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 |
The Stab |
Helen Fiske Jackson. |
Coronation |
Morn |
Emigravit |
Poppies in the Wheat |
A Last Prayer |
Habeas Corpus |
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. |
Samuel Hoar |
Ariana |
Joel Benton. |
At Chappaqua |
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 |
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 |
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 |
The Dead Solomon |
Frances Laughton Mace. |
Alcyone |
William Henry Venable. |
The School Girl |
My Catbird |
Anna Callender Brackett. |
Sonnets |
Charles Frederick Johnson. |
The Modern Romans |
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 |
From “In State” |
William Reed Huntington. |
Tellus |
Authority |
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster. |
Whittier |
Awakening |
Henry Ames Blood. |
Comrades |
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” |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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? |
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 |
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 |
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 |