American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Table of Contents THOMAS MORTON (1576?–1647?) from New English Canaan, or New Canaan The Authors Prologue The Poem The Songe CHRISTOPHER GARDINER (fl. 1630–32) “Wolfes in Sheeps clothing why will ye”   GEORGE SANDYS (1578–1644) from Ovid’s Metamorphosis   JOHN SMITH (1580–1631) The Sea Marke   JOHN WILSON (1588–1667) To God our twice-Revenger Anagram made by mr John Willson of Boston upon the Death of Mrs Abigaill Tompson, And sent to her husband in Virginia, while he was sent to preach the gospell there   WILLIAM BRADFORD (1588–1657) A Word to New England Of Boston in New England “Certain Verses left by the Honoured William Bradford Esq.”   EDWARD JOHNSON (1598-1672) New England’s Annoyances “You that have seen these wondrous works by Sions Savior don”   from THE BAY PSALM BOOK (1640) Psalme 19 Psalme 23 Psalme 107   ROGER WILLIAMS (1604-1683) from A Key into the Language of America   JOHN FISKE (1608–1677) John Kotton : O, Honie Knott John Wilson : W’on Sion-hil   ANNE BRADSTREET (1612-1672) The Prologue (from The Tenth Muse) A Dialogue between Old England and New The Author to her Book Contemplations Before the Birth of one of her Children To my Dear and loving Husband In memory of my dear grand-child Elizabeth Bradstreet On my dear Grand-child Simon Bradstreet “As weary pilgrim, now at rest” To my dear children May. 13. 1657 Upon my dear & loving husband his goeing into England “In silent night when rest I took”   JOHN SAFFIN (1626-1710) “Sweetly (my Dearest) I left thee asleep” To his Excellency Joseph Dudley Eqr Gover: &c   EDMUND HICKERINGILL (1631-1708) from Jamaica Viewed   MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH (1631-1705) A Song of Emptiness from The Day of Doom God’s Controversy with New-England from Meat out of the Eater (Song I: “Man’s Strength meer Weakness is”) “I Walk’d and did a little Mole-hill view”   URIAN OAKES (1631?-1681) An Elegie Upon that Reverend, Learned, Eminently Pious, and Singularly Accomplished Divine, my ever Honoured Brother, Mr. Thomas Shepard   GEORGE ALSOP (1636-1673?) The Author to His Book “Trafique is Earth’s great Atlas, that supports” “Heavens bright Lamp, shine forth some of thy Light”   BENJAMIN TOMPSON (1642-1714) The Grammarians Funeral from New-Englands Crisis To Lord Bellamont when entering Governour of the Massachusetts “Some of his last lines”   JAMES REVEL (fl. c. 1659–1680) The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon’s Sorrowful Account of His fourteen Years Transportation at Virginia in America   EDWARD TAYLOR (1645?-1729) from Preparatory Meditations (First Series) 1. Meditation 3. Meditation. Can. 1.3. Thy Good Ointment 4. Meditation. Cant. 2.1 I am the Rose of Sharon The Reflexion 9. Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the Living Bread 23. Meditation. Cant. 4.8. My Spouse 24. Meditation. Eph. 2.18. Through him we have—an Access—unto the Father 32. Meditation. 1 Cor. 3.22. Whether Paul or Apollo, or Cephas 39. Meditation. from 1 Joh. 2.1. If any man sin, we have an Advocate 46. Meditation. Rev. 3.5. The same shall be clothed in White Raiment from Preparatory Meditations (Second Series) 1. Meditation. Col. 2.17. Which are Shaddows of things to come and the body is Christs 4. Meditation. Gal. 4.24. Which things are an Allegorie 12. Meditation. Ezek. 37.24. David my servant shall be their King 14. Meditation. Col. 2.3. In whom are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom, and Knowledge 18. Meditation. Heb 13.10. Wee bare an Altar 24. Meditation. Joh. 1.14. [greek] Tabernacled amongst us 34. Meditation. Rev. 1.5. Who loved us and washed away our Sins inhis Blood 60a. Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the Living Bread, that came down from Heaven 150. Meditation. Cant. 7.3. Thy two breasts are like two young Roes that are twins from Gods Determinations The Preface The Accusation of the Inward Man The Glory of and Grace in the Church set out Upon a Spider Catching a Fly Upon a Wasp Child with Cold Huswifery The Ebb and Flow Upon the Sweeping Flood. Aug: 13.14. 1683   FRANCIS DANIEL PASTORIUS (1651-1719) “In these Seven Languages I this my book do own” A Token of Love and Gratitude Rachel Preston, Hannah Hill & Mary Norris “As often as some where before my Feet” “Delight in Books from Evening” “When I solidly do ponder” Epibaterium, Or a hearty Congratulation to William Penn “If any honest Friend be pleased to walk into my poor Garden”   JOHN NORTON JR. (1651-1716) A Funeral Elogy, Upon that Pattern and Patron of Virtue, the truely pious, peerless & matchless Gentlewoman, Mrs. Anne Bradstreet   SAMUEL SEWALL (1652–1730) “Once more! Our GOD, vouchsafe to Shine” Upon the drying up that Ancient River, the River Merrimak   BENJAMIN HARRIS (1655?-1720?) “In Adam’s Fall”   JOHN DANFORTH (1660-1730) A few Lines to fill up a Vacant Page   COTTON MATHER (1663-1728) “Go then, my Dove, but now no longer Mine!” Gratitudinis Ergo Singing at the Plow The Songs of Harvest   SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT (1666-1727) from The Journal of Madam Knight “I ask thy Aid, O Potent Rum!’ “Tho’ Ill at ease, A stranger and alone”   ROBERT HUNTER (1666-1734) from Androboros: A Biographical Farce   EBENEZER COOK (1667?-1733) The Sot-Weed Factor; or, A Voyage to Maryland, &c.   LEWIS MORRIS II (1671–1746) The Mock Monarchy; or, the Kingdom of the Apes   BENJAMIN COLMAN (1673-1747) A Quarrel with Fortune A Poem, on Elijahs Translation, Occasion’d by the Death of the Reverend and Learned, Mr. Samuel Willard   ANON. Lovewell’s Fight   HENRY BROOKE (1673?–1735) The New Metamorphosis, or Fable of the Bald Eagle To my Bottle-friends Modern Politeness An Unwilling Farewel to Poesy   CHRISTOPHER WITT (1675–1765) From the Hymn-Book of Johannes Kelpius Of the Wilderness of the Secret, or Private Virgin-Cross-Love The Paradox and Seldom Contentment of the God Loving Soul Of the Power of the New Virgin-Body, Wherein the Lord himself dwelleth and Revealeth his Mysteries   ROGER WOLCOTT (1679–1767) from Meditations on Man’s First and Fallen Estate, and the Wonderful Love of God Exhibited in a Redeemer from A Brief Account of the Agency of the Honourable John Winthrop, Esq; in the Court of King Charles the Second   CHARLES HANSFORD (1685?–1761) My Country’s Worth   GEORGE BERKELEY (1685-1753) Verses on the Prospect of planting Arts and Learning in America   GEORGE SEAGOOD (c. 1685–1724) Expeditio Ultramontana (from the Latin of Arthur Blackamore)   JAMES KIRKPATRICK (1694–1770) The Nonpareil   JOSEPH BREINTNAL (1695?–1746) “A plain Description of one single Street in this City” The Rape of Fewel To the Memory of Aquila Rose, Deceas’d   SUSANNA WRIGHT (1697–1785) Anna Boylens Letter to King Henry the 8th On the Benefit of Labour On the Death of a little Girl My own Birth Day To Eliza Norris—at Fairhill   RICHARD LEWIS (1700?-1746) To Mr. Samuel Hastings, (Ship-Wright of Philadelphia) on his launching the Maryland-Merchant, a large ship built by him at Annapolis A Journey from Patapsco to Annapolis Food for Criticks   THOMAS DALE (1700–1750) Prologue spoken to the Orphan Epilogue to the Orphan   “RALPHO COBBLE” (fl. 1732) “Learning”   JAMES STERLING (1701-1763) from An Epistle to the Hon. Arthur Dobbs, Esq. in Europe from a Clergyman in America   JOHN ADAMS (1704–1740) Melancholly discrib’d and dispell’d   WILLIAM DAWSON (1704–1752) The Wager On the Corruptions of the Stage To a Friend, Who Recommended a Wife to Him To a Lady, on a Screen of Her Working   ARCHIBALD HOME (1705?