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The Columbiad

by Joel Barlow

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  1. 1A Poem
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Introduction
  4. 4Book I — Argument
  5. 5Book II
  6. 6Book III
  7. 7Book IV
  8. 8Book V
  9. 9Book VI
  10. 10Book VII
  11. 11Book VIII
  12. 12Book IX
  13. 13Book X
  14. 14No. 1 — One Gentle Guardian Once Could Shield the Brave; But Now Th…
  15. 15No. 2 — As, Awed to Silence, Savage Lands Gave Place, And Hail’d Wi…
  16. 16No. 3 — High Lanterned in His Heaven the Cloudless White Heaves the…
  17. 17No. 4 — Whirl’d From the Monstrous Andes’ Bursting Sides, Maragnon…
  18. 18No. 5 — He Saw Xaraycts Diamond Lanks Unfold, And Paraguay’s Deep C…
  19. 19No. 6 — Soon as the Distant Swell Was Seen to Roll, His Ancient Wis…
  20. 20No. 7 — This Idle Frith Must Open Soon to Fame, Here a Lost Lusitan…
  21. 21No. 8
  22. 22No. 9 — The Beasts All Whitening Roam the Lifeless Plain, And Caves…
  23. 23No. 10 — A Different Cast the Glowing Zone Demands, In Paria’s Bloo…
  24. 24No. 11
  25. 25No. 12 — A Ruddier Hue and Deeper Shade Shall Gain, And Stalk, in S…
  26. 26No. 13 — Like Memphian Hieroglyphs, to Stretch the Span Of Memory F…
  27. 27No. 14 — No Bovadilla Seize the Tempting Spoil, No Dark Ovando, No…
  28. 28No. 15
  29. 29No. 16 — With Cheerful Rites Their Pure Devotions Pay To the Bright…
  30. 30No. 17 — Long Is the Tale; but Tho Their Labors Rest By Years Obscu…
  31. 31No. 18 — Long Robes of White My Shoulders Must Embrace, To Speak My…
  32. 32No. 19
  33. 33No. 20 — Bade Yon Tall Temple Grace Their Favorite Isle, The Mines…
  34. 34No. 21 — His Eldest Hope, Young Rocha, at His Call, Resigns His Cha…
  35. 35No. 22 — A Pearl-Dropt Girdle Bound His Waist Below, And the White…
  36. 36No. 23 — Receive, o Dreadful Power, From Feeble Age. This Last Pure…
  37. 37No. 24 — Held to the Sun the Image From His Breast Whose Glowing Co…
  38. 38No. 25 — Dim Paraguay Extends the Aching Sight, Xaraya Glimmers Lik…
  39. 39No. 26 — The Condor Frowning From a Southern Plain. Borne on a Stan…
  40. 40No. 27 — So Shall the Power in Vengeance View the Place, In Crimson…
  41. 41No. 28 — Thro All the Shrines, Where Erst on New-Moon Days Swell’d…
  42. 42No. 29
  43. 43No. 30 — First of His Friends, See Frederic’s Princely Form Ward Fr…
  44. 44No. 31 — By Monarchs Courted and by Men Beloved
  45. 45No. 32 — While Kings and Ministers Obstruct the Plan, Unfaithful Gu…
  46. 46No. 33 — Where Freedom’s Sons Their High-Born Lineage Trace, And Ho…
  47. 47No. 34 — Beneath Him Lay the Sceptre Kings Had Borne, And the Tame…
  48. 48No. 35
  49. 49No. 36
  50. 50No. 37 — See the Black Prison Ship’s Expanding Womb Impested Thousa…
  51. 51No. 38 — Myrtles and Laurels Equal Honors Join’d, Which Arms Had Pu…
  52. 52No. 39 — Deep George’s Loaded Lake Reluctant Guides Their Bounding…
  53. 53No. 40 — His Savage Hordes the Murderous Johnson Leads, Files Thro…
  54. 54No. 41 — Are These Thy Trophies, Carleton! These the Swords Thy Han…
  55. 55No. 42 — That No Proud Privilege From Birth Can Spring, No Right Di…
  56. 56No. 43
  57. 57No. 44 — To Guide the Sailor in His Wandering Way, See Godfrey’s Gl…
  58. 58No. 45 — West With His Own Great Soul the Canvass Warms, Creates, I…
  59. 59No. 47 — Tis to Correct Their Fatal Faults of Old, When, Caught by…
  60. 60No. 48 — Herschel Ascends Himself With Venturous Wain, And Joins an…
  61. 61No. 49
  62. 62No. 50 — For That Fine Apologue, in Mystic Strain, Gave Like the Re…
  63. 63Postscript

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