14

France, war with, threatened, iii. 139, 157, 207;

treaty, 226

Francis, John W., i. xciii; ii. 214;

Sam, New York innkeeper, ii. 206; iii. 360

Franklin, Benjamin, iii. 36;

William, i. 131; ii. 115

Freemasons, iii. 281, 282

French Revolution, i. lii, liv; ii. 385; iii. 57, 70, 72, 84, 86,

88ff., 92, 99, 102, 106, 129, 135

Freneau Bible, i. xiii.

Freneau Family:

Agnes, i. lxxv, lxxix;

André, i. xiii;

Andrew, i. xiv;

Catharine L., i. lxxvi;

Eleanor, i. xlix, lxxvi;

Helen, i. lxxiv;

Margaret, i. lxxvi;

Mary, i. lxxvi;

Philip L., i. lxxvi;

Peter, i. xiv, xxxix, xlviii, lxxviii, lxxxi;

Pierre, i. xiv

Freneau Philip,

Birth, xiv;

enters Princeton, xv;

College mates, xvi;

undergraduate verse, xvii, xviii, xxi, ciii, i. 49;

graduated (1771), xx;

teacher at Flatbush, xxi;

publishes "The American Village," xxii;

teacher in Somerset Academy, Md., xxii;

begins poetic career in New York, xxiv, i. 139;

criticized, i. 206;

sails for West Indies, xxvi;

at Bermuda (1778), xxviii, ii. 318;

writes "The House of Night," xxvii, i. 221;

returns (June, 1778), xxviii, i. 293;

contributes to the _United States Magazine_, xxviii;

visits the Azores (1779), xxx;

sails for the West Indies (1780), xxx;

captured by the British and confined in prison ships, xxxiiff.,

ii. 18ff.;

the _Freeman's Journal_, xxxv, ii. 75;

prologue to "Eugenie," ii. 108;

quarrels with Oswald, xxxvii, ii. 174;

and Hugh Gaine, ii. 201, 214;

lampoons Rivington, ii. 229;

hymn at close of war, ii. 242;

at Jamaica (1784), xxxviii, xxxix, ii. 250, 252, 258;

denounces slavery, ii. 258;

master of the _Monmouth_ (1785), xxxix, ii. 295;

first edition of his poems (1786), xxxix, xli;

in Charleston, S. C. (1786), ii. 301;

his second volume (1788), xliii;

at Norfolk (1788), xliv;

at Castle Island, Bermuda (1789), ii. 319;

at Yamacraw, Ga. (1789), xiv;

enters New York with Washington's fleet (1789), xlvii;

farewell to the ocean, iii. 3;

editor of New York _Daily Advertiser_, xlvii, iii. 3;

marriage (April 15, 1790), xlviii, iii. 3;

plans "The Rising Empire," xlix, iii. 5;

is recommended to Madison by Burke, xlix;

clerkship, l, lii, lxiii;

founds the _National Gazette_ (Oct. 31, 1791), lii;

sympathy with French Revolution, liii, ii. 385;

translates Pichon's Ode, liv, iii. 92;

becomes incendiary in the _Gazette_, lv;

attacked by Hamilton, lvi;

exasperates Washington, lx;

in Philadelphia during yellow fever epidemic (1793), lxiii;

suspends the _Gazette_, xi;

valedictory on leaving Philadelphia, iii. 113;

founds the _Jersey Chronicle_, lxiii;

writes against Jay's treaty, iii. 133;

the third edition of his poems (1795), lxvii;

abandons the _Jersey Chronicle_, lxxi;

founds the _Time Piece_ (1797), lxxii, iii. 137;

plans biography of Ledyard, lxxiv;

visited by Deborah Gannett, iii. 182;

resigns editorship of the _Time Piece_ (1798), lxxv;

a farmer, lxxv, lxxix, iii. 199;

"Letters on Various Interesting Subjects," lxxvi;

urged for New York postmastership, lxxx;

resumes seafaring life (1802), lxxx, lxxxi;

last voyage to the Azores (1807), lxxxi;

correspondence with Madison and Jefferson, lxxxff., i. lxxxviiff.;

1809 edition of his poems, lxxxivff.;

visits the castle of Blackbeard the pirate, iii. 229;

at Guadeloupe, iii. 242;

the 1815 edition, xc;

last years, xcii;

death, xcv;

character and personality, xcviff.;

poetry, xcviiiff., cvi, cixff.;

mania for revision, lxvii, ii. 253;

miserly care of his poems, viii, lxvii, ii. 313;

services to the Revolution, cv.

_See_ Poems.

Fresneau, André, i. xiii

Funchal, Madeira, iii. 257

Gage, General, i. 152, 158, 185, 189, 193, 194

Gaine, Hugh, i. 152, 189; ii. 201, 205, 214

Gannett, Deborah, iii. 182

Garrick's "Dying Valet," ii. 108

Gaston, Count, ii. 9

Gates, General, iii. 151

Genet, Citizen, iii. 92, 106

Georgia, i. 153; ii. 387, 397

George, III, ii. 3, 9, 16, 117, 126, 217

Germaine, Lord George, ii. 87

Godwin, Abraham, Innkeeper at Passaic, N. J., i. 123

Greene, General, ii. 101

Greenleaf, Thomas, i. lxxii

Guadaloupe, W. I., ii. 314; iii. 242

Hamilton, Alexander, i. liv; iii. 109, 127

Hammill, Mr., marries Freneau's daughter, i. lxxvi

Hancock, John, i. 193

Hanson, Capt., i. xxvi

Hardy, Sir Thomas, iii. 321, 338

Harmony Hall, Charleston, ii. 404

Harvard College, ii. 371

Havana, Siege of, i. 146

Hawkes, Capt. of the _Iris_, ii. 19

Hay, Lady, iii. 40

Hezekiah, Salem, Freneau's pseudonym, ii. 329; iii. 19

Hatteras, Cape, i. 184; ii. 320, 392, 394

Hessians, i. 185, 269; ii. 35

Hillyer, Capt. James, of the _Phoebe_, iii. 318

Hispaniola, i. 117

Hoff & Derrick, publish "The Village Merchant," i. 14

Holt, John, printer, ii. 231

Hopkins, John, ii. 181

Hopkinson, Francis, iii. 53

Horace, quoted and imitated, i. 57; ii. 103, 177, 336, 377

Howe, Admiral, ii. 153

Howe, General, placed in command at Boston, 1775, i. 152;

his campaign in New Jersey, ii. 7

Huddy, Capt. of N. J. Militia, ii. 163, 193, 291

Hudson River, iii. 173

Hunter, Mrs. John, and "The Death Song," ii. 313

Hull, Isaac, Capt. of the _Constitution_, iii. 310

Hyde, Commander of a packet ship, ii. 346

Hyder, Ali, East Indian insurgent, ii. 148

Indians, i. xxxvi, lxvi, cx, cxi; ii. 187, 243, 313, 369, 371;

