Poetry

Images above are a transcript of the poem, The Death of General Wolfe, in the handwriting of its author Thomas Paine. The images are shared courtesy of the American Philosophical Society. Information about this copy can be found here. Here is the poem The Death of General Wolfe by Thomas Paine: IN a mouldering cave […]

Enter CRITIC and SNOW DROP.* CRITIC. PROLOGUES to magazines!-the man is mad, No magazine a prologue ever had; But let us hear what new and mighty things Your wonder working magic fancy brings. SNOW DROP. Bit by the muse in an unlucky hour, I’ve left myself at home, and turn’d a flower, And thus disguised