xi
ANONYMOUS
The Cameleon Lover (I732) 41
The Cameleon's Defence (I732) 42
FRANCIS HOPKINSON
O'er the Hills 42
DANIEL BLISS
Epitaph of John Jack 43
ANONYMOUS
The Country School 43
SONGS AND HYMNS: TO 1775
The Lord to Mee a Shepherd ls (The Bay Psalm Book, 1640) 45
A Whaling Song (John Osborn, n.d.) 46
Christ the Apple-Tree (Anonymous, 1761) 47
Springfield Mountain (Irma Townsend Ireland, 1761) 48
Let Tyrants Shake (William Billings, 1770) 49
Wak'd by the Gospel's Joyful Sound (Samson Occom, 1774) 50
II - REVOLUTION AND THE EARLY
REPUBLIC: 1775-1825
JOHN TRUMBULL
from M'Fingal 55
from The Town-Meeting, A.M. 55
PHILIP FRENEAU
from George the Third's Soliloquy 57
from The House of Night-A Vision 58
from The British Prison Ship 60
The Vanity of Existence-To Thyrsis 61
The Hurricane 62
The Wild Honey Suckle 63
The Indian Burying Ground 63
On the Uniformity and Perfection of Nature 64
Epitaph for Jonathan Robbins 65
PHILLIS WHEATLEY
To the University of Cambridge in New England, America 67
America 68