Philip Freneau, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Philip Freneau

Philip Freneau (1752 – 1832) was an American poet, Federalist, polemicist, sea captain, and newspaper editor, sometimes called the "Poet of the American Revolution."

“Occasioned by General Washington’s Arrival in Philadelphia”

By Philip Freneau|2021-05-03T16:03:07-05:00September 3rd, 2017|Categories: American Founding, George Washington, Poetry|

The great, unequal conflict past, The Briton banish’d from our shore, Peace, heav’n-descended, comes at last, And hostile nations rage no more; From fields of death the weary swain Returning, seeks his native plain. […]