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Contents: Elegy on the times; Elegy on the death of Mr. Buckingham St. John; Ambition; Prophecy of Balaam; Downfall of Babylon; Speech of Proteus to Aristæus; by John Trumbull. Trial of faith; Address to genius of Columbia; Columbia; The seasons moralized; A hymn; A song; The critics; Epistle to Col. Humphreys; by Timothy Dwight. The prospect of peace; A poem spoken at commencement at Yale College; Elegy on Titus Hosmer; by Joel Barlow. - Elegy on burning of Fairfield, Connecticut; Elegy on Lieut. De Hart; Mount Vernon; An ode addressed to Laura; Genius of America; Epistle to Dr. Dwight; A song translated from the French; by David Humphreys. - Epitaph on a patient killed by cancer quack; Hypocrite's hope; On general Ethan Allen; by Lemuel Hopkins. An oration which might have been delivered to students in anatomy on the late rupture between two schools in Philadelphia, by Francis Hopkinson. - Philosophic solitude; by William Livingston. - Descriptive lines upon prospect from Beacon-Hill in Boston; Ode to the President on his visiting the Northern states; Invocation to Hope; Prayer to Patience; Lines addressed to Della Crusca; by Philenia, a lady of Boston. Alfred to Philenia. - Philenia to Alfred.

Poem written in Boston at the commencement of the Revolution; An intended inscription for monument on Beacon-Hill in Boston; by James Allen. Elegiac ode to General Greene, by George Richards. Country school. Speech of Hesper. - [Poem on the distress of inhabitants of Guinea.] New Year's wish; From a Gentleman to a lady who had presented him with a cake heart; by Dr.. Utrum horum mavis elige. Ella, a Norwegian tale, by William Dunlap. - Eulogium on rum, by J. Smith. Written at Country meeting, by T. C. James. sea in a heavy gale, by Philip Freneau. — To Ella, from Bertha. — An elegy written in February 1791; Versification of passage from fifth book of Ossian's Temora; Habakkuk, chap. III; Twilight of the Gods; Extract from Conquest of Scandinavia; by Richard Alsop. Ode to conscience, by Theodore Dwight. Collolloo, an Indian tale, by William Dunlap. - An ode to Miss ****, by Joseph Howe. - Message from Mordecai to Esther, by Timothy Dwight.

American literature. New York, 1866. 8°. v. 1, p. 461-463.) NBB

Attributed to Samuel St. John of New Canaan, Connecticut, and to Peter Št. John of Norwalk, Connecticut.

Also printed in Frank Moore, Songs and ballads of the American Revolution, New York, 1856, p. 117, NBH.

The American times, a satire, in three parts. See Odell, Jonathan.

An American youth, pseud. See The Spunkiad: or Heroism improved.

Ames, Nathaniel, 1708-1764. An essay upon the microscope. (In his: An astronomical diary, or An almanac for the year of our Lord Christ, 1741. Boston, 1741. 12°.) Reserve

Reprinted in Stedman and Hutchinson, A library of American literature, New York, 1889, v. 2, p. 425427, NBB.

Additional poems without titles will be found in his An astronomical diary, or An almanac... for the years 1731, 1733-35, 1737-50, 1752-75, copies of which are in the Reserve Room of the Library.

A poetical essay on happiness. (In his: Ames's almanac revived and improved: or, An astronomical diary for the year of our Lord Christ, 1766. Boston, 1766. 12°.) Reserve

Victory implor'd for success against the French in America. (In his: An astronomical diary, or An almanac for the year of our Lord Christ, 1747. Boston, 1747. 12.) Reserve

The waking of sun. (In his: An astronomical diary, or An almanac for the year of our Lord Christ, 1739. Boston, 1739. 12°.) Reserve Reprinted in Stedman and Hutchinson, A library of American literature, New York, 1889, v. 2, p. 424-425, NBB.

The Anarchiard: a New England poem. Written in concert by David Humphreys, Joel Barlow, John Trumbull, and Dr. Lemuel Hopkins. Now first published in book form. Edited, with notes and appendices, by Luther G. Riggs. New Haven: Published by Thomas H. Pease, 323 Chapel Street. 1861. viii, 120 p. 24°. NBHD

The Library has another copy with the following portraits inserted: David Humphreys, Joel Barlow, John Trumbull, Nathanael Greene, Robert Morris.

