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Selections from American Poetry

Selections from American Poetry

by Margaret Sprague Carhart

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Editor
Carhart, Margaret Sprague, 1877-1953
Title
Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier
Credits
Produced by Pat Castevans and David Widger
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
American poetry
Category
Text
eBook-No.
3650
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3650
Release Date
January 1, 2003
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN POETRY
  2. 2.By Various Authors — With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier — Edited by Margaret Sprague Carhart — SELECTIONS OF AMERICAN POETRY
  3. 3.INTRODUCTION
  4. 4.ANNE BRADSTREET
  5. 5.CONTEMPLATIONS
  6. 6.THE DAY OF DOOM — SOUNDING OF THE LAST TRUMP
  7. 7.PHILIP FRENEAU
  8. 8.THE WILD HONEYSUCKLE
  9. 9.TO A HONEY BEE
  10. 10.THE INDIAN BURYING-GROUND
  11. 11.EUTAW SPRINGS
  12. 12.FRANCIS HOPKINSON
  13. 13.THE BATTLE OF THE KEGS
  14. 14.JOSEPH HOPKINSON
  15. 15.HAIL COLUMBIA
  16. 16.ANONYMOUS
  17. 17.THE BALLAD OF NATHAN HALE
  18. 18.A FABLE
  19. 19.TIMOTHY DWIGHT
  20. 20.LOVE TO THE CHURCH
  21. 21.SAMUEL WOODWORTH
  22. 22.THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET
  23. 23.WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
  24. 24.THANATOPSIS
  25. 25.THE YELLOW VIOLET
  26. 26.TO A WATERFOWL
  27. 27.GREEN RIVER
  28. 28.THE WEST WIND
  29. 29."I BROKE THE SPELL THAT HELD ME LONG"
  30. 30.A FOREST HYMN
  31. 31.THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS
  32. 32.THE GLADNESS OF NATURE
  33. 33.TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN
  34. 34.SONG OF MARION'S MEN
  35. 35.THE CROWDED STREET
  36. 36.THE SNOW-SHOWER
  37. 37.ROBERT OF LINCOLN
  38. 38.THE POET
  39. 39.ABRAHAM LINCOLN
  40. 40.FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
  41. 41.THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER
  42. 42.JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE
  43. 43.THE AMERICAN FLAG
  44. 44.THE CULPRIT FAY (Selection)
  45. 45.FITZ-GREENE HALLECK
  46. 46.MARCO BOZZARIS
  47. 47.ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE
  48. 48.JOHN HOWARD PAYNE
  49. 49.HOME, SWEET HOME
  50. 50.EDGAR ALLAN POE
  51. 51.TO HELEN
  52. 52.ISRAFEL
  53. 53.LENORE
  54. 54.THE COLISEUM
  55. 55.THE HAUNTED PALACE
  56. 56.TO ONE IN PARADISE
  57. 57.EULALIE.—A SONG
  58. 58.THE RAVEN
  59. 59.TO HELEN
  60. 60.ANNABEL LEE
  61. 61.THE BELLS
  62. 62.ELDORADO
  63. 63.HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
  64. 64.HYMN TO THE NIGHT
  65. 65.A PSALM OF LIFE — WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST
  66. 66.THE SKELETON IN ARMOR
  67. 67.THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS
  68. 68.THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH
  69. 69.IT IS NOT ALWAYS MAY — NO HAY PAJAROS EN LOS NIDOS DE ANTANO
  70. 70.THE RAINY DAY
  71. 71.THE ARROW AND THE SONG
  72. 72.THE DAY IS DONE
  73. 73.WALTER VON DER VOGELWEIDE
  74. 74.THE BUILDERS
  75. 75.SANTA FILOMENA
  76. 76.THE DISCOVERER OF THE NORTH CAPE — A LEAF FROM KING ALFRED'S OROSIUS
  77. 77.SANDALPHON
  78. 78.THE LANDLORD'S TALE — PAUL REVERES RIDE
  79. 79.THE SICILIAN'S TALE — KING ROBERT OF SICILY
  80. 80.THE THEOLOGIAN'S TALE — THE LEGEND BEAUTIFUL
  81. 81.JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
  82. 82.PROEM
  83. 83.THE FROST SPIRIT
  84. 84.SONGS OF LABOR — DEDICATION
  85. 85.THE LUMBERMEN
  86. 86.BARCLAY OF URY
  87. 87.ALL'S WELL
  88. 88.RAPHAEL
  89. 89.SEED-TIME AND HARVEST
  90. 90.THE PROPHECY OF SAMUEL SEWALL — 1697
  91. 91.SKIPPER IRESON'S RIDE
  92. 92.THE DOUBLE-HEADED SNAKE OF NEWBURY
  93. 93.MAUD MULLER
  94. 94.BURNS — ON RECEIVING A SPRIG OF HEATHER IN BLOSSOM
  95. 95.THE HERO
  96. 96.THE ETERNAL GOODNESS
  97. 97.THE PIPES AT LUCKNOW
  98. 98.COBBLER KEEZAR'S VISION
  99. 99.THE MAYFLOWERS
  100. 100.RALPH WALDO EMERSON
  101. 101.GOOD-BYE
  102. 102.EACH AND ALL
  103. 103.THE PROBLEM
  104. 104.THE RHODORA — ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER?
  105. 105.THE HUMBLE—BEE
  106. 106.THE SNOW-STORM
  107. 107.FABLE
  108. 108.FORBEARANCE
  109. 109.CONCORD HYMN — SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE BATTLE MONUMENT,
  110. 110.BOSTON HYMN
  111. 111.THE TITMOUSE
  112. 112.JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
  113. 113.HAKON'S LAY
  114. 114.FLOWERS
  115. 115.IMPARTIALITY
  116. 116.MY LOVE
  117. 117.THE FOUNTAIN
  118. 118.THE SHEPHERD OF KING ADMETUS
  119. 119.ODE RECITED AT THE HARVARD COMMEMORATION — (Selection)
  120. 120.THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL — PRELUDE TO PART FIRST
  121. 121.BIGLOW PAPERS — I. WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS
  122. 122.II. THE COURTIN'
  123. 123.III. SUNTHIN' IN THE PASTORAL LINE
  124. 124.AN INDIAN-SUMMER REVERIE
  125. 125.A FABLE FOR CRITICS — (Selections)
  126. 126.OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
  127. 127.OLD IRONSIDES
  128. 128.THE LAST LEAF
  129. 129.MY AUNT
  130. 130.THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS
  131. 131.CONTENTMENT
  132. 132.THE DEACON'S MASTERPIECE; — or
  133. 133.THOMAS BUCHANAN READ
  134. 134.STORM ON ST. BERNARD
  135. 135.DRIFTING
  136. 136.WALT WHITMAN
  137. 137.PIONEERS! O PIONEERS! — (Selection)
  138. 138.O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!
  139. 139.NOTES

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