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American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

American Poetry: the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (LOA #178) by David Sheilds (Editor) This groundbreaking Library of America volume offers a fresh look at early American poetry, charting its evolution over a span of almost two centuries, from the first years of English settlement in the New World to the death of George Washington. Gathering the work of more than 100 poets-including many poems never previously anthologized and some published here for the first time-it is the most comprehensive collection of its kind ever assembled, a celebration of the rich, varied, and often surprising beginnings of American poetry. The range of voices is unprecedented- broadside and newspaper satires, epitaphs, children's verse, popular songs, ballads, and Christian hymns evoke the vital currency of poetry in daily life; exhortatory elegies for public figures and historical epics declaimed on occasions of state stand alongside intricate meditative lyrics and private epistolary verses. The dramatic unfolding of American history is made immediate and vivid in the words of the participants- William Bradford reflects on the growth of New England's first colonies; Roger Wolcott recounts the incidents of the Pequot War; Thomas Paine hails the victories of the American Revolution; Ann Eliza Bleecker describes her flight from General Burgoyne's invading army; loyalist Jonathan Odell bitterly mocks the new Continental Congress. The first comprehensive anthology of early American poetry in more than a generation, this volume incorporates recent scholarly discoveries that have altered our understanding of the early American literary landscape. Alongside generous selections from long admired New England poets such as Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, and Michael Wigglesworth are poets from the Middle Colonies and the South, newly emerged from the archives. Along with familiar favorites by Phillis Wheatley, celebrated pioneer of the African-American tradition in poetry, are little-known verses by Benjamin Banneker, known as "the Sable Astronomer," and African-American Minuteman Lemuel Haynes. The anthology includes hymns recently attributed to Mohegan preacher Samson Occom and the earliest known translation of a traditional Native American chant, Henry Timberlake's Cherokee "War-Song." The unpublished poems of Henry Brooke, Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, Joseph Green, Hannah Griffitts, Margaret Lowther Page, and Annis Boudinot Stockton, among others, reflect the rediscovered vitality and importance of manuscript exchange as a form of publication in an era when it was sometimes considered indecorous, especially for women, to appear in print. Unprecedented in its textual authority and unrivaled in its scope, the anthology includes newly researched biographical sketches of each poet and extensive notes. LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Call Number: PS 601 .A53 2007
ISBN: 9781931082907
Publication Date: 2007-10-18

Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672)
The Prologue (from The Tenth Muse)
A Dialogue between Old England and New
The Author to her Book
Contemplations
Before the Birth of one of her Children
To my Dear and loving Husband
In memory of my dear grand-child Elizabeth Bradstreet
On my dear Grand-child Simon Bradstreet
“As weary pilgrim, now at rest”
To my dear children
May. 13. 1657
Upon my dear & loving husband his goeing into England
“In silent night when rest I took”

John Saffin (1626–1710)
“Sweetly (my Dearest) I left thee asleep”
To his Excellency Joseph Dudley Eqr Gover: &c

Edmund Hickeringill (1631–1708)
From Jamaica Viewed

Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705)
A Song of Emptiness
From The Day of Doom
God’s Controversy with New-England
From Meat out of the Eater
“I Walk’d and did a little Mole-hill view”

Urian Oakes (c. 1631–1681)
An Elegie Upon that Reverend, Learned, Eminently Pious, and Singularly Accomplished Divine, my ever Honoured Brother, Mr. Thomas Shepard

George Alsop (1636–c. 1673)
The Author to His Book
“Trafique is Earth’s great Atlas, that supports”
“Heavens bright Lamp, shine forth some of thy Light”

Benjamin Tompson (1642–1714)
The Grammarians Funeral
From New-Englands Crisis
To Lord Bellamont when entering Governour of the Massachusetts
“Some of his last lines”

James Revel (fl. c. 1659–1680)
The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon’s Sorrowful Account of His fourteen Years Transportation at Virginia

