Philip Morin Freneau Quotes

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An age employed in edging steel Can no poetic raptures feel... No shaded stream, no quiet grove Can this fantastic century move.

Philip Morin Freneau

Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, but left the shield.

Philip Morin Freneau

Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags, Fit company for mad adventurers.

Philip Morin Freneau

Tobacco surely was designed
To poison, and destroy mankind.

Philip Morin Freneau

O come the time, and haste the day,
When man shall man no longer crush,
When Reason shall enforce her sway,
Nor these fair regions raise our blush,
Where still the African complains,
And mourns his yet unbroken chains.

Philip Morin Freneau

If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same;
The space between is but an hour,
The frail duration of a flower.

Philip Morin Freneau

But fame is theirs - and future days
On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise;
Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead -
"These for their country fought and bled."

Philip Morin Freneau

And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.

Philip Morin Freneau

Philip Morin Freneau

Philip Morin Freneau

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Born: January 2, 1752

Died: December 18, 1832 (aged 80)

Bio: Philip Morin Freneau was an American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and newspaper editor sometimes called the "Poet of the American Revolution".

Known for:

The American Village: A Poem
Father Bombo's Pilgrimage to Mecca

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