Selections From An American Anthology, 1787–1900 Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908) HEADER

Amos Bronson Alcott.	Bartol
	Channing
	Emerson
	Garrison
	Hawthorne
	Margaret Fuller
	Thoreau
	Wendell Phillips
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.	An Ode
	A Petition
	Appreciation
	A Shadow of the Night
	Guilielmus Rex
	Heredity
	Identity
	Memory
	Palabras Cariñosas
	Prescience
	Quatrains
	Sargent’s Portrait of Edwin Booth at “The Players”
	Sonnets
	Tennyson
	Thalia
	To Hafiz
	Unguarded Gates
	When the Sultan Goes to Ispahan
Ambrose Bierce.	Another Way
	Creation
	Montefiore
	Presentiment
	T. A. H.
	The Bride
	The Death of Grant
William Cullen Bryant.	A Forest Hymn
	America
	From “An Evening Revery”
	In Memory of John Lothrop Motley
	June
	My Autumn Walk
	O Fairest of the Rural Maids
	Thanatopsis
	The Antiquity of Freedom
	The Battle-Field
	The Conqueror’s Grave
	The Death of Slavery
	The Death of the Flowers
	The Evening Wind
	The Flood of Years
	The Hunter of the Prairies
	The May Sun Sheds an Amber Light
	The Past
	The Planting of the Apple-Tree
	The Poet
	To a Waterfowl
	To the Fringed Gentian
William Ellery Channing.	Edith
	From “A Poet’s Hope”
	Hymn of the Earth
	Tears in Spring
	The Barren Moors
Christopher Pearse Cranch.	Stanza from an Early Poem
	The Bobolinks
	The Pines and the Sea
Stephen Crane.	Ancestry
	Content
	I Explain
	’Scaped
	The Black Riders
	The Peaks
	The Violets
	The Wayfarer
	Why?
Emily Dickinson.	Life
	Love
	Morning
	Nature
	Time and Eternity
Joseph Rodman Drake.	From “The Culprit Fay”
	The American Flag
	The Man Who Frets at Worldly Strife
	The National Paintings
Paul Laurence Dunbar.	A Corn-Song
	A Death Song
	Harriet Beecher Stowe
	Hymn
	On the Road
	Retort
Timothy Dwight.	Love to the Church
	The Smooth Divine
Ralph Waldo Emerson.	Brahma
	Character
	Concord Hymn
	Days
	Each and All
	Forbearance
	Forerunners
	From “Woodnotes”
	Merlin
	Ode
	Terminus
	The Earth
	The Humble-Bee
	The Problem
	The Rhodora
	The Snow-Storm
	The Test
	Threnody
	Waves
Eugene Field.	Dibdin’s Ghost
	Echoes from the Sabine Farm
	Garden and Cradle
	In the Firelight
	Little Boy Blue
	Nightfall in Dordrecht
	Our Two Opinions
	The Bibliomaniac’s Prayer
	The Dinkey-Bird
	The Lyttel Boy
	Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
Stephen Collins Foster.	Massa’s in de Cold Ground
	My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night
	Old Folks at Home
Philip Freneau.	Death’s Epitaph
	Epitaph
	Eutaw Springs
	On a Travelling Speculator
	On the Ruins of a Country Inn
	Plato to Theon
	Song of Thyrsis
	The Indian Burying-Ground
	The Parting Glass
	The Scurrilous Scribe
	The Wild Honeysuckle
	To a Caty-Did
	To a Honey Bee
Hamlin Garland.	A Tribute of Grasses
	A Wish
	Do You Fear the Wind?
	In the Grass
	Pioneers
	The Gift of Water
	The Gold-Seekers
	The Greeting of the Roses
	The Massasauga
	The Meadow Lark
	The Ute Lover
Fitz-Greene Halleck.	Alnwick Castle
	Burns
	Marco Bozzaris
	On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake
	Red Jacket
Francis Bret Harte.	At the Hacienda
	Chiquita
	Crotalus
	Grizzly
	“Jim”
	Madroño
	The Aged Stranger
	The Society upon the Stanislaus
	What the Bullet Sang
Oliver Wendell Holmes.	After a Lecture on Keats
	Bill and Joe
	Cacoëthes Scribendi
	Dorothy Q.
	Epilogue to the Breakfast Table Series
	From “The Iron Gate”
	Hymn of Trust
	La Grisette
	Old Ironsides
	On Lending a Punch-Bowl
	The Chambered Nautilus
	The Height of the Ridiculous
	The Last Leaf
	The Living Temple
	The Strong Heroic Line
	The Voiceless
	Under the Violets
William Dean Howells.	Change
	From Generation to Generation
	Hope
	If
	In Earliest Spring
	Judgment Day
	The Two Wives
	Vision
	What Shall It Profit?
