This book includes classic american poetry by such eminent poets as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sara Teasdale, William Butler Yeats, Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Gertrude Stein and others.
Contents:
Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Phillis Wheatley
To the Right Honourable WILLIAM,
Earl of DARTMOUTH, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North-America, & c.
William Cullen Bryant
The Planting of the Apple-Tree
Thanatopsis
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Concord Hymn
The Snow-storm
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Arrow and the Song
The Builders
The Children’s Hour
The Day Is Done
The Landlord’s Tale. Paul Revere’s Ride
Edgar Allan Poe
Alone
Annabel Lee
The Conqueror Worm
The Raven
To Helen
Abraham Lincoln
My Childhood’s Home I See Again
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
Old Ironsides
Herman Melville
Misgivings
Walt Whitman
I Hear America Singing
I Sit and Look Out
Miracles
A Noiseless Patient Spider
О Captain! My Captain!
From Song of My self
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
Frances E. W. Harper
Bury Me in a Free Land
Songs for the People
Emily Dickinson
‘Because I could not stop for Death’
‘Death sets a thing significant’
‘Hope is the thing with feathers’
‘I died for beauty’
‘If I can stop one heart from breaking’
‘I’m nobody! Who are you?’
‘Mv life closed twice before its close’
‘Success is couated sweetest’
‘There is no frigate like a book’
‘This is my letter to the world’
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Solitude
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Casey at the Bat
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Miniver Cheevy
Mr. Flood’s Party
Richard Cory
Stephen Crane
I saw a man pursuing the horizon’
War Is Kind
James Weldon Johnson
Sence You Went Away
Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Lesson
Sympathy
We Wear the Mask
Gertrude Stein
Susie Asado
Vachel Lindsay
Abraham Lincoln. Walks at Midnight
Euclid
The Leaden-Eyed
Claude McKay
After the Winter
If We Must Die
The Tropics in New York
Countee Cullen
For Paul Laurence Dunbar
Incident
Amy Lowell
Venetian Glass
Song
The Swans
Prime
James Oppenheim
Hebrews
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Juliet Of Nations
A Musical Instrument
Emma Lazarus
The Crowing Of The Red Cock
Youth And Death
Age And Death
Louisa May Alcott
Fairy Song
My Kingdom
Transfiguration
Lullaby
Ellis Parker Butler
Good — Better — Best
The Whale
A Lost Angel
The Ballade Of The Automobile
Hugh Henry Brackenridge
From A poem on divine revelation
Matthew Arnold
To A Friend
Shakespeare
The Last Word
William Butler Yeats
Brown Penny
The Chambermaid’s First Song
A Song From ‘The Player Queen’
September 1913
Leda And The Swan
A Prayer For Old Age
William Blake
A Poison Tree
The Garden Of Love
The Fly
Laughing song
Sara Teasdale
Wisdom
Peace
A Cry
After Love
Alone
I Am Not Yours
On A March Day
The Mystery
William Barnes
The Broken Heart
The Young that Died in Beauty
The Woodlands