iii. 189, 293, 381

Jamaica, i. 239; ii. 250, 252, 253, 258

Jamestown, Va., ii. 270

Jay's Treaty, i. lxvi; iii. 132, 133

Jefferson, Thomas, i. l, lvii, lxxx, lxxxiii; iii. 151, 216, 293

Jefferies, Judge, i. 163

Jeffrey, the critic, praises Freneau, i. vi

Jemmy, the rover, Pennsylvania sonnetter, ii. 184

Johnson, Guy, i. 179

Johnston, British Commissioner, ii. 14

Johnstone, Commodore George, ii. 117

"Jonah, History of the Prophet," i. 3

Jones, John Paul, i. 290; ii. 75

Katy-did, the, iii. 275

Kempenfelt, Admiral, ii. 218

Key, Francis Scott, iii. 357

King's College, ii. 209

Knapp, John Coghill, ii. 123

Knyphausen, Baron, ii. 38, 39, 122

Kollock, Shepard, ii. 231

Laboyteant, Captain _Aurora_, i. xxi

Lafayette, iii. 86

Lake Champlain, Battle of, iii. 349

Lake Erie, Battle of, iii. 315

Landais, Capt., of the _Alliance_, i. 285

Latin and Greek, iii. 121

Laurens, John, ii. 283, 337

Lawrence, James, killed in action with the _Shannon_, iii. 313

Leadbeater, Edward, i. lxxvi.

Ledyard, John, i. lxxiv.

Lee, Henry, i. lxiii; ii. 101

Leslie, James, Innkeeper at Passaic, N. J., i. 123

"Letters on Various Interesting Subjects," i. lxxvi

Lexington and Concord, i. 168

Liberty Cap, iii. 94, 106, 107

Liberty tree of Boston, i. 159, 172

Library, Circulating, in Philadelphia, ii. 260

"Light Summer Reading," ii. 318, 326

Liquor in jails, iii. 126

Livingston, R. R., i. lxxii

Livingston, Gov. William, i. 124

London Revolution Society, iii. 99

Long Island Dutch, iii. 12

Longworth, publishes the 1815 edition, i. lxxxvii

Loudon, New York printer, ii. 231

Louis XVI., ii. 167, 385

Lunardi, balloonist, ii. 265

Lundy's Lane, Battle of, iii. 329

"Lying Valet," presented in Philadelphia, ii. 108

MacDonough, Capt. Thomas, iii. 349

Madeira Islands, iii. 254, 257

Madison, James, i. xvi, xviii, xxi, xlix, lxii, lxix, lxxxviiff.

Magraw, Dr., New York physician, ii. 202, 304

Manly, Captain of the _Hancock_, ii. 22

Mansfield, Lord, ii. 87

Marion, General Francis, at Eutaw Springs, ii. 101

Martin, Luther, i. xxiii

Mason, Stephens T., iii. 132

Matthews, David, Mayor of New York, ii. 123

McKean, Thomas, iii. 151

M'Rea, Jenny, i. 279

"Means for the Preservation of Liberty," iii. 152

Menut, Alexander, i. lxxii, lxxv

Mercer, General Hugh, i. 279

Mesnard, Capt. brig _Active_, i. xxxi

Mirabeau, motto from, translated by Freneau, ii. 113

Miranda, General, iii. 271

Mississippi River, i. 74, 76; ii. 281

Mitchell, cryer of Philadephia, ii. 182

Mitchell, Rev. Alexander, i. xv

"Modern Chivalry" by Brackenridge, i. xvi, xxiv

"Monarchical and Mixed Forms of Government," i. lxvi

Monroe, James, iii. 151

Montagu, George, i. 140

Morin, Pierre, i. xiv;

Mary, i. xiv

Motley, Capt. brig _Betsy_, i. xlvii

Mount Pleasant, Freneau moves to, i. xv

Moultrie, Fort, iii. 342

Moultrie, General William, iii. 238

Murphy, refugee from _Scorpion_, i. xxxiii

Nassau Hall, _see_ Princeton

Navy, _see_ Ships

Naval lyrics,

"Capt. Jones' Invitation," i. cvi, 290;

"Death of Capt. Biddle," i. cvi, 288;

"Stanzas on the New Frigate Alliance," i. cvii, 285;

"On the Memorable Victory," i. cvii, ii. 76;

"Barney's Invitation," i. cvii, ii. 147;

"Song on Capt. Barney's Victory," i. cvii, ii. 149;

"On the Memorable Naval Engagement," iii. 106;

"On the Capture of the Guerriere," iii. 310;

"Battle of Lake Erie," iii. 315;

"On the Capture of the Essex," iii. 318;

"The Battle of Stonington," iii. 338;

"Battle of Lake Champlain," iii. 349;

"On the Loss of the General Armstrong," iii. 363;

"On the Privateer Prince de Neufchatel," iii. 366

Nelson, William, i. 123

Neversink, Thomas, prints "A Laughable Poem," ii. 338

New London, iii. 321

Neversink Highlands, iii. 3, 358

Newspapers,--

_Aurora_, Philadelphia, i. lxxvi, 14, iii. 132;

_City Gazette or the Daily Advertiser_, Charleston, xlviii, iii. 5;

_Columbian Centinel_, Boston, iii. 81;

_Columbian Herald_, Charleston, ii. 301;

_Connecticut Courant_, iii. 161;

_Constitutional Gazette_, N. Y., i. xxiv, 158, 185;

_Evening Post_, Philadelphia, ii. 288;

_Fenno's Gazette of the U. S._, Philadelphia, i. lvi; iii. 81, 109;

_Freeman's Journal_, Phila., xxxivff., xl, xliii; ii. 92, 174, 198,

240;

_General Advertiser_, Phila., iii. 92;

_Independent Gazetteer_, Phila., i. xxxvii, 41; ii. 174, 176, 177,

179, 181, 185;

_Jersey Chronicle_, lxv, lxx, lxxi; iii. 3;

_London Morning Herald_, i. 41;

_Monmouth Press_, i. xcv;

_National Gazette_, i. liiff., lx, lxi; iii 56, 60, 76, 78, 81;

_New Jersey Journal_, Chatham, ii. 231;

_New York Daily Advertiser_, i. xlviii, ii. 75, 388, iii. 3;

_New York Gazetteer_, ii. 120, 231;

_New York Journal_, i. lxxii, 42; ii. 231;

_New York Mercury_, ii. 203;

_New York Mirror_, i. xcv;

_New York Packet_, ii. 231;

_North Carolina Gazette_, iii. 19;