Frances Anne Kemble.	Lament of a Mocking-Bird
Sidney Lanier.	A Ballad of Trees and the Master
	Night and Day
	Song for “The Jaquerie”
	Song of the Chattahoochee
	Sunrise
	The Harlequin of Dreams
	The Marshes of Glynn
	The Mocking Bird
	The Stirrup-Cup
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.	A Ballad of the French Fleet
	A Psalm of Life
	Chaucer
	Curfew
	Dante
	Endymion
	From “Evangeline”
	From “The Building of the Ship”
	From “The Song of Hiawatha”
	Hymn to the Night
	Jugurtha
	Milton
	My Books
	My Lost Youth
	Nature
	Serenade from “The Spanish Student”
	The Arrow and the Song
	The Bells of Lynn
	The Children’s Hour
	The Cumberland
	The Skeleton in Armor
	The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
	The Village Blacksmith
	The Warden of the Cinque Ports
	Wapentake
James Russell Lowell.	After the Burial
	An Autograph
	A Stanza on Freedom
	Auf Wiedersehen
	From “A Fable for Critics”
	From “Rhœcus”
	From “The Biglow Papers”
	From “The Vision of Sir Launfal”
	Hebe
	In a Copy of Omar Khayyám
	International Copyright
	In the Twilight
	Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration
	Palinode
	She Came and Went
	The First Snow-Fall
Herman Melville.	An Uninscribed Monument on One of the Battle-Fields of the Wilderness
	Crossing the Tropics
	Memorials
	The College Colonel
	The Eagle of the Blue
	The Enviable Isles
Joaquin Miller.	At the Grave of Walker
	By the Pacific Ocean
	Columbus
	Crossing the Plains
	Dead in the Sierras
	Juanita
	Peter Cooper
	The Voice of the Dove
	To Russia
	Twilight at the Heights
	Vaquero
	Westward Ho!
Harriet Monroe.	A Farewell
	From the “Commemoration Ode”
	In the Beginning
	The Fortunate One
	The Night-Blooming Cereus
Thomas Nelson Page.	Ashcake
	Uncle Gabe’s White Folks
Albert Bigelow Paine.	In Louisiana
	The Little Child
Edward Coate Pinkney.	A Health
	A Serenade
	Song
	Votive Song
Edgar Allan Poe.	Annabel Lee
	Israfel
	Lenore
	The Bells
	The City in the Sea
	The Conqueror Worm
	The Haunted Palace
	The Raven
	The Sleeper
	To Helen
	To One in Paradise
	Ulalume
James Whitcomb Riley.	A Life-Lesson
	A Man by the Name of Bolus
	Bereaved
	Dwainie
	Honey Dripping from the Comb
	Ike Walton’s Prayer
	Little Orphant Annie
	Longfellow
	Love’s Prayer
	On the Death of Little Mahala Ashcraft
	The Old Man and Jim
	The Way the Baby Slept
	The Way the Baby Woke
	When She Comes Home
Edwin Arlington Robinson.	Ballade of Dead Friends
	Luke Havergal
	The Clerks
	The House on the Hill
	The Pity of the Leaves
Henry David Thoreau.	Inspiration
	Mist
	Smoke
	The Fisher’s Boy
Henry Timrod.	At Magnolia Cemetery
	Charleston
	Quatorzain
	The Cotton Boll
Henry Van Dyke.	An Angler’s Wish
	Four Things
	Roslin and Hawthornden
	Tennyson
	The Lily of Yorrow
	The Veery
Jones Very.	The Dead
	The Gifts of God
	The Idler
	The New World
	The Old Road
	Yourself
Walt Whitman.	After an Interval
	A Sight in Camp in the Day-Break Gray and Dim
	Beginners
	Bivouac on a Mountain Side
	Cavalry Crossing a Ford
	Darest Thou Now O Soul
	From “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
	From “The Song of Myself”
	Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
	Mannahatta
	O Captain! My Captain!
	Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
	Still Though the One I Sing
	The Dalliance of the Eagles
	To the Man-of-War-Bird
John Greenleaf Whittier.	An Autograph
	Astræa
	Centennial Hymn
	From “Snow-Bound”
	Ichabod
	In School-Days
	In the “Old South”
	Maud Muller
	Mulford
	Proem
	Skipper Ireson’s Ride
	The Barefoot Boy
	The Eternal Goodness
	The Farewell
	The Swan Song of Parson Avery
	The Two Angels
	The Vanishers
Nathaniel Parker Willis.	Parrhasius
	The Torn Hat
	To Giulia Grisi
	Unseen Spirits

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