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The Poets and Poetry of America (1874)
edited by Rufus Wilmot Griswold, with additions by Richard Henry Stoddard
Preface to the Sixteenth Edition
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An anthology of poetry. Originally published in 1842, this transcription is of the 1874 edition, which features additions by Stoddard.

348660The Poets and Poetry of America1874Rufus Wilmot Griswold, with additions by Richard Henry Stoddard

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FITZ-GREENE HALLECK

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THE

POETS AND POETRY

OF

AMERICA.

BY RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD.

WITH ADDITIONS BY R. H. STODDARD.

Here the free spirit of mankind at length
Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place
A limit to the giant's unchained strength?
Bryant
Ere long thine every stream shall find a tongue,
Land of the Many Waters! Hoffman
   This be the poet's praise!
That he hath ever been of Liberty
The steadfast friend; of Justice and of Truth
Firmest of all supporters.
American Prospects—1763.

CAREFULLY REVISED, MUCH ENLARGED, AND CONTINUED TO THE PRESENT TIME
With Portraits, on Steel, from Original Pictures,
OF RICHARD H. DANA, WILLIAM C. BRYANT, JAMES G. PERCIVAL, HENRY W. LONGFELLOW, WILLIAM D. GALLAGHER, EDGAR A. POE, PHILIP PENDLETON COOKE, JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, AND BAYARD TAYLOR. NEW YORK:
JAMES MILLER, PUBLISHER, 647 BROADWAY.
1874.

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ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1842, BY CAREY & HART, IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1872, by JAMES MILLER, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

[Table of Contents]

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Contents.