_Porcupine's Gazette_, iii. 156, 167, 168;

_Rivington's N. Y. Loyal Gazette_, ii. 120;

_Royal Gazette_, ii. 113, 115, 116, 120, 124, 125, 126, 143, 146,

162, 169, 190, 232, 234;

_Time-Piece_, lxxii, ii. 3, 137;

_Weekly Gazette_, Charleston, ii. 212, 402

Newspaper tax, iii. 52

"New Travels through North America," translated by Freneau, i. xxxvi

New York City, ii. 7, 112, 162, 205, 223; iii. 24, 26, 42, 49, 53,

116, 123, 173

Nicholson, Capt. James, of the _Trumbull_, ii. 85

North Carolina, iii. 19

North, Lord, i. 189

Nova Scotia, ii. 219, 293

Nugent, Lord, ii. 13

"Observations on Monarchy," i. lxvi

"Odes on Various Subjects," ii. 73

Ohio, iii. 366

Ordonneaux, Commander of _Prince de Neufchatel_, iii. 366

Oswald, Eleazer, i. xxxvii; ii. 175, 185

Paine, Thomas, i. lix, lxiv; iii. 90, 286

Paris, Matthew, ii. 274

Parke, Col., Poem to Freneau, i. xli

Parker, New York printer, ii. 203

Parker, Sir Peter, iii. 342, 354

Parr, Governor of Nova Scotia, ii. 293

Passaic Falls, N. J., i. xxv, 123

Paterson, N. J., i. xxv, 123, 131

Peale's Exhibition, ii. 246

Pearson, commander of Serapis, ii. 78

Pennsylvania, iii. 13

Percy, Lord, i. 168; iii. 11

Perry, Commodore, iii. 315

Pewter Platter Alley, Philadelphia, ii. 287

Philadelphia, i. xxxivff., 68, 285; ii. 81, 108, 147, 167, 225, 246,

260, 287; iii. 42, 49. 53, 92, 106, 110, 111, 113, 142, 151,

159, 178

"Philosopher of the Forest," Freneau writes, i. xliii; ii. 159

Pichon, Citizen, "Ode to Liberty," iii. 92

Pico, the peak of, iii. 254

"Pilgrim, The" Freneau's, i. xxxvi, xliii; ii. 159

Pindar, Peter, ii. 394; iii. 28

Pintard, John, i. lviii, xcv

_Pocket Almanac_, Bailey's, ii. 280, 282, 314

Poems by Freneau

Addressed to a Political Shrimp, iii. 127;

Address to a Learned Pig, iii. 169;

Address to the Commander in Chief, ii. 81;

Address to the Republicans of America, iii. 154;

Adventures of Simon Swangum, i. 14;

Advice to a Friend, i. 184;

Advice to the Ladies, iii. 402;

Alcina's Enchanted Island, ii. 376;

Almanac Maker, iii. 402;

Amanda in a Consumption, ii. 326;

Amanda's Complaint, ii. 392;

America Independent, i. xxviii, 271, ii. 261;

American Demosthenes, iii. 144;

American Independence, i. 271;

American Liberty, a Poem, i. xxiv, 142;

American Siberia, ii. 293;

American Soldier, iii. 51;

American Village, i. xxii, 41; iii. 381;

Answer to a Card of Invitation, iii. 263;

Apology for Intemperance, iii. 403;

Argonaut, ii. 128;

Argonauta, ii. 128;

Ariosto's Description, ii. 376;

Arnold's Departure, ii. 103;

Author's Soliloquy, ii. 332;

Author on Authorship, ii. 332.

Bacchanalian Dialogue, iii. 255;

Banished Man, iii. 47;

Barney's Invitation, i. cvii; ii. 147;

Batavian Picture, iii. 12;

Battle of Lake Champlain, iii. 349;

Battle of Lake Erie, iii. 315;

Battle of Stonington, iii. 338;

Bay Islet, iii. 116;

Beauties of Santa Cruz, i. xxvii, 222, 239, 249;

Belief and Unbelief, iii. 405;

Bergen Planter, iii. 45;

Bermuda Islands, ii. 318;

Bethlehemite, iii. 406;

Bird at Sea, iii. 22;

Blast of November, iii. 406;

Blessings of the Poppy, iii. 114;

Book of Odes, iii. 161;

Bridge of the Delaware, iii. 403;

British Prison Ship, i. xxxiii, cvii, ii. 18;

Brook of the Valley, iii. 376.

Captain Jones's Invitation, i. cvi, 290;

Caribbean, ii. 314;

Charity a-la-Mode, iii. 403;

Citizen's Resolve, i. 42;

College Story, iii. 404;

Columbus to Ferdinand, i. xxix, ci, 46;

Commerce, iii. 220;

Congress Hall, iii. 26;

Constantia, i. xlviii, iii. 38;

Country Printer, i. lxxxvi, 14, iii. 60;

Crispin's Answer, iii. 75;

Crows and the Carrion, iii. 179.

Death Song of a Cherokee Indian, i. cx, ii. 315;

Debtor's Soliloquy, iii. 402;

Departure, ii. 298;

Departure, iii. 49;

Description of Connecticut, iii. 8;

Description of the Plague in Athens, iii. 404;

Deserted Farm-House, i. 40, iii. 399;

Desolate Academy, i. 182;

Devastations in a Library, iii. 402;

Dialogue at Hyde-Park Corner, ii. 140;

Dialogue at Washington's Tomb, iii. 352;

Dialogue between his Britannic Majesty and Mr. Fox, i. xxix, ii. 9;

Dialogue between Shadrach and Whiffle, iii. 403;

Discovery, i. ci, 85;

Dish of Tea, iii. 71;

Distrest Orator, iii. 401;

Distrest Shepherdess, i. 195;

Distrest Theatre, ii. 404;

Drunkard's Apology, iii. 403;

Drunken Soldier, iii. 402;

Duelists, iii. 406;

Dull Moralist, iii. 402;

Dying Elm, i. xxix, 45;

Dying Indian, i. cxi, ii. 243.

Elegiac Lines, i. 222, 253, ii. 328, iii. 402;

Elegiac Lines on a Theological Script-Monger, iii. 404;

Elegaic Stanzas on a Young Gentleman, iii. 403;

Elegaic Verses on a Dog, iii. 401;

Elegy on the Death of a Blacksmith, iii. 112;

Elegy on Mr. Robert Bell, ii. 260;

Englishman's Complaint, ii. 305;

English Quixote, ii. 54;

Epigram, iii. 116;

Epistle from Dr. Franklin, iii. 36;

Epistle to a Desponding Seamen, iii. 57;

Epistle to a Gay Young Lady, iii. 403;

Epistle to a Student of Dead Languages, iii. 121;

Epistle to the Patriotic Farmer, ii. 380;

Epistle to Peter Pindar, iii. 28;

Epistle to Sylvius, i. xxxviii, ii. 295;

Epitaph, ii. 328;

Epitaph on a Worthy Parson, iii. 406;

Epitaph on Frederick the Second, iii. 403;

Epitaph on Peter Abelard, iii. 401;

Epitaph on the Tombstone of Patrick Bay, iii. 401;

Epistolary Lines on the Death of a Fiddler, iii. 402;

Esperanza's March, iii. 405;

Eutaw Springs, i. cvi, ii. 101;

Expedition of Timothy Taurus, i. xxvii, 123.

