Royall Tyler's Poetry, by title

• A Christmas Hymn Sung in the Episcopal Church at Claremont on the Anniversary of that Festival Decem

  Hail to the joyous day,
  On which our Lord was born;

  108 lines
• A Love Song

  By the fierce flames of Love I'm in a sad taking,
  I'm singed like a pig that is hung up for bacon,

  18 lines
• A Prologue to be Spoken by Mr. Frankley

  To shew the vile intentions of the mind
  To paint the real vices of mankind

  52 lines
• A Stanza to His Wife

  Long be thy life!--and richly crown'd,
  With every blessing, earth can give!--

  4 lines
• Almoran to Eliza With a Heart of Ice

  The Poets, when they paint a pair
  Of perfect lovers, urge their care,

  30 lines
• Anacreontic to Flip

  Stingo! to thy bar-room skip,
  Make a foaming mug of Flip;

  36 lines
• Convivial Song for General Morris

  Talk not of your Washingtons,
  Hancocks and Sullivans,

  36 lines
• Elegy Upon A Dead Salmon

  For Thee no more shall water Quechee pour
  Her Milky Torrent o'er her Rocky Shore.

  9 lines
• Epigram

  My Breeches torn, my Coat threadbare,
  Go, court Dame Fortune's daughters fair,

  6 lines
• My Mistresses

  LET Cowley soft in amorous verse
  The rovings of his love rehearse,

  42 lines
• Occasional Prologue To The Mistake of a Night; Or, She Stoops to Conquer Written By R. Tyler, Esq. A

  On the dark margin of this dusky wood,
  Where lately Horror nursed her savage brood;

  38 lines
• Ode to Night Yalden's Ode to Night has been extolled with enthusiasm by Dr. Johnson. Had that acute

  Hail Reverend Monarch! Hoary Night!
  Extend thy ever Blissful reign,

  40 lines
• On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country

  AND this reft house is that the which he built,
  Lamented Jack! and here his malt he piled,

  14 lines
• Original Epitaph on a Drunkard

  PRAY who lies here? why don't you know,
  'Tis stammering, staggering, boozy Joe;

  10 lines
• Song (Number 1)

  I
  There was a jolly Cobler

  33 lines
• Song (Number 2)

  The Merchant thus with longing eyes
  Looks o'er the placid glassy Main

  8 lines
• Song (Number 3)

  Oh like a Storke among the Rush
  Or Bottle hung in Chimney high

  8 lines
• Song (Number 4)

  Our old Moll has got a trick
  Working always makes her sick

  8 lines
• Sonnet to an Old Mouser

  Child of lubricious art, of sanguine sport!
  Of pangful mirth! sweet ermin'd sprite!

  14 lines
• The Death Song of Alknomook

  I
  The sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day;

  20 lines, 3 comments
• The Origin of Evil: An Elegy

  Of man's first disobedience and the Fruit
  Of that FORBIDDEN TREE, whose mortal taste

  131 lines
• The Prologue

  Exult each patriot heart!--this night is shewn
  A piece, which we may fairly call our own;

  48 lines
• The Rural Beauty, A Village Ode

  Lift the window, lift it high--
  Who is she that's tripping by?

  56 lines
• The Sensitive Plant: A Fable

  Mr. Dunham,
  The lover of Classical Poetry, who has read and relished Dr. Langhorne's \

  122 lines
• The Test of Conjugal Love

  Deprendi miserum est.--
  Hor. Sat.

  38 lines, 1 comment
• The Widower

  Happy the man, who free as air,
  By nuptial ties no longer bound,

  20 lines
• The Widower

  HAPPY the man, who free as air,
  By nuptial ties no longer bound,

  20 lines

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