Category: Poetry
ON THE MEMORABLE VICTORY OF PAUL JONES 75 AN ADDRESS 81 A NEW-YORK TORY 84 TO LORD CORNWALLIS 86 A LONDON DIALOGUE 87 LORD CORNWALLIS TO SIR HENRY CLINTON 89 THE VANITY OF EXISTENCE 91 ON THE FALL OF GENERAL EARL CORNWALLIS 92 TO THE MEMORY OF THE BRAVE AMERICANS 101 ARNOLD'S...
What tempests gloom'd the by-past year-- What dismal prospects then arose! Scarce at your doors I dar'd appear, So many were our griefs and woes: But time at length has chang'd...
17. PART III[41] This period began in August, 1781, when Freneau became connected with Mr. Francis Bailey's _Freeman's Journal_, in Philadelphia. In June, 1784, he left Philadelphia for a w...
5. PART II (_Continued_)What mean these dreams, and hideous forms that rise Night after night, tormenting to my eyes-- No real foes these horrid shapes can be, But thrice as much they vex and torture m...
8. CANTO III.--THE HOSPITAL PRISON SHIPNow tow'rd the _Hunter's_ gloomy sides we came, A slaughter-house, yet hospital in name;[31] For none came there (to pass through all degrees) 'Till half consum'd, and dying wit...
12. SCENE II.--MAJOR ANDRE, LUCINDA. _Parlor._Maj. Andre._ I cannot leave this city, sweet Lucinda, without imparting to you that I am going a little way toward the American lines, at the request of his Excellency, upon so...
10. SCENE II.--_Scene changes to New York._ SIR HENRY CLINTON _and_ MAJOR_Sir Henry._ Andre, my friend and faithful confidant, Since Fortune now vouchsafes to smile again, And stubborn Charlestown bends to Britain's yoke, What shall we next attempt o...
6. CANTO I.--THE CAPTURE_Amid these ills no tyrant dared refuse My right to pen the dictates of the muse, To paint the terrors of the infernal place, And fiends from Europe, insolent as base._
7. CANTO II.--THE PRISON SHIPThe various horrors of these hulks to tell, These Prison Ships where pain and horror dwell, Where death in tenfold vengeance holds his reign, And injur'd ghosts, yet unaveng'd,...
19. PART IIBut as to the Tories that yet may remain, They scarcely need give you a moment of pain: What dare they attempt when their masters are fled;-- When the soul is departed who wars...
13. SCENE I.--_Robinson's house. A stormy night._ ARNOLD. PASQUIN._Arnold._ Tell the sentries upon duty to-night that I expect a gentleman of my acquaintance here about ten o'clock. When he comes to the outer gate, bid one of them conduct him...
18. PART ILong life and low spirits were never my choice, As long as I live I intend to rejoice; When life is worn out, and no wine's to be had 'Tis time enough then to be serious and sad.
16. SCENE IV.--_Another apartment in said house. Enter_ AIDE _to_ GEN._Jeff._ Two hours have hardly yet elapsed since he Across the river to the garrison On some important business went in haste, So as I told to his attendant here. For since the g...
15. SCENE III.--_A number of armed peasants in an outhouse._2nd P._ God bless you. Why do you ask such a question? It is not for us to know where we are going. We shall know bye and bye, I warrant you, after we have marched two or three...
4. PART IIION THE MEMORABLE VICTORY OF PAUL JONES 75 AN ADDRESS 81 A NEW-YORK TORY 84 TO LORD CORNWALLIS 86 A LONDON DIALOGUE 87 LORD CORNWALLIS TO SIR HENRY CLINTON 89 THE VANITY OF EXIST...
11. SCENE I.--_Enter an aide-de-camp from_ GENERAL WASHINGTON _to_ ARNOLD._Aide D. C._ Sir, I am sent by our renowned general To let you know that in his best opinion Five hundred men in reason are too few To man the works of this important post. Thre...
9. SCENE I.--_West Point Fort._ Jeffery _and_ Pasquin, _servants to_Pasq._ (_Throwing down his spade_) Faith, Jeffery, I am weary of toiling among these rocks and precipices. I must e'en give o'er. Our master should have fetched his soil along...
14. SCENE II.--_An ancient stone building in the Dutch taste. Three_Vin._ From scouring all the country up and down, To seize, if fortune please, illicit traders, Who are so bold and unscrupulous grown That oft in open day, as well as night, Th...
1. VOLUME II3. PART II _Continued2. VOLUME II