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

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On the Attempted Launch of a Frigate, iii. 157; On the Brigantine Privateer Prince de Neufchatel, iii. 366; On the British Blockade, iii. 358; On the British Commercial Depredations, iii. 300; On the British Invasion, iii. 341; On the British King's Speech, ii. 217; On the Capture of the Essex, iii. 318; On the Capture of the Guerriere, iii. 310; On the City Encroachments on the River Hudson, iii. 173; On the Conflagrations at Washington, iii. 344; On the Conqueror of America, i. 185; On the Crew of a Certain Vessel, ii. 317; On the Death of a Masonic Grand Sachem, iii. 282; On the Death of a Master Builder, iii. 281; On the Death of a Republican Printer, iii. 101; On the Death of Capt. Nicholas Biddle, i. cvi, 288; On the Death of Catharine II., iii. 136; On the Death of Colonel Laurens, ii. 283; On the Death of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, iii. 36; On the Death of General Reed, ii. 288; On the Death of General Ross, iii. 356; On the Demolition of an Old College, iii. 33; On the Demolition of Fort George, iii. 24; On the Demolition of the French Monarchy, i. liii, iii. 84; On the Departure of the Grand Sanhedrim, iii. 49; On the Departure of Peter Porcupine, iii. 240; On the Dismission of Bonaparte, iii. 334; On the Emigration to America, ii. 280; On the English Devastations, iii. 343; On the Evils of Human Life, iii. 405; On the Fall of an Ancient Oak, iii. 285; On the Fall of General Earl Cornwallis, ii. 92; On the Federal City, iii. 171, 184; On the First American Ship, ii. 261; On the Fourteenth of July, i. liii, iii. 72; On the Free Use of the Lancet, iii. 159; On the French Republicans, i. liii, iii. 88; On the Frigate Constitution, iii. 174; On the Invasion of Rome, iii. 135; On the Lake Expeditions, iii. 314; On the Late Sloop of War General Monk, ii. 142; On the Launching of the Frigate Constitution, iii. 158; On the Launching of the Independence, iii. 374; On the Loss of the Armstrong, iii. 363; On the Memorable Naval Engagement, iii. 106; On the Memorable Victory, i. cvii, ii. 75; On the Naval Attack Near Baltimore, iii. 357; On the New American Frigate, Alliance, i. cvii, 285; On the New Year's Festival, ii. 198; On the Peak of Pico, iii. 254; On the Peak of Teneriffe, iii. 261; On the Proposed System of State Consolidation, iii. 225; On the Portraits of Louis and Antoinette, iii. 89; On the Powers of the Human Understanding, iii. 404; On the Prospect of a Revolution in France, ii. 385; On the Prospect of War, iii. 296; On the Religion of Nature, iii. 405; On the Royal Coalition, iii. 129; On the Sleep of Plants, iii. 31; On the Symptoms of Hostilities, iii. 291; On the Uniformity and Perfection of Nature, iii. 405; On the Universality of the God of Nature, iii. 405; On the Vicissitudes of Things, ii. 284; On the War Patrons, iii. 98; On the War Projected with the Republic of France, iii. 139; Orator of the Woods, iii. 41; Order of the Day, iii. 406; Origin of Wars, iii. 403; Orland's Flight, iii. 111.

