(24 March 1754 – 26 December 1812 / Redding, Connecticut)

poet Joel Barlow

Quotations

  • ''No Raven's wing can stretch the flight so far
    As the torn bandrols of Napoleon's war.
    Choose then your climate, fix your best abode,
    He'll make you deserts and he'll bring you blood.
    How could you fear a dearth? have not mankind,
    Tho slain by millions, millions left behind?
    Has not conscription still the power to weild
    Her annual faulchion o'er the human field?
    A faithful harvester!''
    Joel Barlow (1754-1812), U.S. poet, politician. Advice to a Raven in Russia, December, 1812 (l. 29-37). . . Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.
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