Chapter I: Front Matter

EARLY AMERICAN POETRY

1610-1820

A LIST OF WORKS IN
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

_COMPILED BY_
JOHN C. FRANK

NEW YORK
1917

_NOTE_

_This list includes titles of works in The New York Public Library on August 1, 1917. They are in the Reference Department of the Library, in the Central Building at Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street._

REPRINTED OCTOBER 1917
FROM THE
BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
OF AUGUST 1917

form p-100 [x-10-17 3c]

EARLY AMERICAN POETRY, 1610-1820

A LIST OF WORKS IN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

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COMPILED BY JOHN C. FRANK

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=Adams=, John, 1704-40. Poems on several occasions, original and translated. By the late reverend and learned John Adams, M.A. Boston: Printed for D. Goodkin, in Marlborough-Street, over against the Old South Meeting House. 1745. 4 p.l., 176 p. 16º.

=Reserve=

=Adams=, John Quincy, 1767-1848. On the discoveries of Captain Lewis. (In: The Monthly anthology and Boston review. Boston, 1807. 8º. v. 4, p. 143-144.)

=* DA=

Also printed in E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck's _Cyclopædia
of American literature_, New York, 1866, v. 1, p. 395, _NBB._

=Agricola=, pseud. _See_ The =Squabble=; a pastoral eclogue.

=Albany= Register. The humble address of the Carriers of the Albany Register, to their generous customers, greeting them with a Happy New Year. [Albany, N. Y.: Jan. 1, 1796.] Broadside.

=Reserve=

=All= the world's a stage. A poem, in three parts. The stranger. Newburyport: Printed by William Barrett. 1796. 15 [really 14] p. 8º.

=Reserve=

The name "I. Storey" is written on the title in a
contemporary hand, in the place where the author's name is
usually printed; the reference being undoubtedly to Isaac
Story, who was born at Marblehead in 1774, and published his
first poem, _An Epistle from Yarico to Inkle_, in 1792.

=Allen=, Benjamin, 1789-1829. Miscellaneous poems, on moral and religious subjects: By Osander [pseud. of Benjamin Allen]. Hudson: Printed by Wm. E. Norman No. 2, Warren Street. 1811. 2 p.l., 7(1) p., 2 l., 11-180 p. 16º.

=NBHD=

---- ---- New-York: Printed by J. Seymour, Sold by Griffin and Rudd, agents for the publisher; 189, Greenwich-St. 1812. 4 p.l., 5-180 p. 24º.

=NBHD=

Published to aid the author to study for the ministry.

---- Urania, or The true use of poesy; a poem. By B. Allen, Jun. New-York: Published by A. H. Inskeep, and Bradford & Inskeep. Philadelphia. 1814. 3 p.l., (1)8-192 p. 24º.

=NBHD=

Page 8 is wrongly numbered p. 5.

=Allen=, Mrs. Brasseya, 1760 or 1762-18--? Pastorals, elegies, odes, epistles, and other poems. By Mrs. Allen. (Copy right secured.) Abingdon, (Md.): Printed by Daniel P. Ruff. 1806. 5 p.l., (1)10-163 p. 16º.

=NBHD=

Dedicated to Thomas Jefferson.

=Allen=, James, 1739-1808. An intended inscription written for the monument on Beacon-Hill in Boston, and addressed to the passenger. (In: American poems, selected and original. Litchfield, 1793. 12º. p. 199-201.)

=Reserve= and =NBH=

Also printed in _The Columbian muse_, New York, 1794,
p. 146-147, _NBH_, and in Samuel Kettell, _Specimens of
American poetry_, Boston, 1829, v. 1, p. 170-171, _NBH_.

---- Lines on the [Boston] massacre. (In: Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American poetry. Boston, 1829. 12º. v. 1, p. 162-165.)

=NBH=

Written in 1772 but not published till 1782.

---- [Poem] On Washington's visit to Boston, 1789. (In: Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American poetry. Boston, 1829. 12º. p. 171-173.)

=NBH=

---- Poem, written in Boston, at the commencement of the late Revolution. (In: American poems, selected and original. Litchfield, 1793. 12º. p. 193-199.)