Palæmon: or, the Skaiter, iii. 402; Palemon to Lavinia, ii. 381; Pamphleteer and the Critic, ii. 309; Parade and Sham-fight, iii. 368; Parody on the Attempt to Force the British Treaty, iii. 133; Parting Glass, iii. 68; Patrick Mulponi, ii. 379; Pestilence, iii. 110; Pettifogger, iii. 191; Pewter Platter Alley, ii. 287; Philander: or the Emigrant, ii. 321; Philosophical Reflections, ii. 165; Pictures of Columbus, i. lxviii, ci, 89; Picture of the Times, ii. 165; Pilgrim's Progress, ii. 401; Pilot of Hatteras, ii. 394; Plato, the Philosopher, to Theon, ii. 104; Political Balance, ii. 130; Political Biography, ii. 201; Political Litany, i. 139; Political Rival Suitors, iii. 130; Political Weathercock, iii. 216; Power of Fancy, i. 34; Prayer of Orpheus, i. 39; Prefatory Lines, iii. 137; Preposterous Nuptials, iii. 403; Prince Regent's Resolve, iii. 336; Prince William Henry's Soliloquy, ii. 167; Prisoner, iii. 402; Prison Ship, i. xxxiii, 288; Procession to Columbia, ii. 399; Procession to Sylvania, ii. 399; Progress of Balloons, ii. 276; Projectors, ii. 160; Prologue to a Theatrical Entertainment, ii. 108; Prophecy, ii. 126; Prophecy of King Tammany, ii. 187; Prudent Philosopher, iii. 403; Psalm CXXXVII Imitated, i. xxix, 270; Publius to Pollia, iii. 405; Pyramid of the American States, iii. 82; Pyramids of Egypt, i. xvi, 25; Pythona, iii. 406.

Quintilian to Lycidas, iii. 115.

Reflections, iii. 217; Reflections on Dr. Perkins' Metallic Points, iii. 405; Reflections on the Constitution of Nature, iii. 404; Reflections on the Death of a Country Printer, iii. 101; Reflections on Mutability of Things, iii. 215; Refugees' Petition to Sir Guy Carleton, ii. 172; Renegado Epistle, ii. 219; Renegado Epistle, ii. 290; Republican Festival, iii. 151; Republican Genius of Europe, iii. 129; Retaliation, a Marine Ode, iii. 373; Retirement, i. 84; Retort, iii. 401; Reward of Innocence, iii. 405; Rising Glory of America, i. xxi, ciii, 49; Rival Suitors for America, iii. 130; Rivington's Confessions, i. xl, ii. 229; Rivington's Last Will, ii. 120; Rivington's Reflections, ii. 190; Royal Adventurer, ii. 112; Royal Apprentice, iii. 405; Royal Cockneys in America, iii. 185; Royal Consultations, iii. 361; Rural Bachelor, iii. 403.

St. Preux to Eloisa, iii. 402; Sangrado's Expedition to Sylvania, ii. 402; Santa Cruz, i. 222, 239, 249; Satan's Remonstrance, ii. 169; Satire in Answer to a Hostile Attack, i. 206; Scandinavian War Song, ii. 159; Science Favorable to Virtue, iii. 404; Scornful Lady, iii. 402; Scurrilous Scribe, iii. 405; Sea-Faring Bachelor, i. 184; Seasons Moralized, ii. 282; Sea Voyage, i. 293; Serious Menace, iii. 213; Seventeen Hundred and Ninety-one, iii. 65; Sexton's Sermon, i. 222, 239, iii. 122; Shadrach and Pomposo, iii. 403; Silent Academy, i. 182; Sir Guy Carleton's Address, ii. 156; Sir Guy's Answer, ii. 173; Sir Harry's Invitation, ii. 7; Sir Peter Petrified, iii. 354; Sketches of American History, ii. 266; Slender's Journey, i. xliii, lxxxvi, ii. 338; Song on Captain Barney's Victory, i. cvii, ii. 149; Speech, ii. 117; Spy, i. 197, ii. 39; Stanzas Occasioned by Absurd Panegyrics, iii. 235; Stanzas Occasioned by the Departure of the British, ii. 214; Stanzas Occasioned by the Ruins of a Country Inn, ii. 110; Stanzas on a Political Projector, iii. 406; Stanzas on an Ancient Dutch House, i. 40; Stanzas on an old English Tobacco Box, iii. 278; Stanzas on the Decease of Thomas Paine, iii. 286; Stanzas on the same Subject as the Preceding, iii. 234; Stanzas Published at the Procession to the Tombs of the Patriots, iii. 246; Stanzas on Skeletons Dug up in Fort George, iii. 40; Stanzas to an Alien, iii. 228; Stanzas to the Memory of General Washington, iii. 232; Stanzas to the Memory of two Young Persons, ii. 79; Stanzas Written at Baltimore, ii. 391; Stanzas written at the Foot of Monte Souffiere, ii. 314; Stanzas written at the Island of Madeira, iii. 257; Stanzas Written in a Clergyman's Garden, iii. 404; Stanzas Written in a Blank Leaf of Burke's History, ii. 314; Stanzas Written in Blackbeard's Castle, iii. 229; St. Catharine's, ii. 397; Subscription Prayer, ii. 379; Suicide, iii. 404; Susanna's Revival, iii. 402; Susanna's Tomb, iii. 405; Suttler and the Soldier, iii. 304.

