The Poems of Philip Freneau Volume III Part 67

On the Religion of Nature.

The Reward of Innocence.

On the Evils of Human Life.

The Scurrilous Scribe.

Belief and Unbelief: humbly recommended to the serious consideration of creed makers.

Susanna's Tomb.

Stanzas on a Political Projector, who was making interest, to be employed on an emba.s.sy to Constantinople.

Nature's Debt.

New Year's Eve.

The Order of the Day: to readers of the history of wars ancient and modern.

The Bethlehemite; or, fair solitary.

The Hermit and the Traveller.

Lines on the Establishment of the New Theatre, and the management of the house being placed in the hands of Mr.

Cooper.

The Musical Savage. Supposed to express, to the musician, the extatic emotions of a missouri indian, on his first hearing the violin played, or band of music, that accompanied captain Lewis on his expedition to the Columbia-River.

Epitaph on a worthy person, whose decease closed a series of fortune and misfortune in his 50th year.

Written at Poplar-Hill,--Pennsylvania.

The Blast of November. Occasioned by a fatal accident on the Hudson.

The Duelists.

On Seeing a Beautiful Print of a s.h.i.+pwrecked Sailor sitting on a Rock.

Heaving the Lead: a Marine Story, Founded on Fact.

Translated from the Third Book of Lucretius _de natura rerum_, or, On the nature of Things.

The Two Genii: Addressed to a young Lady, of a consumptive habit, departing from New-York, by sea, for South-Carolina, in 1805.

The Hypochondriac.

On Finding a Terrapin in the Woods, which had A. D. 1756 Marked on the Back of his Sh.e.l.l.

Pythona: or the Prophetess of En-Dor.

To Ismenia.

[215] Epitaph Intended for the Tombstone of Patrick Bay, Innholder, Killed by an Ignorant Physician.--1809.

[216] Lines on a Distrest Orator, at a Public Exhibition.--1809. This was an undergraduate skit by Freneau on his college mate Robert Archibald, of the Cla.s.s of 1772.

[217] To My Lord Snake, [A t.i.tle Hunter.]--1795. The Impertinent.--1809.

[218] Humanity and Ingrat.i.tude, A Common Case. [Translated from the French.]--1795.

[219] To a Deceased Dog.--1795.

[220] Devastations in a Library.--1795. On Devastations Committed in a Bookseller's Library, by Rats, Mice, &c.--1809.

[221] The Minstrel's Complaint.--1795.

[222] Susanna's Revival.--1795.

[223] To the Grand Mufti.--1795.

[224] Palaemon: or, the Skaiter.--1795.

[225] Highland Sawney, or the Emigrant Beau.--1795.

[226] An Apology for Intemperance.--1809.

[227] Merchantile Charity.--1809.

[228] The Preposterous Nuptials: or, January and June.--1809.

[229] The Nova Scotia Menace.--1809.

[230] To the Memory of Mrs. Burnet of Elizabeth-town, N. J. By Request.--1809.

[231] On a Travelling Speculator.--1809.

C. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE POETRY OF PHILIP FRENEAU

The following is a list of the individual and collected poetical publications of Freneau. For a more complete view of the poet's literary activities the reader is referred to the painstaking and admirable "Bibliography of the separate and collected works of Philip Freneau," by Mr. Victor Hugo Paltsits (N. Y., Dodd, Mead & Co., 1903). Opportunity has been taken here to bring the list up to date, to correct a few omissions and errors in Mr. Paltsits' volume, and to locate copies whose existence he overlooked. To avoid confusion the abbreviations used by him have been retained, viz: AAS = American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Ma.s.s.; BA = Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Ma.s.s.; BM = British Museum, London, England; BPL = Boston Public Library, Boston, Ma.s.s.; BU = Brown University Library, Providence, R. I.; C = Library of Congress, Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C.; GSMT = General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, N. Y. City; HC = Harvard University Library, Cambridge, Ma.s.s.; HSP = Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.; LCP = Library Company of Philadelphia, Pa.; MHS = Ma.s.sachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Ma.s.s.; NA = New York Public Library, Astor Foundation, N. Y. City; NJSL = New Jersey State Library, Trenton, N. J.; NkPL = Newark Free Public Library, Newark, N. J.; NL = New York Public Library, Lenox Foundation, N. Y. City; NYHS = New York Historical Society, N. Y. City; NYSL = New York State Library, Albany, N. Y.; PU = Princeton University Library, Princeton, N. J.; SPL = Springfield Public Library, Springfield, Ma.s.s.

1772

The | American Village,| a Poem.| To which are added,| Several other original Pieces in Verse.| By Philip Freneau, A. B.| [_Quotation of two lines from Horace._]