Literary Character of the Puritans
16
First Verses written in America
16
The Bay Psalm-Book
16
Messrs. Bradstreet, Rogers, Oakes, Peter Folger
17
Benjamin Thomson, the first native American Poet
18
Cotton Mather, Roger Wolcott
19
Michael Wigglesworth's "Day of Doom"
20
Benjamin Colman, John Adams
21
First Writers of Verse in the Middle Colonies
22
Holmes, Brooke, George Webb, Taylor
22
Benjamin Franklin and James Ralph
23
Writers for the "American Magazine," in 1757
24
Thomas Godfrey and Nathaniel Evans
25
John Byles, John Osborn
26
Mather Byles and Joseph Green
27
The Authors of "Pietas et Gratulatio"
28
Livingston, Bolling, Rugely, Verplanck, Prime
29
James Allen, J. M. Sewell, Doctor Ladd
30
British Poets in America during the Revolution
30
Revolutionary Songs and Ballads
30
On the Title Letters of Rivington's Royal Gazette
32
The Dying Indian
35
The Indian Burying-Ground
35
To an Old Man
36
The Wild Honeysuckle
36
To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw
37
Indian Death-Song
37
The Prospect of Peace
37
Human Frailty
37
Extracts from "The Life of Hugh Gaine"
38
Literary Importation
38
The Indian Student, or the Force of Nature
39
A Bacchanalian Dialogue
39
Days of my Youth
40
Ode to Sleep
42
The Country Clown, from "The Progress of Dulness"
44
The Fop, from the same
44
Character of McFingal, from "McFingal"
45
Extreme Humanity, from the same
46
The Decayed Coquette
47
An Indian Temple
49
England and America
50
The Social Visit
50
The Country Pastor
51
The Country Schoolmaster
52
The Battle of Ai, from "The Conquest of Canaan"
52
The Lamentation of Selima, from the same
53
Prediction to Joshua relative to America, from the same
53
Evening after a Battle, from the same
54
"Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise!"
54
On the Prospect of Peace
56
Western Emigration
56
American Winter
56
Revolutionary Soldiers
56
The Hasty Pudding
59
Burning of New-England Villages, from "The Columbiad"
62
To Freedom, from the same
63
Morgan and Tell, from the same
63
The Zones of America, from the same
63
From a Monody on the Death of Washington
64
Crimes and Punishments
65
A Radical Song of 1786
67
Reflections on seeing a Bull slain in the Country
67
Impromptu on an Order to kill the Dogs in Albany
67
Extract from Dermot McMorrogh
68
The Wants of Man
69
The Plague in the Forest
70
To a Bereaved Mother
71
Hail Columbia!
72
Epistle to William Gifford, Esq.
73
Mary will smile
74
Adams and Liberty
76
Extract from a "Monody on the death of Sir John Moore"
77
Extracts from "The Iliad"
79
"Who has robbed the Ocean Cave?"
80
The Lad from Tuckahoe
80
The False Maiden
80
Lines to Philip Hone
81
A Visit from St. Nicholas
82
To my Children, with my Portrait
82
Ode to Jamestown
83
Passage down the Ohio, from "The Backwoodsman"
84
Evening, from the same
84
Crossing the Alleghanies, from the same
85
The Old Man's Carousal
85
The Paint-King
87
The Sylphs of the Seasons
88
America to Great Britain
92
The Spanish Maid
93
On Greenough's Group of the Angel and Child
94
On a Falling Group in the Last Judgment, of Michael Angelo
94
On Rembrandt; occasioned by his Picture of Jacob's Dream
94
On the Pictures, by Rubens, in the Luxembourg Gallery
94
To my venerable Friend Benjamin West
94
On seeing the Picture of Æolus, by Pellegrino Tibaldi
95
On the Death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
95
The Tuscan Maid
95
Rosalie
95
A Castle in the Air
96
Passing away
98
Ode for the Charlestown Centennial Celebration
99
My Child
99
Ode for the Massachusetts Mechanics' Charitable Association
100
Her Chosen Spot
100
The Pilgrim Fathers
101
Plymouth Dedication Hymn
101
The Exile at Rest
101
Jerusalem
102