Terra Vulpina, iii. 8; Terrific Torpedoes, iii. 321; Theodosia, iii. 312; Tenth Ode of Horace's Book of Epodes, ii. 103; Thoughts on the European War System, iii. 103; Timothy Taurus, i. xxv; To a Caty-did, iii. 275; To a Concealed Royalist, ii. 174; To a Democratic Editor, iii. 166; To a Deceased Dog, iii. 401; To a Dog, ii. 387; To America, iii. 301; To an Angry Zealot, iii. 81; To an Author, ii. 332; To a Night Fly, iii. 189; To an Old Man, ii. 104; To a Noisy Politician, iii. 122; To a Persecuted Philosopher, iii. 81; To a Republican, iii. 90; To a Very Little Man, iii. 403; To a Writer of Panegyric, iii. 119; Tobacco, iii. 46; To Clarissa, iii. 403; To Cracovius Patridas, ii. 336; To Crispin O'Conner, ii. 74; To Cynthia, ii. 391, iii. 403; To Duncan Dolittle, iii. 164; To Fungus, Froth & Co., iii. 403; To Harriot, ii. 391; To His Excellency, General Washington, ii. 81; To Ismenia, iii. 406; To Lord Cornwallis, ii. 86; To Lydia, ii. 387; To Marcia, ii. 326; Tomb of the Patriots, iii. 249; To Memmius, ii. 406; To Misfortune, ii. 335; To Mr. Blanchard, iii. 142; To Mr. Churchman, ii. 398; To My Book, iii. 78; To My Book, iii. 129; To My Lord Snake, iii. 401; To Myrtalis, iii. 141; To Pest-Eli-Hali, iii. 166; To Peter Porcupine, iii. 156; To Peter Porcupine, iii. 167; Tormentina's Complaint, ii. 393; To Sanstone Samuel, iii. 176; To Sylock Ap Shenkin, i. 206, ii. 185, 177, iii. 76, 119; To Sylock Ap Shenkin, an Abusive Court Writer, ii. 174; To Sylock Ap Shenkin in Reply to Big Looks, iii. 109; To Sir Toby, ii. 258; To Sylvius, iii. 113; To the Americans of the United States, i. lxx, iii. 188; To the Americans on the Rumored Approach of the Hessians, i. 185; To the Concealed Royalist, ii. 177; To the Concealed Royalist on his Farewell, ii. 179; To the Democratic Country Editors, iii. 210; To the Dog Sancho, iii. 404; To the Foe to Tyrants, ii. 177; To the Frigate _Constitution_, iii. 162; To the Grand Mufti, iii. 402; To the Keeper of the King's Water Works, ii. 252; To the Lake Squadrons, iii. 347; To the Memory of a Lady, iii. 403; To the Memory of Edward Rutledge, iii. 238; To the Memory of Mrs. Burnet, iii. 403; To the Memory of the Late Aedanus Burke, iii. 243; To the Memory of the Brave Americans, ii. 101; To the Philadelphia Doctors, iii. 178; To the Public, iii. 56; To the Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith, iii. 244; To the Royalist Unveiled, ii. 181; To the Scribe of Scribes, iii. 187; To Whom it May Concern, ii. 185; To Zoilus, ii. 309; Translated from the Third Book of Lucretius, iii. 406; Translation from Ovid's Tristia, iii. 404; Translation of Gray's Ode, iii. 405; Translation of the Third Elegy of Ovid, iii. 404; Truth Anticipated, ii. 143; Two Genii, iii. 406.

