Fugitive Poetry

Name: Fugitive Poetry
Author: Willis, Nathaniel Parker
Willis, Nathaniel Parker
American poetry
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                         FUGITIVE POETRY.

                         FUGITIVE POETRY:

                         BY N.P. WILLIS.

    "If, however, I can, by lucky chance, in these days of evil,
    rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the
    heavy heart of one moment of sorrow; if I can, now and then,
    penetrate the gathering film of misanthropy, prompt a
    benevolent view of human nature, and make my reader more in
    good humor with his fellow beings and himself, surely,
    surely, I shall not then have written entirely in vain."
    WASHINGTON IRVING.

                             BOSTON:
                PUBLISHED BY PEIRCE AND WILLIAMS.
                              1829.

               DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, _to wit_:

                                              DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE.

Be it remembered, that on the eleventh day of September, A.D. 1829, in
the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of
America, PEIRCE AND WILLIAMS, of the said district, have deposited in
this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as
proprietors in the words following, _to wit_:

"Fugitive Poetry: By N.P. WILLIS.

"'If, however, I can, by lucky chance, in these days of evil, rub out
one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heart of one moment of
sorrow; if I can, now and then, penetrate the gathering film of
misanthropy, prompt a benevolent view of human nature, and make my
reader more in good humor with his fellow beings, and himself, surely,
surely, I shall not then have written entirely in vain.' _Washington
Irving._"

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled
"An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of
maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies,
during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an Act entitled "An Act
supplementary to an Act, entitled 'An Act for the encouragement of
learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the
authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein
mentioned;' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing,
engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

                                JNO. W. DAVIS,} _Clerk of the District_
                                                  _of Massachusetts._

                          TO

                GEORGE JAMES PUMPELLY,

           MY BEST AND MOST VALUED FRIEND,

                THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

                            BY THE AUTHOR.

                             CONTENTS.

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