This poem was originally published in the following numbers of The New Haven Gazette and Connecticut Magazine: Oct. 26, Nov. 2, Dec. 28, 1786; Jan. 11, 25, Feb. 22, March 15, 22, April 5, May 24, Aug. 16, Sept. 13, 1787. The Library possesses all the numbers of the New Haven Gazette in which this poem appeared, except the last one, Sept. 13, 1787.

Nos. 1-4 of The Anarchiard were also printed in The American museum, Philadelphia, 1789, v. 5, p. 94-100, 303-305.

The projector of this poem was Colonel David Humphreys; and it was written in concert with Barlow, Trumbull, and Hopkins; but what particular installment or number was written by each has never been definitely ascertained.

André, John, 1751-1780. Cow-chace, in three cantos, published on occasion of the Rebel General Wayne's attack of the Refugees Block-House on Hudson's river, on Friday the 21st of July, 1780. [By Major John André.] New-York: Printed by James Rivington, MDCCLXXX. 1 p.l., (1)469 p. 8°. Reserve

Included with the Cow-chace, are the following poems: Yankee Doodle's Expedition to Rhode Island, written at Philadelphia, p. 19-21; On the Affair between the Rebel Generals Howe and Gaddesden, written at Charlestown, p. 23-26; The American times, a satire. In three parts... By Camillo Querno, p. 27-69.

Inserted, a portrait of André, engraved by Hap wood, from a drawing by Major André, ornamented by Shirt.

The Cow-chace appeared originally in The Royal Gazette, in the following numbers: Canto 1, Aug. 16, 1780; Canto 11, Aug. 30, 1780; Canto III, Sept. 23,

1780.

Also printed in William Dunlap, André; a tragedy, New York, 1798, p. 75-84, Reserve, and in Winthrop Sargent, The life of Major André, Boston, 1861, and New York, 1871, p. 236-249, IGM.

Andrews, Edward W. An address before the Washington Benevolent Society, in Newburyport, on the 22d. Feb. 1816. By Edward W. Andrews, A.M. Published by request of the society. Newburyport: Published by William B. Allen & Co. No. 13, Cornhill. 1816. 1 p.l., (1)4-15 p. 8°. NBHD p.v.5, no.14

Aquiline Nimble-Chops, pseud. Democracy: an epic poem. See Livingston, Henry Brockholst.

Philadel

Aristocracy. An epic poem. phia: Printed for the editor. 1795. 2 v. 8°. Reserve

In two parts issued separately.

[Part] 1 has 16 p. and is dated on p. vii: Philadelphia, January 5, 1795.

[Part] 2, without imprint, has 18[really 17] p., pages numbered 1-16, 18, and dated, on p. [4]: Philadelphia, March 26th, 1795.

Armstrong, William Clinton, 1855-. editor. Patriotic poems of New Jersey. Newark, N. J., 1906. 3 p.l., ii-v, 248 p., 5 pl., 3 ports. 8°. (Sons of the American Revolution. New Jersey Society. New Jersey and the American Revolution.)

NBH

Arnold, Josias Lyndon, 1765-1796. Poems. By the late Josias Lyndon Arnold, Esq; of St. Johnsbury (Vermont) formerly of Providence, and a tutor in Rhode-Island College. Printed at Providence, by Carter and Wilkinson, and sold at their bookstore, opposite the market. M. DCC. XCVII. xii, (1)14-141 p. 12°. Reserve

Introduction by the editor, signed and dated: James Burrill, jun. Providence, April, 1797.

"The last words of Sholum; or, The dying Indian," p. 46-49, is not by Arnold, but by Philip

Freneau.

Several of Arnold's poems are printed in Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American poetry, Boston, 1829, v. 2, p. 77-82, NBH; also in E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck, Cyclopedia of American literature, New York, 1866, v. 1, p. 530, NBB.

