. The poets and poetry in America, to the middle of the nineteenth century. ghis shorter pieces is the following Prophecy,written while he was in England, in 1773— Hail, happy Britain, Freedoms blest retreat; Great is thy power, thy wealth, thy glory great, But wealth and power have no immortal day, For all things ripen only to decay. And when that time arrives, the lot of all, When Britains gloryv power, and wealth shall fall; Then shall thy sons by Fates unchanged decree In other worlds another Britain see, And what thou art, America shall be. From this account of the poets and poetryof our
. The poets and poetry in America, to the middle of the nineteenth century. ghis shorter pieces is the following Prophecy,written while he was in England, in 1773— Hail, happy Britain, Freedoms blest retreat; Great is thy power, thy wealth, thy glory great, But wealth and power have no immortal day, For all things ripen only to decay. And when that time arrives, the lot of all, When Britains gloryv power, and wealth shall fall; Then shall thy sons by Fates unchanged decree In other worlds another Britain see, And what thou art, America shall be. From this account of the poets and poetryof our ante-revolutionary period, it will be seenthat until the spirit of freedom began to influ-j ence the national character, very little verseworthy of preservation was produced in Ame-rica. The poetry of the colonies was with-out originality, energy, feeling, or correctnessof diction. POETS AND POETRY OF AMERICA. THROUGH THE GROWING PRESENTWESTWARD THE STARRY PATH OP POESY LIES ;HER GLORIOUS SPIRIT, LIKE THE EVENING CRESCENT,OOMES ROUNDING UP THE SKIES. T. B. REAI>. o2. PHILIP FRENEAU. [Born, 1752. Died, 1832.] Philip Freneau* was the most distinguishedpoet of our revolutionary time. He was a volumi-nous writer, and many of his compositions areintrinsically worthless, or, relating to persons andevents now forgotten, are no longer interesting;but enough remain to show that he had moregenius and more enthusiasm than any other bardwhose powers were called into action during thegreat struggle for liberty. He was of French extraction. His grandfather apious and intelligent Huguenot, came to Americaimmediately after the revocation of the edict ofNantz, in company with a number of Protestantgentlemen, who on their arrival founded the oldchurch of Saint Esprit, in New York, and after-ward, I believe, the pleasant village of New Ro-chelle, near that city. The poet was born on thefifteenth of January, in the year 1752. His fatherdied while he was yet a child, but his mother at-tended c
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