| Cotton Mather.
1663–1728. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| On the Death of his Son |
| On the Death of his Daughter |
| Lines to the Memory of Wilson |
| Lines to the Memory of Thompson |
| Roger Wolcott.
1679–1767. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Brief Account of the Agency of the Hon. John Winthrop |
| Michael Wigglesworth.
1631–1705. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Vanity of Vanities |
| The Day of Doom |
| Benjamin Colman.
1673–1747. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| On Elijah’s Translation |
| Jane Turell.
1708–1735. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| A Paraphrase of the One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Psalm |
| To My Muse |
| On the Poems of Sir Richard Blackmore |
| An Invitation into the Country, in Imitation of Horace |
| John Adams.
1705–1740. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Address to the Supreme Being |
| Version of the Apocalypse |
| Translation of an Ode of Horace |
| James Ralph.
c. 1705–1762. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Zeuma, or the Love of Liberty |
| John Maylem.
1739–1762?. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Conquest of Louisbourg |
| Thomas Godfrey.
1736–1763. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Court of Fancy |
| Epistle to a Friend |
| Nathaniel Evans.
1742–1767. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Epistolary Ode to a Friend |
| Ode on the Prospect of Peace, 1761 |
| Ode to My Ingenious Friend, Mr Thomas Godfrey |
| Hymn to May |
| Verses for the New Year, 1762 |
| Elegy to the Memory of Mr Thomas Godfrey |
| John Osborn.
1713–1753. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| A Whaling Song |
| Elegiac Epistle |
| Mather Byles.
1706–1788. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Conflagration |
| The God of Tempest and Earthquake |
| Elegy |
| Hymn Written During a Voyage |
| Joseph Green.
1706–1780. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Lines on Byles’s Voyage |
| A Mournful Lamentation for the Death of Mr Old Tenor |
| Fragments |
| William Livingston.
1723–1790. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Philosophic Solitude |
| Benjamin Church.
1734–1778. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Times |
| Lines on the Accession of George II |
| James Allen.
1739–1808. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Lines on the Massacre |
| The Retrospect |
| An Intended Inscription for the Monument on Beacon-Hill, in Boston |
| On Washington’s Visit to Boston, 1789 |
| Benjamin Franklin.
1706–1790. |
Paper |
| John Trumbull.
1750–1831. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| M’Fingal, Canto III |
| Jonathan Mitchel Sewall.
1748–1808. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| War and Washington |
| Francis Hopkinson.
1737–1791. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Battle of the Kegs |
| Songs |
| Lines on the Quarrel among the Students in Anatomy in Philadelphia |
| Ann Eliza Bleecker.
1752–1783. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| To Miss Ten Eyck |
| To Mr Bleecker, on His Passage to New York |
| An Evening Prospect |
| Peace |
| Return to Tomhanick |
| Margaretta V. Faugeres.
1771–1801. |
The Hudson |
| On a Painter |
| Timothy Dwight.
1752–1817. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Destruction of the Pequods |
| The Farmer’s Advice to the Villagers |
| Columbia |
| The Critics |
| The Worship of the Gibeonites |
| Battle before the Walls of Ai |
| Evening after a Battle |
| Procession of Israelitish Virgins to Meet the Returning Army |
| Lamentation of Selima for the Death of Irad |
| David Humphreys.
1752–1818. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Address to the Armies of the United States |
| The Monkey Who Shaved Himself and His Friends |
| Lemuel Hopkins.
1750–1801. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Anarchiad |
| On a Patient Killed by a Cancer Quack |
| The Hypocrite’s Hope |
| Philip Freneau.
1752–1832. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Dying Indian |
| The Wild Honeysuckle |
| The Man of Ninety |
| The Indian Student: or, Force of Nature |
| The Hurricane |
| The Five Ages |
| Epistle to a Gay Young Lady Who Was Married to a Doating Old Deacon |
| The Indian Burying Ground |
| To the Memory of the Brave Americans under General Greene, in South Carolina, Who Fell in the Action of September 8, 1781 |
| Port Royal |
| Elijah Fitch.
1746–1788. |
The Beauties of Religion |
| Sarah Porter. |
The Royal Penitent, Part II |
| William Moore Smith.
