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SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN POETRY

With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier

by Margaret Sprague Carhart

CONTENTS:

Introduction

ANNE BRADSTREET Contemplation

MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH The Day of Doom

PHILLIP 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

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 Excelsior The Rainy Day The Arrow and the Song The Day is Done Walter Von Vogelweide The Builders Santa Filomena The Discoverer of the North Cape Sandalphon Tales of a Wayside Inn The Landlord's Tale The Sicilian's Tale The Theologian's Tale

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Proem The Frost Spirit Songs of Labor Dedication Songs of Labor The Lumberman 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 Goodbye 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 Prelude to the Vision of Sir Launfal Biglow Papers What Mr Robinson Thinks The Courtin' Sunthin' in the Pastoral Line An Indain Summer Reverie A Fable for Critics (selection)

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Old Ironsides The Last Leaf My Aunt The Chambered Nautilus Contentment The Deacon's Masterpiece

THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Storm on the S...

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