ADVERTISEMENT.

The work here presented to the Public is compiled from the poetical writings of natives of the State of New-York. The chief object in making the collection was to give 'a local habitation and a name' to fugitive pieces, which, though deemed worthy of being thus preserved, have hitherto been circulated in the newspapers and periodicals solely. It was thought well, however, by way of giving completeness to the work, to embody with the rest specimens of those New-York poets whose writings have been already collected in another shape. The design of executing such a work only suggested itself to the Publisher a fortnight before the last sheet was put to press; and as he was desirous that The New-York Book should appear at the season when the annuals and other similar publications are most in request, those who have aided him in the compilation have perhaps vainly attempted to make up in industry for the want of time. Under the most favourable circumstances, however, it would be idle to attempt making such a collection what it ought to be in a single volume. The field of our Anthology is wider than any casual observer could conceive; and even in thus rapidly exploring it, the sources of so many new specimens have been indicated that it is hoped the reception of this volume will be such as to warrant the Publisher in soon following it up by another of the same character.
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LIST OF WRITERS.

Arden FrancisIrving, Washington
Inman, John
Bailey, J. I.
Barker, RobertLow, Samuel
Bleecker, Mrs. Ann E.Lawrence, Jonathan, Jr.
Bleecker, AnthonyLeggett, William
Bloodgood, S. De WittLivingston, William
Bogart, A. H.
Bogart, David S.Morris, George P.
Bogart, W. H. L.Morton, General Jacob
Bogart, ElizabethMurray, Lindley
Brooks, J. G.Mitchell, Dr. Samuel L.
Brooks, Miss Mary E.Moore, Clement C.
Blauvelt, A. L.
Nack, James
Clark, Willis G.
Clinch, Elizabeth C.Park, Roswell
Crosswell, Rev. WilliamPaulding, J. K.
Clason, Isaac
Sanford, Edward
Davidson, Lucretia M.Sands, R. C.
Doane, Rt. Rev. G. W.Seymour, D.
Drake, J. R.Slidell, Thomas
Duer, WilliamStreet, A. B.
Stone, William L.
Ellet, Mrs. E. F.Strong, George D.
Embury, Emma C.Sutermeister, J. R.
Fay, Theodore S.Tucker, T. W.
Faugeres, Margaretta V.
Hawes, W. P.Vining, W. H.
Hoffman, C. F.Van Schaick, J. B.
Verplanck, Gulian

CONTENTS.