Edward Taylor (c. 1642–1729)
From Preparatory Meditations (First Series):
1. Meditation
3. Meditation. Can. 1.3. Thy Good Ointment
4. Meditation. Cant. 2.1. I am the Rose of Sharon
The Reflexion
9. Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the Living Bread
23. Meditation. Cant. 4.8. My Spouse
24. Meditation. Eph. 2.18. Through him we have—an Access—unto the Father
32. Meditation. 1 Cor. 3.22. Whether Paul or Apollos, or Cephas
39. Meditation. from 1 Joh. 2.1. If any man sin, we have an Advocate
46. Meditation. Rev. 3.5. The same shall be cloathed in White Raiment
From Preparatory Meditations (Second Series)
Meditation. Col. 2.17. Which are Shaddows of things to come and the body is Christs
4. Meditation. Gal. 4.24. Which things are an Allegorie
12. Meditation. Ezek. 37.24. David my Servant shall be their King
14. Meditation. Col. 2.3. In whom are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom, and Knowledge
18. Meditation. Heb 13.10. Wee have an Altar
Meditation 24. Joh. 1.14.
34. Meditation. Rev. 1.5. Who loved us and washed away our Sins in his Blood
60a. Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the Living Bread, that came down from Heaven
150. Meditation. Cant. 7.3. Thy two breasts are like two young Roes that are twins
From Gods Determinations
The Preface
The Accusation of the Inward Man
The Glory of and Grace in the Church set out
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
Upon a Wasp Child with Cold
Huswifery
The Ebb and Flow
Upon the Sweeping Flood. Aug: 13.14. 1683

Francis Daniel Pastorius (1651–1719)
“In these Seven Languages I this my book do own”
A Token of Love and Gratitude
Rachel Preston, Hannah Hill & Mary Norris
“As often as some where before my Feet”
“Delight in Books from Evening”
“When I solidly do ponder”
Epibaterium, Or a hearty Congratulation to William Penn
“If any honest Friend be pleased to walk into my poor Garden”

John Norton Jr. (1651–1716)
A Funeral Elogy, Upon that Pattern and Patron of Virtue, the truely pious, peerless & matchless Gentlewoman, Mrs. Anne Bradstreet

Samuel Sewall (1652–1730)
“Once more! Our GOD, vouchsafe to Shine”
Upon the drying up that Ancient River, the River Merrimak

Benjamin Harris (c. 1655–c. 1720)
“In Adam’s Fall”

John Danforth (1660–1730)
A few Lines to fill up a Vacant Page

Cotton Mather (1663–1728)
“Go then, my Dove, but now no longer Mine!”
Gratitudinis Ergo
Singing at the Plow
The Songs of Harvest

Sarah Kemble Knight (1666–1727)
From The Journal of Madam Knight
“I ask thy Aid, O Potent Rum!”
“Tho’ Ill at ease, A stranger and alone”

Robert Hunter (1666–1734)
From Androboros: A Biographical Farce
Ebenezer Cook (c. 1667–c. 1733)
The Sot-Weed Factor; or, A Voyage to Maryland, &c.

Lewis Morris II (1671–1746)
The Mock Monarchy; or, the Kingdom of the Apes

Benjamin Colman (1673–1747)
A Quarrel with Fortune
A Poem, on Elijahs Translation
Tom Law (fl. 1720s)
Lovewell’s Fight

Christopher Witt (1675–1765)
From the Hymn-Book of Johannes Kelpius
Of the Wilderness of the Secret, or Private Virgin-Cross-Love
The Paradox and Seldom Contentment of the God loving Soul
Of the Power of the New Virgin-Body, Wherein the Lord himself dwelleth and Revealeth his Mysteries

Henry Brooke (1678–1736)
The New Metamorphosis, or Fable of the Bald Eagle, 299
To my Bottle-friends, 303
Modern Politeness, 304
An unwilling Farewel to Poesy, 306

Roger Wolcott (1679–1767)
From Meditations on Man’s First and Fallen Estate, and the Wonderful Love of God Exhibited in a Redeemer
From A Brief Account of the Agency of the Honourable John Winthrop, Esq; in the Court of King Charles the Second

Charles Hansford (c. 1685–1761)
My Country’s Worth

George Berkeley (1685–1753)
Verses on the Prospect of planting Arts and Learning in America

George Seagood (c. 1685–1724)
Mr. Blackmore’s Expeditio Ultramontana

Joseph Breintnall (c. 1695–1746)
“A plain Description of one single Street in this City”
The Rape of Fewel
To the Memory of Aquila Rose, Deceas’d