–1744) An Elegy On the much to be lamented Death of George Fraser of Elizabeth Town The Ear-Ring Black-Joke: A Song On killing a Book-Worm   JOSEPH GREEN (1706–1780) To Mr. B occasioned by his Verse, to Mr. Smibert on seeing his Pictures The Poet’s Lamentation for the Loss of his Cat, which he us’d to call his Muse On Mr. B¬——s’s singing an Hymn of his own composing msp 491 Mr. B——s’s] Mather Byles’s. To the Author of the Poetry in the last Weekly Journal A True Impartial Account of the Celebration of the Prince of Orange's Nuptials at Portsmouth Inscription under Revd. Jn. Checkley’s Picture “A fig for your learning” The Disappointed Cooper Hail! Davenport of wondrous fame   BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790) Drinking Song—To the Abbé de la Roche, at Auteuil I Sing My Plain Country Joan Three Precepts   MATHER BYLES (1707-1788) Hymn to Christ for our Regeneration and Resurrection To Pictorio, on the Sight of his Pictures The Conflagration   JANE COLMAN TURELL (1708-1735) To my Muse, December 29. 1725 An Invitation into the Country, in Imitation of Horace “Phoebus has thrice his Yearly Circuit run”   MARY HIRST PEPPERELL (1708-1789) A Lamentation &c. On the Death of a Child   JOHN SECCOMB (1708-1793) Father Abbey’s Will Proposal to Mistress Abbey   ANON. The Convert to Tobacco   “POOR JULIAN” Poor Julleyoun’s Warnings to Children and Servants Advice from the Dead to the Living artwork tk   JUPITER HAMMON (1711–1806?) An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston   JOHN OSBORN (1713-1753) A Whaling Song   THOMAS CRADOCK (1718–1770) Hymn for Ascension from Maryland Eclogues in Imitation of Virgil’s (Split-Text, Eclogue 1st)   CHARLES WOODMASON (c. 1720–c. 1776) To Benjamin Franklin Esq; of Philadelphia, on his Experiments and Discoveries of Electricity   JAMES GRAINGER (1721?-1766) from The Sugar-Cane   SAMUEL DAVIES (1723-1761) “What IS great God! and what IS NOT” “While o’er our guilty Land, O Lord” “While various Rumours spread abroad” The Invitations of the Gospel Self-Dedication at the Table of the LORD   A.L.M. (fl. 1744) A College Room   THOMAS CLEMSON (fl. 1746) “From Thomas Clemson ran away”   “CAROLINA, A YOUNG LADY” (fl. 1747) On her Father having desired her to forbid all young Men the House   JOSEPH DUMBLETON (fl. 1744-1749) A Rhapsody on Rum   WILLIAM LIVINGSTON (1723–1790) from Philosophic Solitude Proclamation   SAMSON OCCOM (1723-1792) The Sufferings of Christ A Morning Hymn A Son’s Farewell The Slow Traveller   ANON. A Description of a Winter’s Morning   ANON. The Petition   WILLIAM SMITH (1727-1803) The Mock-Bird and Red-Bird: A Fable The Cherry-Tree and Peach-Tree: An American Fable The Birds of different Feather: An American Fable   HANNAH GRIFFITTS (1727-1817) The female Patriots. Address’d to the Daughters of Liberty in America To Sophronia. In answer to some Lines she directed to be wrote on my Fan The Cits Return from the Wilderness to the City Wrote on the last Day of February 1775 Upon Reading a Book entituled Common Sense On reading a few Paragraphs in the Crisis   MARY NELSON (fl. 1769) Forty Shillings Reward   MERCY OTIS WARREN (1728-1814) A Thought on the Inestimable Blessing of Reason, cccasioned by its privation to a friend of very superior talents and virtues To Mr. ——   LUCY TERRY (1730–1821) Bars Fight   NED BOTWOOD (C. 1730–1759) Hot Stuff   BENJAMIN BANNEKER (1731–1806) The Puzzle of the Hare and the Hound   HENRY TIMBERLAKE (c. 1735–1765) A Translation of the War-Song   THOMAS GODFREY JR. (1736-1763) Verses Occasioned by a Young Lady's asking the Author, What was a Cure for Love? Epistle to a Friend; from Fort Henry A Dithyrambic on Wine   ANNIS BOUDINOT STOCKTON (1736-1801) A Satire on the fashionable pompoons worn by the Ladies in the year 1753 A Sarcasm against the ladies in a newspaper; An impromptu answer Compos’d in a dancing room, December 69 A