The Art of domestic happiness and other poems: By the Recluse, author of the Independency of the Mind, affirmed. Pittsburgh: Published by Robert Patterson. 1817. 2 p.l., (i) vi p., 11., (1)10-316 p., 11. 16°. NBHD

Printed by Butler and Lambdin. Avalanche, Sir Anthony, pseud. Fashion's analysis; or, The winter in town. A satirical poem. By Sir Anthony Avalanche. With notes, illustrations, etc. by Gregory Glacier, Gent. Part 1. New-York: Printed for J. Osborn, No. 13 Park. 1807. 2 p.l., NBHD (1)6–84 p. 16°.

B., B., Esq. Entertainment for a winter's evening. See Green, Joseph.

Bacon's epitaph, made by his man. (Massachusetts Historical Society. Collections for 1814. Boston, 1838. 8°. series 2, v. 1, p. 58-59.)

IAA

This epitaph is in the manuscript account of Bacon and Ingram's rebellion found among the papers of Capt. Nathaniel Burwell, printed in this volume of the Collections.

Also printed in Stedman and Hutchinson, A library of American literature, New York, 1889, v. 1, p. 456-457, NBB.

Ballads and poems relating to the Burgoyne campaign. Annotated by William L. Stone... Albany, N. Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1893. 12, 359 p., 1 pl. (front.) 8°. (Munsell's historical series. no. 20.)

IAG and NBHD

Contains the following songs, written before 1820: The American flag, by J. R. Drake, p. 17-24; Adams and liberty, by R. T. Paine, p. 27-37; The Star-Spangled banner, by F. S. Key, p. 53-63; Hail Columbia, by J. Hopkinson, p. 67-77.

Barlow, Joel, 1754–1812. The Columbiad a poem. By Joel Barlow. Printed by Fry and Kammerer for C. and A. Conrad and Co. Philadelphia; Conrad, Lucas and Co. Baltimore. Philadelphia: 1807. 1 p.l., (i) iv–xvi, 454 p., front. (port.), 11 pl. ˆ4°.

Reserve and NBHD

The Reserve copy is extra illustrated, having 22 plates and 58 portraits inserted. The Columbiad is an amplification of the author's Vision of Columbus.

This work, which is a fine example of early American bookmaking, was published at the expense of Robert Fulton, the inventor, who also "designated the subjects to be painted for engravings" at his own

expense.

Philadelphia: Published by C. and A. Conrad and Co. Philadelphia; Con

The Library has volume 2 only. v. 2. 2 p.l., (1) 6-218 p.

London: Printed for Richard Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars. 1809. 1 p.1., (i)iv-xxxiii p., 11., 428 p. 8°. NBHD Frontispiece, portrait of author, inserted.

With the last corrections of the author. By Joel Barlow. Paris: Printed for F. Schoell, Bookseller. 1813. 3 p.l., (i) vi-xl, 448 p., 2 pl. (incl. front.), 2 ports. 8°. NBHD The conspiracy of kings; a poem: addressed to the inhabitants of Europe, from another quarter of the World. By Joel Barlow, author of the Vision of Columbus, Advice to the Privileged Orders &c. &c. Printed and sold by Robinson & Tucker: Newburyport - 1794. 30 p. 8°. Reserve

Inserted, the portrait of the author engraved by Edwin.

Also printed in The New-York magazine, NewYork, 1792, v. 3, p. 375-382, Reserve; the author's A letter to the national convention of France, on the defects in the constitution of 1791, New York [1793?], p. 73-87, Reserve; The Columbian muse, New York, 1794, p. 1-10, NBH; and in The political writings of Joel Barlow, New York, 1796, p. 237-258, Reserve.

Description of the first American congress; American Revolution; American sages; American painters; American poets. (In: The Beauties of poetry, British and American. Philadelphia, 1791. 16°. 155-174.)

p. Reserve Also printed in The Columbian muse, New York, 1794, p. 89-109, NBH.

An Elegy on the late honorable Titus Hosmer, Esq. one of the Counsellors of the State of Connecticut, a Member of Congress, and a Judge of the Maritime Court of Appeals for the United States of America. (In: American poems, selected and original. Litchfield, 1793. 12°. p. 108117.) Reserve and NBH

The hasty-pudding: a poem, in three cantos. Written at Chambery, in Savoy, January 1793. [By Joel Barlow. New Haven: Tiebout & O'Brien, 1796. 2 p.1., (1)6-15 p. 8°. Reserve

First printed in The New-York magazine, New York, 1796, new series, v. 1, p. 41-49, Reserve.

