The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 3 (of 3)Freneau, Philip Morin
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The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 3 (of 3)
Freneau, Philip Morin
American poetry
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.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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