Author: Major Henry Livingston

HORACE. While I was pleasing to your arms, Nor any youth, of happier charms, Thy snowy bosom blissful prest, Not […]

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, on the death of a little serenading wren she admired. Hasty pilgrim stop thy […]

An elegy on the death of MONTGOMERY TAPPEN who dies at Poughkeepsie on the 20th of Nov. 1784 in the […]

Believe me, dear patrons, I have wand’red too far, Without any compass, or planet or star; My dear native village […]

A gentle spirit now above Once animated what lies here Till heav’n announc’d in tenderest love “Ascend Immortal to yon […]

In long gone years a fox and crane Were bound in friendship’s golden chain; Whene’er they met, the fox would […]

Hail sov’reign love that first began, The scheme to rescue fallen man; Hail matchless, free, eternal grace, That gave my […]

Take the name of the swain, a forlorn witless elf Who was chang’d to a flow’r for admiring himself. A […]

BEYOND where billows roll or tempests vex Is gone the gentlest of the gentle sex! – Her brittle bark on […]

I rise when I please, when I please I lie down, Nor seek, what I care not a rush for, […]

A vine from noblest lineage sprung And with the choicest clusters hung, In purple rob’d, reclining lay, And catch’d the […]

With the ladies’ permission, most humbly I’d mention How much we’re obliged by all their attention; We sink with the […]

‘Twas summer, when softly the breezes were blowing, And Hudson majestic so sweetly was flowing, The groves rang with music […]

My very good landlady, Mistress Van Kleeck, (For the tears that o’erwhelm me I scarcely can speak) I know that […]

Master Timmy brisk and airy Blythe as Oberon the fairy On thy head thy cousin wishes Thousand and ten thousand […]

Of RISPAH. (who had been the concubine of King SAUL) when DAVID hanged her children, because their father had done […]

“Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro’ the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The […]

The legislators pass along A solemn, self-important throng! Just raised from the common mass, They feel themselves another class. But […]

On this thy natal day permit a friend – A brother – with thy joys his own to blend: In […]

E v’ry grace in her combine, L ove and truth and friendship join, I n one source without reserve, Z […]

Children Pray dearest mother if you please Cut up your double-curded cheese, The oldest of the brotherhood. It’s ripe, no […]