James Kirkpatrick (1696–1770)
The Nonpareil

Susanna Wright (1697–1784)
Anna Boylens Letter to King Henry the 8th
On the Benefit of Labour
On the Death of a little Girl
My own Birth Day
To Eliza Norris—at Fairhill

Richard Lewis (c. 1699–1734)
To Mr. Samuel Hastings, (Ship-wright of Philadelphia) on his launching the Maryland-Merchant, a large ship built by him at Annapolis
A Journey from Patapsco to Annapolis
Food for Criticks

Thomas Dale (1700–1750)
Prologue spoken to the Orphan
Epilogue to the Orphan

“Ralpho Cobble” (fl. 1732)
“Learning that Cobweb of the Brain”

James Sterling (1701–1763)
From An Epistle to the Hon. Arthur Dobbs, Esq. in Europe from a Clergyman in America

William Dawson (1704–1752)
The Wager
On the Corruptions of the Stage
To a Friend, Who recommended a Wife to Him
To a Lady, on a Screen of Her Working

John Adams (1705–1740)
Melancholly discrib’d and dispell’d

Archibald Home (c. 1705–1744)
An Elegy On the much to be lamented Death of George Fraser of Elizabeth Town
The Ear-Ring
Black-Joke: A Song
On killing a Book-Worm

Joseph Green (1706–1780)
To Mr. B occasioned by his Verse, to Mr. Smibert on seeing his Pictures
The Poet’s Lamentation for the Loss of his Cat, which he us’d to call his Muse
On Mr. B—s’s singing an Hymn of his own composing
To the Author of the Poetry in the last Weekly Journal
A True Impartial Account of the Celebration of the Prince of Orange’s Nuptials at Portsmouth
Inscription under Revd. Jn. Checkley’s Picture
“A fig for your learning, I tell you the Town”
The Disappointed Cooper
“Hail! D––p––t of wondrous fame”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Drinking Song
I Sing My Plain Country Joan
Three Precepts

Mather Byles (1707–1788)
Hymn to Christ for our Regeneration and Resurrection
To Pictorio, on the Sight of his Pictures
The Conflagration

Jane Colman Turell (1708–1735)
To my Muse, December 29. 1725
An Invitation into the Country
“Phoebus has thrice his Yearly Circuit run”

Mary Hirst Pepperell (1708–1789)
A Lamentation &c. On the Death of a Child

John Seccomb (1708–1792)
Father Abbey’s Will
Proposal to Mistress Abbey

Anon.
The Convert to Tobacco
“Poor Julian”
Poor Julleyoun’s Warnings to Children and Servants
Advice from the Dead to the Living

Jupiter Hammon (1711–c. 1806)
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston

John Osborn (1713–1753)
A Whaling Song

Thomas Cradock (1718–1770)
Hymn for Ascension
From Maryland Eclogues in Imitation of Virgil’s

Charles Woodmason (c. 1720–c. 1777)
To Benjamin Franklin Esq; of Philadelphia, on his Experiments and Discoveries of Electricity

James Grainger (c. 1721–1766)
From The Sugar-Cane

Samuel Davies (1723–1761)
“What is great God! and what is not”
“While o’er our guilty Land, O Lord”
“While various Rumours spread abroad”
The Invitations of the Gospel
Self-Dedication at the Table of the Lord

A.L.M. (fl. 1744)
A College Room

Thomas Clemson (fl. 1746)
“From Thomas Clemson ran away”
“Carolina, a young lady”
On her Father having desired her to forbid all young Men the House

Joseph Dumbleton (fl. 1744–1749)
A Rhapsody on Rum

William Livingston (1723–1790)
From Philosophic Solitude
Proclamation

Samson Occom (1723–1792)
The Sufferings of Christ
A Morning Hymn
A Son’s Farewell
The Slow Traveller

Anon.
A Description of a Winter’s Morning

Anon.
The Petition

William Smith (1727–1803)
The Mock Bird and Red Bird
The Cherry-Tree and Peach-Tree
The Birds of different Feather

