Thomas Paine

I lived from 1737-1809. I was from the USA, and am in the Americas category.

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• O could we always live and love,

  O could we always live and love,
  And always be sincere,

  24 lines
• The Boston Patriotic Song

  Ye sons of Columbia who bravely have fought,
  For those rights which unstain'd from your sires have descended.

  74 lines
• Impromptu, On A Long-Nosed Friend

  Going along the other day,
  Upon a certain plan;

  8 lines
• Liberty Tree

  In a chariot of light from the regions of day,
  The Goddess of Liberty came;

  33 lines, 1 comment
• Impromptu On Bachelors' Hall

  Fair Venus so often was miss'd from the skies,
  And Bacchus as frequently absent likewise,

  12 lines
• Lines Extempore

  Quick as the lightning's vivid flash
  The poet's eye o'er Europe rolls;

  16 lines
• Farmer Short's Dog Porter: A Tale

  Three Justices (so says my tale)
  Once met upon the public weal.

  153 lines
• Hail Great Republic

  Hail great Republic of the world,
  Which rear'd her empire in the West,

  32 lines
• Columbia

  Tune-Anacreon in Heaven
  To Columbia who, gladly reclined at her ease

  54 lines
• An Address To Lord Howe

  The rain pours down, the city looks forlorn,
  And gloomy subjects suit the howling morn;

  60 lines

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