
The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 1 (of 3)
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- 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 ENGLISH LITERATURE" ETC.
- Volume I
- Princeton N. J. The University Library 1902
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LIFE OF PHILIP FRENEAU
- 1752-1832
- LIFE OF PHILIP FRENEAU
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- PART I EARLY POEMS
- 1768—1775
- THE
- POEMS OF PHILIP FRENEAU
- THE HISTORY OF THE PROPHET JONAH[29]
- Canto I.
- Canto II.
- Canto III.
- Canto IV.
- THE ADVENTURES OF SIMON SWAUGUM, A VILLAGE MERCHANT[30]
- Preliminary Particulars
- The Shop Described and the Merchant's Outset
- His Journey to the Metropolis; and Mercantile Transactions
- The Merchant's Return
- The Catastrophe, or the Broken Merchant
- The Puncheon's Eulogy
- Epilogue[31]
- THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT[32]
- THE MONUMENT OF PHAON[33]
- THE POWER OF FANCY[35]
- THE PRAYER OF ORPHEUS
- THE DESERTED FARM-HOUSE[36]
- THE CITIZEN'S RESOLVE[37]
- THE DYING ELM[42]
- COLUMBUS TO FERDINAND[43]
- THE RISING GLORY OF AMERICA[45]
- Argument
- A POEM ON THE RISING GLORY OF AMERICA
- Argument
- ON RETIREMENT[46]
- DISCOVERY[47]
- THE PICTURES OF COLUMBUS, THE GENOESE[48]
- Picture I.
- Picture II.[51]
- Picture III.
- Picture IV.
- Picture V.
- Picture VI.
- Picture VII.
- Picture VIII.
- Picture IX.
- Picture X.
- Picture XI.
- Picture XII.
- Picture XIII.
- Picture XIV.
- Picture XV.
- Picture XVI.
- Picture XVII.
- Picture XVIII.
- THE EXPEDITION OF TIMOTHY TAURUS, ASTROLOGER
- To the Falls of Passaick River, in New Jersey[59]
- Characters of the Poem
- PART II THE FIRST POETIC PERIOD
- 1775—1781
- THE FIRST POETIC PERIOD 1775-1781[60]
- A POLITICAL LITANY[61]
- AMERICAN LIBERTY, A POEM[69]
- Argument
- GENERAL GAGE'S SOLILOQUY[71]
- THE MIDNIGHT CONSULTATIONS;[86]
- OR, A TRIP TO BOSTON
- Epilogue
- A VOYAGE TO BOSTON, A POEM
- Argument
- THE SILENT ACADEMY[98]
- LINES TO A COASTING CAPTAIN[99]
- TO THE AMERICANS[101]
- On the Rumoured Approach of the Hessian Forces, Waldeckers, &c. (Published 1775)
- THE VERNAL AGUE
- GENERAL GAGE'S CONFESSION[116]
- THE DISTREST SHEPHERDESS[121]
- MARS AND HYMEN[122]
- MAC SWIGGEN[145]
- A Satire
- THE HOUSE OF NIGHT[157]
- THE JAMAICA FUNERAL[158]
- 1776
- The Sermon
- THE BEAUTIES OF SANTA CRUZ[A][159]
- 1776
- ON A HESSIAN DEBARKATION[160]
- 1776
- THE JEWISH LAMENTATION AT EUPHRATES[161]
- AMERICA INDEPENDENT
- ON AMANDA'S SINGING BIRD[166]
- ON THE NEW AMERICAN FRIGATE ALLIANCE[170]
- ON THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN NICHOLAS BIDDLE[171]
- CAPTAIN JONES'S INVITATION[174]
- THE SEA VOYAGE[176]
- End of Vol. I
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