Also printed in Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American poetry, Boston, 1829, v. 2, p. 13-21, NBH; E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck, Cyclopædia of American literature, New York, 1866, v. 1, p. 400-403, NBB.

Brooklyn: Published by Wm. Bigelow, 55 Fulton-Street. A. Spooner, printer. 1833. 1 p.1., (i) iv-v, 6-22 p. 12°. * C p.v.724, no.8 New York: C. M. Saxton VPC Bd. with: R. L. Allen. The American farm book. New York, 1852. 12°.

[1852?]. 12 p. 12°.

A poem, spoken at the public commencement at Yale-college, in New-Haven, Sept. 12, 1781. (In: American poems, selected and original. Litchfield, 1793. 12°. p. 94-107.) Reserve and NBH The prospect of peace. (In: American poems, selected and original. Litchfield, 1793. 12°. p.85-93.) Reserve and NBH Also printed in The Columbian muse, New York, 1794, p. 10-16, NBH.

The vision of Columbus; a poem in nine books. By Joel Barlow, Esquire. Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, for the author. M.DCC.LXXXVII. 258 p., 61. 12°. Reserve

This is the original edition, with twelve pages containing the names of upwards of five hundred subscribers, leading men of the day, including Washington, Franklin, Burr, Gov. George Clinton, etc.

Hartford, N. E. printed: London re-printed, for C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and J. Stockdale, Piccadilly. M.DCC.LXXXVII. Reserve xx, 244 p. 12°.

2 portraits inserted. Frontispiece is portrait of Joel Barlow, painted by Robert Fulton, engraved by A. B. Durand. Facing p. 3, Portrait of Columbus painted by M. Macella, engraved by P. Maverick.

The second edition. Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, for the author. M.DCC.LXXXVII. 258 p., 31. 16°. Reserve

The last three leaves contain the names of subscribers.

The first edition, corrected... To which is added, The conspiracy of kings: a poem, by the same author. Paris: Printed at the English Press, Rue de Vaugirard, No. 1214; and sold by Barrois, Senior, Quai des Augustins; and R. Thomson, Rue de L'Anciene Comedie Française, no. 42. 1793. 2 p.1., 304 p. 8°. Reserve

Lacks portrait.

The conspiracy of kings, a poem, p. 277-304.

See also The Anarchiard.

Bartlett, Joseph, 1762-1827. Physiognomy, a poem, delivered at the request of the Society of B K, in the chapel of Harvard University, on the day of their anniversary, July 18th, 1799. By Joseph Bartlett. Boston, Printed by John Russell, Reserve 1799. 16 p. 8°.

Trimmed down from 4°, cropping text and margins.

The Battle of Bunkers Hill, a dramatic piece, in five acts. See Brackenridge, Hugh Henry.

Battle of Niagara, a poem. See Neal,

John.

The Battle of the Thames, October 5, 1813; from an unpublished poem, entitled Tecumseh. By a young American. New York: Published at the Log Cabin Office, No. 30 Ann-Street. 1840. 1 p.1., (1)4-15 p. 12°. IIH p.v.6, no.1

The Bay Psalm book. See Bible. Old Testament: Psalms. English. 1640.

Bayard. Address to the robin redbreast. (In: The Beauties of poetry, British and American. Philadelphia, 1791. 16°. p. 201-204.) Reserve Also printed in The Columbian muse, New York, 1794, p. 177-181, NBH.

Woman's fate. Written in the character of a lady under the influence of a strong, but unfortunate attachment. (In: The Beauties of poetry, British and American. Philadelphia, 1791. 16°. p. 127-130.) Reserve

J.