Under the Portraiture of Martha Ray, iii. 403; Upon a very ancient Dutch House, iii. 399; Usurer's Prayer, iii. 404.

Vanity of Existence, ii. 91; Vernal Ague, i. 188; Verses Made at Sea, ii. 250; Verses occasioned by Washington's Arrival, ii. 225; View of Colombia, ii. 401; View of Rhode Island, iii. 7; Village Merchant, i. xvi, 14, iii. 60; Vision of the Night, i. 222; Volunteer's March, iii. 337; Voyage to Boston, i. xxv, 158.

Wanderer, iii. 22; Warning to America, iii. 70; Wild Honey Suckle, i. cix, ii. 306; Wish of Diogenes, i. 84; Written at Cape Hatteras, ii. 392; Written at Poplar Hill, iii. 406; Written at Port Royal, ii. 253.

Porcupine, Peter, iii. 156, 167, 187, 240

Powers and Willis, printers, i. xxxvi

Princeton, i. xvff., xxv, 49, 50, 208, iii. 244

Printer, A Country, iii. 101, 166

Prison-ships, ii. 18, iii. 246, 249; _The Jersey_, ii. 27, iii. 249; _The Hunter_, ii. 27, 31, 32; _The Scorpion_, ii. 26, 27, 31; _The Strombolo_, ii. 27 Privateering, iii. 242, 366

Prophecies, Freneau's; Rise of the West, i. 76; America a world-power, ii. 282; ballooning, ii. 279; Europe owns America her equal, ii. 386; science displaces the classics, iii. 121; America's navy, iii. 158; era of prose, iii. 188; Jefferson president, iii. 216

