Return To Tomhanick HAIL, happy shades! though clad with heavy snows,At sight of you with joy my bosom glows;Ye arching pines, that bow with every breeze,Ye poplars, elms, all hail! my well-known trees!And now my peaceful mansion strikes my eye,And…

Engraving from frontispiece of Posthumous Works, published 1793 by her daughter Margaretta V. Fuageres Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752 – November 23, 1783) was an American poet and correspondent. Following a New York upbringing, Bleecker married John James Bleecker, a New…