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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A NEW YORK TORY TO HIS FRIEND IN PHILADELPHIA, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sir, I'm so anxious to hear of your health Last Line: The rebellion is done -- for the trumbull is taken! Subject(s): American Revolution | |||
DEAR Sir, I'm so anxious to hear of your health, I beg you would send me a letter by stealth: I hope a few months will quite alter the case, When the wars are concluded, we'll meet and embrace. For I'm led to believe from our brilliant success, And, what is as clear, your amazing distress, That the cause of rebellion has met with a check That will bring all its patrons to hang by the neck. Cornwallis has managed so well in the South, Those rebels want victuals to put in their mouth; And Arnold has stript them, we hear, to the buff -- Has burnt their tobacco, and left them -- the snuff. Dear Thomas, I wish you would move from that town Where meet all the rebels of fame and renown; When our armies, victorious, shall clear that vile nest You may chance, though a Tory, to swing with the rest. But again -- on reflection -- I beg you would stay -- You may serve us yet better than if moved away -- Give advice to Sir HARRY of all that is passing, What vessels are building, what cargoes amassing; Inform, to a day, when those vessels will sail, That our cruisers may capture them all, without fail -- By proceedings, like these, your peace shall be made, The rebellious shall swing, but be you ne'er afraid. I cannot conceive how you do to subsist -- The rebels are starving, except those who 'list; And as you reside in the land of Gomorrah, You must fare as the rest do, I think, to your sorrow. Poor souls! if ye knew what a doom is decreed, (I mean not for you, but for rebels indeed) You would tremble to think of the vengeance in store, The halters and gibbets -- I mention no more. The rebels must surely conclude they're undone, Their navy is ruined, their armies have run; It is time they should now from delusion awaken -- The rebellion is done -- for the TRUMBULL is taken! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON by SIDNEY LANIER WASHINGTON'S OVENS, ADAMSES' LETTERS by ALBERT GOLDBARTH THE YANKEE'S RETURN FROM CAMP [JUNE, 1775] by EDWARD BANGS RODNEY'S RIDE [JULY 3, 1776] by ELBRIDGE STREETER BROOKS SONG OF MARION'S MEN by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS [MAY 9, 1775] by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT THE STORY OF SEVENTY-SIX by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT BUNKER HILL by GEORGE HENRY CALVERT THE LITTLE BLACK-EYED REBEL by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON AN ANCIENT PROPHECY by PHILIP FRENEAU |
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