Hannah Griffitts (1727–1817)
The female Patriots. Address’d to the Daughters of Liberty in America
To Sophronia. In answer to some Lines she directed to be wrote on my Fan
The Cits Return from the Wilderness to the City
Wrote on the last Day of February 1775
Upon Reading a Book entituled Common Sense
On reading a few Paragraphs in the Crisis

Mary Nelson (fl. 1769)
Forty Shillings Reward

Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814)
A Thought on the Inestimable Blessing of Reason, occcasioned by its privation to a friend of very superior talents and virtues
To Mr. ——

Lucy Terry (c. 1730–1821)
Bars Fight

Ned Botwood (c. 1730–1759)
Hot Stuff

Henry Timberlake (1730–1765)
A Translation of the War-Song

Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806)
The Puzzle of the Hare and Hound

Thomas Godfrey Jr. (1736–1763)
Verses Occasioned by a Young Lady’s asking the Author, What was a Cure for Love?
Epistle to a Friend; from Fort Henry
A Dithyrambic on Wine

Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736–1801)
A Satire on the fashionable pompoons worn by the Ladies in the year 1753. by a Gentleman; Answered by a young Lady of sixteen
A Sarcasm against the ladies in a newspaper; An impromptu answer
Compos’d in a dancing room
A Poetical Epistle, addressed by a Lady of New-Jersey, to her Niece, upon her Marriage, in this City
To Miss Mary Stockton
Sensibility, an ode

John Singleton (fl. c. 1750–1767)
From A General Description of the West-Indian Islands

Francis Hopkinson (1737–1791)
“My gen’rous heart disdains”
An Epitaph for an Infant
The Battle of the Kegs
A Camp Ballad

Jonathan Odell (1737–1818)
The Word of Congress

Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
Liberty Tree

Yankee Doodle
Yankee Doodle, or (as now christened by the Saints of New England), The Lexington March
The Yankey’s return from Camp

Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (1737–1801)
To Doctor Fothergill

Robert Bolling (1738–1775)
Neanthe
Occlusion

Nathaniel Evans (1742–1767)
To Benjamin Franklin, Esq: L.L.D., Occasioned by hearing him play on the Harmonica

Joseph Stansbury (1742–1809)
Verses to the Tories
The United States
To Cordelia

William Billings (1746–1800)
Chester

John André (1750–1780)
Cow-Chace

John Trumbull (1750–1831)
From The Progress of Dulness ( from Part Third: The Progress of Coquetry, or, The Adventures of Miss Harriet Simper)
From M’Fingal (from Canto Third, The Liberty Pole)

Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752–1783)
Written in the Retreat from Burgoyne
On Reading Dryden’s Virgil
Return to Tomhanick

Timothy Dwight (1752–1817)
From The Triumph of Infidelity
From Greenfield Hill (Part II, The Flourishing Village)
From The Psalms of David
“Shall man, O God of light, and life”
“While life prolongs its precious light”
“I love thy kingdom, Lord”

Anon.
From The Philadelphiad
Country Clown
Quaker
The Universal Motive
Bagnio
The Emigrant
Miss Kitty Cut-a-dash

Anne Hecht (fl. 1780s)
Advice to Mrs. Mowat

Philip Freneau (1752–1832)
American Liberty
Libera nos, Domine—Deliver us, O Lord
Female Frailty
Stanzas Occasioned by the Ruins of a Country Inn
The Dying Indian
The Wild Honey Suckle
The Indian Student, or Force of Nature
Lines occasioned by a Visit to an old Indian Burying Ground
The Country Printer
To Sir Toby, a Sugar-Planter in the interior parts of Jamaica
To Mr. Blanchard
The Republican Genius of Europe
On a Honey Bee, Drinking from a Glass of Wine, and Drowned Therein

David Humphreys (1752–1818)
Mount-Vernon: An Ode
The Genius of America
The Monkey, Who Shaved Himself and His Friends

St. George Tucker (1752–1827)
A Dream on Bridecake
A Second Dream on Bridecake

George Ogilvie (c. 1753–1801)
From Carolina; or, The Planter

Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784)
To Mæcenas
To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
On being brought from Africa to America
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth
To S. M., a young African Painter, on seeing his Works
A Farewel to America
To a Gentleman of the Navy
Philis’s Reply to the Answer in our last by the Gentleman in the Navy
To His Excellency General Washington
Liberty and Peace

