III. Second Lyrical Period. Division I. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900

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

III. Second Lyrical Period
(In Three Divisions)
From the Beginning of the Civil War to the Hundredth Presidential Year—1861–1889

Division I
(Mitchell, Timrod, Hayne, Mrs. Jackson, Miss Dickinson, Stedman, the Piatts, Mrs. Stofford, Mrs. Moulton, Winter, Aldrich, Howells, Hay, Harte, Sill, Miller, Lanier, and Others)

Silas Weir Mitchell.	On a Boy’s First Reading of “King Henry V”
	To a Magnolia Flower in the Garden of the Armenian Convent at Venice
	Of One Who Seemed to Have Failed
	The Quaker Graveyard
	Idleness
	A Decanter of Madeira, Aged 86, to George Bancroft, Aged 86, Greeting
Henry Timrod.	The Cotton Boll
	Quatorzain
	Charleston
	At Magnolia Cemetery
Paul Hamilton Hayne.	Aspects of the Pines
	Vicksburg
	Between the Sunken Sun and the New Moon
	A Storm in the Distance
	The Rose and Thorn
	A Little While I Fain Would Linger Yet
	In Harbor
Emily Dickinson.	Life
	Love
	Nature
	Time and Eternity
Will Wallace Harney.	Adonais
Will Wallace Harney.	The Stab
Helen Fiske Jackson.	Coronation
	Morn
	Emigravit
	Poppies in the Wheat
	A Last Prayer
	Habeas Corpus
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn.	Samuel Hoar
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn.	Ariana
Joel Benton.	At Chappaqua
Joel Benton.	The Scarlet Tanager
Elizabeth Akers Allen.	Sea-Birds
	“My Dearling”
	The Last Landlord
	In a Garret
	Rock Me to Sleep
Mary Ashley Townsend.	Sonnets
	Embryo
	A Georgia Volunteer
John Albee.	Music and Memory
	A Soldier’s Grave
	Landor
	Bos’n Hill
	Dandelions
Edmund Clarence Stedman.	Song from a Drama
	The Discoverer
	Pan in Wall Street
	Kearny at Seven Pines
	The Hand of Lincoln
	Salem
	Falstaff’s Song
	The World Well Lost
	Helen Keller
	Morgan
	On a Great Man Whose Mind Is Clouding
	Si Jeunesse Savait!
	Mors Benefica
	Quest
	Invocation
Tracy Robinson.	Song of the Palm
Charles Henry Webb.	With a Nantucket Shell
	March
	Gil, the Toreador
	Dum Vivimus Vigilemus
Richard Realf.	Indirection
	The Word
	An Old Man’s Idyl
George Arnold.	Farewell to Summer
George Arnold.	Beer
Frances Louisa Bushnell.	World Music
	Unfulfilment
	In the Dark
Annie Fields.	On Waking from a Dreamless Sleep
	Theocritus
	Little Guinever
	The Return
	“Song, to the Gods, Is Sweetest Sacrifice”
Harriet McEwen Kimball.	The Guest
	All ’s Well
	White Azaleas
John James Piatt.	The Mower in Ohio
	Rose and Root
	To Abraham Lincoln
	Farther
	The Child in the Street
	To a Lady
	The Guerdon
	Torch-Light in Autumn
	Ireland
	Leaves at My Window
	The Lost Genius
	Purpose
Harriet Prescott Spofford.	Phantoms All
	Evanescence
	Music in the Night
	A Sigh
	The Pines
	Voice
	The Hunt
Louise Chandler Moulton.	To-Night
	A Painted Fan
	The Shadow Dance
	Laus Veneris
	Laura Sleeping
	Hic Jacet
	The Last Good-By
	Were but My Spirit Loosed upon the Air
	We Lay Us Down to Sleep
	Louisa May Alcott
	Love’s Resurrection Day
William Hayes Ward.	To John Greenleaf Whittier
William Hayes Ward.	The New Castalia
Irving Browne.	My New World
	At Shakespeare’s Grave
	Man’s Pillow
Lucius Harwood Foote.	Poetry
	On the Heights
	Don Juan
	El Vaquero
	The Derelict
Theodore Tilton.	God Save the Nation
	Cœur de Lion to Berengaria
	The Flight from the Convent
	Sir Marmaduke’s Musings