=Reserve= and =NBH=

---- The retrospect. (In: Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American poetry. Boston, 1829. 12º. v. 1, p. 165-170.)

=NBH=

=Allen=, Paul, 1775-1826. Original poems, serious and entertaining. By Paul Allen, A.M. Published according to act of Congress. Printed by Joshua Cushing, Salem, 1801. 2 p.l., (i)vi-xi, 141 p. 16º.

=Reserve= and =NBHD=

---- A poem, delivered in the Baptist Meeting House in Providence, September 4th A. D. 1793, being the anniversary commencement of Rhode Island College. By Paul Allen. (In: Massachusetts magazine. Boston, 1793. 8º. October, 1793, p. 594-599.)

=Reserve=

=Allston=, Washington, 1779-1843. The sylphs of the seasons, with other poems. By W. Allston. First American from the London edition. Boston: Published by Cummings and Hilliard, No. 1, Cornhill. Cambridge.... Hilliard & Metcalf. 1813. 2 p.l., (i)vi-vii p., 1 l., (1)12-168 p. 12º.

=NBHD=

The first edition was published in London, 1813.

_Contents_: The sylphs of the seasons, a poet's
dream, p. 11-43.--The two painters, a tale,
p. 45-86.--Eccentricity, p. 87-113.--The paint-king,
p. 115-129.--Myrtilla, p. 131-141.--To a lady, who
spoke slightingly of poets, p. 143-147.--Sonnets,
p. 149-154.--The mad lover at the grave of his mistress,
155-158.--First love, a ballad, p. 159-161.--The complaint,
p. p. 162-164.--Will, the maniac, a ballad, p. 165-168.

---- Lectures on art, and poems, by Washington Allston. Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. New York: Baker and Scribner, 1850. xi, 380 p. 8º.

=NBI=

In addition to the poems mentioned in the previous
entry, includes _America to Great Britain_. This poem,
written in 1810, was inserted by Coleridge in the first
edition of his _Sibylline leaves_, London, 1817, p. 276-278,
with the following note: "This poem, written by an American
gentleman, a valued and dear friend, I communicate to the
reader for its moral, no less than its poetic spirit."

=Alsop=, George, b. 1638. A character of the province of Maryland, wherein is described in four distinct parts, (viz.) I. The situation, and plenty of the province. II. The laws, customs, and natural demeanor of the inhabitant. III. The worst and best usage of a Maryland servant, opened in view. IV. The traffique, and vendable commodities of the countrey. Also a small treatise on the wild and naked Indians (or Susquehanokes) of Mary-Land, their customs, manners, absurdities, & religion. Together with a collection of historical letters. By George Alsop. London, Printed by T. J. for Peter Dring, at the sign of the Sun in the Poultrey: 1666. 10 p.l., 118 p., 2 l., 1 port. (8º.)

=Reserve=

1 facsimile portrait inserted.

Poems on the following pages: p.l. 6-7; p. 26, 44-45,
55, 75-80, 82-83, 103-104, 108-111.

---- ---- A new edition with an introduction and copious historical notes. By John Gilmary Shea.... New York: William Gowans, 1869. 125 p., 1 map, 1 port. 8º. (Gowans' Bibliotheca Americana, no. 5.)

=ISG= and =IAG=

Includes a type-facsimile title-page.

Reissued as _Fund publication_, no. 15, of the Mary-land
Historical Society, _IAA_.

---- ---- Reprinted from the original edition of 1666. With introduction and notes by Newton D. Mereness.... Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1902. 113 p., 1 map, 1 pl., 1 port. 8º.

=ISG=

Includes a reduced photo-facsimile of original
title-page.

No. 145 of 250 copies printed.

=Alsop=, Richard, 1761-1815. The charms of fancy: a poem in four cantos, with notes. By Richard Alsop. Edited from the original manuscripts, with a biographical sketch of the author, by Theodore Dwight. New York: D. Appleton and Company, M.DCCC.LVI. xii p., 1 l., (1)14-214 p. 8º.

=NBHD=

This poem was mostly written before 1788.

---- Elegy. (In: E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck, Cyclopædia of American literature. New York, 1866. 8º. v. 1, p. 497.)

