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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908).  An American Anthology, 1787–1900.  1900.

(In Three Divisions)
From the Outset of Pierpont, Bryant, and Their Associates, to the Interval of the Civil War—1816–1860

Division I
(Pierpont, Halleck, Bryant, Drake, Mrs. Brooks, and Others)

II. First Lyrical Period

John Pierpont. The Fugitive Slave’s Apostrophe to the North Star
Warren’s Address to the American Soldiers
The Ballot
The Exile at Rest
The Pilgrim Fathers
My Child
Fitz-Greene Halleck. Marco Bozzaris
On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake
Alnwick Castle
Burns
Red Jacket
Joseph Rodman Drake. From “The Culprit Fay
The American Flag
The National Paintings
The Man Who Frets at Worldly Strife
Halleck and Drake. Ode to Fortune
Lydia Huntley Sigourney. Columbus
The Indian’s Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers
The Return of Napoleon from St. Helena
Charles Sprague. From “Curiosity
The Winged Worshippers
The Brothers
John Neal. Men of the North
Music of the Night
William Cullen Bryant. Thanatopsis
To a Waterfowl
O Fairest of the Rural Maids
A Forest Hymn
June
The Death of the Flowers
The Past
The Evening Wind
To the Fringed Gentian
The Hunter of the Prairies
The Battle-Field
From “An Evening Revery
The Antiquity of Freedom
America
The Planting of the Apple-Tree
The May Sun Sheds an Amber Light
The Conqueror’s Grave
The Poet
My Autumn Walk
The Death of Slavery
In Memory of John Lothrop Motley
The Flood of Years
James Gates Percival. Elegiac
The Coral Grove
New England
Maria Gowen Brooks. From “Zophiël
The Respite
Song of Egla
Farewell to Cuba
William Augustus Muhlenberg. I Would Not Live Alway
Heaven’s Magnificence
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard. Mr. Merry’s Lament for “Long Tom
The Deep
Epithalamium
George Washington Doane. Evening
Robin Redbreast
William Bourne Oliver Peabody. Lament of Anastasius
Amos Bronson Alcott. Channing
Emerson
Margaret Fuller
Thoreau
Hawthorne
Bartol
Wendell Phillips
Garrison
Theodore Dwight Woolsey. The Eclipse of Faith
Albert Gorton Greene. The Baron’s Last Banquet
Edward Coate Pinkney. A Health
Song
A Serenade
Votive Song
George Pope Morris. Woodman, Spare That Tree!
We Were Boys Together
Near the Lake
My Mother’s Bible
Where Hudson’s Wave
Jeannie Marsh
George Denison Prentice. Memories
New England
  Additional Selections.
John Howard Payne. Home, Sweet Home!
Margaret Mercer. Exhortation to Prayer
Augustus Lucas Hillhouse. Forgiveness of Sins a Joy unknown to Angels
Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham. The Crossed Swords
Samuel Griswold Goodrich. Lake Superior
William Bingham Tappan. The Hour of Peaceful Rest
George Hill. Song of the Elfin Steersman
Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar. The Daughter of Mendoza
Robert Charles Sands. The Green Isle of Lovers
Grenville Mellen. The Lonely Bugle Grieves
Lydia Maria Child. The World I Am Passing Through
William Henry Furness. Evening Hymn