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'Comic Book' Poems to Antique Postcards
Henry's Original Manuscript
'Night Before Christmas' to Antique Editions
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| POEM | DATE | FIRST LINE | LINES | NOTES |
| Easter | 1784 | WHEN JESUS bow'd his awful head | 36 | 11 Apr 1784 |
| Job | 1776 | TWAS night. And thickest gloom prevail'd around. | 20 | |
| Invitation to the Country CBV | The winter all surly is flown, | 56 | ||
| Nine Sisters Rebus | Take the name of nine sisters that romp on Parnassus, | 20 | ||
| Habakkuk | THO frosts destroy or blasts invade, | 24 | ||
| Isaiah | In that ecstatic, joyous day, | 36 | ||
| Lo From the East | Lo from the East the sun appears | 28 | ||
| Montgomery Tappan | 1784 | The sweetest, gentlest, of the youthful train, | 20 | Montgomery Tappen died 20 Nov 1784 |
| Memory of Sarah Livingston CBV | 1783 | BEYOND where billows roll or tempests vex | 16 | Sally died 1 Sep 1783; not clear when poem written |
| Memory of Henry Welles Livingston CBV | A gentle spirit now above | 16 | Henry died 6 Jan 1778; not clear when poem written | |
| Queen of Love Rebus | FAIRER than the queen of love, | 24 | ||
| Deity Rebus | Take the name of the Deity lovers obey | 20 | ||
| Joanna's 33rd Year CBV | 1786 | On this thy natal day permit a friend | 16 | 33rd year can't be 33rd birthday by mss chronology |
| Sally's Wren | Hasty pilgrim stop thy pace | 20 | ||
| Frontier Settlement CBV | YES, yes my swain, thy faithful wife's prepar'd | 26 | ||
| Apollo Rebus | The mount where old Homer has station'd Apollo: | 30 | ||
| Timmy CBV | 1785 | Master Timmy brisk and airy | 32 | 7 Dec 1785 |
| The Dance CBV | 1786 | Take the name of the swain a forlorn witless elf | 33 | |
| A Valentine CBV | WELLCOME wellcome happy day | 22 | ||
| Gentleman Leaving Pakepsy | 1786 | In summer the aerial musicians around | 41 | |
| Hero Rebus | 1786 | That hero whose great & magnanimous mind | 38 | |
| Letter to Brother Beekman CBV | 1786 | To my dear brother Beekman I sit down to write | 47 | |
| The Vine & Oak | A vine from noblest lineage sprung | 68 | ||
| To Spadille CBV | Thou little four-led'd paltry varlet | 26 | ||
| War Rebus | 1786 | Take the name of that hero who dreadful in war | 38 | |
| Sages Rebus | 1786 | Take the name of that planet which sages declare | 32 | |
| 1787 New Year's Address CBV | 1786 | Before the friends of Mr. Power | 60 | |
| To Anne CBV | 1786 | To his charming black-ey'd niece | 12 | Anne Duyckinck was born 26 Dec 1776 |
| Acknowledgment CBV | 1787 | With the ladies' permission most humbly I'd mention | 26 | |
| Mistress Van Kleeck | 1787 | My very good landlady, Mistress Van Kleeck, | 26 | Jan 1787 |
| Parody "Death of Wolfe" | In a mouldering cave where the wretched retreat | 16 | ||
| The Fly | 1787 | As on a summer's fervid day | 26 | Valentine? |
| Careless Philosopher's Soliloquy CBV | 1787 | rise when I please, when I please I lie down | 14 | Guarantees Henry is R by publication |
| Belle CBV | If ever 'twas proper and lawful and decent | 14 | ||
| Frontier Song CBV | Let statesmen tread their giddy round | 16 | ||
| Alcmena Rebus | The son of Alcmena, the champion of fable, | 30 | ||
| Rispah | 1794 | FROM morn to eve from eve to rosy morn | 20 | Death of Daughter Cornelia, 28 Apr 1794 |
| To Miss CBV | 1789 | Hail! pride of each lass & the wish of each swain | 12 | |
| Procession | 1789 | The legislators pass along | 34 | |
| To Miss (Roses) CBV | 1789 | Sweet as op'ning roses are, | 14 | |
| Marriage CBV | 1790 | Twas summer, when softly the breezes were blowing, | 30 | Helen married Jonas Platt, Jun 1790 |
| Monarchs Rebus | 1790 | The wisest of monarchs yet weakest of men, | 18 | |
| On My Little Catharine Sleeping | 1775 | Sweet Innocent lye still & sleep, | 22 | 9 Sep 1775 |
| Dialogue | Pray dearest mother if you please | 20 | Wife Jane and her children | |
| The Frog King | 1814 | The frogs, of calm & quiet tir'd, | 36 | Original on envelope; after Sep 1825 |
| Original Poems | 1814 | The frogs, of calm & quiet tir'd, | 12 | Original on envelope; after Sep 1825; shows creation process |
| A Fable. (Bats) | 1827 | When time was young the story goes | 39 | Apr 1827 |
