The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 3 (of 3)

by Philip Morin Freneau

CONTENTS

VOLUME III
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[PART IV] The Period of Editorship. 1790-1797
Neversink	[3]
The Rising Empire	[5]
Log-Town Tavern	[19]
The Wanderer	[22]
On the Demolition of Fort George	[24]
Congress Hall, N. Y.	[26]
Epistle to Peter Pindar, Esq.	[28]
The New England Sabbath-Day Chace	[29]
On the Sleep of Plants	[31]
On the Demolition of an old College	[33]
On the Death of Dr. Benjamin Franklin	[36]
Epistle from Dr. Franklin to his Poetical Panegyrists	[36]
Constantia	[38]
Stanzas Occasioned by Lord Bellamont's, Lady Hay's and other Skeletons being dug up	[40]
The Orator of the Woods	[41]
Nanny	[42]
Nabby	[44]
The Bergen Planter	[45]
Tobacco	[46]
The Banished Man	[47]
The Departure	[49]
The American Soldier	[51]
Occasioned by a Legislation Bill	[52]
Lines Occasioned by a Law Passed for Cutting Down the Trees	[53]
To the Public	[56]
Lines by H. Salem	[57]
Modern Devotion	[59]
The Country Printer	[60]
Seventeen Hundred and Ninety One	[65]
Lines written on a Puncheon of Jamaica Spirits	[66]
The Parting Glass	[68]
A Warning to America	[70]
The Dish of Tea	[71]
On the Fourteenth of July	[72]
To Crispin O'Connor	[74]
Crispin's Answer	[75]
To Shylock Ap-Shenkin	[76]
To my Book	[78]
Stanzas to Robert Sevier and William Sevier	[79]
To a Persecuted Philosopher	[80]
To an Angry Zealot	[81]
The Pyramid of the Fifteen American States	[82]
On the Demolition of the French Monarchy	[84]
On the French Republicans	[88]
On the Portraits of Louis and Antoinette	[89]
To a Republican	[90]
Ode to Liberty	[92]
Ode	[99]
On the Death of a Republican Printer	[101]
On the Anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille	[102]
Thoughts on the European War System	[103]
A Matrimonial Dialogue	[104]
On the Memorable Naval Engagement between the Ambuscade and the Boston	[106]
To Shylock ap-Shenkin	[109]
Pestilence	[110]
On Dr. Sangrado's Flight	[111]
Elegy on the Death of a Blacksmith	[112]
To Sylvius	[113]
The Blessings of the Poppy	[114]
Quintilian to Lycidas	[115]
The Bay Islet	[116]
Jeffery, or The Soldier's Progress	[117]
To Shylock Ap-Shenkin	[119]
To a Winter of Panegyric	[119]
The Forest Beau	[120]
Epistle to a Student of Dead Languages	[121]
To a Noisy Politician	[122]
The Sexton's Sermon	[122]
On a Legislative Act Prohibiting the Use of Spirituous Liquors	[126]
Addressed to a Political Shrimp	[127]
Hermit's Valley	[128]
To my Book	[129]
The Republican Genius of Europe	[129]
The Rival Suitors for America	[130]
Mr. Jay's Treaty	[132]
Parody	[133]
On the Invasion of Rome in 1796	[135]
On the Death of Catharine II.	[136]
Prefatory Lines to a Periodical Publication	[137]
On the War projected with the Republic of France	[139]
To Myrtalis	[141]
To Mr. Blanchard	[142]
On Hearing a Political Oration	[144]
Megara and Altavola	[146]
The Republican Festival	[151]
Ode for July the Fourth, 1799 [1797]	[152]
Address to the Republicans of America	[154]
To Peter Porcupine	[156]
On the Attempted Launch of a Frigate	[157]
On the Launching of the Frigate Constitution	[158]
On the Free Use of the Lancet	[159]
The Book of Odes
Ode I.	[161]
Ode II. To the Frigate Constitution	[162]
Ode III. To Duncan Doolittle	[164]
Ode IV. To Pest-Eli-Hali	[166]
Ode V. To Peter Porcupine	[167]
Ode VI. Address to a Learned Pig	[169]
Ode VII. On the Federal City	[171]
Ode VIII. On the City Encroachments on the River Hudson	[173]
Ode IX. On the Frigate Constitution	[174]
Ode X. To Santone Samuel	[176]
Ode XI. To the Philadelphia Doctors	[178]
Ode XII. The Crows and the Carrion	[179]
Ode XIII. On Deborah Gannet	[182]
On the Federal City	[184]