1759–1821. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Fall of Zampor |
| Ode to Meditation |
| Lampoon |
| John D. M’Kinnon.
1767–1830. |
The Mohawk |
| Samuel Low.
b. 1765. |
Winter |
| To a Violet |
| To a Segar |
| To the Genius of Poetry |
| Benjamin Pratt.
1710–1763. |
Death |
| Joseph Lathrop.
1731–1820. |
The Existence of a Deity |
| Stephen Sewall.
1734–1804. |
On the Death of George II |
| James Bowdoin.
1727–1790. |
Woman |
| John Lowell.
1744–1822. |
Lines |
| Peter Oliver.
1713–1791. |
Lines |
| Joseph Brown Ladd.
1764–1786. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Arouet to Amanda |
| Remonstrance of Almasa Allicawn, Wife of Almas Allicawn, to Warren Hastings |
| The War Horse |
| Retirement |
| What Is Happiness? |
| Edward Church. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Dangerous Vice ********* |
| Samuel Ewing. |
Reflections in Solitude |
| St George Tucker.
1752–1827. |
Stanzas |
| Joseph Hopkinson.
1770–1842. |
Hail Columbia |
| Richard B. Davis.
1771–1799. |
To a Sleeping Infant |
| Thou Art the Muse |
| To Emma |
| Joel Barlow.
1754–1812. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Hasty Padding |
| From the Vision of Columbus |
| Embassy of Rocha |
| George Richards.
b. c. 1760–1814. |
The Declaration of Independence |
| Mercy Otis Warren.
1728–1814. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Simplicity |
| Thomas Dawes.
1757–1825. |
The Law Given at Sinai |
| Richard Devens.
1749–1835. |
Paraphrase of Job |
| Samuel Dexter.
1761–1816. |
The Progress of Science |
| St John Honeywood.
1765–1798. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| On the President’s Farewell Address |
| On the Capture of Rome by the French |
| Modern Argumentation |
| Royall Tyler.
1757–1826. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Country Ode for the Fourth of July |
| My Mistresses |
| Address to Della Crusca |
| Choice of a Wife |
| On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country |
| The Town Eclogue |
| Richard Alsop.
1761–1815. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Echo No. 1 |
| Verses to the Shearwater—On the Morning after a Storm at Sea |
| The Incantation of Ulfo |
| Theodore Dwight.
1764–1846. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| African Distress |
| Echo No. 14 |
| Lines on the Death of Washington |
| Lines Addressed to a Mother, Who Had Been Absent from Home Several Weeks, on Her Seeing Her Infant Child Asleep |
| Sarah Wentworth Morton.
1759–1846. |
The African Chief |
| Josias Lyndon Arnold.
1768–1796. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| A Modern Eclogue |
| The Warrior’s Death Song |
| Fragment, Descriptive of Those Extraordinary Animals Whose Bones Have Been Found in the Western Country |
| Song |
| William Boyd.
1777–1800. |
Woman |
| William Cliffton.
1772–1799. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Mary Will Smile |
| To a Robin |
| To Fancy |
| A Flight of Fancy |
| Robert Treat Paine.
1773–1811. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Adams and Liberty |
| The Street Was a Ruin |
| Ode Sung at the Anniversary of the Faustus Association |
| John Lathrop.
1772–1820. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Speech of Canonicus |
| Joseph Story.
1779–1845. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| From the Power of Solitude |
| David Everett.
1770–1813. |
A Branch of the Maple |
| Thomas Green Fessenden.
1771–1837. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Elegy on the Death of Washington |
| An Ode |
| Tabitha Towzer |
| Signior Squeak’s Dancing Advertisement |
| John Blair Linn.
1777–1804. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Powers of Genius |
| John Shaw.
1778–1809. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Autumnal Flower |
| Song |
| William Leigh Pierce.
1790?–1814. |
The Year |
| Lucius M. Sargent.
1786–1867. |
The Plunderer’s Grave |
| William Ray.
1771–1826. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Tripoli |
| The Way to Be Happy |
| Village Greatness |
| William Crafts.
1787–1826. |
Rapids in Love |
| Serenade Song |
| Selleck Osborn.
1783–1826. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Ruins |
| The Quarrels of Love |
| The Sailor |
| Washington Allston.
1779–1842. |
The Paint King |
| William Maxwell.