| Scots Wha Hae Wie Wallace Bled CBV | 1827 | In arts and arms Escotia stands | 20 | |
| The Crane & Fox | 1827 | In long gone years a fox and crane | 71 | 19 Feb 1827 |
| God is Love CBV | 1827 | I love my feeble voice to raise | 32 | |
| Midas | 1827 | The miser Midas to his store | 30 | |
| Without Distinction CBV | 1827 | I love my feeble voice to raise | 6 | |
| Gilbert Cortlandt | 1786 | BEYOND where billows roll or tempests vex | 14 | Death of 1st cousin, 12 Nov 1786; based off Sally's poem |
| Catharine Breese Livingston | 1814 | We fondly nurs'd an op'ning rose, | 4 | Death of younger daughter Catharine, 13 Sep 1814; tombstone |
| Catharine Livingston Breese | 1808 | Her little bark on Life's wide Ocean tossed, | 12 | Death of elder daughter Catharine, 21 Aug 1808; based off mother's poem |
| Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas | 1806 | 'Twas the Night Before Christmas | 56 |
Written about 1806; Published 23 Dec 1823 out of Moore's home; Attributed by descendant attribution and style |
| Marriage Tax CBV | With tears in my eyes I the other day saw | 25 | R; published 4 Apr 1787 | |
| The Writing of Hezekiah | WHEN blooming health and chearful days | 28 | R; published 15 Apr 1788 | |
| Song. Tune, German Spa. CBV | Shrew'd remarkers often say | 24 | R; published Mar 1791 | |
| Arabella | Blooming as the youthful May, | 16 | R; published Feb 1793 | |
| Past is the Hour CBV | PAST is the hour, forever flown, | 36 | R; published 6 Aug 1794 | |
| Acrostic on Eliza Hughes CBV | E v'ry grace in her combine, | 11 | R; published 12 Sep 1798 | |
| Acrostic on Maria Martin CBV | M UCH I admire, thou loveliest of the fair, | 11 | R; published 9 Aug 1794 | |
| 1803 PB Carrier Address CBV | 1802 | All hail to the season so jovial and gay | 83 | published 1803; attributed by granddaughter |
| 1819 PJ Carrier Address CBV | 1818 | TIME, with his pinions broad and strong | 104 | published 1819; inherited by descendants |
| Adventures of an American Eagle | In bleak Potosi's inmost cells | 81 | R; published 20 Mar 1822 | |
| 1788 PJ New Year's Piece | 1787 | And now our good patrons pray melt into pity | 14 | based on other poems (gods - ditty, sisters, airy parnassus) |
| 1807 PB Carrier's Address | 1806 | To the regions of Pluto, and banks of the Styx, | 81 | based on other poems (Dutch, listing categories - fee, adieu, pudding) |
| 1811 PJ Carrier's Address CBV | 1810 | Young Misses have their Valentine, | 108 | based on other poems (lists, changing rhythm - shiners, children's children, attend, deluge, ward off, sinks in, kind patrons) |
| 1815 PJ Carrier's Address CBV | 1814 | Young Misses have their Valentine, | 108 | based on other poems (changing rhythm - hie thee, tost, dispute, patrons, columbia) |
| 1816 PJ Carrier's Address | 1815 | FAREWELL, FIFTEEN, farewell forever! | 108 | based on other poems (changing rhythm - farewell, columbia, squadrons, columns, field (of battle), ensigns, bark/barque, soothe, the fair, fray, banner) |
| 1823 PJ Carrier's Address CBV | 1822 | An ancient sage was once requir'd | 136 | based on other poems (changing rhythm, lists - sage, (1816 portentous, varying) expiring, capacious, pity) |
| For the PJ Owner | Old Sloop the Poughkeepsie Journal, | 34 | based on other poems (ditty, rest the, attention, thunders roar, lightnings flash, billows, stand=land, safe within the .. port, adieu, anchor drop, hour=pow'r} | |
| Fair Adaline | FAIR Adaline sigh'd on her brave warrior's breast, | 40 | based on other poems (gleam-scene, arms-charms, alarms/arms, I'll fly to, rapture, sigh'd, victory, adieu, Victory, Pierc'd, convey'd, swell'd, with her charms, laurel, graces, in vain, fair one, all shrouded) | |
| Hope | 1817 | Amid the varying scenes of life, | 24 | by R; based on other poems (varying scene, To fright, Fair Hope (tears of science), life=strife, ground=around, above=dove, grief=relief, cure=sure, mind=mankind) |
| Robin CBV | 1788 | On sportive pinions once I flew, | 36 | signed New-York, based on other poems (day=pay, die=nigh, do=you, fed=head, food=wood, prevail=tale, pinions, once I, fatal, nigh, pierc'd, rear'd, chirping, serenely, pity, harden'd, refuge, I fly, in vain, rising day) |