The Power of Music, from "Airs of Palestine"
103
Obsequies of Suprehim
103
Hymn for the Dedication of the Seaman's Bethel, in Boston
104
The Sparkling Bowl
104
Ode for the Fourth of July
104
The Bucket
105
The Needle
105
Lines written after the Death of Charles Eliot
106
A Summer Shower
107
Hymn
107
To Mrs. ——, on her departure for Europe
107
Hymn for the dedication of a Church
108
Fortitude
108
The Close of the Year
109
On listening to a Cricket
109
A Summer Night
109
A Winter Morning
109
The Parting
110
On the Death of a Young Friend
110
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Extract from "The Husband and Wife's Grave"
121
The Little Beach-Bird
121
The Moss supplicateth for the Poet
122
Washington Allston
122
Ode to Ease
124
Solomon and the Genius
125
A Farewell to America
126
Napoleon's Grave
127
"My Life is like the Summer Rose"
127
Lord Byron
127
To the Mocking-Bird
127
The Star-Spangled Banner
128
Home, Sweet Home!
128
The Judgment
131
Hadad's Description of the City of Jerusalem
137
Untold Love, from "Demetria"
137
Scene from "Hadad"
138
Arthur's Soliloquy, from "Percy's Masque"
139
Extracts from "Crystalina"
140
On a Friend
141
The Fever Dream
142
Echo and the Lover
142
The Portress
143
The Young American
145
The Silent Girl
146
Curiosity
148
Shakspeare Ode
154
The Brothers
155
Art, an Ode
156
"Look on this Picture"
156
Centennial Ode
157
Lines to a Young Mother
161
"I see thee still"
161
Lines on the Death of M. S. C.
162
The Family Meeting
162
The Winged Worshippers
163
Dedication Hymn
163
To my Cigar
163
A Burning Ship at Sea
164
The Snow Storm
164
The Old Family Clock
165
To a Dead Tree with a Vine Trained over it
165
Strength
166
The Four Halcyon Points of the Year
166
Extract from "The White Fish"
167
Extract from "Likes and Dislikes"
167
Geehale, an Indian Lament
168
The Birchen Canoe
168
The Prairies
171
Thanatopsis
172
Forest Hymn
172
Hymn to the North Star
173
The Antiquity of Freedom
174
The Return of Youth
174
The Winds
175
"Oh Mother of a Mighty Race!"
176
Song of Marion's Men
176
To the Past
176
The Hunter of the Prairies
177
After a Tempest
177
The Rivulet
178
June
178
To the Evening Wind
179
Lines on Revisiting the Country
179
The Old Man's Counsel
180
An Evening Reverie, from an unfinished Poem
180
Hymn to the City
181
To a Waterfowl
181
The Battle-Field
182
The Death of the Flowers
182
The Future Life
183
To the Fringed Gentian
183
"Oh, fairest of the rural Maids!"
183
The Maiden's Sorrow
183
Spring in New England, from "The Age of Benevolence"
185
A Summer Noon, from the same
186
September, from the same
186
Sunset in September, from the same
187
Summer Evening Lightning, from the same
187
The Castle of Imagination, from "The Religion of Taste"
188
Rousseau and Cowper, from the same
189
The Cure of Melancholy, from the same
189
Sights and Sounds of the Night
190
Live for Eternity
190
To the Ursa Major
191
Seasons of Prayer
192
The Vision of Liberty
193
Invocation to the Deity, from "The Conquest of Peru"
195
A Cavalcade at Sunset, from "The Battle of Niagara"
195
Approach of Evening, from the same
195
Movements of Troops at Night, from the same
196
An Indian Apollo, from the same
196
Morning after a Battle, from the same
197
Music of the Night, from the same
197
Night, from the same
198
Ontario, from the same
198
Trees, from the same
198
Invasion of the Settler, from the same
198
On seeing Twenty Thousand Sabbath-School Children
199
Song of the Hundred Thousand Drunkards
200
Heaven
200
To the Ship of the Line Pennsylvania
200
Santa Croce
201
To a Sister
202
The Culprit Fay
204
Bronx
209
The American Flag
210
To Sarah
210
Weehawken, from "Fanny"
212
The Recorder and Cæsar, from "The Recorder"