Mary Emily Bradley.	A Chrysalis
	In Death
	Beyond Recall
	A Spray of Honeysuckle
John Aylmer Dorgan.	The Beautiful
John Aylmer Dorgan.	The Dead Solomon
Frances Laughton Mace.	Alcyone
William Henry Venable.	The School Girl
William Henry Venable.	My Catbird
Anna Callender Brackett.	Sonnets
Charles Frederick Johnson.	The Modern Romans
Charles Frederick Johnson.	Then and Now
Celia Thaxter.	Seaward
	The Sandpiper
	Song
	May Morning
William Winter.	My Queen
	Asleep
	The Night Watch
	On the Verge
	Adelaide Neilson
	Arthur
	The Passing Bell at Stratford
	I. H. B.
	Unwritten Poems
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt.	After Wings
	My Babes in the Wood
	The Witch in the Glass
	Tradition of Conquest
	The Watch of a Swan
	In Clonmel Parish Churchyard
	A Call on Sir Walter Raleigh
	An Irish Wild-Flower
	Transfigured
	The Term of Death
	Envoy
David Gray.	On Lebanon
	Divided
	The Cross of Gold
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.	Appreciation
	To Hafiz
	When the Sultan Goes to Ispahan
	Palabras Cariñosas
	Heredity
	Identity
	Unguarded Gates
	Guilielmus Rex
	Sargent’s Portrait of Edwin Booth at “The Players”
	Tennyson
	A Shadow of the Night
	Sonnets
	Prescience
	Memory
	Thalia
	Quatrains
	An Ode
	A Petition
William Dean Howells.	In Earliest Spring
	The Two Wives
	From Generation to Generation
	Change
	If
	Hope
	Vision
	Judgment Day
	What Shall It Profit?
Forceythe Willson.	The Old Sergeant
Forceythe Willson.	From “In State”
William Reed Huntington.	Tellus
William Reed Huntington.	Authority
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster.	Whittier
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster.	Awakening
Henry Ames Blood.	Comrades
Henry Ames Blood.	Shakespeare
Mary Mapes Dodge.	The Two Mysteries
	Once Before
	The Stars
	Emerson
	Shadow-Evidence
William Bull Wright.	From “The Brook”
John Hay.	Liberty
	The Surrender of Spain
	Christine
	Pike County Ballads
	Little Breeches
	The Stirrup-Cup
Edna Dean Proctor.	From “The Song of the Ancient People”
Edna Dean Proctor.	Heaven, O Lord, I Cannot Lose
Charlotte Fiske Bates.	A Character
	The Clue
	Delay
	Woodbines in October
	The Living Book
James Ryder Randall.	My Maryland
	John Pelham
	Why the Robin’s Breast Was Red
Abram Joseph Ryan.	The Conquered Banner
Abram Joseph Ryan.	A Child’s Wish
Francis Bret Harte.	At the Hacienda
	Chiquita
	Grizzly
	Crotalus
	“Jim”
	The Society upon the Stanislaus
	The Aged Stranger
	Madroño
	What the Bullet Sang
Stephen Henry Thayer.	Europa
	Poet of Earth
	The Waiting Chords
Rossiter Johnson.	Evelyn
Rossiter Johnson.	A Soldier Poet
Amelia Walstien Carpenter.	The Ride to Cherokee
	Recollection
	Old Flemish Lace
John Lancaster Spalding.	Believe and Take Heart
	The Starry Host
	Silence
	Forepledged
	From “God and the Soul”
Henry Bernard Carpenter.	The Reed
Robert Kelley Weeks.	Medusa
	A Song for Lexington
	Man and Nature
John White Chadwick.	The Making of Man
	The Golden-Robin’s Nest
	Recognition
	Starlight
	The Rise of Man
	His Mother’s Joy
	A Wedding-Song
George Alfred Townsend.	Army Correspondent’s Last Ride
George Alfred Townsend.	In Rama
Edward Rowland Sill.	The Fool’s Prayer
	Before Sunrise in Winter
	The Lover’s Song
	The Coup de Grace
	Tempted
	Force
	A Prayer
William Gordon McCabe.	Christmas Night of ’62
William Gordon McCabe.	Dreaming in the Trenches
Titus Munson Coan.	A Dream of Flowers
