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                        THE
                   NEW-YORK BOOK
                         OF
                       POETRY.

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        "Patriae fumus igne alieno luculentior."
                   _______________


                       NEW-YORK.
             GEORGE DEARBORN, PUBLISHER,
                  NO. 38 GOLD STREET.

                        _______

                         1837.


                       NEW-YORK:
           Printed by SCATCHERD & ADAMS,
                   No. 38 Gold Street.




  ADVERTISEMENT.

The work here presented to the Public is compiled from the poetical
writings of natives of the State of New-York. The chief object in making
the collection was to give 'a local habitation and a name' to fugitive
pieces, which, though deemed worthy of being thus preserved, have
hitherto been circulated in the newspapers and periodicals solely. It
was thought well, however, by way of giving completeness to the work, to
embody with the rest specimens of those New-York poets whose writings
have been already collected in another shape. The design of executing
such a work only suggested itself to the Publisher a fortnight before
the last sheet was put to press; and as he was desirous that THE
NEW-YORK BOOK should appear at the season when the annuals and other
similar publications are most in request, those who have aided him in
the compilation have perhaps vainly attempted to make up in industry for
the want of time. Under the most favourable circumstances, however, it
would be idle to attempt making such a collection what it ought to be in
a single volume. The field of our Anthology is wider than any casual
observer could conceive; and even in thus rapidly exploring it, the
sources of so many new specimens have been indicated that it is hoped
the reception of this volume will be such as to warrant the Publisher in
soon following it up by another of the same character.

  _38 Gold Street, Dec. 24, 1836._




      LIST OF WRITERS.
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  Arden Francis

  Bailey, J. I.
  Barker, Robert
  Bleecker, Mrs. Ann E.
  Bleecker, Anthony
  Bloodgood, S. De Witt
  Bogart, A. H.
  Bogart, David S.
  Bogart, W. H. L.
  Bogart, Elizabeth
  Brooks, J. G.
  Brooks, Miss Mary E.
  Blauvelt, A. L.

  Clark, Willis G.
  Clinch, Elizabeth C.
  Crosswell, Rev. William
  Clason, Isaac

  Davidson, Lucretia M.
  Doane, Rt. Rev. G. W.
  Drake, J. R.
  Duer, William

  Ellet, Mrs. E. F.
  Embury, Emma C.

  Fay, Theodore S.
  Faugeres, Margaretta V.

  Hawes, W. P.
  Hoffman, C. F.

  Irving, Washington
  Inman, John

  Low, Samuel
  Lawrence, Jonathan, Jr.
  Leggett, William
  Livingston, William

  Morris, George P.
  Morton, General Jacob
  Murray, Lindley
  Mitchell, Dr. Samuel L.
  Moore, Clement C.

  Nack, James

  Park, Roswell
  Paulding, J. K.

  Sanford, Edward
  Sands, R. C.
  Seymour, D.
  Slidell, Thomas
  Street, A. B.
  Stone, William L.
  Strong, George D.
  Sutermeister, J. R.

  Tucker, T. W.

  Vining, W. H.
  Van Schaick, J. B.
  Verplanck, Gulian




                               CONTENTS.
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                                                                  PAGE
  Anacreontic,                                                      10
  Anacreontic,                                                     172
  Address to Black Hawk,                                            11
  Address to a Musquito,                                            27
  A Poet's Epistle,                                                 37
  A Roman Chariot Race,                                             59
  Affection wins affection,                                         71
  Ah No! Ah No! To a favourite Child,                              146
  A Health,                                                        147
  A Hymn,                                                          149
  A Song of May,                                                   152
  A Visit from St. Nicholas,                                       217
  Appeal,                                                          229

  Byron,                                                           103
  Bronx,                                                           122
  Ballad,                                                          191

  Chansonette,                                                      50
  Canzonet,                                                        201
  Crossing the Alleghanies,                                        204

  Drink and away,                                                  107
  Despondency,                                                     164
  Death of the First-Born,                                         238

  Elegiac Lines,                                                   151
  Epitaph upon