That poem was originally entitled "On Retirement," but a later version published under the pseudonym Hezekiah Salem was called "The Wish of Diogenes."  
In one of his works, he expresses a desire for a hermit's house beside a stream and mocks vain and foolish men who grasp too wide.  That poem was originally entitled "On Retirement," but a later version published under the pseudonym Hezekiah Salem was called "The Wish of Diogenes."  He noted that "kindled rum" often burns as blue as brimstone in a poem addressed to Sir Toby, a Jamaican sugar planter, while he imagined a man alighting on Saturn's double ring in a poem addressed to the "celebrated aeronaut" Mr. Blanchard.  However, he is best known for a poem which imagines "Pale Shebah, with her braided hair" in the titular place, and which expresses the opinion that the posture we give the dead points out the soul's eternal sleep.  FTP, name this poet of The American Village, The British Prison Ship, and "The Indian Burying Ground."
In one of his works, he expresses a desire for a hermit's house beside a stream and mocks vain and foolish men who grasp too wide.  
Philip Morin Freneau