212
Burns: To a Rose, brought from near Alloway Kirk, 1822
213
Red Jacket, Chief of the Tuscaroras
214
Connecticut
215
Alnwick Castle
216
Magdalen
217
Twilight
217
Marco Bozzaris
218
Conclusion of the "Dream of a Day"
220
The Poet, a Sonnet
221
Night, a Sonnet
221
Choriambic Melody
221
Sappho
221
The Festive Evening
222
The Sun, from "Prometheus"
223
Contumption
223
To the Eagle
224
Prevalence of Poetry
225
Clouds
226
Morning among the Hills
226
The Deserted Wife
227
The Coral Grove
228
Decline of the Imagination
228
Genius Slumbering
228
Genius Waking
228
New England
229
May
230
To Seneca Lake
230
The Last Days of Autumn
230
The Flight of Time
230
"It is great for our Country to die"
231
Extract from "Prometheus"
231
Home
231
Birthnight of the Humming-Birds
232
The River
233
The Leaf
234
Lake Superior
234
The Sportive Sylphs
234
Napoleon, etc., from the "Seventeenth Canto of Don Juan"
235
Jealousy, from the same
236
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Early Love, from "The Seventeenth Canto of Don Juan"
236
At its Vanity, from "The Eighteenth Canto of Don Juan"
236
Jerusalem
238
On Connecticut River
239
On the Death of Rev. Woodward, at Edinburgh
240
On a late Loss
241
Sonnet to the Sea-Serpent
241
The Fall of Niagara
241
On the Death of a Friend
241
Epithalamium
241
To the Dead
242
The Deep
242
Mr. Merry's Lament for "Long Tom"
242
The Indian Summer
242
The Storm of War
243
The Guerilla
243
The Sea-Bird's Song
244
To the Daughter of a Friend
244
Salmon River
244
The Sailor
246
My First Love and my Last
246
"Where is He?"
247
Extract from "Lines to an Infant"
247
To Pneuma
248
Song of an Indian Mother
248
Proem to Yamoyden
253
Dream of the Princess Paparzin
254
Monody on Samuel Patch
257
Evening
259
Weehawken
259
The Green Isle of Lovers
260
The Dead of 1832
260
Parting
261
Conclusion to Yamoyden
261
Invocation
262
Good-Night
262
From a Monody on J. W. Eastburn
262
To the Manitto of Dreams
263
Hymn of Nature
264
To William
264
Monadnock
265
The Winter Night
266
Death
266
Autumn Evening
266
English Scenery
268
Mount Washington
268
The Bugle
268
On seeing an Eagle pass near me in Autumn
269
The True Glory of America
269
On a very old Wedding-Ring
270
Malleus Domini
270
"Stand, as an Anvil"
271
"That Silent Moon"
271
Thermopylæ
271
The Robin Redbreast
271
"What is that, Mother?"
272
A Cherub
272
Lines by the Lake side
272
The Christian's Death
272
Midnight, at Meyringen
273
The Simplon: Farewell to Switzerland
273
An Address to the Deity: at Kandersteg
274
My Goddess: from "Goethe"
274
From "The Ruins of Athens"
275
The Mountain-Girl
276
The Might of Greece, from "The Ruins of Athens"
276
The Fall of the Oak
277
Liberty
277
To a Young Mother
277
Spring
277
Nobility
277
Greece—1832
278
To the Dying Year
279
To the Autumn Leaf
280
The Last Song
280
Joy and Sorrow
280
"I never have been False to Thee"
282
Woman
282
"We were boys together"
282
The West
283
Land-Ho!
283
The Chieftain's Daughter
283
Near the Lake
283
"When other Friends are round Thee"
284
"Woodman, spare that Tree"
284
"Where Hudson's Wave"
284
The Pastor's Daughter
284
A Sacred Melody
286
Love and Friendship
286
Song
286
Life's Guiding Star
286
To Elmira
286
Italy
288
The Indian's Bride
288
Song
289
A Health
289
The Voyager's Song
290
A Picture-Song
290
The Old Tree
291
To ——
291
Elysium
291
To H——
292
Serenade
292
The Widow's Song
292
The Mocking Bird
293
A Shower
294
The Baron's Last Banquet
295
To the Weathercock on our Steeple
296
Adelheid
296
Old Grimes
297
"Oh, think not that the Bosom's Light"
297
The Apollo
298
Each in All
299
"Good-bye, proud World"
299
To the Humble-Bee
300
The Rhodora
300
The Snow-Storm
300
The Sphinx