1784–1857. |
The Revery |
| The Prize |
| Tea |
| To a Fair Lady |
| Robert S. Coffin.
1797–1827. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Song |
| William B. Walter.
c. 1796–1822. |
Romance |
| Richard Dabney.
1787?–1825. |
The Spring of Life |
| A Western War Song |
| The Heroes of the West |
| Turn Not to the East |
| To a Lady |
| Washington Irving.
1783–1859. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Falls of the Passaic |
| Henry T. Farmer.
1782–1828. |
The Battle of the Isle |
| James K. Paulding.
1778–1860. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Backwoodsman |
| Paul Allen.
1775–1826. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Noah, Canto II |
| John Milton Harney.
1789–1825. |
Crystalina |
| Lydia H. Sigourney.
1791–1865. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Excuse for Not Fulfilling an Engagement |
| The Coral Insect |
| Death of an Infant |
| With Wild Flowers to a Sick Friend |
| Missolonghi |
| Burial of the Young |
| To the Moon |
| A Vision of the Alps |
| Connecticut River |
| Flora’s Party |
| Musing Thoughts |
| Robert C. Sands.
1797?–1819. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Yamoyden |
| Robert Dinsmoor.
1757–1836. |
The Braes of Glenniffer |
| Samuel Woodworth.
1784–1842. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Bucket |
| The Landsend |
| Love’s Eyes |
| The Pride of the Valley |
| Wreath of Love |
| John Pierpont.
1785–1866. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Airs of Palestine |
| The Pilgrim Fathers |
| Warren’s Address to the American Soldiers, before the Battle of Bunker Hill |
| On Laying the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument |
| Independence |
| For a Lady’s Album |
| Henry Pickering.
1781–1838. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| To a Beautiful Lake |
| Daphne |
| Flowers |
| I Thought It Slept |
| To the Fringilla Melodia |
| The Waterfall |
| Descriptive Sonnets |
| Henry C. Knight.
1789–1835. |
The Country Oven |
| Francis Scott Key.
1779–1843. |
The Star-Spangled Banner |
| Katharine A. Ware.
1797–1843. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| There Is a Voice |
| Greece |
| The Parting |
| Sarah J. Hale.
1788–1879. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Father’s Choice |
| The Victor’s Crown |
| The Light of Home |
| The Gifts |
| The Mother to Her Child |
| Enoch Lincoln.
1788–1829. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Village |
| John C. M’Call.
1793–1846. |
The Troubadour |
| Edwin C. Holland.
1794–1824. |
The Pillar of Glory |
| Rise Columbia |
| Daniel Bryan.
1795–1866. |
Lafayette |
| Alonzo Lewis.
1794–1861. |
Death Song |
| The Minstrel’s Love |
| The Wanderer of Africa |
| Nathaniel A. Haven.
1790–1826. |
Lines on Frederic the Great |
| The Purse of Charity |
| Autumn |
| James N. Barker.
1784–1858. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Little Red Riding Hood |
| George Washington Doane.
1790–1859. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| That Silent Moon |
| Oh! That I Had Wings Like a Dove |
| Lines, Suggested by a Very Brilliant Sun-Setting |
| Spirit of Spring |
| On a Very Old Wedding Ring |
| The Cloud Bridge: A Remembered Vision |
| Nathaniel H. Wright.
1787–1824. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Isle of Flowers |
| The Star of Bethlehem |
| Solyman Brown.
1790–1876. |
Lady Byron to Her Husband |
| The Emigrant’s Farewell |
| Joseph Rodman Drake.
1795–1820. |
The American Flag |
| James Abraham Hillhouse.
1789–1841. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Hadad, Scene III |
| An Apologue |
| Thomas Wells. |
At Musing Hour |
| Solitude |
| A Vision |
| The Battle of New Orleans |
| Sonnet |
| William B. Tappan.
1794–1849. |
Retrospection |
| Why Should We Sigh? |
| When Death Shall Lay |
| O Come from a World |
| To the North Star |
| Samuel H. Jenks.
1789–?. |
O! May We Not Weep |
| The Patriot’s Grave |
| Powers of Rhyme |
| Anthony Bleecker.