| Christmas Hymn | 1801 | HARK! what glad sounds the dreary desart cheer, | 20 | Henry, Poughkeepsie, based on other poems (more=o'er, mind=mankind, enraptur'd, s/he flew, for our) |
| Filly and Wolf | 1822 | 'Twas on a May morn's earliest dawn, | 30 |
sounds like crane&fox; based on other poems (fly=sky, face=place, 'Well met' repetition like crane&fox,
Queen, Upon my, cries, full in, stood=food)
(repetitions: Well met sweet miss! Well met indeed, / A charming morning added he, A charming morning echo'd she; / must not, cannot, will not / You're young, you're very young, / biters should be bit / wit be doom'd to combat wit) / |
| A Fair Bargain | AS Satan was taking an airing one day | 28 | "And away they all flew, like the down of a thistle:"/"darted away in a blaze, like a rocket"; based on other poems (Unimpeded by me/unmolested by me; day=way, breast=confest, Columbia's, genius, blooming, To follow, their fate, gen'rous, already, fav'rite, a sigh, fears, confest, resign'd) | |
| Affectation | 1806 | I ONCE was told a damsel fair, | 127 | based on other poems (fair=care, more=x, tears=fears, house=mouse, o'er=before, cease=peace, jade, dropt, form'd, luckless, leisure, I blush, tore, o'erwhelm'd, despair, dropt, critic, compose, elf, acted o'er, attend, tattle, prattle, everlasting peace) |
| On the New-Year | 1802 | LO! from the east, sol's radiant beams appear, | 20 | almost identiical first line to Lo from the east; based on other poems (propitious, Demands, Stript, forlorn, piercing, wrapt, Soars, varying, appear=year, around=sound, plan=man, charms=arms, fire=admire, year=appear) |
| Hannibal Rebus and Soln | 1795 | THE name of a general famed of old, | 35 | poem signed Climax, solution unsigned; poem and solution have a near-rhyme; based on other poems (measure=pleasure, renowned, abus'd, Columbia, Vintner, fame) |
| New-York Rebus and Soln | 1791 | TAKE a city once founded on Victory's field, | 98 | year Henry published most in NYMLR; poem signed A.B.; soln signed New-York; BUT: feels clunky; based on other poems (field=yield, Victory, reign'd, Commerce, tyrants, Freedom, turrets, extatic (ecstatic), spheres) |
| The Rose and Snail | 1822 | A Snail thus once addressed a Rose: | 36 | BUT: not a rhyme scheme he prefers; based on other poems (he doesn't use second 'the' in title, fond embrace) |
| Tears of Science |
bef. 1806 |
At the seat of instruction, where once she was blest, | 48 | lists Political Barometer in which he publishes; BUT published 1806 when Eliza and Jane too young, Henry Welles could be boy; based on other poems (began=man, came=fame, eyes=arise, design'd=mankind, despair=fair) |
| Tipple and Smoke | 1799 | WITH a pipe of Virginia, how happy am I, | 32 | PJ 15 Jan 1799; Henry writes songs and likes cigars; based on other poems (away=day, shares name=fame with Hannibal and NY Rebus, thy name, glows, shares envelop'd w NY Rebus, crown'd) |
| A Receipt for Writing Novels | TAKE a heroine, free from the tincture of vice, | 41 | based on other poems (loose; tho'; cormorants; chearing; Renown'd; meek; thunder; woe; colour, life=strife, breath=death) | |
| 1809 PJ Carrier's Address | 1808 | LAST night father Time, from his old tablet drew, | 84 | Inherited by the Thomas family; negative tone might be after death of daughter Catharine; based on other poems (Genius, Kind patrons, pother, sigh'd, halter, flood=stood, more=.., flown=.., pother=brother) |
| 1787 PA Carrier's Address | 1786 | THROUGH wet and dry, and frost and snows, | 20 | based on other poems (increase, Happy Year, contending, commerce, trade, arts, rage=x, year=cheer, night=light) |
| 1804 PB Carrier's Address | 1803 | As round the changing seasons roll, | 103 | based on other poems (lists, gilt fane-gilt turret, charm-purses, fountain, lawyers-fees, stop!, Columbia's, serenely, x-array, millions, lave) |
| 1805 PB Carrier's Address | 1804 | GOOD morning EIGHTEEN HUNDRED FIVE, | 150 | based on other poems (despot, surly, your poet, bestride, sooty, Forsook, Puff, assail'd, curs, Seiz'd) |
| Cant Phrases | 1795 | AS sound as a nut, o'er the plain | 40 | earliest known 1795, Weekly Museum & PJ; reprinted endlessly; use of 'parody' as 'paraphrase'; near rhymes; based on other poems (plain=x, vale=pale, plains=swains, molasses, button, fates, With passion) |
Copyright © 2014, Mary S. Van Deusen
