PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. Most of the following poems have been already printed. The longest, entitled “The Ages," was published in 1821, in a thin volume, along with about half a dozen others now included in this collection. With a few exceptions, the remainder have since appeared in different publications, mostly of the periodical kind. The favour with which the public have regarded them, and of which their republication in various compilations seemed to the author a proof, has induced him to collect them into a volume. In preparing them for the press, he has made such corrections as occurred to him on subjecting them to a careful revision. Sensible as he is that no author had ever more cause of gratitude to his countrymen for the indulgent estimate placed by them on his literary attempts, he yet cannot let this go forth to the public without a feeling of apprehension that it may contain things which did not de serve admission, and that the entire collection may not be thought worthy of the generous and partial judgment which has been passed upon some of the separ ate poems. New-York, January, 1832. CONTENT S. Pago 13 28 31 34 The Ages, 37 39 44 46 50 55 59 61 63 65 67 70 72 78 81 83 85 89 92 94 95 97 99 102 Song—“Soon as the glazed and gleaming snow," Song--"Dost thou idly ask to hear,” From the Spanish of Pedro de Castro, &c. The Count of Greiers-From the German, Sonnet-From the Portuguese of Semedo, "Oh fairest of the rural maids," “ Upon the mountain's distant head,” Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood, “I broke the spell that held me long,” The Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus, “ Innocent Child and snow-white Flower," A Meditation on Rhode Island Coal, An Indian at the Burial-place of his Fathers, Sonnet—To Cole, the painter, departing for Europe, “I cannot forget with what fervid devotion,” Lines on revisiting the Country, The Twenty-second of December, Ode for an Agricultural Celebration, “No Man knoweth his Sepulchre,” |
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