=NBB=

---- An elegy written in February 1791. (In: American poems, selected and original. Litchfield, 1793. 12º. p. 251-255.)

=Reserve= and =NBH=

Also printed in _The Columbian muse_, New York, 1794,
p. 190-194, _NBH_.

---- Extract from the Conquest of Scandinavia; being the introduction to the fourth book. (In: American poems, selected and original. Litchfield, 1793. 12º. p. 272-284.)

=Reserve= and =NBH=

---- Habakkuk, chap. III. (In: American poems, selected and original. Litchfield, 1793. 12º. p. 263-264.)

=Reserve= and =NBH=

---- The incantation of Ulfo. From the Conquest of Scandinavia. (In: Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American poetry. Boston, 1829. 12º. v. 2, p. 61-67.)

=NBH=

---- A poem; sacred to the memory of George Washington, late president of the United States, and commander in chief of the armies of the United States. Adapted to the 22d of Feb. 1800. By Richard Alsop. Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin. 1800. 23 p. 8º.

=Reserve=

This poem was delivered by Richard Alsop before the
citizens of Middletown, Conn., at the memorial service of
February 22, 1800.

---- Twilight of the Gods; or Destruction of the world, from the Edda, a system of ancient Scandinavian mythology. (In: American poems, selected and original. Litchfield, 1793. 12º. p. 265-272.)

=Reserve= and =NBH=

---- Verses to the shearwater--on the morning after the storm at sea. (In: Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American poetry. Boston, 1829. 12º. v. 2, p. 60-61.)

=NBH=

---- Versification of a passage from the fifth book of Ossian's Temora. (In: American poems, selected and original. Litchfield, 1793. 12º. p. 255-262.)

=Reserve= and =NBH=

---- _See also_ The =Echo=; The =Political= greenhouse for the year 1798.

An =American=, pseud. Crystalina; a fairy tale. _See_ Harney, John Milton.

An =American=, pseud. _See_ =Oppression=, a poem.

An =American=, pseud. _See_ =Prime=, Benjamin Young.

=American= poems, selected and original. Vol. 1. Litchfield: Printed by Collier and Buel. [1793.] (The copy right secured as the Act directs.) viii, 304 p., 4 l. 12º.

=Reserve= and =NBH=

No more published.

"The first general collection of poetry ever attempted
in this country."--C. W. Everest, _Poets of Connecticut_,
Hartford, 1843, p. 103.

The editorship is attributed by Everest to Dr. Elihu
Hubbard Smith, but the postscript to the preface of the work
p. [vi] refers to "the ill health of one of the editors."

The Reserve copy contains the autographs of Daniel
Crocker, Samuel Austin, and Samuel G. Drake.

_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.--Country meeting,
by T. C. James.--Written at 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.

The =American= poetical miscellany. Original and selected. Philadelphia: Published by Robert Johnson, C. & A. Conrad & Co. and Mathew Carey, booksellers and stationers. 1809. 1 p.l., (1)4-304 p. 16º.

=NBH=

John Binns, printer.

Includes the following poems by American authors:

The burning of Fairfield, by D. Humphreys.--Mercy, by
Salleck Osborn.--Eulogium on rum, by Joseph Smith.--The
country meeting, by T. C. James.--The house of sloth, by
Timothy Dwight.--Extract from a dramatic manuscript, by
Salleck Osborn.

=American= taxation [a poem], 1765. (In: E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck, Cyclopædia of American literature. New York, 1866. 8º. v. 1, p. 461-463.)

=NBB=

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

Also printed in Frank Moore, _Songs and ballads of the
American Revolution_, New York, 1856, p. 1-17, _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. 12º.)

=Reserve=

Reprinted in Stedman and Hutchinson, _A library of
American literature_, New York, 1889, v. 2, p. 425-427,
_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. 12º.)

=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. 12º.)

=Reserve=

---- The waking of sun. (In his: An astronomical diary, or An almanac for the year of our Lord Christ, 1739. Boston, 1739. 12º.)

=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. 24º.

=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)4-69 p. 8º.

=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 Hapwood, from
a drawing by Major André, ornamented by Shirt.

The _Cow-chace_ appeared originally in _The Royal
Gazette_, in the following numbers: Canto I, Aug. 16, 1780;