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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780217305297
ISBN: 0217305296
Label: General Books LLC
Manufacturer: General Books LLC
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 318
Publication Date: August 11, 2009
Publisher: General Books LLC
Studio: General Books LLC
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART I EARLY POEMS ! 768-1775 Vol. I POEMS OF PHILIP FRENEAU THE HISTORY OF THE PROPHET JONAH1 Versified (or rather paraphrased) from the sacred writings. Canto I. In ages past, when smit with warmth sublime, Their bards foretold the dark events of time, And piercing forward through the mystic shade, Kings yet to come, and chiefs unborn survey'd, Amittai's son perceiv'd, among the rest, The mighty flame usurp his labouring breast: For this, in dreams, the voice unerring came Of Him, who lives through every age the same: " Arise! and o'er the intervening waste, " To Nineveh's imperial turrets haste ; " That mighty town to ruin I decree, " Proclaim destruction, and proclaim from me: " Too long it stands, to God and man a foe, " Without one virtue left to shield the blow; 1 Found only in the 1786, 1795, and 1809 editions of the poet. The 1786 edition has the note : '' This is rather to be considered as a paraphrase upon than a mere versification of the story of the Bible. Done in the year 1768." " Guilt, black as night, their speedy ruin brings, " And hottest vengeance from the King of Kings." The prophet heardbut dared to disobey, (Weak as he was) and fled a different way; In Joppa's port a trading ship he found Far o'er the main to distant Tarshish bound: The price of passage to her chief he paid, And there conceal'd with wandering sailors stay'd, His purpose fixt, at once perverse and blind, To leave his country, and his God behind. But He who spread the ocean's vast expanse, And views-all nature with a single glance, Forth from its prison bade the tempest fly The tempest swell'd the ocean to the sky; The trembling barque, as the fierce billow knocks, Scarce bears the fury of repeated shocks; Her crew distrest, astonish'd and afraid, Each t...
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EAN: 9780217305297
ISBN: 0217305296
Label: General Books LLC
Manufacturer: General Books LLC
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 318
Publication Date: August 11, 2009
Publisher: General Books LLC
Studio: General Books LLC