Poetical Epistle, addressed by a Lady of New-Jersey, to her Niece, upon her Marriage, in this City To Miss Mary Stockton Sensibility, an ode   JOHN SINGLETON (fl 1760s) from A General Description of the West-Indian Islands   FRANCIS HOPKINSON (1737-1791) “My gen’rous heart disdains” An Epitaph for an Infant The Battle of the Kegs A Camp Ballad   JONATHAN ODELL (1737–1818) The Word of Congress   THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809) Liberty Tree   YANKEE DOODLE Yankee Doodle, or (as now christened by the Saints of New England), The Lexington March The Yankey’s return from Camp   ELIZABETH GRAEME FERGUSSON (1737–1801) To Doctor Fothergill   ROBERT BOLLING (1738-1775) Neanthe Occlusion   NATHANIEL EVANS (1742-1767) To Benjamin Franklin, Esq: L.L.D., Occasioned by hearing him play on the Harmonica   JOSEPH STANSBURY (1742-1809) Verses to the Tories The United States To Cordelia   WILLIAM BILLINGS (1746-1800) Chester   MARGARET LOWTHER PAGE (1749-1818) To Miss J.L.¬——   JOHN ANDRE (1749-1780) Cow-Chase   JOHN TRUMBULL (1750-1831) from The Progress of Dulness (from Part Third: The Progress of Coquetry, or, The Adventures of Miss Harriet Simper) from M’Fingal (from Canto III, The Liberty Pole)   ANN ELIZA BLEECKER (1752-1783) Written in the Retreat from Burgoyne On Reading Dryden’s Virgil Return to Tomhanick   TIMOTHY DWIGHT (1752-1817) from The Triumph of Infidelity from Greenfield Hill (Part II, The Flourishing Village) from The Psalms of David “Shall man, O God of light, and life” “While life prolongs its precious light” “I love thy kingdom, Lord”   ANON. from The Philadelphiad Country Clown Quaker The Universal Motive Bagnio The Emigrant Miss Kitty Cut-a-dash   ANNE HECHT (fl 1780s) Advice to Mrs. Mowat   PHILIP FRENEAU (1752–1832) American Liberty Libera nos, Domine—Deliver us, O Lord Female Frailty Stanzas Occasioned by the Ruins of a Country Inn The Dying Indian The Wild Honey Suckle The Indian Student, or Force of Nature Lines Occasioned by a Visit to an old Indian Burying Ground The Country Printer To Sir Toby, a Sugar-Planter in the interior parts of Jamaica To Mr. Blanchard The Republican Genius of Europe On a Honey Bee, Drinking from a Glass of Wine, and Drowned Therein   DAVID HUMPHREYS (1752-1818) Mount-Vernon: An Ode The Genius of America The Monkey, Who Shaved Himself and His Friends   ST. GEORGE TUCKER (1752–1827) A Dream on Bridecake A Second Dream on Bridecake   GEORGE OGILVIE (1753?–1801) from Carolina; or, The Planter   PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1753–1784) To Mæcenas To the University of Cambridge, in New-England On being brought from Africa to America On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth To S. M., a young African Painter, on seeing his Works A Farewel to America To a Gentleman of the Navy Philis's Reply to the Answer in our last by the Gentleman in the Navy To His Excellency General Washington Liberty and Peace   LEMUEL HAYNES (1753–1833) The Battle of Lexington   JOEL BARLOW (1754–1812) Innumerable mercies acknowledged from The Conspiracy of Kings The Hasty-Pudding   ROYALL TYLER (1757-1826) The Origin of Evil. An Elegy Ode Composed for the Fourth of July An Irregular Supplicatory Address to the American Academies of Arts and Sciences   SARAH WENTWORTH MORTON (1759-1846) The African Chief Memento   JOSEPH HOPKINSON (1770-1842) Song, Adapted to the President’s March (“Hail Columbia!)   THOMAS GREEN FESSENDEN (1771–1837) Jonathan’s Courtship   CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN (1771–1810) Monody, On the death of Gen. George Washington   ROBERT TREAT PAINE (1773-1811) Adams and Liberty   WILLIAM MUNFORD (1775–1825) The Disasters of Richland Chronology [are we including?] Biographical Notes Note on the Texts Notes Index of Titles and First Lines Index of Poets