The Beauties of poetry, British and American: containing some of the productions of Waller, Milton, Addison, Pope, Shirley, Parnell, Watts, Thomson, Young, Shenstone, Akenside, Gray, Goldsmith, Johnson, Moore, Garrick, Cowper, Beattie, Burns, Merry, Cowley, Wolcott, Palmerton, Penrose. Evans, Barlow, Dwight, Freneau, Humphreys, Livingston, Smith, W. M. Smith, Bayard, Hopkinson, James, Markoe, Prichard, Fentham, Bradford, Dawes, Lathrop, Osborne. Philadelphia: From the press of M. Carey. No. 118, Market-Street. M.DCC.XCI. 3 p.1. (incl. leaf of adv.), vii, viii, 244 p. 16°. Reserve American contributions include: Columbia, by Dwight. - Benevolence, by Dawes. Woman's fate, by Bayard. - Future state of the western territory; American winter; On love and the American fair; Depredations and destruction of the Algerines; by Humphreys. Excellent logic; British favours to America; Extreme humanity; Omens; Nobility anticipated; by Trumbull. - Description of the first American Congress; American Revolution; American sages; American painters; American poets; by Barlow. Eulogium on rum, by Jos. Smith. Faith, an ode; Hope, an ode; Charity; an ode; by Markoe. On a lady's birth day, by W. M. Smith. - Description of Jehovah, from the XVIIIth Psalm, by Ladd. The Country meeting, by T. C. James. On the birth-day of Gen. Washington, by Markoe. Art and nature, by W. M. Smith. The old soldier, by Fentham. The war-horse, by Ladd. On the migration to America and peopling the western country, by Freneau. A pastoral song, by Bradford. The seasons moralized, by Dwight. Character of St. Tamany, by Pritchard. A song, by Dwight. -The Federal Convention. A fair bargain, by Hopkinson. - Song sung in St. Andrew's Society, New York, on Tuesday August 22, 1790, when Colonel Alexander M'Gillwray was present. Address to the robin red-breast, by Bayard. — A winter piece, by Lathrop. Elegiac epistle on the death of his sisters and sent to another, by Osborn.

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- Hymn sung at the Universal meeting house in Boston, Easter Sunday, April 4, 1790.- The Deity, and his dispensations; Creation; Original state of man; Three fold state of man emblematized; Prospect of America; by Dwight. - Progress of science, by Evans. Philosophic solitude, by Livingston. Sketches of American history, by Freneau. Indian eclogue, by Jos. Smith.

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Belknap, Jeremy, 1744-1798. An eclogue, occasioned by the death of the Reverend Alexander Cummings, A.M., on the 25th of August A. D. 1763. Etat. 37... [By J. Belknap, B. A. Boston: Printed by D. & J. Kneeland, for J. Edwards, 1763. 8 p. 16°. Reserve

Text cropped by trimming.

Benedict, David, 1779-1874. A poem delivered in Taunton, September 16th, A.D. 1807, at the anniversary election of the Philandrian Society. By David Benedict. Boston: Belcher & Armstrong, printers, No. 70, State-Street. 1807. 1 p.1., (1)4-19 p. 8°. NBH p.v.26, no.17

The watery war: or, A poetical description of the existing controversy between the Pedobaptists and Baptists, on the subjects and mode of baptism. By John of Enon. Boston: Printed and sold by Manning & Loring, No. 2, Cornhill. 1808. 2 p.1., (1)6-34 p. 12°. Reserve

The first book printed in English in North America. The version of the Psalms was made about the year 1636, the principal divines of the country each translating a portion. The principal part of the work was committed to Mr. Richard Mather, minister of the church in Dorchester, who probably wrote the preface also, and to Mr. Thomas Weld and Mr. John Eliot, associate ministers of the church in Roxbury. The work of printing was completed in 1640, and the new Psalm book was adopted at once by nearly every congregation in the colony of Massachusetts Bay, and for that reason it came to be known as the Bay Psalm book. Of this famous book there are only ten copies known to be extant, of which only four are perfect.

For detailed statement and description see the facsimile reprint with the introduction by Wilberforce Eames.

The Bay Psalm book; being a facsimile reprint of the first edition, printed by Stephen Daye at Cambridge, in New England in 1640. With an introduction by Wilberforce Eames. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903. 1 p.1., v-xvii p., 147 1. 8°. Reserve

One of 975 copies on plain paper.

Facsimile reprint, including title-page of original edition, Worcester, 1776.

