#AmericanWriters
INDULGENT muse! my grov’ling m… And fill my bosom with celestial f… See from Jamaica’s fervid shore s… Like the fair mother of the bloomi… When from above the Goddess with…
'Twas mercy brought me from my Pa… Taught my benighted soul to unders… That there’s a God, that there’s… Once I redemption neither sought… Some view our sable race with scor…
TO cultivate in ev’ry noble mind Habitual grace, and sentiments ref… Thus while you strive to mend the… Thus while the heav’nly precepts y… O may each bosom catch the sacred…
YOUR subjects hope, dread Sire— The crown upon your brows may flou… And that your arm may in your God… O may your sceptre num’rous nation… And all with love and readiness ob…
Hail, happy day, when, smiling lik… Fair Freedom rose New—England to… The northern clime beneath her gen… Dartmouth, congratulates thy bliss… Elate with hope her race no longer…
A bird delicious to the taste, On which an army once did feast, Sent by an hand unseen; A creature of the horned race, Which Britain’s royal standards g…
TO show the lab’ring bosom’s deep… And thought in living characters t… When first thy pencil did those be… And breathing figures learnt from… How did those prospects give my so…
Say, heav’nly muse, what king or m… That moves sublime from Idumea’s… In Bosrah’s dies, with martial gl… His purple vesture waves upon the… Why thus enrob’d delights he to ap…
Apollo’s wrath to man the dreadful… Of ills innum’rous, tuneful goddes… Thou who did’st first th’ ideal pe… And taught’st the painter in his w… Inspire with glowing energy of tho…
Arise, my soul, on wings enraptur’… To praise the monarch of the earth… Whose goodness and benificence app… As round its centre moves the roll… Or when the morning glows with ros…
Adieu, New—England’s smiling mead… Adieu, the flow’ry plain: I leave thine op’ning charms, O s… And tempt the roaring main. II.
WHILE others chant of gay Elysi… Of balmy zephyrs, and of flow’ry p… My song more happy speaks a greate… Feels higher motives and a nobler… For thee, O R———, the muse attune…
WHILE raging tempests shake the… While AElus’ thunders round us ro… And sweep impetuous o’er the plain Be still, O tyrant of the main; Nor let thy brow contracted frowns…
Through airy roads he wings his in… To purer regions of celestial ligh… Enlarg’d he sees unnumber’d system… Beneath him sees the universal who… Planets on planets run their desti…