Fading Rose, iii. 404;

Fair Buckle-Thief, iii. 402;

Fair Solitary, ii. 325;

Fancy's Ramble, i. 34;

Farmer Dobbins's Complaint, iii. 402;

Farmer's Winter Evening, iii. 394;

Federal Hall, iii. 26;

Female Caprice, iii. 402;

Female Frailty, i. lxviii. 197;

Few Honest Coblers, iii. 402;

Fiddler's Farewell, iii. 402;

Five Ages, iii. 401;

Flagelators, iii. 401;

Florio to Amanda, ii. 319;

Forest Bean, iii. 120.

General Gage's Confession, i. xxv, 189, ii. 205;

General Gage's Soliloquy, i. xxv, 152, ii. 205;

George the Third's Soliloquy, i. xxix, ii. 3;

God Save the Rights of Man, i. liv, iii. 99;

Gougers, iii. 404.

Happy Prospect, ii. 243;

Hatteras, ii. 394;

Heaving the Lead, iii. 406;

Hermit and the Traveller, iii. 406;

Hermit of Saba, ii. 359;

Hermit's Valley, iii. 128;

Heroine of the Revolution, iii. 182;

Hessian Embarkation, i. 222;

Highland Sawney, iii. 402;

History of the Prophet Jonah, i. xvi, 3;

Horace, Lib. I. Ode 15, ii. 377;

Horace, Lib. II. Ode 16, Imitated, ii. 336;

House of Night, i. xxvii, lxviii, civ, 212, 253, 269, iii. 122;

Human Frailty, iii. 405;

Humanity and Ingratitude, iii. 401;

Hurricane, ii. 250;

Hypochondriac, iii. 406.

In Memory of James Lawrence, iii. 313;

Impertinent, iii. 401;

Indian Burying Ground, i. cxi, ii. 369;

Indian Convert, iii. 189;

Indian Student, i. cx, ii. 371;

Insolvent's Release, ii. 329;

Invalid, iii. 403;

Invitation, i. 290;

Island Field Hand, ii. 258.

Jamaica Funeral, i. lxviii, xcvii, cv, 239, 253, iii. 122;

Jeffrey, or the Soldier's Progress, iii. 117;

Jewish Lamentation at the Euphrates, i. 270;

Journey from Philadelphia to New York, ii. 338;

Jug of Rum, iii. 66.

Laughable Poem, ii. 338;

Libera Nos, Domine, i. 139;

Lines Addressed to Mr. Jefferson, iii. 293;

Lines by H. Salem, on his Return from Calcutta, iii. 57;

Lines Intended for Mr. Peale's Exhibition, ii. 246;

Lines Occasioned by a Visit to an Old Indian Burying Ground,

ii. 369;

Lines Occasioned by Mr. Rivington's new Titular Types, ii. 124;

Lines on a Distrest Orator, iii. 401;

Lines on a February Shad, iii. 403;

Lines on Cutting down Trees in the Streets, ii. 53;

Lines on Mr. Rivington's New Engraved King's Arms, ii. 125;

Lines on Napoleon Bonaparte, iii. 333;

Lines on Seniora Julia, iii. 366;

Lines on the Death of a Lady, ii. 328;

Lines on the New Theatre, iii. 406;

Lines to a Coasting Captain, i. 184;

Lines to the Memory of a Young American Lady, iii. 402;

Lines Written at Port Royal, ii. 253;

Lines Written at Sea, iii. 231;

Lines Written at St. Catharine's Island, ii. 397;

Lines Written for Mr. Ricketts, iii. 405;

Lines Written in a French Novel, iii. 405;

Lines Written in a very Small Garden, iii. 404;

Lines Written on a Puncheon, iii. 66;

Literary Importations, ii. 303;

Literary Plunderers, iii. 402;

Log-Town Cabin, i. cx, iii. 19;

London Dialogue, ii. 87;

Lord Dunmore's Petition, ii. 114;

Lost Sailor, ii. 128;

Love's Suicide, iii. 404;

Lysander's Retreat, ii. 401.

MacSwiggin, i. xviii, xxv, 206, ii. 185;

Manhattan City, ii. 223;

Man of Ninety, ii. 374;

Marcella in a Consumption, ii. 326;

Market Girl, iii. 402;

Marriage a-la-mode, iii. 403;

Mars and Hymen, i. 195, 197, ii. 56, 57;

Mars and Venus, iii. 403;

Maryland, iii. 15;

Matrimonial Dialogue, iii. 104;

May to April, ii. 331;

Megara and Altavola, iii. 146;

Menace, iii. 403;

Mercantile Charity, iii. 403;

Midnight Consultations, i. 158;

Military Recruiting, iii. 308;

Millenium, iii. 176;

Minerva's Advice, iii. 403;

Minstrel's Complaint, iii. 402;

Miserable Life of a Pedagogue, iii. 396;

Misfortune of March, iii. 402;

Misnomer, i. 185;

Mistake, iii. 405;

Modern Devotion, iii. 54;

Modern Idolatry, ii. 54;

Modern Jehu, iii. 405;

Modern Miracle, iii. 402;

Monumental Lines, iii. 405;

Monument of Phaon, i. lxviii, 30;

Moral Thought, ii. 91;

Mourning Nun, ii. 325;

Mr. Jay's Treaty, iii. 132;

Musical Savage, iii. 406.

Nanny to Nabby, iii. 42;

Nabby to Nanny, iii. 44;

Nature's Debt, iii. 406;

Nautical Rendezvous, The, iii. 242;

Nereus and Thetis, iii. 404;

Neversink, i. xlvii, lxxxvi, iii. 3;

New Age, iii. 405;

New England Sabbath-Day Chase, iii. 29;

News-Carrier's Petition, ii. 240;

News-Man's Address, 1784, ii. 238;

News-Man's Address, 1786, ii. 301;

News-Man's Address, 1788, ii. 383;

Newsmonger, ii. 263;

New Year's Eve, iii. 406;

New Year's Verses, 1783, ii. 197;

New Year's Verses, 1783, ii. 198, iii. 129, 401;

New Year's Verses, 1784, ii. 240;

New Year's Verses, 1785, ii. 284;

New Year's Verses, 1788, ii. 383;

New Year's Verses, 1798, iii. 194;

New York Tory, ii. 84;

New York Tory's Epistle, ii. 290;

New York Tory's Epistle to one of His Friends, ii. 219;

Northern March, iii. 329;

Northern Soldier, i. 197, ii. 67;

Nova Scotia Menace, iii. 403.

