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
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.
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