Philip Freneau Death Poems
- 1. To Mr. Blanchard, The Celebrated Aeronaut In America
Nil mortalibus ardui est
Caelum ipsum petimus stultitia
Horace
... - 2. To Mr. Blanchard, The Celebrated Aeronaut In America
Nil mortalibus ardui est
Caelum ipsum petimus stultitia
Horace
... - 3. On The Universality And Other Attributes Of The God Of Nature
All that we see, about, abroad,
What is it all, but nature's God?
In meaner works discovered here
No less than in the starry sphere.
... - 4. On The Death Of Dr. Benjamin Franklin
Thus, some tall tree that long hath stood
The glory of its native wood,
By storms destroyed, or length of years,
Demands the tribute of our tears.
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