Occasioned by the Bill Proposing a Taxation on Newspapers, iii. 52;

October's Address, iii. 273;

Ode, iii. 99;

Ode for July 4, 1799, iii. 152;

Ode to Fancy, i. lviii, 34;

Ode to Good Fortune, iii. 405;

Ode to Liberty, i. liii, iii. 92;

Ode to the Americans, iii. 203;

Old Virginia, iii. 17;

On a Book Called Unitarian Theology, ii. 307;

On a Celebrated Performer on the Violin, iii. 192;

On a Hessian Debarkation, i. 222, 269;

On a Honey Bee, iii. 284;

On a Lady Now Deceased, iii. 405;

On a Lady's Singing Bird, i. 283;

On a Legislative Act, iii. 126;

On Amanda's Singing Bird, i. 283;

On a Man Killed by a Buffalo, iii. 404;

On American Antiquity, iii. 5;

On a Nocturnal View of the Planet Jupiter, iii. 404;

On a Painter, iii. 403;

On a Proposed Negotiation, iii. 226;

On Arriving in South Carolina, iii. 199;

On a Rural Nymph, iii. 268;

On a Travelling Speculator, iii. 404;

On Deborah Gannett, iii. 182;

On Dr. Sangrado's Flight, iii. 111;

On False Systems of Government, iii. 221;

On Finding a Terrapin, iii. 406;

On General Miranda's Expedition, iii. 271;

On General Robertson's Proclamation, ii. 162;

On Happiness, iii. 405;

On Hearing a Political Oration, iii. 144;

On Passing by an Old Churchyard, iii. 277;

On Pest-Eli-Hali, iii. 404;

On Political Sermons, iii. 330;

On Prohibiting the Sale of Ramsey's History, ii. 312;

On Retirement, i. 84;

On Seeing a Beautiful Print, iii. 406;

On Seniora Julia Leaving a Dance, iii. 265;

On Sir Henry Clinton's Recall, ii. 153;

On Superstition, iii. 405;

On Swedenborg's Universal Theology, ii. 307;

On the Abuse of Human Power, iii. 272;

On the Approaching Dissolution, iii. 404;

On the Anniversary of the Storming of the Bastile, i. liii,

iii. 102;

On the Attempted Launch of a Frigate, iii. 157;

On the Brigantine Privateer Prince de Neufchatel, iii. 366;

On the British Blockade, iii. 358;

On the British Commercial Depredations, iii. 300;

On the British Invasion, iii. 341;

On the British King's Speech, ii. 217;

On the Capture of the Essex, iii. 318;

On the Capture of the Guerriere, iii. 310;

On the City Encroachments on the River Hudson, iii. 173;

On the Conflagrations at Washington, iii. 344;

On the Conqueror of America, i. 185;

On the Crew of a Certain Vessel, ii. 317;

On the Death of a Masonic Grand Sachem, iii. 282;

On the Death of a Master Builder, iii. 281;

On the Death of a Republican Printer, iii. 101;

On the Death of Capt. Nicholas Biddle, i. cvi, 288;

On the Death of Catharine II., iii. 136;

On the Death of Colonel Laurens, ii. 283;

On the Death of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, iii. 36;

On the Death of General Reed, ii. 288;

On the Death of General Ross, iii. 356;

On the Demolition of an Old College, iii. 33;

On the Demolition of Fort George, iii. 24;

On the Demolition of the French Monarchy, i. liii, iii. 84;

On the Departure of the Grand Sanhedrim, iii. 49;

On the Departure of Peter Porcupine, iii. 240;

On the Dismission of Bonaparte, iii. 334;

On the Emigration to America, ii. 280;

On the English Devastations, iii. 343;

On the Evils of Human Life, iii. 405;

On the Fall of an Ancient Oak, iii. 285;

On the Fall of General Earl Cornwallis, ii. 92;

On the Federal City, iii. 171, 184;

On the First American Ship, ii. 261;

On the Fourteenth of July, i. liii, iii. 72;

On the Free Use of the Lancet, iii. 159;

On the French Republicans, i. liii, iii. 88;

On the Frigate Constitution, iii. 174;

On the Invasion of Rome, iii. 135;

On the Lake Expeditions, iii. 314;

On the Late Sloop of War General Monk, ii. 142;

On the Launching of the Frigate Constitution, iii. 158;

On the Launching of the Independence, iii. 374;

On the Loss of the Armstrong, iii. 363;

On the Memorable Naval Engagement, iii. 106;

On the Memorable Victory, i. cvii, ii. 75;

On the Naval Attack Near Baltimore, iii. 357;

On the New American Frigate, Alliance, i. cvii, 285;

On the New Year's Festival, ii. 198;

On the Peak of Pico, iii. 254;

On the Peak of Teneriffe, iii. 261;

On the Proposed System of State Consolidation, iii. 225;

On the Portraits of Louis and Antoinette, iii. 89;

On the Powers of the Human Understanding, iii. 404;

On the Prospect of a Revolution in France, ii. 385;

On the Prospect of War, iii. 296;

On the Religion of Nature, iii. 405;

On the Royal Coalition, iii. 129;

On the Sleep of Plants, iii. 31;

On the Symptoms of Hostilities, iii. 291;

On the Uniformity and Perfection of Nature, iii. 405;

On the Universality of the God of Nature, iii. 405;

On the Vicissitudes of Things, ii. 284;

On the War Patrons, iii. 98;

On the War Projected with the Republic of France, iii. 139;

Orator of the Woods, iii. 41;

Order of the Day, iii. 406;

Origin of Wars, iii. 403;

Orland's Flight, iii. 111.

