With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier

Edited by Margaret Sprague Carhart

CONTENTS

SELECTIONS OF AMERICAN POETRY
INTRODUCTION

ANNE BRADSTREET

CONTEMPLATIONS

THE DAY OF DOOM

PHILIP FRENEAU

THE WILD HONEYSUCKLE

TO A HONEY BEE

THE INDIAN BURYING-GROUND

EUTAW SPRINGS

FRANCIS HOPKINSON

THE BATTLE OF THE KEGS

JOSEPH HOPKINSON

HAIL COLUMBIA

ANONYMOUS

THE BALLAD OF NATHAN HALE

A FABLE

TIMOTHY DWIGHT

LOVE TO THE CHURCH

SAMUEL WOODWORTH

THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

THANATOPSIS

THE YELLOW VIOLET

TO A WATERFOWL

GREEN RIVER

THE WEST WIND

"I BROKE THE SPELL THAT HELD ME LONG"

A FOREST HYMN

THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS

THE GLADNESS OF NATURE

TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN

SONG OF MARION'S MEN

THE CROWDED STREET

THE SNOW-SHOWER

ROBERT OF LINCOLN

THE POET

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER

JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE

THE AMERICAN FLAG

THE CULPRIT FAY (Selection)

FITZ-GREENE HALLECK

MARCO BOZZARIS

ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE

JOHN HOWARD PAYNE

HOME, SWEET HOME

EDGAR ALLAN POE

TO HELEN

ISRAFEL

LENORE

THE COLISEUM

THE HAUNTED PALACE

TO ONE IN PARADISE

EULALIE. —A SONG

THE RAVEN

TO HELEN

ANNABEL LEE

THE BELLS

ELDORADO

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

HYMN TO THE NIGHT

A PSALM OF LIFE

THE SKELETON IN ARMOR

THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS

THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH

IT IS NOT ALWAYS MAY

THE RAINY DAY

THE ARROW AND THE SONG

THE DAY IS DONE

WALTER VON DER VOGELWEIDE

THE BUILDERS

SANTA FILOMENA

THE DISCOVERER OF THE NORTH CAPE

SANDALPHON

THE LANDLORD'S TALE

THE SICILIAN'S TALE

THE THEOLOGIAN'S TALE

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

PROEM

THE FROST SPIRIT

SONGS OF LABOR

THE LUMBERMEN

BARCLAY OF URY

ALL'S WELL

RAPHAEL

SEED-TIME AND HARVEST

THE PROPHECY OF SAMUEL SEWALL

SKIPPER IRESON'S RIDE

THE DOUBLE-HEADED SNAKE OF NEWBURY

MAUD MULLER

BURNS

THE HERO

THE ETERNAL GOODNESS

THE PIPES AT LUCKNOW

COBBLER KEEZAR'S VISION

THE MAYFLOWERS

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

GOOD-BYE

EACH AND ALL

THE PROBLEM

THE RHODORA

THE HUMBLE—BEE

THE SNOW-STORM

FABLE

FORBEARANCE

CONCORD HYMN

BOSTON HYMN

THE TITMOUSE

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

HAKON'S LAY

FLOWERS

IMPARTIALITY

MY LOVE

THE FOUNTAIN

THE SHEPHERD OF KING ADMETUS

ODE RECITED AT THE HARVARD COMMEMORATION

THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL

BIGLOW PAPERS

II. THE COURTIN'

III. SUNTHIN' IN THE PASTORAL LINE

AN INDIAN-SUMMER REVERIE

A FABLE FOR CRITICS

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

OLD IRONSIDES

THE LAST LEAF

MY AUNT

THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS

CONTENTMENT

THE DEACON'S MASTERPIECE;

THOMAS BUCHANAN READ

STORM ON ST. BERNARD

DRIFTING

WALT WHITMAN

PIONEERS! O PIONEERS!

O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!

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