| Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. 1836–1907 | Baby Bell |
| Song from the Persian |
| Palabras Cariñosas |
| In an Atelier |
| On Lynn Terrace |
| On an Intaglio Head of Minerva |
| Nocturne |
| Allen, Elizabeth (Akers). 1832–1911 | Rock Me to Sleep |
| Last |
| Left Behind |
| Anonymous. | Home Wounded |
| Barlow, Joel. 1755–1812 | Psalm CXXXVII: The Babylonian Captivity |
| Beers, Ethelinda (Eliot). 1827–1879 | All Quiet Along the Potomac |
| Brown, Phebe (Hinsdale). 1783–1861 | Private Devotion |
| Bryant, William Cullen. 1794–1878 | Thanatopsis |
| To a Waterfowl |
| Forest Hymn |
| June |
| Death of the Flowers |
| Past |
| Song of Marion's Men |
| Battle-Field |
| Future Life |
| Crowded Street |
| Oh Mother of a Mighty Race |
| Conqueror's Grave |
| Planting of the Apple-Tree |
| Snow-Shower |
| Bunner, Henry Cuyler. 1855–1896 | Way to Arcady |
| She Was a Beauty |
| Feminine |
| Candor |
| Wed |
| Chaperon |
| Chakey Einstein |
| Atlantic City |
| Da Capo |
| Just a Love-Letter |
| Butler, William Allen. 1825–1902 | Incognita of Raphael |
| Nothing to Wear |
| Cary, Phoebe. 1824–1871 | Nearer Home |
| Alas! |
| Coffin, Robert Barry. 1826–1888 | Ships at Sea |
| Cook, Marc. 1854–1882 | Her Opinion of the Play |
| Cooke, Philip Pendleton. 1816–1850 | Florence Vane |
| Cooke, Rose (Terry). 1827–1892 | Two Villages |
| Curtis, George William. 1824–1892 | O listen to the sounding sea |
| Spring Song |
| Egyptian Serenade |
| Cutler, Elbridge Jefferson. 1831–1870 | Volunteer |
| Doane, George Washington. 1799–1859 | Evening: Psalm CXLI. 2 |
| Drake, Joseph Rodman. 1795–1820 | American Flag |
| Dwight, Timothy. 1752–1817 | Love to the Church |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 1803–1882 | Problem |
| Rhodora |
| Humble-Bee |
| Fable |
| To Eva |
| Days |
| Concord Hymn |
| Poet |
| Borrowing: From the French |
| Heri, Cras, Hodie |
| Sacrifice |
| Shakespeare |
| Brahma |
| Field, Eugene. 1850–1895 | Dear Old London |
| In Amsterdam |
| Bibliomaniac's Prayer |
| Dibdin's Ghost |
| Tea-Gown |
| Little Peach |
| Lydia Dick |
| Preference Declared |
| Grandma's Prayer |
| Duel |
| Garrison, William Lloyd. 1805–1879 | Freedom for the Mind |
| Gilder, Richard Watson. 1844–1909 | A Woman's Thought |
| River Inn |
| Reform |
| Noël |
| Songs |
| Ah, Be Not False |
| Heroic Age |
| Halleck, Fitz-Greene. 1790–1867 | Marco Bozzaris |
| Alnwick Castle |
| Burns: To a Rose |
| On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake |
| Red Jacket |
| Connecticut |
| Halpine, Charles Graham. 1829–1868 | Thousand and Thirty-Seven |
| Harte, Francis Bret. 1839–1902 | Society upon the Stanislaus |
| Plain Language from Truthful James |
| Dow's Flat |
| Jim |
| Chiquita |
| What the Engines Said |
| Hastings, Thomas. 1784–1872 | Latter Day |
| In Sorrow |
| Hay, John. 1838–1905 | Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle |
| Mystery of Gilgal |
| Hymn of the Knights Templars |
| Hoffman, Charles Fenno. 1806–1884 | Monterey |
| Mint Julep |
| Holmes, Oliver Wendell. 1809–1894 | Last Leaf |
| Dilemma |
| My Aunt |
| To the Portrait of "A Lady" |
| Music-Grinders |
| Lexington |
| On Lending a Punch-Bowl |
| Parting Word |
| Star and the Water-Lily |
| Philosopher to His Love |
| Ballad of the Oysterman |
| Deacon's Masterpiece |
| Qui Vive |
| Voiceless |
| Under the Washington Elm |
| Chambered Nautilus |
| A Voice of the Loyal North |
| Hovey, Richard. 1864–1900 | Wander-Lovers |
| At the End of Day |
| Sea Gypsy |
| Launa Dee |
| Unmanifest Destiny |
| Voices of Unseen Spirits |
| Faith and Fate |
| Howe, Julia Ward. 1819–1911 | Battle-Hymn of the Republic |
| Our Orders |
