Poems by Philip Freneau (1752 - 1832)

A View of Rhode Island
Columbus at Cat Island
Congress Hall, N.Y.
Cuba
Hatteras
Jamaica
Maryland
Neversink
On Arriving in South Carolina, 1798
On the Beauties of Santa Cruz
On the British Blockade
On the City Encroachments in the River Hudson
On the Demolition of an Old College
On the demolition of Fort George
On the Federal City
On the Naval Attack near Baltimore
On the Peak of Pico
On the Peak of Teneriffe
Pennsylvania
Pestilence
Pewter Platter Alley
Port Royal
Pyramids of Egypt
Santa Cruz
St Catharines
Stanzas Written at the Island of Madeira
Terra Vulpina
The Battle of Stonington
The Bay Islet
The Bermuda Islands
The Serious Menace
To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw

Born in New York, Freneau studied at Princeton. He was a passionate supporter of American independence, writing pamphlets against the British, as well as less political poetry. He lived for two years on St Croix. He also fought against the British by sea, as a privateer.