[A]
To Amanda,PAGE [32]
Adversity,[39]
To Amynta,[56]
Anticipation,[63]
An appeal,[152]

Address to a favourite canary-bird,

[160]
The Amaranth, to Maria,[192]
[B]
Of the Beautiful and Virtuous,[7]
The Bachelor’s wish,[88]

The Belle’s invocation to winter,

[160]

On a Bee having stung the thigh of an old maid,

[183]
Beauty, a song,[184]
The Bachelor’s soliloquy,[208]
[C]
Cupid stung,[48]
The Confession[56]
To Clara,[104],[136]
The Captive’s complaint,[104]
Contented in the vale[135]
The Complaint,[160]
[D]

On the Death of Miss Mary Blackbourn,

[15]
The Doctor’s duel,[112]

On the Death of a Baby, nine days old,

[183]
[E]

Epistle from Octavia to Anthony,

[8],[16]
Epitaph on a violent scold,[23]

Elegy, addressed to a young lady,

[24]
To Eliza,[31]

Ejaculation over the grave of my wife,

[31]

Elegy on an unfortunate veteran,

[48]

Epigrams, [48],[88],[112],[183],[200]

Elegy written at sea,[56]
To Eliza,[64]
Eliza in answer to ****,[72]
Epitaph,[72]
To Emma,[80]

Elegy on the death of Mr. Abeel,

[88]
To Emma,[87]

Elegy on Miss Margaret Hervey,

[95]
Extent of life’s variety,[112]
To Emma,[120]
Elegy on Dr. Joseph Youle,[128]
Epitaph on Mr. W——. N——.[128]
Elegy on Miss Polly Martin,[136]
Evening,[143]

Epitaph on a celebrated coach-maker,

[144]
Eve of Hymen,[152]
Epitaph,[208]
Evening Star, to the[408]

Epigram, hint to a poor author,

[408]
Early impressions, sonnet on[408]
Elegy to a disconsolate lover,[416]
Epigram,[416]
[F]
Fragment,[16]
[G]
On a good conscience[144]
[H]
The Happy man,[72]
Health,[416]
[K]
The Kiss,[40]
[L]

Lines sent to a young lady with an Æolian Harp,

[48]
Lines on Shakespeare,[64]
Lines to a gentleman made prisonerby the Indians,[80]
Lines on the death of a young lady,killed by lightning,[80]
Lines written during a storm,[96]
Lines on hearing a young lady singa song,[96]
Lines on a lady putting a whiterocket in her bosom,[96]
Lines by a lady, on receiving abouquet from a boy,[128]
Lines from the Rev. Mr. Bishop tohis wife,[151]
Lines on the late Scotch poet,[200]
Lines to a gentleman who attempteddrawing the picture of a lady,[200]
Lines on losing a friend,[208]
La Fayette, a song,[127]
[M]
The Mall,[24]
To Matilda,[24]
Morning dawn,[71]
Military fame,[112]
Maternal affection[144]
To Maria,[176]

Moral verses, addressed to youth,

[200]
[O]
Ode to Bacches,[168]
Ode to Poesy,[184]
[P]
Pity,[8]

Paddy’s remark on a treble rap at the door,

[96]
Poor man’s address to Winter,[168]
[R]
The Recantation[24]
On Reading some elegies,[47]
On Revisiting a native place,[72]
The Rising moon,[88]
Reflections in a church yard,[112]
The Repartee,[119]

On the Recovery of an only child from the small pox,

[192]
[S]
The Setting Sun,[64]
The Shield of sorrow,[96]
Sonnets,[104],[207],[208]
Sonnet on my beard,[112]
Soliloquy to love,[120]

Sonnet from a manuscript novel,

[152]
Sonnet to Maria,[167]
Sonnet to Helen MariaWilliams,[176]
The Snow-drop and primrose,[152]
The Season of delight,[176]
Song[208]
[T]
The Threat,[32]
Twilight,[48]
The Tribunal of conscience,[96]
Tragedy, ode to[408]
[V]

The Velvet larkspur and eglantine,

[40]
On Vicissitude,[64]
Verses to ——,[79]
Verses to a young lady on readingSterne’s Maria,[119]
Verses to Miss A. H.[144]
To a Violet,[152]
Virtue and ornament,[192]
[W]
The Wish,[32]
What is happiness,[55]
Wintery prospect,[176]

UTILE DULCI.

The New-York Weekly Magazine;

OR, MISCELLANEOUS REPOSITORY.

Vol. II.]WEDNESDAY, July6, 1796.[No. 53.

For the New-York Weekly Magazine.

MORNING REFLECTIONS.

In one of my rambles I saw a collection of people, some appeared highly elated, while others in stupid indifference were not the least affected; I advanced, and found two boys fighting; in attempting to part them, I had nearly got myself in the same predicament, from a motley bullying fellow, whose feelings, if he was possessed of any, were more becoming a tyger than a human being. Those who were before mute, appeared delighted in the prospect of another scene of brutality, expecting that we would decide our dispute with blows; I plainly saw that the most prudent step for me, would be to leave them as peaceable as possible in possession of the field.

From what source these barbarous dispositions spring, and how they can exist in a country where information is so easily attained, would, to a foreigner, appear a mystery; every child of nature has a vacancy in their understandings to be filled up, and why it should not be stored with rational humanity, let parents judge. Slaves from dejection become callous, hence barbarous sports are congenial with their minds, in proportion to the severe treatment they receive from their matters.

How degraded is that master who neglects to inculcate moral principles into his slave, and how much more wretched are parents who attend not to the improvement of their own children; too many instances of such omissions momentarily occur; a parent who entertains a child with a bull-beat, fixes a supposition in the tender mind that the creation was formed only for caprice, and is verified in their tormenting domestic animals; with years the feelings naturally become hardened, and the youth thus brought up, only waits an opportunity to leave off all restraint. This is plainly evinced in war, when the law is suspended, murders and robbery become fashionable, and those very men who were peaceable inhabitants, with exultation take the lives of strangers whom they have never seen, and by whom they have never been injured.

T.

New-York, July 1, 1796.