301
The Problem
302
The Fore-Runners
302
The Poet
303
Dirge
303
To Rhea
304
To Eva
304
The Amulet
304
"Thine Eyes still shined"
305
Destruction of Pompeii, from "The Last Night of Pompeii"
306
Visions of Romance
307
An Evening Song of Piedmont
307
Lancaster
308
Anne Boleyn
311
Sunrise, from Mount Washington
311
Spirit of Beauty
312
Love Unchangeable
312
Extract from "Geraldine"
312
Lines written on leaving Italy
313
Description of Love, by Venus
314
Emblems
314
To a Lady
314
The Vision of Death
315
He wedded again
316
"Should Sorrow o'er thy Brow"
316
The Great Hereafter
317
Kingdom Come
318
The Armies of the Eve
318
To a Midnight Phantom
318
Ad Amicum
319
To George W. Doane
319
The Synagogue
320
The Clouds
320
The Ordinal
321
Christmas Eve
321
The Death of Stephen
321
The Christmas Offering
323
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The Closing Year
322
Lines to a Lady
322
The Dead Mariner
323
Sabbath Evening
324
To a Lady
324
Lines written at my Mother's Grave
324
Light
325
Lines to Charles
326
The Home Valentine
326
To my Mother
327
Night Study
327
On Thorwaldsen's Bas-Relief representing Night
328
To my Wife
328
Moonlight on the Hudson
332
The Forest Cemetery
333
The Bob-O-Linkum
334
The Remonstrance
334
Primeval Woods
334
Rio Bravo, a Mexican Lament
335
Love's Memories
335
Rosalie Clare
336
Think of Me, Dearest
336
We parted in Sadness
336
The Origin of Mint Juleps
336
Le Faineant
337
To an Autumn Rose
337
Sympathy
337
A Portrait
337
Indian Summer, 1828
338
Town Repinings
338
The Western Hunter to his Mistress
338
Thy Name
338
The Myrtle and Steel
339
Epitaph upon a Dog
339
Anacreontic
339
A Hunter's Matin
339
"Why seek her Heart to understand?"
340
Seek not to understand her
340
Ask me not why I should love her
340
She loves, but 'tis not me she loves
340
Thy Smile
341
Love and Politics
341
What is Solitude?
341
"Spring is Coming!"
342
Mignonne
342
Mary's Bee
342
Extracts from "Atlantis"
343
The Slain Eagle
345
The Brooklet
346
The Shaded Water
346
To the Breeze
347
The Lost Pleiad
347
The Edge of the Swamp
348
Changes of Home
348
Thoughts of a Student
349
Sea-Song
350
Look Aloft
350
To Mary
350
The Sum of Life
352
To Ann
352
The Lost at Sea
352
The Death-Bed of Beauty
353
To the Ice-Mountain
353
The Prisoner for Debt
353
To a Wave
353
On Passing the Grave of my Sister
354
After a Storm
354
Nuremberg
356
The Arsenal at Springfield
357
The Skeleton in Armor
357
A Psalm of Life
359
The Light of Stars
359
Endymion
359
Footsteps of Angels
360
The Beleaguered City
360
It is not always May
360
Midnight Mass for the Dying Year
361
The Village Blacksmith
361
Excelsior
362
The Rainy Day
362
Maidenhood
362
Autumn Musings
363
Jewish Battle-Song
364
"Pass on, relentless World"
364
Hampton Beach
365
Pilgrim Song
365
The Lyre and Sword
365
Give me the Old
366
The New England Pilgrim's Funeral
367
A Recollection
368
My Native Village
368
From a Poem entitled "A Day in Autumn"
369
Of Finding a Fountain in a secluded part of a Forest
369
The Traveller's Return
369
The Indian Summer
370
The Blind Restored to Sight
370
Two Sonnets
370
Melanie
372
The Confessional
375
Lines on Leaving Europe
376
Spring
377
To Ermengarde
377
Hagar in the Wilderness
378
Thoughts while making a Grave for a first Child, born dead
379
The Belfry Pigeon
379
April
380
The Annoyer
380
To a Face beloved
380
My Native Land
381
Song
382
Address to Black Hawk
383
To a Musquito
384
Musings on Rivers
385
To the Magnolia
386
To an Infant in Heaven
386
The Skater's Song
387
Lake Erie
387
The Backwoodsman
388
Rafting
388
The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick
390
New England
392
To John Pierpont
392
Palestine
393
Pentucket