1770–1827. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| On Revisiting the Cottage of Rosa in Early Spring, after a Long Absence |
| Trenton Falls, near Utica |
| Jungfrau Spaiger’s Apostrophe to Her Cat |
| Epitaph of Mornai du Plessis, Imitated from the Latin of Grotius |
| G. A. Gamage. |
My Early Day |
| Albert G. Greene.
1802–1868. |
Lines |
| Lucifer |
| William H. Bradley.
1802–1825. |
Giuseppino |
| Samuel Deane.
1784–1834. |
The Populous Village |
| Samuel Gilman.
1791–1858. |
History of a Ray of Light |
| Richard H. Dana.
1787–1879. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Buccaneer |
| James Gates Percival.
1795–1856. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Night Watching |
| The Deserted Wife |
| The Coral Grove |
| To Seneca Lake |
| Consumption |
| The Serenade |
| The Graves of the Patriots |
| Spring |
| The Desolate City |
| William E. Gallaudet.
1795?–1821. |
Lines to the Western Mummy |
| Edward Everett.
1794–1865. |
Dirge of Alaric |
| John Everett.
1801–1826. |
St. Paul’s Church, Boston |
| Songs |
| To Fanni in a Ball Dress |
| Thomas O. Folsom.
1802–1827. |
Clouds |
| War Song |
| Jonathan M. Scott. |
Blue Lights, or the Convention |
| George Bancroft.
1800–1891. |
The Fairy of the Wengern-Alp |
| John Rudolph Sutermeister. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| A Contrasted Picture |
| The Lament |
| Faded Hours |
| Mary A. Brooks. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Zophiel |
| Edward Coate Pinkney.
1802–1828. |
Italy |
| A Health |
| Song |
| A Picture Song |
| John Neal.
1793–1876. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Eagle |
| Battle of Niagara |
| Goldau |
| The Birth of a Poet |
| Ambition |
| The Sleeper |
| Ode to Peace |
| Joseph Hazard.
1757–1817. |
The Fashionable Rake |
| Nathaniel H. Carter.
1787–1830. |
Hymn for Christmas |
| Pains of the Imagination |
| Moses Y. Scott. |
Pocahontas |
| Henry Ware, Jr..
1794–1843. |
The Vision of Liberty |
| Seasons of Prayer |
| John E. Hall. |
Reflections of a Recluse |
| Carlos Wilcox.
1794–1827. |
The Religion of Taste |
| Samuel B. Beach.
1793/4–1866. |
Escalala |
| William Cullen Bryant.
1794–1878. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Ages |
| Thanatopsis |
| To a Waterfowl |
| The Murdered Traveller |
| An Indian Story |
| Hymn to the North Star |
| Song of the Stars |
| Autumn Woods |
| The Close of Autumn |
| Samuel Webber.
1797–1880. |
Logan |
| Levi Frisbie.
1784–1822. |
Morning Hymn |
| Evening Hymn |
| Dream. To *** |
| Mrs Little. |
Thanksgiving |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck.
1790–1867. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Alnwick Castle |
| Marco Bozzaris |
| To **** |
| Love |
| Connecticut |
| Twilight |
| Weehawken |
| Joseph Hutton.
1787–1828. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Field of Orleans |
| Charles Sprague.
1791–1875. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Prologue on the Opening of the New York Theatre, September 1, 1821 |
| Prologue on the Opening of the Philadelphia Theatre, December 1, 1822 |
| Shakspeare Ode |
| To My Cigar |
| The Winged Worshippers |
| Art |
| John G. C. Brainard.
1796–1828. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| The Falls of Niagara |
| Epithalamium |
| On a Late Loss |
| Colonization Society |
| The Captain |
| The Deep |
| The Indian Summer |
| The Two Comets |
| Address to Connecticut River |
| The Dead Leaves Strew the Forest Walk |
| Robert Waln.
1794–1825. |
Songs |
| Rufus Dawes.
1803–1859. |
The Spirit of Beauty |
| Sunrise from Mount Washington |
| Anne Bullen |
| Richard Penn Smith.
1799–1854. |
The Cottage Lovers |
| Fragment |
| Norman Pinney.
1800–1862. |
Sabbath Morning |
| To ——— |
| Sumner Lincoln Fairfield.
1803–1844. |
Household Hours |
| James Nack.