	The Crystal
	Nihil Humani Alienum
Nora Perry.	Cressid
	The Love-Knot
	Riding Down
	Who Knows?
James Herbert Morse.	Silence
	Brook Song
	The Wild Geese
	His Statement of the Case
	The Wayside
Joaquin Miller.	Columbus
	At the Grave of Walker
	Westward Ho!
	Crossing the Plains
	Vaquero
	By the Pacific Ocean
	Twilight at the Heights
	Dead in the Sierras
	Peter Cooper
	To Russia
	The Voice of the Dove
	Juanita
Joseph O’Connor.	What Was My Dream?
Joseph O’Connor.	The General’s Death
Charles Goodrich Whiting.	Blue Hills beneath the Haze
	The Eagle’s Fall
	The Way to Heaven
Charles Edward Carryl.	The Song in the Dell
Charles Edward Carryl.	Robinson Crusoe
Sidney Lanier.	Song for “The Jaquerie”
	Night and Day
	The Stirrup-Cup
	Song of the Chattahoochee
	The Marshes of Glynn
	The Mocking Bird
	The Harlequin of Dreams
	A Ballad of Trees and the Master
	Sunrise
May Riley Smith.	My Uninvited Guest
May Riley Smith.	Departure
Henry Abbey.	Donald
	Winter Days
	In Memory of General Grant
	Faith’s Vista
Ambrose Bierce.	The Death of Grant
	The Bride
	Another Way
	Montefiore
	Presentiment
	Creation
	T. A. H.
Charles Warren Stoddard.	The Royal Mummy to Bohemia
	Wind and Wave
	Albatross
	The Cocoa-Tree
Francis Fisher Browne.	Vanquished
	Under the Blue
	Santa Barbara
Mary Ainge De Vere.	The Wind-Swept Wheat
	A Farewell
	Faith Trembling
	The Spinner
	When the Most Is Said
	Poet and Lark
	A Breath
	Friend and Lover
	God Keep You
Additional Selections.
Hezekiah Butterworth.	The Thanksgiving in Boston Harbor
Guy Humphreys McMaster.	Carmen Bellicosum
William Cleaver Wilkinson.	At Marshfield
John Antrobus.	The Cowboy
Ethel Lynn Beers.	All Quiet along the Potomac
Charles Graham Halpine.	Sambo’s Right to Be Kilt
John Esten Cooke.	The Band in the Pines
Elbridge Jefferson Cutler.	The Volunteer
Henry Lynden Flash.	Stonewall Jackson
Nathaniel Graham Shepherd.	Roll-Call
Robert Henry Newell.	“Picciola”
Michael O’Connor.	Reveille
William Tuckey Meredith.	Farragut
Kate Putnam Osgood.	Driving Home the Cows
Anonymous.	Negro Spirituals
Augusta Cooper Bristol.	The Pyxidanthera
Constance Fenimore Woolson.	Yellow Jessamine
Mary Bolles Branch.	The Petrified Fern
Mary Elizabeth Blake.	The Dawning o’ the Year
David Law Proudfit.	The Willis
Samuel Willoughby Duffield.	Two of a Trade
Caroline Atherton Mason.	Sonnets
Mary Barker Dodge.	Now
William Augustus Croffut.	A Living Memory
John Burroughs.	Waiting
Mary Mathews Adams.	Dead Love
Laura Redden Searing.	Disarmed
Wendell Phillips Garrison.	Post-Meridian
Louisa May Alcott.	Thoreau’s Flute
John James Ingalls.	Opportunity
Edward Howland.	The Condemned
Minot Judson Savage.	My Birth
Sarah Knowles Bolton.	The Inevitable
Thomas Stephens Collier.	Quatrains
William Croswell Doane.	Ancient of Days
Phillips Brooks.	O Little Town of Bethlehem
Mary Frances Butts.	In Galilee
David Banks Sickels.	Reincarnation
Frank Sewall.	Roll Out, O Song
Mary Gardiner Brainard.	Not Knowing
Benjamin Dionysius Hill.	To St. Mary Magdalen
Eugene Henry Pullen.	Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Annie Douglas Robinson.	One Saturday
Marguerite Elizabeth Easter.	My Laddie’s Hounds
Charles Monroe Dickinson.	The Children
Laurence Hutton.	“The Doves of Venice”
Harriet S. Morgridge.	Mother Goose Sonnets
George Thomas Lanigan.	A Threnody

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