Palæmon: or, the Skaiter, iii. 402;

Palemon to Lavinia, ii. 381;

Pamphleteer and the Critic, ii. 309;

Parade and Sham-fight, iii. 368;

Parody on the Attempt to Force the British Treaty, iii. 133;

Parting Glass, iii. 68;

Patrick Mulponi, ii. 379;

Pestilence, iii. 110;

Pettifogger, iii. 191;

Pewter Platter Alley, ii. 287;

Philander: or the Emigrant, ii. 321;

Philosophical Reflections, ii. 165;

Pictures of Columbus, i. lxviii, ci, 89;

Picture of the Times, ii. 165;

Pilgrim's Progress, ii. 401;

Pilot of Hatteras, ii. 394;

Plato, the Philosopher, to Theon, ii. 104;

Political Balance, ii. 130;

Political Biography, ii. 201;

Political Litany, i. 139;

Political Rival Suitors, iii. 130;

Political Weathercock, iii. 216;

Power of Fancy, i. 34;

Prayer of Orpheus, i. 39;

Prefatory Lines, iii. 137;

Preposterous Nuptials, iii. 403;

Prince Regent's Resolve, iii. 336;

Prince William Henry's Soliloquy, ii. 167;

Prisoner, iii. 402;

Prison Ship, i. xxxiii, 288;

Procession to Columbia, ii. 399;

Procession to Sylvania, ii. 399;

Progress of Balloons, ii. 276;

Projectors, ii. 160;

Prologue to a Theatrical Entertainment, ii. 108;

Prophecy, ii. 126;

Prophecy of King Tammany, ii. 187;

Prudent Philosopher, iii. 403;

Psalm CXXXVII Imitated, i. xxix, 270;

Publius to Pollia, iii. 405;

Pyramid of the American States, iii. 82;

Pyramids of Egypt, i. xvi, 25;

Pythona, iii. 406.

Quintilian to Lycidas, iii. 115.

Reflections, iii. 217;

Reflections on Dr. Perkins' Metallic Points, iii. 405;

Reflections on the Constitution of Nature, iii. 404;

Reflections on the Death of a Country Printer, iii. 101;

Reflections on Mutability of Things, iii. 215;

Refugees' Petition to Sir Guy Carleton, ii. 172;

Renegado Epistle, ii. 219;

Renegado Epistle, ii. 290;

Republican Festival, iii. 151;

Republican Genius of Europe, iii. 129;

Retaliation, a Marine Ode, iii. 373;

Retirement, i. 84;

Retort, iii. 401;

Reward of Innocence, iii. 405;

Rising Glory of America, i. xxi, ciii, 49;

Rival Suitors for America, iii. 130;

Rivington's Confessions, i. xl, ii. 229;

Rivington's Last Will, ii. 120;

Rivington's Reflections, ii. 190;

Royal Adventurer, ii. 112;

Royal Apprentice, iii. 405;

Royal Cockneys in America, iii. 185;

Royal Consultations, iii. 361;

Rural Bachelor, iii. 403.

St. Preux to Eloisa, iii. 402;

Sangrado's Expedition to Sylvania, ii. 402;

Santa Cruz, i. 222, 239, 249;

Satan's Remonstrance, ii. 169;

Satire in Answer to a Hostile Attack, i. 206;

Scandinavian War Song, ii. 159;

Science Favorable to Virtue, iii. 404;

Scornful Lady, iii. 402;

Scurrilous Scribe, iii. 405;

Sea-Faring Bachelor, i. 184;

Seasons Moralized, ii. 282;

Sea Voyage, i. 293;

Serious Menace, iii. 213;

Seventeen Hundred and Ninety-one, iii. 65;

Sexton's Sermon, i. 222, 239, iii. 122;

Shadrach and Pomposo, iii. 403;

Silent Academy, i. 182;

Sir Guy Carleton's Address, ii. 156;

Sir Guy's Answer, ii. 173;

Sir Harry's Invitation, ii. 7;

Sir Peter Petrified, iii. 354;

Sketches of American History, ii. 266;

Slender's Journey, i. xliii, lxxxvi, ii. 338;

Song on Captain Barney's Victory, i. cvii, ii. 149;

Speech, ii. 117;

Spy, i. 197, ii. 39;

Stanzas Occasioned by Absurd Panegyrics, iii. 235;

Stanzas Occasioned by the Departure of the British, ii. 214;

Stanzas Occasioned by the Ruins of a Country Inn, ii. 110;

Stanzas on a Political Projector, iii. 406;

Stanzas on an Ancient Dutch House, i. 40;

Stanzas on an old English Tobacco Box, iii. 278;

Stanzas on the Decease of Thomas Paine, iii. 286;

Stanzas on the same Subject as the Preceding, iii. 234;

Stanzas Published at the Procession to the Tombs of the

Patriots, iii. 246;

Stanzas on Skeletons Dug up in Fort George, iii. 40;

Stanzas to an Alien, iii. 228;

Stanzas to the Memory of General Washington, iii. 232;

Stanzas to the Memory of two Young Persons, ii. 79;

Stanzas Written at Baltimore, ii. 391;

Stanzas written at the Foot of Monte Souffiere, ii. 314;

Stanzas written at the Island of Madeira, iii. 257;

Stanzas Written in a Clergyman's Garden, iii. 404;

Stanzas Written in a Blank Leaf of Burke's History, ii. 314;

Stanzas Written in Blackbeard's Castle, iii. 229;

St. Catharine's, ii. 397;

Subscription Prayer, ii. 379;

Suicide, iii. 404;

Susanna's Revival, iii. 402;

Susanna's Tomb, iii. 405;

Suttler and the Soldier, iii. 304.

Terra Vulpina, iii. 8;

Terrific Torpedoes, iii. 321;

Theodosia, iii. 312;

Tenth Ode of Horace's Book of Epodes, ii. 103;

Thoughts on the European War System, iii. 103;

Timothy Taurus, i. xxv;

To a Caty-did, iii. 275;

To a Concealed Royalist, ii. 174;

To a Democratic Editor, iii. 166;

To a Deceased Dog, iii. 401;

To a Dog, ii. 387;

To America, iii. 301;

To an Angry Zealot, iii. 81;

To an Author, ii. 332;

To a Night Fly, iii. 189;

To an Old Man, ii. 104;

To a Noisy Politician, iii. 122;

To a Persecuted Philosopher, iii. 81;

To a Republican, iii. 90;

To a Very Little Man, iii. 403;

To a Writer of Panegyric, iii. 119;

Tobacco, iii. 46;

To Clarissa, iii. 403;

To Cracovius Patridas, ii. 336;

To Crispin O'Conner, ii. 74;

To Cynthia, ii. 391, iii. 403;

To Duncan Dolittle, iii. 164;

To Fungus, Froth & Co., iii. 403;

To Harriot, ii. 391;

To His Excellency, General Washington, ii. 81;

To Ismenia, iii. 406;

To Lord Cornwallis, ii. 86;

To Lydia, ii. 387;

To Marcia, ii. 326;

Tomb of the Patriots, iii. 249;

To Memmius, ii. 406;

To Misfortune, ii. 335;

To Mr. Blanchard, iii. 142;

To Mr. Churchman, ii. 398;

To My Book, iii. 78;

To My Book, iii. 129;

To My Lord Snake, iii. 401;

To Myrtalis, iii. 141;

To Pest-Eli-Hali, iii. 166;

To Peter Porcupine, iii. 156;