The Royal Cockneys in America	[185]
To the Scribe of Scribes	[185]
To the Americans of the United States	[187]
To a Night-Fly	[189]
The Indian Convert	[189]
The Pettifogger	[189]
On a Celebrated Performer on the Violin	[192]
New Year's Verses, 1798	[194]
[PART V] The Final Period of Wandering. 1798-1809
On Arriving in South Carolina	[199]
Ode to the Americans	[203]
On the War Patrons	[207]
To the Democratic Country Editors	[210]
The Serious Menace	[213]
Reflections on the Mutability of Things	[215]
The Political Weather-Cock	[216]
Reflections	[217]
Commerce	[220]
On False Systems	[221]
On the Proposed System of State Constitutions	[225]
On a Proposed Negotiation with the French Republic	[226]
Stanzas to an Alien	[228]
Stanzas written in Blackbeard's Castle	[229]
Lines written at Sea	[231]
Stanzas to the Memory of General Washington	[232]
Stanzas Upon the Same Subject	[234]
Stanzas Occasioned by Certain Absurd, Extravagant, and even Blasphemous Panegyrics on the late General Washington	[235]
To the Memory of Edward Rutledge, Esq.	[238]
On the Departure of Peter Porcupine	[240]
The Nautical Rendezvous	[242]
To the Memory of Aedanus Burke	[243]
To the Rev. Samuel S. Smith, D.D.	[244]
Stanzas Published at the Procession to the Tomb of the Patriots	[246]
The Tomb of the Patriots	[249]
On the Peak of Pico	[254]
A Bacchanalian Dialogue	[255]
Stanzas written at the Island of Madeira	[257]
On the Peak of Teneriffe	[261]
Answer to a Card of Invitation to visit a Nunnery	[263]
On Seniora Julia	[265]
Lines on Seniora Julia	[266]
On a Rural Nymph	[268]
On General Miranda's Expedition	[271]
On the Abuse of Human Power	[272]
October's Address	[273]
To a Caty-Did	[275]
On Passing by an Old Churchyard	[277]
Stanzas Occasioned by an Old English Tobacco Box	[278]
On the Death of a Master Builder	[281]
On the Death of a Masonic Grand Sachem	[282]
On a Honey Bee	[284]
On the Fall of an Ancient Oak Tree	[285]
Stanzas on the Decease of Thomas Paine	[286]
[PART VI] The War of 1812. 1809-1815
On the Symptoms of Hostilities	[291]
Lines Addressed to Mr. Jefferson	[293]
On the Prospect of War	[296]
On the British Commercial Depredations	[300]
To America	[301]
The Suttler and the Soldier	[304]
Military Recruiting	[308]
On the Capture of the Guerriere	[310]
Theodosia	[312]
In Memory of James Lawrence, Esquire	[313]
On the Lake Expeditions	[314]
The Battle of Lake Erie	[315]
On the Capture of the United States Frigate Essex	[318]
The Terrific Torpedoes	[321]
The Northern March	[329]
On Political Sermons	[330]
Lines on Napoleon Bonaparte	[333]
On the Dismission of Bonaparte	[334]
The Prince Regent's Resolve	[336]
The Volunteer's March	[337]
The Battle of Stonington	[338]
On the British Invasion	[341]
On the English Devastations at Washington	[343]
On the Conflagrations at Washington	[344]
To the Lake Squadrons	[347]
The Battle of Lake Champlain	[349]
A Dialogue at Washington's Tomb	[352]
Sir Peter Petrified	[354]
On the Death of General Ross	[356]
On the Naval Attack near Baltimore	[357]
On the British Blockade	[358]
Royal Consultations	[361]
On the Loss of the Privateer Brigantine General Armstrong	[363]
On the Brigantine Privateer Prince de Neufchatel	[366]
The Parade and Sham-Fight	[368]
Retaliation	[373]
On the Launching of the Independence	[374]
The Brook of the Valley	[376]
[APPENDIX.]
A. The American Village, &c.
The American Village	[381]
The Farmer's Winter Evening	[394]
The Miserable Life of a Pedagogue	[396]
Upon a very Ancient Dutch House on Long Island	[399]
B. List of omitted Poems	[401]
C. Bibliography of the Poetry of Philip Freneau	[407]
Index	[419]

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PART IV

THE PERIOD OF EDITORSHIP