No. 8 of forty copies printed on Fabriano handmade paper.

Biglow, William, 1773-1844. Commencement, a poem: or rather commencement of a poem, recited before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, in their dining hall, in Cambridge, Aug. 29, 1811. By a brother ri. e., William Biglow. Salem: Printed by Thomas C. Cushing. 1811. 1 p.l., (1)4-8 p. 8°. NBHD

With bookplate of Henry B. Anthony.

Education; a poem: spoken at Cambridge at the request of the Phi Beta Kappa Society; July 18th 1799; By William Biglow. Salem: Joshua Cushing. 1799. 2 p.1., (1)4-17 p. 8°. NBH p.v.26, no.16

First 21. and last leaf lacking. Title-page supplied in ms.

Re-re-commencement: a kind of a poem: calculated to be recited before an "assemblage" of New-England divines, of all the various denominations; but which never was so recited, and in all human probability never will be. By a friend of every body and every soul. Salem: Printed by Thomas C. Cushing. 1812. 1 p.l., (1) 4-8 p. 8°. NBH p.v.27, no.13

The Bladensburg races. Written shortly after the capture of Washington City, August 24, 1814. [Probably it is not generally known, that the flight of Mahomet, the flight of John Gilpin, and the flight of Bladensburg, all occurred on the twenty-fourth of August. Printed for the purchaser. 1816. 1 p.l., 3-12 p. 24°.

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Bland, Theodoric, 1742-1790. [Patriotic poem on the battle of Lexington. (In: The Bland papers. Edited by Charles Campbell. Petersburg, 1840. 8°. v. 1, p. xxi-xxiii.) IG

Bleecker, Mrs. Ann Eliza Schuyler, 17521783. An evening prospect. (In: The New-York magazine. New-York, 1791. 8°. v. 2, p. 475-476.) Reserve

Lines, written by the late Mrs. Ann E. Bleecker. (In: The New-York magazine. New-York, 1791. 8°. v. 2, p. 294.) Reserve

Lines, written by the late Mrs. Ann E. Bleecker. (In: The New-York magazine. New-York, 1791. 8°. v. 2, p. 356.) Reserve

On reading Dryden's Virgil. ¡Written in 1778, by the late Mrs. Ann E. Bleecker. (In: The New-York magazine. New-York, 1791. 8°. v. 2, p. 670.) Reserve

The posthumous works of Ann Eliza Bleecker, in prose and verse. Το which is added, a collection of essays, prose and poetical, by Margaretta V. Faugeres. New-York: Printed by T. and J. Swords, No. 27, William-Street. 1793. 6 p.l., xviii, (1)20–375 p., front. (port.) 16°. Reserve

Frontispiece, the portrait of Mrs. Bleecker engraved by Tiebout.

"Poetics," p. 185-262.

Several of these poems have been reprinted in Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American poetry, Boston, 1829, v. 1, p. 213-219, NBH.

Bonaparte; with The storm at sea, Madaline, and other poems. New-York: Published by Haly and Thomas, No. 142 Broadway. 1820. 1 p.1., (i)iv p., 11., (1)8– 92 p. 8°. NBH p.v.28, no.1 See Coffin,

Boston Bard, Poems of. Robert Stevenson.

Bosworth, Beniamin. Signs of apostacy lamented. By Benjamin Bosworth., n.t.p. [Boston? 1693? 4 p. 24°. Reserve "A caution to prevent scandal," p. 4.

Signed and dated at end: "Benjamin Bosworth of New-England. In the 81st year of my age, 1693." Photostat copy from an original in Brown University Library.

Botsford, Mrs. Margaret. Viola or The heiress of St. Valverde, an original poem, in five cantos. To which is annexed, patriotic songs, sonnets, &c. By a lady of Philadelphia, author of Adelaide i.e., Mrs. Margaret Botsford,. Louisville, Ky. Printed by S. Penn, jr. 1820. 1 p.l., (1)4– NBHD 96 p. 24°.

Bowdoin, James, 1727-1790. A paraphrase on part of the œconomy of human life. Inscribed to his excellency Thomas Pownall, Esq; Governor of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay. [By James Bow