SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN POETRY

By Various Authors

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! ]


[ NOTES ]