393
Lines on the Death of S. Oliver Torrey, of Boston
394
Randolph of Roanoke
395
The Prisoner for Debt
396
The Merrimack
396
Gone!
397
Lines written in the Book of a Friend
398
Democracy
399
The Cypress Tree of Ceylon
400
The Worship of Nature
400
The Funeral Tree of the Sokokis
401
Raphael
402
Memories
402
To a Friend on her Return from Europe
403
The Reformer
404
My Soul and I
405
To a Friend, on the Death of his Sister
406
To S. T. Page
407
"'Tis said that Absence conquers Love"
408
Conservatism
410
The Invalid
410
The Early Lost
410
Fifty Years ago
411
Truth and Freedom
411
August
412
Spring Verses
412
May
413
Our Early Days
413
The Labourer
414
The Mothers of the West
414
Extracts from "Poetry, a Metrical Essay"
415
On lending a Punch-Bowl
416
Lexington
417
A Song of other Days
417
The Cambridge Churchyard
418
An Evening Thought
419
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La Grisette
419
The Treadmill Song
419
Departed Days
420
The Dilemma
420
The Star and the Water-Lily
420
The Music-Grinders
421
The Philosopher to his Love
421
L'Inconnue
422
The Last Leaf
422
The Last Reader
422
Old Ironsides
423
"Strange! it shone one lightly-whisper'd tone"
423
The Steamboat
423
The Bird of Bastile
424
Hymns to the Gods
425
To Neptune
426
To Apollo
426
To Venus
427
To Diana
428
To Mercury
428
To Bacchus
429
To Momus
430
To Ceres
430
The Planet Jupiter
431
To the Mocking Bird
433
To Sprig
434
Lines Written on the Rocky Mountains
434
Gold
436
Upon seeing a Portrait of a Lady
436
The Stormy Petrel
436
The Nautilus
436
To one Beloved
437
The Tired Hunter
438
The Departed
438
I am not Old
438
The Dove's Errand
439
"How cheery are the Mariners!"
439
Lines spoken by a Blind Boy
440
The Elysian Isle
440
Sonnet
441
Old
442
New
443
Sale
445
Snow
445
Extract from "The Blacksmith's Night"
446
Lines written in an Autumn Evening
447
A Lament
448
Memory
449
Song of May
449
Death of the First-Born
449
Summer
450
The Early Dead
450
The Signs of God
450
Kuthanian
451
An Invitation
451
The Burial-Place
451
A Contrast
452
The Faded One
452
A Remembrance
452
Morn at Sea
453
A Death-Bed
453
My Mother's Grave
453
A Spring-Day Walk
454
To One far away
454
Beatrice
454
"Underneath this Marble cold"
454
"The Dreaming Girl"
455
New England's Dead
455
The Death of Napoleon
455
The Notes of the Birds
456
Lines, suggested by a Picture by Washington Allston
456
To the Painted Columbine
457
Lines to a withered Leaf seen on a Poet's Table
457
The Heart
457
Sonnets
458
Triformis Diana
460
Cana
461
The Genuine Portrait
461
White-cap Waves
461
The Poet
461
Jacob's Well
462
The Violet
462
To a Bunch of Flowers
462
The Song of Steam
463
The Song of Lightning
464
On the Death of General Worth
464
On a Blind Boy, playing the Flute
465
The Stricken
466
My Brother
467
The Pride of Worth
467
My Father
468
My Wife and Child
468
The City in the Sea
470
Annabel Lee
470
Ulalume: a Ballad
471
To Zante
471
To ——————
472
Dream-Land
472
Lenore
473
Israfel
473
The Bells
474
To F. S. O.
474
For Annie
475
To one in Paradise
475
The Raven
476
The Conqueror Worm
477
The Haunted Palace
478
The Sleeper
478
The Gray Forest-Eagle
480
Fowling
481
A Forest Walk
482
Winter
483
The Settler
483
An American Forest in Spring
484
The Lost Hunter
484
Elegiac Stanzas
486
"Let there be Light"
487
June
487
Spring
488
Requiem
488
Stanzas written on visiting my Birthplace
488
To H. A. B.
489
To ——
489
"Believe not the slander, my dearest Katrine!"
490
Sonnets
490
The Cripple-Boy
491
To a Swan flying at Midnight in the Vale of the Huron
492
Life's Evening
493
The Sleeping Wife
493
Remember the Poor
493
To my Shadow
494
Poor Tom
494
"Alabama"
495
To the Mississippi
495
