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<dl><dd>CONTENTS</dd></dl><p>The Muse of Poesy 13 
Fame 14 
Hope 16 
The Mother 17 
Woman's worth 18 
The Wandering Minstrel 19 
Love 20 
Prayer for Greece 21 
Female Charms 22 
The Lexington 23 
Death of McDonough 26 
Christ on Calvary 27 
The Dream 37 
Retrospection 38 
The Steamboat Medora 39 
The Bible 45 
Daniel Webster 47 
O Erin, arise 49 
The dying Deist 50 
St. Paul at Athens 52 
The Ruins of Time 54 
The Last Patriot 61 
Death of the Boston Bard 62 
Address to the Moon 63 
The Light of Masonry 65 
The Steamship President 67 
Henry Clay 72 
Beauty's Semblance 73 
The Triumphs of Learning 74 
Beauty 83 
The Heart-broken Bard 84 
The wonderful Clock 85 
The grandeur of God 87 
Napoleon Bonaparte 88 
Crazy Mary 89 
Woman 92 
Delaware 93 
Conversations with a Lady in Green Mount 94 
The Children of the Forest 103 
O let me weep 104 
Mahmoud II 106 
To my Mother 110 
The Drowned Lovers 111 
The Dream of other days 113 
The Neglected Wife 115 
The Post Office 117 
John Quincy Adams 119 
Love's Pilgrimage round the world 121 
Three Score and Ten 121 
A Mother's Loye 128 
My Mother's Voice 129 
The Broken Heart 131 
Thoughts on hearing the Town-clock strike at midnight 133 
The Battle of Brandywine 134 
To Estelle, (No. I.) 139 
A Woman's Heart 141 
To Mrs. L of Baltimore street, who sent me a handsome present 144 
To the South street Beauty 145 
Benjamin Franklin 146 
To Estelle, (No. II.). 147 
To Holden B. Hill 149 
To my Mother 150 
To the Charles street Beauty 152 
Lines on a Human Skull with a candle in it 154 
The Baltimore Beauty 156 
Cupid in Exile 157 
To the Franklin street Beauty 158 
To my Mother 159 
The Triumph of Genius. 161 
Last Lines of the Bard 162 
To a Gentleman who asked me to take some Brandy, (No. I.) 163 
The Damning Bowl 165 
To Miss M. E. G 166 
A Flight of Fancy 168 
An Essay on the Mind and Brain 170 
To the Cottage Maid  178 
Memory. To Ellen of other years. 180 
John Gilpin, junior 184 
Lines to her who will understand them 186 
To Julia, who sent me her card, &amp;c 188 
The Saviour 189 
The Dream 191 
Lines on seeing the sunlight fall on the Statue of Washington on the 4th of July 193 
The Infidel Son 194 
Lines to a beautiful Lady who wept, &amp;c. 197 
The Dying Year 198 
The Flowers 199 
The Farewell, written for a lady's Album in Virginia 202 
Lines on the Death of a Young Lady 203 
The Girl I met in Market street 204 
Slander 205 
The Dreadful Dragon 206 
Virtue 208 
A Poet's Garret 209 
Answer to the question — "What is the beau ideal of a Poet's fancy?" 212 
I am Free 213 
Answer to Ephraim Grate, Esq 215 
The Stolen Kiss 216 
Miller's World on Fire 218 
The Cathedral Bell, Baltimore 220 
What is God? 222 
The Sisters of Charity 223 
The Infant Saviour 225 
My Mother 226 
To a Gentleman who asked me take some Brandy, (No. II.). 227 
Love's Changes 229 
An Essay on the Nature of Man. 230 
Commodore Porter 237 
Lines to the Lady (a stranger) who expressed so much regard for me 238 
The Tombs in Green Mount 240 
O There are Tears 242 
What is Charity? 243 
To the Duellist 244 
Blighted Joys 245 
The Fair Gondolier 247 
Charms of the Fair 249 
To Mrs. D 250 
The Revenge 251 
Ellen 252 
The Gladiator 254 
Fancy 256 
The Advent of Christ 258 
The Patriot 261 
Winter's Coming 262 
Real Pleasure 263 
Concealed Affection 265 
The Boston Bard, 266 
Memory of Decatur 267 
Philosophy of Mesmerism 268 
The Son of the Sea 275 
Departure of La Fayette  276 
Greece 277 
Bolivar 278 
To a Lady who rejected my Offering of Flowers 279 
All is vanity 280 
The Bandit's Cave 282 
The Slave Ship 283 
The Jubilee, and Death of Adams and Jefferson 285 
Song 286 
Melancholy 287 
A Fragment 288 
The Slave 290 
Female Tenderness 291 
Elegiac Lines on the Death of Rev. John Summerfield 292 
The War King 294 
Lines to a particular Friend, &amp;c 295 
Envy 296 
Pride 297 
Good Wishes 298 
The Birth of Christ 299 
The Silkworm 309 
To Amanda 310 
Pathetic Stanzas 312 
Song 314 
The Mother 315 
The Slanderer 316 
The Pledge 317 
What is Hope? 319 
Greece and Turkey 320 
The Grave of Dallam 321 
The Seasons 324 
Perfections of Clara 325 
Ombrelia and Ophelia 326 
To the Legislature of Delaware 328 
The Beehive 331 
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Lofland, John, 1798-1849</div>
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