To Peter Porcupine, iii. 167;

Tormentina's Complaint, ii. 393;

To Sanstone Samuel, iii. 176;

To Sylock Ap Shenkin, i. 206, ii. 185, 177, iii. 76, 119;

To Sylock Ap Shenkin, an Abusive Court Writer, ii. 174;

To Sylock Ap Shenkin in Reply to Big Looks, iii. 109;

To Sir Toby, ii. 258;

To Sylvius, iii. 113;

To the Americans of the United States, i. lxx, iii. 188;

To the Americans on the Rumored Approach of the Hessians, i. 185;

To the Concealed Royalist, ii. 177;

To the Concealed Royalist on his Farewell, ii. 179;

To the Democratic Country Editors, iii. 210;

To the Dog Sancho, iii. 404;

To the Foe to Tyrants, ii. 177;

To the Frigate _Constitution_, iii. 162;

To the Grand Mufti, iii. 402;

To the Keeper of the King's Water Works, ii. 252;

To the Lake Squadrons, iii. 347;

To the Memory of a Lady, iii. 403;

To the Memory of Edward Rutledge, iii. 238;

To the Memory of Mrs. Burnet, iii. 403;

To the Memory of the Late Aedanus Burke, iii. 243;

To the Memory of the Brave Americans, ii. 101;

To the Philadelphia Doctors, iii. 178;

To the Public, iii. 56;

To the Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith, iii. 244;

To the Royalist Unveiled, ii. 181;

To the Scribe of Scribes, iii. 187;

To Whom it May Concern, ii. 185;

To Zoilus, ii. 309;

Translated from the Third Book of Lucretius, iii. 406;

Translation from Ovid's Tristia, iii. 404;

Translation of Gray's Ode, iii. 405;

Translation of the Third Elegy of Ovid, iii. 404;

Truth Anticipated, ii. 143;

Two Genii, iii. 406.

Under the Portraiture of Martha Ray, iii. 403;

Upon a very ancient Dutch House, iii. 399;

Usurer's Prayer, iii. 404.

Vanity of Existence, ii. 91;

Vernal Ague, i. 188;

Verses Made at Sea, ii. 250;

Verses occasioned by Washington's Arrival, ii. 225;

View of Colombia, ii. 401;

View of Rhode Island, iii. 7;

Village Merchant, i. xvi, 14, iii. 60;

Vision of the Night, i. 222;

Volunteer's March, iii. 337;

Voyage to Boston, i. xxv, 158.

Wanderer, iii. 22;

Warning to America, iii. 70;

Wild Honey Suckle, i. cix, ii. 306;

Wish of Diogenes, i. 84;

Written at Cape Hatteras, ii. 392;

Written at Poplar Hill, iii. 406;

Written at Port Royal, ii. 253.

Porcupine, Peter, iii. 156, 167, 187, 240

Powers and Willis, printers, i. xxxvi

Princeton, i. xvff., xxv, 49, 50, 208, iii. 244

Printer, A Country, iii. 101, 166

Prison-ships, ii. 18, iii. 246, 249;

_The Jersey_, ii. 27, iii. 249;

_The Hunter_, ii. 27, 31, 32;

_The Scorpion_, ii. 26, 27, 31;

_The Strombolo_, ii. 27

Privateering, iii. 242, 366

Prophecies, Freneau's;

Rise of the West, i. 76;

America a world-power, ii. 282;

ballooning, ii. 279;

Europe owns America her equal, ii. 386;

science displaces the classics, iii. 121;

America's navy, iii. 158;

era of prose, iii. 188;

Jefferson president, iii. 216

Pyramid of the States, iii. 82

Quesnay, Alexander, ii. 108

Ramsay, David, ii. 312, iii. 245

Randolph, John, i. li, lxiv

Rawdon, Lord, ii. 97

Ray, Hugh, i. xxxii

Read, Col., iii. 354

Reed, Gen. Joseph, ii. 176, 288

Reid, Samuel C., Captain of _General Armstrong_, iii. 363

Rhode Island, ii. 386, iii. 7

Rights of Man, iii. 65, 90

"Rising Empire, The," i. xlix, iii. 5

Rittenhouse, David, i. xlii, lix

Rivington, James, ii. 116, 120, 124, 125, 143, 162, 169, 190, 229, 232

Robin, Abbé Claude, i. xxxvi, lxxiii

Robertson, General James, ii. 39, 122, 162, 237

Rodney, Admiral, George, ii. 143

Rogers, Captain of the _General Monk_, ii. 150

Ross, General Robert, iii. 89, 343, 356

_Royal George_, Loss of, ii. 218

Rozier, balloonist, ii. 276

Rush, Dr. Benjamin, iii. 159, 167, 169, 240

Rutledge, Gov. Edward, iii. 238

Rum, the curse of, iii. 66

Saint Esprit, Church, New York, i. xiii

Sandwich, Lord, ii. 13, 90

St. James Island, i. xxvii

Santa Cruz Island, West Indies, i. xxvi, xxvii, xxxiv, 249

"Satires against the Tories," i. xvii

Schuylkill River, iii. 128

Scott, Sir Walter, i. vi, cvi; ii. 102

Seabury, Bishop Samuel, ii. 303

Sears, Isaac, raids Rivington's office, ii. 205, 236

Sevier, Robert and William, iii. 79

Shelburne, Earl of, settles the quarrel with the Colonies, ii. 191

Shippen, Dr. William, iii. 244

SHIPS.

_Active_, Am. brig, i. xxxi;

_Alliance_, Am. frigate, i. 285, ii. 77;

_Ardent_, Fr. man of war, ii. 145;

_Asia_, Br. man of war, ii. 205;

_Aurora_, Am. ship, i. xxx, ii. 19, 21, 23;

_Betsy_, Am. brig, i. xlvii;

_Betsey_, Br. ship, i. xlv;

_Boston_, Br. frigate, iii. 106;

_Carnation_, Br. armed brig, iii. 363;

_Cerberus_, Br. frigate, ii. 153;

_Charming Sally_, Br. privateer, ii. 150;

_Cherub_, Br. frigate, iii. 318;

_Chesapeake_, Am. frigate, iii. 313;

_Columbia_, Freneau's schooner, i. xliii, xlvii, xlviii;

_Confidence_, Br. warship, iii. 349;

_Constitution_, Am. frigate, iii. 157, 158, 162, 174, 310;

_Countess of Scarborough_, Br. man of war, ii. 75;

_Despatch_, Br. war brig, iii. 338;

_Dromilly_, Freneau's brig, i. xxxvii, ii. 252;

_Echo_, Am. brig, i. lxxix;

_Empress of China_, Am. merchant ship, ii. 261;

_Essex_, Am. frigate, iii. 318;

