The Airs of Palestine

The Airs of Palestine is a poem by John Pierpont, first published in 1816. It is probably the most famous of his poems, and provided the title for his book Airs of Palestine and Other Poems.
The poem was a huge success; sale of its copyright funded Pierpont's Harvard Divinity School education and inspired his closest friend and former business partner John Neal to experiment with writing as a means of funding his law education in Baltimore. He nevertheless gave it a bad review in his 1824–25 critical work, American Writers, saying: "It is tame, badly arranged, incomplete, and worse than all, afflicted with plagiarism, imitation, and alliteration." Neal and Pierpont ceased corresponding for a year afterward.