1809–1879. |
The Minstrel Boy |
| William Leggett.
1801–1839. |
Song |
| The Warrior’s Return |
| A Song at Sea |
| Hannah F. Gould.
1789–1865. |
The Mermaid’s Song |
| A Funeral Piece |
| The Conqueror |
| Cupid’s Warning |
| To the Automaton Chess Player |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
1807–1882. |
Hymn of the Moravian Nuns, at the Consecration of Pulaski’s Banner |
| The Indian Hunter |
| The Sea Diver |
| George D. Prentice.
1802–1870. |
The Ocean |
| To a Lady |
| Charles West Thomson.
1798–1879. |
Birds |
| The Wild Boy |
| Micah P. Flint.
1807–1830. |
The Hunter |
| James A. Jones.
1791–1854. |
A Moor’s Curse on Spain |
| The Lay of a Mountain Spirit |
| The Fay |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis.
1806–1867. |
Critical and Biographical Notice |
| Absalom |
| Better Moments |
| The Soldier’s Widow |
| The Hindoo Mother |
| Extract from a Poem Delivered at the Departure of the Senior Class of Yale College, in 1826 |
| James W. Miller. |
A Poet’s Reverie |
| James G. Brooks.
1801–1841. |
Greece |
| The Dirge |
| Frederic S. Hill. |
Musings |
| A Fragment |
| Persian Songs |
| Oliver C. Wyman. |
The Devotee |
| To the Clouds |
| The Bridal |
| Song of the Bee |
| William George Crosby.
1806–1881. |
To a Lady with a Withered Leaf |
| Asa M. Bolles. |
The Album |
| Henry J. Finn.
1787–1840. |
The Tribute of Truth |
| The Funeral at Sea |
| Emma C. Embury.
1806–1863. |
Jane of France |
| Stanzas |
| Henry Whiting.
1788–1851. |
Ontwa |
| George W. Patten. |
The Isle of Love |
| The Warrior |
| The Mother |
| Willis Gaylord Clark.
1808–1841. |
Lines Written at an Unknown Grave |
| Extract from a New Year Address |
| Robert Morris. |
The Broken Hearted |
| Ebenezer Bailey.
1795–1839. |
The Triumphs of Liberty |
| Address to the Mermaid |
| Grenville Mellen.
1799–1841. |
Dream of the Sea |
| Mount Washington |
| The Air Voyage |
| Charles J. Locke. |
A Dream of the Ocean |
| The Harp of Battle |
| The Queen of the Mist |
| Frederic Mellen. |
Sabbath Evening |
| The Herdsman’s Grave |
| William B. O. Peabody.
1799–1847. |
Hymn of Nature |
| On Seeing a Deceased Infant |
| T. W. Stone. |
The Bay of Naples |
| I. M’Lellan. |
The Pride of the Village |
| J. B. Van Schaick. |
Joshua Commanding the Sun and Moon to Stand Still |
| John W. Whitman. |
The Jersey Prison Ship |
| Joseph H. Nichols. |
Bennett’s Bridge |
| The Falls of the Housatonick |
| James O. Rockwell. |
To the Ice Mountain |
| Milton Ward. |
The Lyre |
| George Lunt.
1803–1885. |
The Grave of Byron |
| Mary E. Brooks. |
Romance |
| Psalm CXXXVII |
| George P. Morris. |
Woman |
| The Miniature |
| What Can It Mean? |
| G. Wallingford Clarke. |
The Buried Maid |
| Inscription |
| The Nun |
| William Croswell. |
Confirmation |
| Drink and Away |
| Home |
| Sonnet Vindicatory |
| South Sea Missionaries |
| Christmas |
| James Hall. |
Wedded Love’s First Home |
| A. M. Wells. |
Hope |
| The Tamed Eagle |
| Fragment |
| Samuel Bartlett Parris.
1806–1827. |
On a Sprig of Juniper, from the Tomb of Washington, Presented to the Author |
| William Cutter. |
The Valley of Silence |
| Charles C. Beaman. |
The Water Excursion |
| Evening Thoughts |
| Louisa P. Smith. |
The Huma |
| Recollections |
| J. G. Whittier. |
The Sicilian Vespers |
| F. S. Eckhard. |
The Ruined City |
