POEMS OF PHILIP FRENEAU

Volume III

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THE

POEMS OF PHILIP FRENEAU

POET OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

EDITED FOR
The Princeton Historical Association

BY
FRED LEWIS PATTEE
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE, AUTHOR OF "A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE,"
"THE FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE," ETC.

Volume III

Princeton, N. J.
The University Library
1907

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Copyright, 1907, by
The Princeton University Library

 

Press of
The New Era Printing Company
Lancaster, Pa.

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CONTENTS

class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">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

href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@39909@[email protected]#Page_111" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">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

href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@39909@[email protected]#Page_203" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">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

align="right">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

tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">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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