A Collection of Poems, on American Affairs and a Variety of Other Subjects ...D. Longworth, 1815 - American poetry |
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Arthur St Bacchus bade barque blast blest blood bold Botany Bay breast brigantine british britons call'd Caty-did charms clouds command crown curse dark DAVID LONGWORTH dear death decks despots doom England fame fate Fayal fear fight fire flame fort Moultrie freedom frigate gale gave groves guard guns head heart heave the lead heaven honor honor'd hope island isle Julia kings land live mankind mind native nature nature's night Nootka Sound nymph o'er ocean once pain pass'd peace PHILIP FRENEAU plain race rage Ramillies reign retire rise royal sail scene seas segar seize shade ship shore sir Thomas Hardy slaves smile soon soul STANZAS star Stonington sway sword tears tell Teneriffe Thespis things Thomas Paine Thou thought thousand throne town tyrants valor vast vengeance virtue Washington waves wrong
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Page 83 - Did she mean to trouble you? Why was Caty not forbid To trouble little Caty-did? Wrong indeed at you to fling, Hurting no one while you sing Caty-did! Caty-did! Caty-did!
Page 4 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 92 - ON THE UNIFORMITY AND PERFECTION OF NATURE On one fix'd point all nature moves, Nor deviates from the track she loves; Her system, drawn from reason's source, She scorns to change her wonted course. Could she descend from that great plan To work unusual things for man, To suit the insect of an hour — This would betray a want of power, Unsettled in its first design And erring, when it did combine The parts that form the vast machine, The figures sketch'd on nature's scene.
Page 167 - Where the sun the wild juice of the cluster refines, To gladden the magical ground: As pensive I stray'd in her elegant shade, Now halting and now on the move, Old Bacchus I met, with a crown on his head, In the darkest recess of a grove. I met him with awe, but no symptom of fear As I roved by his mountains and springs, When he said with a sneer, " how dare you come here, You hater of despots and kings? — Do you know that a prince, and a regent renown'd Presides in this island of wine? Whose fame...
Page 13 - Left to himself, wherever man is found, In peace he aims to walk life's little round ; In peace to sail, in peace to till the soil, Nor force false grandeur from a brother's toil. All but the base, designing, scheming, few, Who seize on nations with a robber's view, With crowns and sceptres awe his dazzled eye, And priests that hold the artillery of the sky ; These, these, with armies, navies, potent grown, Impoverish man and bid the nations groan.
Page 105 - ... moment left his deck. Repairing to another post, From another ship he fought their host And soon regain'd the fortune lost, And down, his flag the briton tore : With loss of arm and loss of blood Indignant, on his decks he stood To witness Erie's crimson flood For miles around him, stain'd with gore ! Thus, for dominion of the lake These captains did each other rake, And many a widow did they make ; — Whose is the fault, or who to blame ? — The briton challenged with his sword, The yankee...
Page 89 - ... Baltimore town. The scenes to be acted were not very new, And when they approach'd, with their rat-tat-too, As merry as times would allow, We ran up the colors to liberty true, And gave them a shot, with a tow-row-dow. By land and by water how many have fail'd In attacking an enemy's town, But britons they tell us, have always prevail'd Wherever they march'd, or wherever they sail'd, To honor his majesty's sceptre and crown: Wherever they went, with the trumpet and drum, And the dregs of the...
Page 43 - Four gallant ships from England came Freighted deep with fire and flame, And other things we need not name, To have a dash at Stonington. Now...
Page 39 - Words of warning, words of dread, "All who meet me, have a care! I am England's Guerriere." On the wide Atlantic deep ( Not her equal for the fight) The Constitution, on her way, Chanced to meet these men of might: On her sails was nothing said: But her waist the teeth displayed That a deal of blood could shed, Which, if she would venture near, Would stain the decks of the Guerriere. Now our gallant ship they met, And, to struggle with John Bull, Who had come they little thought, Strangers, yet,...
Page 106 - Parading near saint Peter's flood Full fourteen thousand soldiers stood ; Allied with natives of the wood, With frigates, sloops, and galleys near ; Which southward, now, began to steer ; Their object was, Ticonderogue. Assembled at Missisqui bay A feast they held, to hail the day, When all should bend to british sway From Plattsburg to Ticonderogue.