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Easter | . |
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11 Apr 1784 | "WHEN JESUS bow'd his awful head" |
Job | . |
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1776 | "'TWAS night. And thickest gloom prevail'd around." |
Invitation to the Country | . |
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. | "The winter all surly is flown," |
Nine Sisters Rebus | . |
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. | "Take the name of nine sisters that romp on Parnassus," |
Habakkuk, 3rd chapter, verses 17 & 18 | . |
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. | "THO frosts destroy, or blasts invade," |
Isaiah, LXV chap. 25th verse | . |
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. | "In that ecstatic, joyous day," |
Lo From the East |
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. | "Lo from the East the sun appears" | |
Montgomery Tappan (death of 1st cousin) | . |
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20 Nov 1784 | "The sweetest, gentlest, of the youthful train," |
Sarah Livingston (death of wife) | . |
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. | "BEYOND where billows roll or tempests vex" |
Henry Welles Livingston (death of son) | . |
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. | "A gentle spirit now above" |
Queen of Love Rebus | . |
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. | "FAIRER than the queen of love," |
Deity Rebus | AM |
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. | "Take the name of the Deity lovers obey" |
Joanna's 33rd Birthday | . |
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16 May 1787 | "On this thy natal day permit a friend - A brother -" |
On ... Fragment | . |
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. | "Thy lips surpass the Ruby's glow" |
Sally Livingston (death of a wren) | . |
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. | "Hasty pilgrim stop thy pace" |
Settlement Invitation | . |
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. | "YES, yes my swain, thy faithful wife's prepar'd" |
Apollo Rebus | . |
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1785 | "The mount where old Homer has station'd Apollo" |
Timmy (son of Yale Pres. Dwight) |
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7 Dec 1785 | "Master Timmy brisk and airy" |
The Dance (Nancy Crooke) | . |
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1786 | "Take the name of the swain, a forlorn witless elf" |
A Valentine | . |
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14 Feb 1786 | "WELLCOME, wellcome, happy day," |
Gentleman Leaving Pakepsy | . |
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1786 | "In summer the aerial musicians around" |
Hero Rebus | . |
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1786 | "That hero whose great and magnanimous mind" |
Beekman | . |
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1786 | "To my dear brother Beekman I sit down to write" |
Vine and Oak (love poem) |
NYMLR |
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~1786 | "A vine from noblest lineage sprung" |
Spadille | . |
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~1786 | "Thou little four-leg'd paltry varlet," |
War Rebus | . |
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1786 | "Take the name of that hero who dreadful in war" |
Sages Rebus | . |
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1786 | "Take the name of that planet which sages declare" |
Carrier Address 1787 | PB |
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Dec 1786 | "BEFORE the friends of Mr. Power" |
Anne | . |
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1787 | "To his charming black-ey'd niece" |
Acknowledgment | CJPA |
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1787 | "With the ladies' permission most humbly I'd mention" |
Mistress Van Kleeck (sister Susan) | . |
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9 Jan 1787 | "My very good landlady, Mistress Van Kleeck," |
Parody on the "Death of Wolfe" | CJPA |
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bef 30 May 1787 | "In a mouldering cave where the wretched retreat" |
The Fly | CJPA |
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. | "As on a summer's fervid day" |
Careless Philosopher's Soliloquy | CJPA |
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1787 | "I rise when I please, when I please I lie down" |
Belle | . |
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. | "If ever 'twas proper and lawful and decent" |
Frontier Song |
NYMLR R CJPA |
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. | "Let statesmen tread their giddy round" |
Alcmena Rebus | . |
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. | "The son of Alcmena, the champion of fable," |
Rispah | . |
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. | "FROM morn to eve from eve to rosy morn" |
To Miss | . |
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1789 | "Hail! pride of each lass & the wish of each swain" |
Procession |
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1789 | "The legislators pass along" |
To Miss | NYMLR |
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. | "Sweet as op'ning roses are," |
Epithalamium (marriage of sister Helena) | NYMLR |
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June 1790 | "'Twas summer, when softly the breezes were blowing," |
Monarchs Rebus | . |
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. | "The wisest of monarchs yet weakest of men," |
Edwin's Valentine By Henry's son Edwin | . |
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AM | American Magazine |
CJPA | Country Journal and Poughkeepsie Advertiser |
NYMLR | New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository |
NYWM | New-York Weekly Museum |
PB | Political Barometer |
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Henry to Susan to Gertrude (by accident) to William Sturgis Thomas
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