PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832)

Song of Thyrsis

The Indian Burying-Ground

CONTENTS

JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE (1795-1820)

The American Flag

JAMES GATES PERCIVAL (1795-1836)

Elegiac

FITZ-GREENE HALLECK (1790-1867)

On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake .

JOHN PIERPONT (1785-1866)

My Child

RICHARD HENRY DANA (1787-1879)

The Little Beach-Bird

The Problem

Brahma
Terminus

Thanatopsis.

The Death of the Flowers

EDWARD COATE PINKNEY (1802-1828)

A Health.

Song.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)

Days

Bacchus

CHARLES FENNO HOFFMAN (1806-1884)

Monterey

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)

Divina Commedia

Giotto's Tower

My Lost Youth

The Fire of Driftwood

NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS (1806-1867)

Unseen Spirits

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892)

The Eternal Goodness

My Playmate

The Barefoot Boy

Ichabod

SARAH HELEN WHITMAN (1803-1878)

To Edgar Allan Poe

JOHN HENRY BONER (1845- )

Poe's Cottage at Fordham

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894)

The Chambered Nautilus

The Last Leaf

HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)

My Prayer

Inspiration

Smoke

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AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT (1799-1888)

Thoreau.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-1888)

Thoreau's Flute

WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1818-1901)

Tears in Spring

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819-1891)

She Came and Went

My Love

Commemoration Ode.

Auspex

MARIA WHITE LOWELL (1821-1853)

Song

JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (1819-1881)

Gradatim

WILLIAM WETMORE STORY (1819-1895)

Praxiteles and Phryne

THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS (1819-1892)

On a Bust of Dante

Dirge

THEODORE O'HARA (1820-1867)

The Bivouac of the Dead.

GEORGE HENRY BOKER (1823-1890)

Dirge for a Soldier

JULIA WARD HOWE (1819-1910)

The Battle-Hymn of the Republic

THOMAS BUCHANAN READ (1822-1872)

The Brave at Home

Drifting.

The Closing Scene

WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)

The Last Invocation

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Death Carol (From "When Lilacs Last in the Door-

yard Bloomed")

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HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL (1820-1872)

The Burial of the Dane

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CHARLES GODFREY LELAND (1824-1903)

The Two Friends

BAYARD TAYLOR (1825-1878)

Tyre.

Song.

Bedouin Song

JULIA C. R. DORR (1825-1912)

To a Late Comer

JOSEPH BROWNLEE BROWN (1824-1888)

"Thalatta! Thalatta!"

PHOEBE CARY (1824-1871)

Nearer Home

Alas!.

GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS (1824-1892)

Ebb and Flow

FRANCIS MILES FINCH (1827-1907)
The Blue and the Gray

RICHARD HENRY STODDARD (1825-1903)

The Flight of Youth

Birds

ELIZABETH STODDARD (1823-1902)

Mercedes.

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HENRY TIMROD (1829-1867)

At Magnolia Cemetery

Spring

Quatorzain

CONTENTS

CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900)

Bokra

JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE (1827-

Midwinter

S. WEIR MITCHELL (1829-1914)

Evening

Of One who Seemed to have Failed

Parting

Choice

Suspense

Peace

Chartless.

PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE (1831-1866)

In Harbor.

A Little While I Fain would Linger Yet

EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)

ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN (1832-1911)

My Dearling.

Sea-Birds

RICHARD REALF (1834-1878)

Indirection

NORA PERRY (1832-1896)

Some Day of Days

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