Pyramid of the States, iii. 82

Quesnay, Alexander, ii. 108

Ramsay, David, ii. 312, iii. 245

Randolph, John, i. li, lxiv

Rawdon, Lord, ii. 97

Ray, Hugh, i. xxxii

Read, Col., iii. 354

Reed, Gen. Joseph, ii. 176, 288

Reid, Samuel C., Captain of _General Armstrong_, iii. 363

Rhode Island, ii. 386, iii. 7

Rights of Man, iii. 65, 90

"Rising Empire, The," i. xlix, iii. 5

Rittenhouse, David, i. xlii, lix

Rivington, James, ii. 116, 120, 124, 125, 143, 162, 169, 190, 229, 232

Robin, Abbé Claude, i. xxxvi, lxxiii

Robertson, General James, ii. 39, 122, 162, 237

Rodney, Admiral, George, ii. 143

Rogers, Captain of the _General Monk_, ii. 150

Ross, General Robert, iii. 89, 343, 356

_Royal George_, Loss of, ii. 218

Rozier, balloonist, ii. 276

Rush, Dr. Benjamin, iii. 159, 167, 169, 240

Rutledge, Gov. Edward, iii. 238

Rum, the curse of, iii. 66

Saint Esprit, Church, New York, i. xiii

Sandwich, Lord, ii. 13, 90

St. James Island, i. xxvii

Santa Cruz Island, West Indies, i. xxvi, xxvii, xxxiv, 249

"Satires against the Tories," i. xvii

Schuylkill River, iii. 128

Scott, Sir Walter, i. vi, cvi; ii. 102

Seabury, Bishop Samuel, ii. 303

Sears, Isaac, raids Rivington's office, ii. 205, 236

Sevier, Robert and William, iii. 79

Shelburne, Earl of, settles the quarrel with the Colonies, ii. 191

Shippen, Dr. William, iii. 244

SHIPS. _Active_, Am. brig, i. xxxi; _Alliance_, Am. frigate, i. 285, ii. 77; _Ardent_, Fr. man of war, ii. 145; _Asia_, Br. man of war, ii. 205; _Aurora_, Am. ship, i. xxx, ii. 19, 21, 23; _Betsy_, Am. brig, i. xlvii; _Betsey_, Br. ship, i. xlv; _Boston_, Br. frigate, iii. 106; _Carnation_, Br. armed brig, iii. 363; _Cerberus_, Br. frigate, ii. 153; _Charming Sally_, Br. privateer, ii. 150; _Cherub_, Br. frigate, iii. 318; _Chesapeake_, Am. frigate, iii. 313; _Columbia_, Freneau's schooner, i. xliii, xlvii, xlviii; _Confidence_, Br. warship, iii. 349; _Constitution_, Am. frigate, iii. 157, 158, 162, 174, 310; _Countess of Scarborough_, Br. man of war, ii. 75; _Despatch_, Br. war brig, iii. 338; _Dromilly_, Freneau's brig, i. xxxvii, ii. 252; _Echo_, Am. brig, i. lxxix; _Empress of China_, Am. merchant ship, ii. 261; _Essex_, Am. frigate, iii. 318; _Fair American_, Br. privateer, ii. 142; _Formidable_, Br. frigate, ii. 143; _Fulton the First_, Am. steam frigate, iii. 360; _General Armstrong_, Am. privateer brig, iii. 363; _General Greene_, Am. privateer, ii. 142, 150; _General Monk_, Am. sloop of war, ii. 85, 142, 147, 149; _Good Man Richard_, Am. frigate, ii. 77; _Glorieuse_, French man of war, ii. 145; _Grange_, Br. ship, iii. 106; _Guerriere_, Br. frigate, iii. 310; _Hancock_, former name of the _Iris_, ii. 22; _Hector_, Fr. man of war, ii. 145; _Hunter_ (see Prison Ships); _Hyder Ali_, Am. privateer, ii. 142, 147, 168; _Independence_, iii. 374; _Industry_, Freneau's sloop, i. xliii, lxxxi, ii. 388; _Iris_, Br. frigate, i. xxxi, xxxii, ii. 19, 22, 23, 85, 90; _Jersey_ (see Prison Ships); _John_, Freneau's schooner, i. lxxx; _Katy_, Am. sloop, i. lxxv; _La Hoke_, Br. warship, iii. 321; _Le Cesar_, Fr. frigate, ii. 145; _Le Diadem_, Fr. frigate, ii. 145; _L'Embuscade_, Fr. frigate, iii. 92, 106; _Little Sarah_, Br. ship, iii. 106; _Maria_, Am. ship, iii. 199; _Mars_, Am. brig, i. xxxix; _Menelaus_, Br. frigate, iii. 354; _Monmouth_, Freneau's sloop, i. xxix, ii. 295; _Pactolus_, Br. ship of war, iii. 338; _Pallas_, Fr. man of war, ii. 77, 79; _Patriot_, Am. schooner, iii. 312; _Phoebe_, Br. frigate, iii. 318; _Plantagenet_, Br. frigate, iii. 363; _Prince de Neufchatel_, Am. privateer, iii. 366; _Prince George_, Br. frigate, ii. 112; _Queen Charlotte_, Br. ship of war, iii. 316; _Queen of France_, Fr. ship, iii. 89; _Ramillies_, Br. frigate, iii. 321, 338; _Randolph_, Am. frigate, i. cvii, 288; _Rebecca_, Am. brig, i. xxx; _Rodney_, Br. flag ship, ii. 117; _Rose_, Br. frigate, i. xlii, 140, 165; _Rota_, Br. frigate, iii. 363; _Royal George_, Br. frigate, ii. 218; _Saratoga_, Am. war ship, iii. 349; _Scorpion_, see Prison Ships; _Seraphis_, Br. frigate, ii. 75; _Shannon_, Br. frigate, iii. 313; _Strombolo_, see Prison Ships; _Trumbull_, Am. frigate, ii. 85; _Vengeance_, Am. man of war, ii. 77; _Ville de Paris_, Fr. frigate, ii. 145; _Viper_, Br. frigate, ii. 140; _Vulture_, Br. man of war, ii. 48; _Washington_, former name of the _Gen. Monk_, ii. 142; _Washington_, Freneau's brig, i. lxxxi, lxxxvii; _Yarmouth_, Br. frigate, i. 288

