The Poems of Philip Freneau is a Webnovel created by Philip Freneau.
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A Dialogue between Shadrach and Whiffle.
To the memory of a Lady.[230]
To Clarissa: a handsome Shop-Keeper.
To Cynthia.
To a Very Little Man, Fond of Walking with a Very Long Cane.
The Rural Bachelor.
To Messieurs Fungus, Froth, and Co.
Shadrach and Pomposo: A Tale.
On Pest-Eli-Hali, the Traveling Speculator.[231]
Elegiac lines on a Theological Script-Monger.
On the Approaching Dissolution of Transatlantic Jurisdiction in America.
FROM THE 1809 EDITION.
Translation of the Third Elegy of the First Book of Ovid’s Tristia.
Description of the Plague which Happened at Athens … From the Sixth Book of Lucretius on the Nature of Things.
Love’s Suicide. Stanzas Intended for the Tomb Stone of a Person who Killed Himself in Consequence of his Suit being Rejected by a Young Lady.
Translation, from Ovid’s Tristia. Book 3d, Elegy 3d.
Stanzas Written near a Certain Clergyman’s Garden.
On a Nocturnal View of the Planet Jupiter, and several of his Satellites, through a Telescope.
The Fading Rose.
A College Story.
On a Man Killed by a Buffaloe (or wild Cow.)
To the Dog Sancho, on his being Wounded in the Head with a Sabre, in a Midnight a.s.sault and Robbery, near the Neversink Hills, 1778.
Science, Favourable to Virtue.
Reflections on the Const.i.tution, or Frame of Nature.
On the Powers of the Human Understanding.
Lines Written in a very Small Garden.
Nereus and Thetis.
A Usurer’s Prayer.
Suicide: the Weakness of the Human Mind. A Marine Anecdote.
The Gougers: on Seeing a Traveller Gouged, and otherwise ill treated by some Citizens of Logtown, near a Pine Barren.
Lines written for Mr. Ricketts, on the Exhibitions at his Equestrian Circus.
Monumental Lines, Addressed to a Disconsolate Person, that was Successively Enamoured of Two Sisters, who Died of a Consumption within about Two Years of Each other, in the Prime of Youth and Beauty.
Esperanza’s March: being Stanzas, Addressed to a Person who Complained “He was always unfortunate.”
FROM THE 1815 EDITION.
The New Age; or Truth Triumphant.
On Superst.i.tion.
The Royal Apprentice, A London Story.
The Modern Jehu; or, n.o.bility on Four Wheels.
On a Lady, Now Deceased, that had been both Deaf and Blind Many Years.
The Mistake; a Modern Short Story.
Lines written in a french novel, Adelaide and Durval.
Human Frailty.
On Happiness, as proceeding from the practice of Virtue.
Ode to Good Fortune.
Reflections on doctor Perkins’ metallic points, or tractors.
Publius to Pollia. Supposed to have been written during a cruising expedition.
On the Uniformity and Perfection of Nature.
Translation of Gray’s Ode, Written at the grand Chartreuse.
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the G.o.d of Nature.