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

II. First Lyrical Period (In Three Divisions) From the Outset of Pierpont, Bryant, and Their Associates, to the Interval of the Civil War—1816–1860 Division II (Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Holmes, and Others)

Ralph Waldo Emerson. Each and All
The Problem
The Rhodora
The Humble-Bee
The Snow-Storm
Forerunners
Brahma
Forbearance
Character
Merlin
From “Woodnotes
Days
The Earth
Waves
Terminus
Threnody
Concord Hymn
Ode
The Test
Sarah Helen Whitman. Sonnets
William Lloyd Garrison. Liberty for All
Freedom for the Mind
Nathaniel Parker Willis. Parrhasius
Unseen Spirits
The Torn Hat
To Giulia Grisi
William Gilmore Simms. The Swamp Fox
The Lost Pleiad
The Decay of a People
Song in March
Ralph Hoyt. Old
Charles Fenno Hoffman. Sparkling and Bright
Monterey
The Mint Julep
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Hymn to the Night
A Psalm of Life
The Skeleton in Armor
The Village Blacksmith
Endymion
Serenade from “The Spanish Student
The Arrow and the Song
Dante
Curfew
From “Evangeline
From “The Building of the Ship
From “The Song of Hiawatha
The Warden of the Cinque Ports
My Lost Youth
The Children’s Hour
The Cumberland
The Bells of Lynn
Chaucer
Milton
Nature
Wapentake
A Ballad of the French Fleet
Jugurtha
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
My Books
Elizabeth Oakes Smith. From “The Sinless Child
The Drowned Mariner
John Greenleaf Whittier. Proem
The Farewell
Ichabod
Astræa
The Barefoot Boy
Maud Muller
Skipper Ireson’s Ride
The Swan Song of Parson Avery
The Vanishers
The Eternal Goodness
From “Snow-Bound
In School-Days
The Two Angels
Centennial Hymn
In the “Old South
Mulford
An Autograph
William Davis Gallagher. The Cardinal Bird
Autumn in the West
Edgar Allan Poe. To Helen
The Raven
The Sleeper
Lenore
To One in Paradise
The City in the Sea
Israfel
The Haunted Palace
The Conqueror Worm
The Bells
Annabel Lee
Ulalume
Samuel Francis Smith. America
Ray Palmer. Faith
Oliver Wendell Holmes. Old Ironsides
The Last Leaf
The Height of the Ridiculous
La Grisette
On Lending a Punch-Bowl
After a Lecture on Keats
The Voiceless
The Living Temple
The Chambered Nautilus
Bill and Joe
Under the Violets
Hymn of Trust
Epilogue to the Breakfast Table Series
Dorothy Q.
Cacoëthes Scribendi
The Strong Heroic Line
From “The Iron Gate
Frances Anne Kemble. Lament of a Mocking-Bird
Albert Pike. To the Mocking-Bird
The Widowed Heart
Dixie
Theodore Parker. The Higher Good
Jesus
Elizabeth Clementine Kinney. To the Boy
The Quakeress Bride
The Blind Psalmist
A Dream
Moonlight in Italy
Frances Sargent Osgood. To Sleep
A Dancing Girl
On Sivori’s Violin
Calumny
Song
On a Dead Poet
Alfred Billings Street. The Settler
The Loon
Christopher Pearse Cranch. The Bobolinks
Stanza from an Early Poem
The Pines and the Sea
Jones Very. The Idler
The New World
The Old Road
Yourself
The Dead
The Gifts of God
Henry Beck Hirst. The Fringilla Melodia
The Funeral of Time
Epes Sargent. A Life on the Ocean Wave
The Heart’s Summer
Robert Traill Spence Lowell. The Brave Old Ship, the Orient
The After-Comers
Henry Peterson. From an “Ode for Decoration Day
Rinaldo
James Thomas Fields. With Wordsworth at Rydal
Common Sense
Henry David Thoreau. Inspiration
The Fisher’s Boy
Smoke
Mist
Emily Chubbuck Judson. Watching
My Bird
Arthur Cleveland Coxe. Iona
William Ellery Channing. From “A Poet’s Hope
Hymn of the Earth
The Barren Moors
Tears in Spring
Edith
Mary Elizabeth (Hewitt) Stebbins. The Sunflower to the Sun
Harold the Valiant
  Additional Selections.
George Lunt. Requiem
Isaac McLellan. New England’s Dead
Henry Theodore Tuckerman. Washington’s Statue
Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Star of Calvary
William Croswell. The Clouds
Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch. A World Beyond
George Washington Bethune. It Is Not Death to Die
Frederic Henry Hedge. Paraphrase of Luther’s Hymn
Abraham Coles. Dies Iræ
Elizabeth Lloyd Howell. Milton’s Prayer of Patience
Edmund Hamilton Sears. The Angels’ Song
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe. The Other World
Rufus Dawes. Love Unchangeable
Emma Catharine Embury. Love Unsought
Henry William Herbert. Come Back
Frederick William Thomas. Song
Willis Gaylord Clarke. A Remembrance
James Aldrich. A Death-Bed
Charles Gamage Eastman. Dirge
Philip Pendleton Cooke. Florence Vane
Anna Peyre Dinnies. The Wife
George Washington Dewey. Blind Louise
Edward Young. Under the Violets
Sarah Roberts Boyle. The Voice of the Grass
Robert Hinckley Messinger. A Winter Wish
Samuel Ward. A Proem
John Osborne Sargent. Horace
Francis Alexander Durivage. Chez Brébant
Cornelius Mathews. The Poet