Slavery, Freneau's opposition to, i. xcvii, ii. 258

Slender, Robert, i. xliii, lxxvi

Smith, Robert, architect, iii. 244

Smith, Samuel S., iii. 242

Smyth, William, i. 129

Smyth, Mrs. Charles (Anna), i. lxxxix

Somerset Academy, Md., i. xxii

South Carolina, ii. 305, 402, iii. 199, 238

Spring, Samuel, i. xvi

Sproat, David, commissary of prisoners at N. Y., ii. 29

State Consolidation, iii. 225

Steamboats, ii. 406

Steele, Gen., Collector of the port of Philadelphia, i. lxxxviii

Stillwell, Joseph, i. xliv

Stirling, Lord, i. 124

Stuart, General, ii. 101

Suffrein, M. de, ii. 117

Swedenborg, Emanuel, ii. 307

Sweeney, Miss Adele, i. xxx, lxxviii, 19, 39

Tammany, Indian Chieftain, ii. 187

Tea, iii. 71

Teneriffe, iii. 261, 263

Tennessee, iii. 192

Theatre, ii. 108, 404

Tobacco, iii. 46, 278, 308

Tomo Cheeki Papers, i. lxvi, lxxiv

Tories, ii. 84, 162, 172, 219, 290, 293

Towne, Benjamin, printer, ii. 288

"Travels of the Imagination," i. 271

Treaty between Great Britain and America, ii. 246

Trees in Cities, iii. 53

Trumbull, John, i. ci

Tryon, Gov. William, i. 140, ii. 115

Twining, Thomas, iii. 184

_United States Magazine_, i. xxvii, xxix, xl, 45, 46, 212, 249, 270, 293; ii. 3, 9

Uranian Musical Society, iii. 152

Vanderput, Capt. of the Asia, ii. 205

Venezuela, iii. 271

Verplanck, G. C., reviews Freneau's poems, i. xci

Vincent, Capt., i. 288

Virginia legislature petitioned by Lord Dunmore, ii. 114

Virginia, iii. 17

Vreeland, Mrs. Helen K., i. lxxx

Walcott, Dr. John, poet, iii. 28

Wallace, Captain of the _Rose_, i. xli

"War and Washington," i. c

War of 1812, iii. 133, 155, 292, 297ff., 305, 310, 313ff., 318, 321, 329, 338, 341, 343, 347, 356, 357, 363

Warner, G. J., iii. 152

Washington Academy, Md., i. xxiii

Washington, City of, iii. 171, 184, 343, 344, 361

Washington, George, i. xlvii, liv, lx, 169, 185, 194, 279, ii. 81, 82, 92, 225, iii. 232, 234, 235, 244, 352

Watson, Agnes, i. xiv; Richard, i. xiv

Wellington's Army in the War of 1812, iii. 341, 361

West Indies, i. 239, 249, ii. 250, 252, 258, 314, 359, iii. 229, 242

Western emigration, ii. 280

Weyman, Ned, printer, ii. 203

William Henry, Prince, ii. 112, 167

Witherspoon, President John, i. xv, xix

Wheelock, President John, iii. 33

Whitehead, William, poet laureate, ii. 219

Woodhouse, William, i. 158

Wrigley, Francis, newscarrier, ii. 197

Yale College, ii. 346

Yamacraw, Ga., i. xlvi

Yellow Fever, iii. 110, 159, 167, 178

Yorktown, ii. 89, 92