An American, pseud. Crystalina; a fairy tale. See [Harney, John Milton].
An American, pseud. See [Oppression], a poem.
An American, pseud. See [Prime, Benjamin Young].
American poems, selected and original. Vol. 1. Litchfield: Printed by Collier and Buel. [1793.] (The copy right secured as the Act directs.) viii, 304 p., 4 l. 12º.
Reserve and NBH
No more published.
“The first general collection of poetry ever attempted in this country.”—C. W. Everest, Poets of Connecticut, Hartford, 1843, p. 103.
The editorship is attributed by Everest to Dr. Elihu Hubbard Smith, but the postscript to the preface of the work p. [vi] refers to “the ill health of one of the editors.”
The Reserve copy contains the autographs of Daniel Crocker, Samuel Austin, and Samuel G. Drake.
Contents: Elegy on the times; Elegy on the death of Mr. Buckingham St. John; Ambition; Prophecy of Balaam; Downfall of Babylon; Speech of Proteus to Aristæus; by John Trumbull.—Trial of faith; Address to genius of Columbia; Columbia; The seasons moralized; A hymn; A song; The critics; Epistle to Col. Humphreys; by Timothy Dwight.—The prospect of peace; A poem spoken at commencement at Yale College; Elegy on Titus Hosmer; by Joel Barlow.—Elegy on burning of Fairfield, Connecticut; Elegy on Lieut. De Hart; Mount Vernon; An ode addressed to Laura; Genius of America; Epistle to Dr. Dwight; A song translated from the French; by David Humphreys.—Epitaph on a patient killed by cancer quack; Hypocrite’s hope; On general Ethan Allen; by Lemuel Hopkins.—An oration which might have been delivered to students in anatomy on the late rupture between two schools in Philadelphia, by Francis Hopkinson.—Philosophic solitude, by William Livingston.—Descriptive lines upon prospect from Beacon-Hill in Boston; Ode to the President on his visiting the Northern states; Invocation to Hope; Prayer to Patience; Lines addressed to Della Crusca; by Philenia, a lady of Boston.—Alfred to Philenia.—Philenia to Alfred.—Poem written in Boston at the commencement of the Revolution; An intended inscription for monument on Beacon-Hill in Boston; by James Allen.—Elegiac ode to General Greene, by George Richards. Country school.—Speech of Hesper.—[Poem on the distress of inhabitants of Guinea.]—New Year’s wish; From a Gentleman to a lady who had presented him with a cake heart; by Dr....—Utrum horum mavis elige.—Ella, a Norwegian tale, by William Dunlap.—Eulogium on rum, by J. Smith.—Country meeting, by T. C. James.—Written at sea in a heavy gale, by Philip Freneau.—To Ella, from Bertha.—An elegy written in February 1791; Versification of passage from fifth book of Ossian’s Temora; Habakkuk, chap. iii; Twilight of the Gods; Extract from Conquest of Scandinavia; by Richard Alsop.—Ode to conscience, by Theodore Dwight.—Collolloo, an Indian tale, by William Dunlap.—An ode to Miss ****, by Joseph Howe.—Message from Mordecai to Esther, by Timothy Dwight.