1819

Scott, Moses Y. "Pocahontas." Fatal Jest, A Tale: and Other Poems. New York, 1819. 45-46. (Specimens of American Poetry. Ed. Samuel Kettell. Vol. 3. Boston, 1829. 117-18.) (Songs, Odes, and Other Poems on National Subjects. Ed. William McCarty. Vol. 1. Philadelphia, 1842. 370-71.) Pocahontas's dark night journey through what Smith calls "the irksome woods" to save Smith from Powhatan's plot to murder him and his men: wind whipping her hair away from her bare bosom, Pocahontas warns of Powhatan who would drink your blood and devour your children, asking, when it's all over, if she'll ever be betrayed or forgotten.
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