| Summons |
| Howell, Elizabeth (Lloyd). 1811–1896 | Milton's Prayer of Patience |
| Ingalls, John James. 1833–1900 | Opportunity |
| Key, Francis Scott. 1779–1843 | Star-Spangled Banner |
| Lanier, Sidney. 1842–1881 | Song of the Chattahoochee |
| Marshes of Glynn |
| Larcom, Lucy. 1826–1893 | Hannah Binding Shoes |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. 1807–1882 | A Psalm of Life |
| Footsteps of Angels |
| Song of the Silent Land |
| Skeleton in Armor |
| Village Blacksmith |
| Endymion |
| Maidenhood |
| Excelsior |
| Arsenal at Springfield |
| Nuremberg |
| Day is Done |
| Seaweed |
| Resignation |
| Warden of the Cinque Ports |
| My Lost Youth |
| Cumberland |
| Lowell, James Russell. 1819–1891 | What Mr. Robinson Thinks |
| Courtin' |
| Song |
| Present Crisis |
| Washers of the Shroud |
| Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration |
| Auf Wiedersehen: Summer |
| Palinode: Autumn |
| Without and Within |
| Petition |
| Telepathy |
| Credidimus Jovem Regnare |
| Lytle, William Haines. 1826–1863 | Antony and Cleopatra |
| McMaster, Guy Humphreys. 1829–1887 | Carmen Bellicosum |
| Messinger, Robert Hinckley. 1811–1874 | A Winter Wish |
| Moody, William Vaughn. 1869–1910 | Ode in Time of Hesitation |
| Gloucester Moors |
| O'Hara, Theodore. 1820–1867 | Bivouac of the Dead |
| Palmer, Ray. 1808–1887 | Faith |
| Fight at the San Jacinto |
| Stonewall Jackson's Way |
| Parsons, Thomas William. 1819–1892 | On a Bust of Dante |
| Mary Booth |
| Her Epitaph |
| Obituary |
| Paradisi Gloria |
| Saint Peray |
| Payne, John Howard. 1791–1852 | Home, Sweet Home |
| Perry, Nora. 1841–1896 | After the Ball |
| Pike, Albert. 1809–1891 | Dixie |
| Pinkney, Edward Coate. 1802–1828 | Song |
| A Serenade |
| A Health |
| Widow's Song |
| Parting |
| Poe, Edgar Allan. 1809–1849 | Raven |
| To One in Paradise |
| Haunted Palace |
| Conqueror Worm |
| Bells |
| Annabel Lee |
| Ulalume |
| To Helen |
| Pratt, George. 1832–1875 | A Pen of Steel |
| Randall, James Ryder. 1839–1908 | My Maryland |
| Read, Thomas Buchanan. 1822–1872 | Some Things Love Me |
| Celestial Army |
| Sheridan's Ride |
| Sargent, Epes. 1813–1880 | A Life on the Ocean Wave |
| Saxe, John Godfrey. 1816–1887 | Early Rising |
| Polyphemus and Ulysses |
| Orpheus and Eurydice |
| Bereavement |
| Shanly, Charles Dawson. 1811–1875 | Fancy Shot |
| Sill, Edward Rowland. 1841–1887 | Fool's Prayer |
| Open Window |
| To a Maid Demure |
| Momentous Words |
| Lover's Song |
| Coup de Grace |
| Stedman, Edmund Clarence. 1833–1906 | Pan in Wall Street |
| Ballad of Lager Bier |
| Edged Tools |
| Undiscovered Country |
| World Well Lost |
| Si Jeunesse Savait! |
| Provençal Lovers |
| Kearny at Seven Pines |
| Hypatia |
| Stoddard, Richard Henry. 1825–1903 | Flight of Youth |
| Without and Within |
| A Woman's Poem |
| Story, William Wetmore. 1819–1895 | Cleopatra |
| Praxiteles and Phryne |
| L'Abbate |
| Black Eyes |
| In the Rain |
| Snowdrop |
| Tappan, William Bingham. 1794–1849 | Hour of Peaceful Rest |
| Timrod, Henry. 1829–1867 | Charleston |
| Ode |
| Wakefield, Nancy (Priest). 1836–1870 | Over the River |
| Whitman, Walt. 1819–1892 | O Captain! My Captain! |
| Whittier, John Greenleaf. 1807–1892 | Proem to Edition of 1847 |
| Randolph of Roanoke |
| Barclay of Ury |
| Lines on the Death of S. O. Torrey |
| Ichabod |
| Maud Muller |
| My Playmate |
| Old Burying-Ground |
| Dedication of "In War Time" |
| Watchers |
| Barbara Frietchie |
| What the Birds Said |
| Willard, Emma (Hart). 1787–1870 | Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep |
| Willis, Nathaniel Parker. 1806–1867 | Unseen Spirits |
| Love in a Cottage |
