The IX Ode to Horace
HORACE. While I was pleasing to your arms, Nor any youth, of happier charms, Thy snowy bosom blissful prest, Not […]
Author: Major Henry Livingston
To My Little Niece Anne Duyckinck
To his charming black-eyed niece Uncle Harry wishest peace! Wishes roses over strow’d O’er her sublunary road! No rude winds […]
To My Little Niece Sally Livingston
To my little niece Sally Livingston, on the death of a little serenading wren she admired. Hasty pilgrim stop thy […]
An Elegy on the Death of Montgomery Tappen
An elegy on the death of MONTGOMERY TAPPEN who dies at Poughkeepsie on the 20th of Nov. 1784 in the […]
1819 New Year’s Carrier’s Address
Believe me, dear patrons, I have wand’red too far, Without any compass, or planet or star; My dear native village […]
To the Memory of Henry Welles Livingston
A gentle spirit now above Once animated what lies here Till heav’n announc’d in tenderest love “Ascend Immortal to yon […]
The Crane & The Fox, a Fable
In long gone years a fox and crane Were bound in friendship’s golden chain; Whene’er they met, the fox would […]
Hiding Place
Hail sov’reign love that first began, The scheme to rescue fallen man; Hail matchless, free, eternal grace, That gave my […]
The Dance
Take the name of the swain, a forlorn witless elf Who was chang’d to a flow’r for admiring himself. A […]
To the Memory of Sarah Livingston
BEYOND where billows roll or tempests vex Is gone the gentlest of the gentle sex! – Her brittle bark on […]