"Our Country—Right or Wrong"
496
A Sabbath Morning, at Pettaquamscutt
496
Sunrise on the Sea-coast
496
Beauty
497
My Thoughts
498
The Hours
498
On hearing Triumphant Music
499
Stanzas
499
Margaret Fuller Ossoli
499
Giovanni
501
The Holy Land
502
To an Elm
502
Mary
503
"You call us inconstant"
503
Greenough's Washington
503
Alone once more
504
Sonnets
504
Luna: an Ode
505
Tasso to Leonora
505
The Law of Beauty, from "The Spirit of Poetry"
505
Columbus, from the same
506
Florence, from the same
506
Poetry Immortal, from the same
506
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Extracts from "Yonnondio"
507
The Immortality of Genius
508
The Soldier of the Closet
508
The Battlefield of Denenville
509
Menomonee Dirge
510
The Swallow
510
A Floridian Scene
510
Sonnets suggested by the Coronation of Queen Victoria
511
On Reading Bryant's Poem of "The Winds"
511
To Emeline: a Threnodia
512
The Journalist
513
The Citizen
513
The Reformers
514
The Masses
514
The Mechanic
514
"Go Forth into the Fields"
515
To the Autumn Forest
515
On the Death of a Friend
516
Our Country
516
"I hear thy Voice, O Spring"
516
"I stood beside the Grave of him"
517
Records of a Summer Voyage to Cuba
517
The Days that are Past
519
The Martyr of the Arena
519
Summer in the Heart
520
The Fugitive from Love
520
The Night-Storm at Sea
520
To my Daughter Lily
523
Emily: Proem to the "Froissart Ballads"
524
Life in the Autumn Woods
526
Florence Vane
527
"The Farmer sat in his Easy Chair"
528
Mill May
528
"Her Grave is by her Mother's"
529
The Proud Miss MacBride: a Legend of Gotham
529
Fashion, from "Progress"
532
"The Press," from the same
532
"Association" from the same
532
Bereavement
533
Extract from "Endymion"
533
The Last Tilt
534
Berenice
534
The Lost Pleiad
535
No More
535
Astarte
535
Extract from "Parnassus in Pillory"
536
Ode to the Greek Slave
536
Niagara
537
The Wind
537
"The Bluebeard Chambers of the Heart"
538
The Glowworm
538
Extract from "Abel"
539
Extract from "Rest"
539
A Babylonish Ditty
540
Tecumseh and the Prophet, from "Tecumseh"
541
The Death of Tecumseh, from the same
542
A Forest Scene, from the same
543
To the Night-Wind in Autumn
543
Extract from "Athanasion"
544
Manhood
545
Old Churches
545
The Heart's Song
546
The Chimes of England
546
March
546
Keats
547
To my Sister
547
The Brook
548
A Rime
548
The Rustic Shrine
549
Blind Louise
549
A Memory
549
A Bright May
550
To an Old Acquaintance
550
The Shady Side
550
Rest
551
Wordsworth
552
The Mounts of America
554
Greenwood Cemetery
555
Hymn to the Hudson River
555
Chant of a Soul
556
The Gods of Old: an Ode
557
Extract from an Epistle "To Walter Savage Landor"
559
Campanile de Pisa
560
The Shadow of the Obelisk
561
On a Lady singing
561
Hudson River
562
On the Death of Daniel Webster
563
On a Magdalen by Guido
563
To James Russell Lowell, in return for a Talbotype of Venice
564
On a Bust of Dante
564
To the Dandelion
566
To the Memory of Thomas Hood
566
Sonnets
567
The Poet
568
Extract from "A Legend of Brittany"
569
The Syrens
569
An Incident in a Railroad Car
570
The Heritage
571
The Future
571
On a Pair of Antlers, brought from Germany
573
Ballad of the Tempest
573
A Valentine
574
On a Book of Sea-Mosses, sent to an eminent English Poet
574
Glory, from "The Post of Honor"
574
True Honor, from the same
574
Webster, from the same
574
The Old Year
575
Sleighing-Song
575
Fair Wind
575
Dirge for a Young Girl
575
Last Wishes of a Child
575
A Bridal Melody
575
Extract from "Doris Lee"
576
Ben Bolt
576
Thanatokallos
577
Maize in Tassel
578
What is the Use?
579
The Brickmaker
581
The Stranger on the Hill
583
"Bring me the juice of the Honey Fruit"
583
The Desert Road
584
The Closing Scene