PAGE
Anacreontic,[ 10]
Anacreontic,[172]
Address to Black Hawk,[ 11]
Address to a Musquito,[ 27]
A Poet's Epistle,[ 37]
A Roman Chariot Race,[ 59]
Affection wins affection,[ 71]
Ah No! Ah No! To a favourite Child,[146]
A Health,[147]
A Hymn,[149]
A Song of May,[152]
A Visit from St. Nicholas,[217]
Appeal,[229]
Byron,[103]
Bronx,[122]
Ballad,[191]
Chansonette,[ 50]
Canzonet,[201]
Crossing the Alleghanies,[204]
Drink and away,[107]
Despondency,[164]
Death of the First-Born,[238]
Elegiac Lines,[151]
Epitaph upon a Dog,[182]
Elegy on the Exile and Death of Ovid,[240]
Fragment,[246]
Feats of Death,[72]
Fragment,[102]
Faded Hours,[134]
Forgetfulness,[192]
From a Father to his Children,[215]
From a Husband to his Wife,[221]
Greece—1832,[ 55]
Hope,[116]
He came too late,[179]
Inconstancy,[ 31]
Indian Summer,[ 54]
Impromptu,[ 58]
Impromptu,[228]
Joy and Sorrow,[104]
Joshua commanding the Sun and Moon to stand still,[184]
Lines on a Skull dug up by the Plough,[ 15]
Lines written on a Bank Note,[ 42]
Lines for Music,[ 59]
Love and Faith,[ 66]
Lament,[ 70]
Lines,[ 77]
Lake George,[ 83]
Lines written in an Album,[ 85]
Lines written on the cover of a Prayer Book,[ 96]
Look Aloft,[101]
Lützow's Wild Chase,[130]
Lines,[132]
Lament,[136]
Lines written on a pane of glass in the house of a friend,[138]
Life's Guiding Star,[164]
Lines for Music,[183]
Lake George—1829,[203]
Lines suggested by the perusal of "The Life of Chatterton,"[225]
Lines to a Daughter of the late Governor Clinton,[229]
Love's Remembrancer,[247]
Moonlight on the Hudson,[ 7]
Morning Musings among the Hills,[ 21]
Morning,[ 82]
Midnight Thoughts,[ 94]
Morning Hymn,[121]
Moonlight,[128]
Melody,[173]
My Native Land,[174]
Ode to Jamestown,[ 97]
On reading Virgil,[155]
On Ship-board,[195]
On seeing a beautiful Young Lady whose health was impaired
  by the fever and ague,[219]
Proem to Yamoyden,[ 87]
Prophetic,[224]
Portraiture,[231]
Reflections,[ 75]
Rhyme and Reason,[144]
Reminiscences,[150]
Song, (I know thou dost love me),[ 17]
Song, (Nay think not Dear),[ 23]
Song of the Hermit Trout,[ 46]
Song of Spring Time,[ 63]
Song, Rosalie Clare,[126]
Song,[129]
Song,[171]
Stanzas,[184]
Song,[186]
Spring is coming,[214]
Sonnet to Myra,[236]
Song, (When other friends are round thee),[238]
Thoughts of a Student,[ 1]
The Settler,[ 3]
The Worst,[ 6]
The minisink,[ 18]
The Dead of 1832,[ 24]
To a Lady, who declared that the sun prevented
  her from sleeping,[ 27]
The Callicoon in Autumn,[ 32]
The Western Hunter to his Mistress,[ 36]
The Delaware Water Gap,[ 43]
To May,[ 47]
To the Whip-poor will,[ 49]
The Clouds,[ 50]
The Isle of Rest,[ 53]
The Shipwreck of Camoens,[ 64]
The Last Song,[ 68]
To my Wife,[ 69]
The Bride's Farewell,[ 73]
The Guardian Angel,[ 78]
The Brave,[ 81]
The Faded One,[ 86]
The Indian,[ 91]
To the Evening Star,[104]
The Falls of the Passaic,[105]
The Hudson,[108]
Trenton Falls,[110]
The Dumb Minstrel,[111]
The Green Isle of Lovers,[113]
That Silent Moon,[114]
To a Cigar,[116]
The Lake of Cayostêa,[117]
The American Flag,[118]
The Storm King,[124]
To a Packet Ship,[127]
The Wife's Song,[135]
The Sepulchre of David,[139]
The Last Prayer of Mary Queen of Scots,[156]
The Recollections of the People,[159]
The Husband to his Wife, on her birth-day,[162]
To a Goldfinch,[166]
The Midnight Ball,[167]
The Deserted Bride,[168]
Thoughts at the Grave of a departed Friend,[171]
To Themira,[196]
Thanksgiving after escape from Indian perils,[189]
Thoughts on Parting,[199]
The Falls of Niagara,[200]
The Pennsylvanian Immigrant,[202]
The Clouds,[206]
The Tornado,[208]
To a Lady,[211]
The Mitchella,[217]
The Magic Draught,[226]
The Son of Sorrow,[230]
The Farewell,[234]
To Cordelia,[236]
To the Dying Year,[250]
Weehawken,[ 40]
White Lake,[ 61]
What is Solitude,[ 79]
Woman,[144]
West Point,[187]
Verses to the Memory of Colonel Wood, of the
  United States' Army, who fell at the Sortie of Erie,[163]
Verses written in a Book of Fortunes,[181]