He wrote about a plant "by Nature's self in white arrayed" in a poem describing a "Fair flower, that dost so comely grow."
This author collaborated with Hugh Breckenridge on Father Bombo's Pilgrimage to Mecca in Arabia, and decried the slavery he saw on a visit to Jamaica in his poem "To Sir Toby." He wrote about a plant "by Nature's self in white arrayed" in a poem describing a "Fair flower, that dost so comely grow." Another of his poems depicts the title deceased, who "when from life released / Again is seated with his friends" and is laid to rest "for a journey dressed." His capture from the ship Aurora by the British inspired his poem "The British Prison Ship." FTP, identify this author of "The Wild Honey Suckle" and "The Indian Burying Ground," often called the "Poet of the American Revolution."
This author collaborated with Hugh Breckenridge on Father Bombo's Pilgrimage to Mecca in Arabia, and decried the slavery he saw on a visit to Jamaica in his poem "To Sir Toby."
Philip {Freneau}