Volume 3 / Part 6 — B. LIST OF OMITTED POEMS.
Reading edition
It has been found necessary for various reasons to omit some of the poems that appear in the various editions of Freneau. For the most part this omitted material has no historic or poetic significance. Nothing would be gained by resurrecting it. It is only just to the poet, however, to state that aside from a single piece, nothing has been omitted on account of coarseness alone. In each case the earliest known title is given in the list that follows. When a title was significantly changed in later editions, the variation has been given in a foot note, with date of edition.
From the 1786 Edition.
Epitaph Intended for the Tombstone of Patrick Bay, an Irish Soldier and Innholder, Killed by an Ignorant Physician.—1769.[215]
Epitaph on Peter Abelard. From the Latin.
The Distrest Orator. [Occasioned by R—— A——'s memory failing him in the midst of a public discourse he had got by rote.][216]
The Retort.[217]
The Flagellators.
Humanity and Ingratitude; A Common Case. [From the French.] December 1784.[218]
Elegaic Verses on the Death of a favorite Dog, 1785.[219]
The Five Ages.
New Year's Verses, Addressed to the Customers of the Pennsylvania Evening Post, by the Printer's Lad who carries it. January 4, 1783.
The Literary Plunderers.[220]
From the 1788 Edition.
The Scornful Lady.
The Prisoner.
Few Honest Coblers; A Poem. In Imitation of Dr. Watts's Indian Philosopher.
The Almanac Maker.
Female Caprice; or, the Student's Complaint.
The Drunken Soldier. A Parody.
St. Preux to Eloisa.
The Fiddler's Farewell.[221]
The Modern Miracle.[222]
The Dull Moralist.[223]
The Misfortune of March. [Written in the pastoral style of the old British Poets.][224]
Elegaic Lines.
Highland Sawney.[225]
From the 1795 Edition.
Epistolary Lines on the Death of a Fiddler.
Farmer Dobbins's Complaint.
The Debtor's Soliloquy.
The Fair Buckle-Thief.
Advice to the Ladies, Not to Neglect the Dentist.
Lines to the memory of a young American Lady; who died soon after her Arrival in London.
The Market Girl.
Elegaic Stanzas on a Young Gentleman Drowned in a Mill-Pond.
The Drunkard's Apology.[226]
On a Painter who was Endeavouring to Recover, from Memory, the Features of a Deceased Young Lady.
Marriage A-la Mode; (Or the Run-a-way Match.)
The Bridge of Delaware.
Minerva's Advice.
Mars and Venus.
Charity A-la-Mode.[227]
The Invalid.
Under the Portraiture of Martha Ray.
Epistle to a Gay Young Lady that was Married to a Doating old Deacon.[228]
The Menace.[229]
The Prudent Philosopher.
The Origin of Wars.
Lines Written in a Severe February on a Shad, &c., caught in a Mild January.
Epitaph on Frederick the Second, late King of Prussia. [From the French.]
A Dialogue between Shadrach and Whiffle.
To the memory of a Lady.[230]
To Clarissa: a handsome Shop-Keeper.
To Cynthia.
To a Very Little Man, Fond of Walking with a Very Long Cane.
The Rural Bachelor.
To Messieurs Fungus, Froth, and Co.
Shadrach and Pomposo: A Tale.
On Pest-Eli-Hali, the Traveling Speculator.[231]
Elegiac lines on a Theological Script-Monger.
On the Approaching Dissolution of Transatlantic Jurisdiction in America.
From the 1809 Edition.
Translation of the Third Elegy of the First Book of Ovid's Tristia.
Description of the Plague which Happened at Athens ... From the Sixth Book of Lucretius on the Nature of Things.
Love's Suicide. Stanzas Intended for the Tomb Stone of a Person who Killed Himself in Consequence of his Suit being Rejected by a Young Lady.
Translation, from Ovid's Tristia. Book 3d, Elegy 3d.
Stanzas Written near a Certain Clergyman's Garden.
On a Nocturnal View of the Planet Jupiter, and several of his Satellites, through a Telescope.
The Fading Rose.
A College Story.
On a Man Killed by a Buffaloe (or wild Cow.)
To the Dog Sancho, on his being Wounded in the Head with a Sabre, in a Midnight Assault and Robbery, near the Neversink Hills, 1778.
Science, Favourable to Virtue.
Reflections on the Constitution, or Frame of Nature.
On the Powers of the Human Understanding.
Lines Written in a very Small Garden.
Nereus and Thetis.
A Usurer's Prayer.
Suicide: the Weakness of the Human Mind. A Marine Anecdote.
The Gougers: on Seeing a Traveller Gouged, and otherwise ill treated by some Citizens of Logtown, near a Pine Barren.
Lines written for Mr. Ricketts, on the Exhibitions at his Equestrian Circus.
Monumental Lines, Addressed to a Disconsolate Person, that was Successively Enamoured of Two Sisters, who Died of a Consumption within about Two Years of Each other, in the Prime of Youth and Beauty.
Esperanza's March: being Stanzas, Addressed to a Person who Complained "He was always unfortunate."
From the 1815 edition.
The New Age; or Truth Triumphant.
On Superstition.
The Royal Apprentice, A London Story.
The Modern Jehu; or, Nobility on Four Wheels.
On a Lady, Now Deceased, that had been both Deaf and Blind Many Years.
The Mistake; a Modern Short Story.
Lines written in a french novel, Adelaide and Durval.
Human Frailty.
On Happiness, as proceeding from the practice of Virtue.
Ode to Good Fortune.
Reflections on doctor Perkins' metallic points, or tractors.
Publius to Pollia. Supposed to have been written during a cruising expedition.
On the Uniformity and Perfection of Nature.
Translation of Gray's Ode, Written at the grand Chartreuse.
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature.
On the Religion of Nature.
The Reward of Innocence.
On the Evils of Human Life.
The Scurrilous Scribe.
Belief and Unbelief: humbly recommended to the serious consideration of creed makers.
Susanna's Tomb.
Stanzas on a Political Projector, who was making interest, to be employed on an embassy to Constantinople.
Nature's Debt.
New Year's Eve.
The Order of the Day: to readers of the history of wars ancient and modern.
The Bethlehemite; or, fair solitary.
The Hermit and the Traveller.
Lines on the Establishment of the New Theatre, and the management of the house being placed in the hands of Mr. Cooper.
The Musical Savage. Supposed to express, to the musician, the extatic emotions of a missouri indian, on his first hearing the violin played, or band of music, that accompanied captain Lewis on his expedition to the Columbia-River.
Epitaph on a worthy person, whose decease closed a series of fortune and misfortune in his 50th year.
Written at Poplar-Hill,—Pennsylvania.
The Blast of November. Occasioned by a fatal accident on the Hudson.
The Duelists.
On Seeing a Beautiful Print of a Shipwrecked Sailor sitting on a Rock.
Heaving the Lead: a Marine Story, Founded on Fact.
Translated from the Third Book of Lucretius de natura rerum, or, On the nature of Things.
The Two Genii: Addressed to a young Lady, of a consumptive habit, departing from New-York, by sea, for South-Carolina, in 1805.
The Hypochondriac.
On Finding a Terrapin in the Woods, which had A. D. 1756 Marked on the Back of his Shell.
Pythona: or the Prophetess of En-Dor.
To Ismenia.