_Fair American_, Br. privateer, ii. 142;

_Formidable_, Br. frigate, ii. 143;

_Fulton the First_, Am. steam frigate, iii. 360;

_General Armstrong_, Am. privateer brig, iii. 363;

_General Greene_, Am. privateer, ii. 142, 150;

_General Monk_, Am. sloop of war, ii. 85, 142, 147, 149;

_Good Man Richard_, Am. frigate, ii. 77;

_Glorieuse_, French man of war, ii. 145;

_Grange_, Br. ship, iii. 106;

_Guerriere_, Br. frigate, iii. 310;

_Hancock_, former name of the _Iris_, ii. 22;

_Hector_, Fr. man of war, ii. 145;

_Hunter_ (see Prison Ships);

_Hyder Ali_, Am. privateer, ii. 142, 147, 168;

_Independence_, iii. 374;

_Industry_, Freneau's sloop, i. xliii, lxxxi, ii. 388;

_Iris_, Br. frigate, i. xxxi, xxxii, ii. 19, 22, 23, 85, 90;

_Jersey_ (see Prison Ships);

_John_, Freneau's schooner, i. lxxx;

_Katy_, Am. sloop, i. lxxv;

_La Hoke_, Br. warship, iii. 321;

_Le Cesar_, Fr. frigate, ii. 145;

_Le Diadem_, Fr. frigate, ii. 145;

_L'Embuscade_, Fr. frigate, iii. 92, 106;

_Little Sarah_, Br. ship, iii. 106;

_Maria_, Am. ship, iii. 199;

_Mars_, Am. brig, i. xxxix;

_Menelaus_, Br. frigate, iii. 354;

_Monmouth_, Freneau's sloop, i. xxix, ii. 295;

_Pactolus_, Br. ship of war, iii. 338;

_Pallas_, Fr. man of war, ii. 77, 79;

_Patriot_, Am. schooner, iii. 312;

_Phoebe_, Br. frigate, iii. 318;

_Plantagenet_, Br. frigate, iii. 363;

_Prince de Neufchatel_, Am. privateer, iii. 366;

_Prince George_, Br. frigate, ii. 112;

_Queen Charlotte_, Br. ship of war, iii. 316;

_Queen of France_, Fr. ship, iii. 89;

_Ramillies_, Br. frigate, iii. 321, 338;

_Randolph_, Am. frigate, i. cvii, 288;

_Rebecca_, Am. brig, i. xxx;

_Rodney_, Br. flag ship, ii. 117;

_Rose_, Br. frigate, i. xlii, 140, 165;

_Rota_, Br. frigate, iii. 363;

_Royal George_, Br. frigate, ii. 218;

_Saratoga_, Am. war ship, iii. 349;

_Scorpion_, see Prison Ships;

_Seraphis_, Br. frigate, ii. 75;

_Shannon_, Br. frigate, iii. 313;

_Strombolo_, see Prison Ships;

_Trumbull_, Am. frigate, ii. 85;

_Vengeance_, Am. man of war, ii. 77;

_Ville de Paris_, Fr. frigate, ii. 145;

_Viper_, Br. frigate, ii. 140;

_Vulture_, Br. man of war, ii. 48;

_Washington_, former name of the _Gen. Monk_, ii. 142;

_Washington_, Freneau's brig, i. lxxxi, lxxxvii;

_Yarmouth_, Br. frigate, i. 288

Slavery, Freneau's opposition to, i. xcvii, ii. 258

Slender, Robert, i. xliii, lxxvi

Smith, Robert, architect, iii. 244

Smith, Samuel S., iii. 242

Smyth, William, i. 129

Smyth, Mrs. Charles (Anna), i. lxxxix

Somerset Academy, Md., i. xxii

South Carolina, ii. 305, 402, iii. 199, 238

Spring, Samuel, i. xvi

Sproat, David, commissary of prisoners at N. Y., ii. 29

State Consolidation, iii. 225

Steamboats, ii. 406

Steele, Gen., Collector of the port of Philadelphia, i. lxxxviii

Stillwell, Joseph, i. xliv

Stirling, Lord, i. 124

Stuart, General, ii. 101

Suffrein, M. de, ii. 117

Swedenborg, Emanuel, ii. 307

Sweeney, Miss Adele, i. xxx, lxxviii, 19, 39

Tammany, Indian Chieftain, ii. 187

Tea, iii. 71

Teneriffe, iii. 261, 263

Tennessee, iii. 192

Theatre, ii. 108, 404

Tobacco, iii. 46, 278, 308

Tomo Cheeki Papers, i. lxvi, lxxiv

Tories, ii. 84, 162, 172, 219, 290, 293

Towne, Benjamin, printer, ii. 288

"Travels of the Imagination," i. 271

Treaty between Great Britain and America, ii. 246

Trees in Cities, iii. 53

Trumbull, John, i. ci

Tryon, Gov. William, i. 140, ii. 115

Twining, Thomas, iii. 184

_United States Magazine_, i. xxvii, xxix, xl, 45, 46, 212, 249, 270,

293; ii. 3, 9

Uranian Musical Society, iii. 152

Vanderput, Capt. of the Asia, ii. 205

Venezuela, iii. 271

Verplanck, G. C., reviews Freneau's poems, i. xci

Vincent, Capt., i. 288

Virginia legislature petitioned by Lord Dunmore, ii. 114

Virginia, iii. 17

Vreeland, Mrs. Helen K., i. lxxx

Walcott, Dr. John, poet, iii. 28

Wallace, Captain of the _Rose_, i. xli

"War and Washington," i. c

War of 1812, iii. 133, 155, 292, 297ff., 305, 310, 313ff., 318, 321,

329, 338, 341, 343, 347, 356, 357, 363

Warner, G. J., iii. 152

Washington Academy, Md., i. xxiii

Washington, City of, iii. 171, 184, 343, 344, 361

Washington, George, i. xlvii, liv, lx, 169, 185, 194, 279, ii. 81,

82, 92, 225, iii. 232, 234, 235, 244, 352

Watson, Agnes, i. xiv;

Richard, i. xiv

Wellington's Army in the War of 1812, iii. 341, 361

West Indies, i. 239, 249, ii. 250, 252, 258, 314, 359, iii. 229, 242

Western emigration, ii. 280

Weyman, Ned, printer, ii. 203

William Henry, Prince, ii. 112, 167

Witherspoon, President John, i. xv, xix

Wheelock, President John, iii. 33

Whitehead, William, poet laureate, ii. 219

Woodhouse, William, i. 158

Wrigley, Francis, newscarrier, ii. 197

Yale College, ii. 346

Yamacraw, Ga., i. xlvi

Yellow Fever, iii. 110, 159, 167, 178

Yorktown, ii. 89, 92

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