584
An Invitation
585
My Hermitage
585
Passing the Icebergs
586
A Dirge for a Dead Bird
586
Midnight
586
The Nameless
586
The Song of the Earth
588
A Ballad of Sir John Franklin
591
Ode to England
592
Lida
593
Sonnet
593
Extract from "The Greek Slave"
594
To Emilie Louise Rives
595
Theleme
596
A Dream of Love
596
Manes
596
The Three Friends
597
"In Italy"
598
Nubia
600
Extract from a Poem to R. H. Stoddard
600
Metempsychosis of the Pine
600
El Canalo
602
The Bison-Track
603
Bedouin Song
603
The Arab and the Pine
603
Kubleh
604
Charmian
605
The Poet in the East
606
Kilimandjaro
606
An Oriental Idyl
606
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Hassan to his Mare
607
The Phantom
607
"Moan, ye wild Winds"
607
Smile and Tears
608
Emblems
608
Hymn to the Beautiful
610
Spring
610
The Witch's Whelp
611
A Household Dirge
612
Leonatus
612
A Dirge
613
The Shadow of the Hand
613
A Serenade
613
The Yellow Moon
614
Invocation to Sleep
614
At the Window
614
At Rest
614
The New Argonauts
615
The Incognito of Raphael
616
Uhland
616
A Vision of the Death of Shelley
617
The Dead-Watch
618
Sonnets
618
Extracts from "Stanzas"
619
Clouds
620
May
620
Memories
620
Gray Cliff, Newport
621
My Father's Fifty-third Birth-Day
621
Shells
621
The Relief of Lucknow
622
The Burden Field
622
Love Disposed of
623
A Burial Hymn
623
An Anthem-Carol for Christmas
623
The Warned One
623
Cleopatra
624
Praxiteles and Phryne
625
Snowdrop
625
"I celebrate myself"
626
"A child once said"
626
"The big doors of the country barn"
626
"I am he that walks"
627
"The past and present wilt"
627
A Song of Doubt
628
A Song of Faith
628
"Life evermore is fed by Death"
628
"This is it over all the earth"
628
Baby Gazes
629
A Mother's Song
629
Sheridan at Cedar Creek
630
Battle of Stone River, Tennessee
630
An Uninscribed Monument
630
The Victor of Antietam
631
The Mound by the Lake
631
The Returned Volunteer to his Rifle
631
Shiloh
631
The Color-Bearer
632
The Burial of the Dane
632
The Sphynx
633
Alone
633
Qu'il Mourût
633
The Vagabonds
634
Our Lady
635
Midwinter
635
Midsummer
636
Evening at the Farm
636
The Portrait
637
Lines
637
Lines
637
On ——
638
The Golden Age
638
Hum Fruit
639
Pan in Wall Street
640
The Doorstep
640
Toujours Amour
641
Laura, my Darling
641
What the Winds bring
641
The Jolly Old Pedagogue
642
Beer
642
Gone
643
Serenade
643
The Matron Year
643
Jubilate
643
Fret
644
The Exile
644
A Farewell
644
It Might Have Been
644
A Kiss
644
Remorse
644
The Parson's Courtship
645
No and Yes
645
The Fly
646
Marian's First Half-year
647
Blackberry Farm
647
Leaves at my Window
648
Rose and Root
648
My Shadow's stature
648
The White Flag
649
Love's Question
649
Love's Queen
649
After All
650
Azrael
650
The Heart's Anchor
650
The Bluebells of New England
651
Palabras Carinosas
651
The Faded Violet
651
Tiger-Lilies
651
When the Sultan goes to Ispahan
652
The Moorland
652
Song
652
Dead
652
Rhapsodies
652
"Jim"
653
Plain Language from Truthful James
653
The Society upon the Stanislaus
654
Grizzly
654
Andenken
655
Pleasure-Pain
656
Before the Gate
657
The First Cricket
657
The Poet's Friends
657
The Cotton-Boll
658
Spring
659
Charleston
660
The Unknown Dead
661
The Old Sergeant
661
Autumn Song
662
Little Breeches
663
Jim Bludso
663
​
A Woman's Love
664
In a Graveyard
664
Through the Long Days
664
Remorse
664
The Return of Paris
665
Ad Finem
666
A Pause
666
In Nubibus
666
A Small Warbler
667
On my Back
667
Two of a Trade
667
The Lost Song
667
Sleeping
668
Morning
668
The Future
668
A Poet's Apology
668

This work was published before January 1, 1931, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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