Lemuel Haynes (1753–1833)
The Battle of Lexington

Joel Barlow (1754–1812)
Innumerable mercies acknowledged
From The Conspiracy of Kings
The Hasty-Pudding

Royall Tyler (1757–1826)
The Origin of Evil. An Elegy
Ode Composed for the Fourth of July
An Irregular Supplicatory Address to the American Academies of Arts and Sciences

Margaret Lowther Page (1759–1835)
To Miss J. L.—

Sarah Wentworth Morton (1759–1846)
The African Chief
Memento

Joseph Hopkinson (1770–1842)
Song, Adapted to the President’s March (“Hail Columbia!”)

Thomas Green Fessenden (1771–1837)
Jonathan’s Courtship

Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810)
Monody, On the death of Gen. George Washington

Robert Treat Paine Jr. (1773–1811)
Adams and Liberty

William Munford (1775–1825)
The Disasters of Richland

American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century Vol. 1

American Poetry: the Nineteenth Century Vol. 1 (LOA #66) by John Hollander In nineteenth-century America, poetry was an integral part of everyday life. The two volumes of The Library of America'sAmerican Poetry- The Nineteenth Centuryreveal the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers. These extraordinary anthologies reassess America's poetic legacy with a comprehensive sweep that no previous anthology has attempted. Extending chronologically from the classic couplets of Philip Freneau to the pioneering free verse of Walt Whitman, this first volume charts the formation of a distinctly American poetry. Here, in generous selections, are the major figures- Poe, Emerson, Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier-as well as such unexpected contributors as the landscape painter Thomas Cole, the actress Fanny Kemble, and the presidents John Quincy Adams and Abraham Lincoln. This collection offers the unique opportunity to appreciate anew such classics as Whittier's "Snow-Bound," Bryant's "Forest Hymn," and Emerson's "Hamatreya," while discovering a world of less familiar pleasures- the mystical sonnets of Jones Very, the Romantic fantasias of Maria Gowen Brooks, the stirring political poems of Joel Barlow and John Pierpont, and the somber and undervalued late lyrics of Longfellow. Woven among the poetry of the early nineteenth century is a wealth of popular ballads, recitations, and songs both secular and religious- "Home, Sweet Home," "A Visit from St. Nicholas," "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear," "Battle Hymn of the Republic." From Lydia Maria Child's Thanksgiving poem ("Over the river and through the wood") to George Pope Morris's "The Oak" ("Woodman, spare that tree!"), these pages ring with the phrases that have become part of the national memory. Unprecedented in its textual authority, the anthology includes newly researched biographical sketches of each poet, a year-by-year chronology of poets and poetry from 1800 to 1900, and extensive notes. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Call Number: PS 607 .A44 vol. 1
ISBN: 0940450607
Publication Date: 1993-10-01

WASHINGTON ALLSTON (1779–1843)
from The Sylphs of the Seasons
On a Falling Group in the Last Judgement of Michael Angelo, in the Cappella Sistina
On the Group of the Three Angels Before the Tent of Abraham, by Raffaelle, in the Vatican
On Seeing the Picture of Aeolus by Peligrino Tibaldi, in the Institute at Bologna
On Rembrant; Occasioned by His Picture of Jacob’s Dream
On the Luxembourg Gallery
To My Venerable Friend, the President of the Royal Academy
America to Great Britain
Coleridge
Art
On the Statue of an Angel, by Bienaimé, in the Possession of J. S. Copley Greene, Esq.
On Kean’s Hamlet
A Word: Man
On Michael Angelo
Rubens

JOHN PIERPONT (1785–1866)
from Airs of Palestine
from A Word from a Petitioner
The Fugitive Slave’s Apostrophe to the North Star

SAMUEL WOODWORTH (1785–1842)
The Bucket

RICHARD HENRY DANA (1787–1879)
The Dying Raven
The Pleasure Boat
Daybreak
The Husband’s and Wife’s Grave
The Chanting Cherubs

RICHARD HENRY WILDE (1789–1847)
The Lament of the Captive
To the Mocking-Bird
from Hesperia

FITZ-GREENE HALLECK (1790–1867)
On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake
Alnwick Castle
Marco Bozzaris
Red Jacket
from Connecticut

JOHN HOWARD PAYNE (1791–1852)
Home, Sweet Home!

LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY (1791–1865)
Indian Names

JOHN NEAL (1793–1876)
from The Battle of Niagara

CARLOS WILCOX (1794–1827)
from The Age of Benevolence

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794–1878)
Thanatopsis
“I Cannot Forget With What Fervid Devotion”
To a Waterfowl
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood
Green River
A Winter Piece
“Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids”
The Ages
The Rivulet
An Indian at the Burying-Place of His Fathers
After a Tempest
Autumn Woods
November
Forest Hymn
The Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus
October
The Damsel of Peru
To an American Painter Departing for Europe
To the Fringed Gentian
The Prairies
The Fountain
The Painted Cup
The Night Journey of a River
The Constellations
Dante

MARIA GOWEN BROOKS (1794?–1845)
from Zophiël, or the Bride of Seven: Canto the Third, Palace of the Gnomes
Composed at the Request of a Lady, and Descriptive of Her Feelings

JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE (1795–1820)
The Mocking-Bird
The National Painting
from The Culprit Fay
The American Flag
Niagara
To a Friend
Bronx

JAMES GATES PERCIVAL (1795–1856)
The Coral Grove

GEORGE MOSES HORTON (1798?–1883?)
On Liberty and Slavery
On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet’s Freedom

SAMUEL HENRY DICKSON (1798–1872)
Song—Written at the North

A. BRONSON ALCOTT (1799–1888)
Sonnet XIV: “Not Wordsworth’s genius, Pestalozzi’s love”
Sonnet XVIII: “Adventurous mariner! in whose gray skiff”
Sonnet XIX: “Romancer, far more coy than that coy sex!”

THOMAS COLE (1801–1848)
“I saw a Cave of sable depth profound”
A Painter
Lines Suggested by Hearing Music on the Boston Common at Night
The Lament of the Forest
The Voyage of Life, Part 2nd
The Dial
Lago Maggiore

EDWARD COOTE PINKNEY (1802–1828)
Italy
The Voyager’s Song
To ……….
Serenade
A Health
On Parting
The Widow’s Song

GEORGE POPE MORRIS (1802–1864)
The Oak

LYDIA MARIA CHILD (1802–1880)
The New-England Boy’s Song About Thanksgiving Day

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803–1882)
The Sphinx
Each and All
The Problem
To Rhea
The Visit
Uriel
The World-Soul
Mithridates
Hamatreya
The Rhodora
The Humble-Bee
The Snow-Storm
from Woodnotes II
from Monadnoc
Fable
Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing
Astrja
Compensation
Forerunners
Sursum Corda
Give All to Love
Eros
from Initial, Djmonic, and Celestial Love
Merlin I
Merlin II
Bacchus
Merops
Saadi
Xenophanes
The Day’s Ration
Blight
Musketaquid
Threnody
Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument
Brahma
Freedom
Voluntaries
Days
Sea-Shore
Song of Nature
Two Rivers
Waldeinsamkeit
Terminus
Suum Cuique
Memory
The Harp
Grace
Mottoes from the Essays
Nature (1836)
Compensation
Spiritual Laws
History
Self-Reliance
Circles
Art
Experience
Nature (1844)
Nominalist and Realist
Fate
Wealth
Worship
Illusions
“Awed I behold once more”
“Dear brother, would you know the life”
“Who knows this or that”
Intellect
“The patient Pan”
Maia

SARAH HELEN WHITMAN (1803–1878)
To ——

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804–1864)
“I left my low and humble home”
“Oh could I raise the darken’d veil”
The Ocean

NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS (1806–1867)
January 1, 1829
Psyche, Before the Tribunal of Venus
from Melanie
The Confessional
Unseen Spirits
City Lyrics
The Lady in the White Dress, Whom I Helped Into the Omnibus
To Charles Roux, of Switzerland

WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS (1806–1870)
The Lost Pleiad
By the Swanannoa
from The City of the Silent
The New Moon

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807–1882)
The Spirit of Poetry
A Psalm of Life
Hymn to the Night
The Wreck of the Hesperus
The Village Blacksmith
The Skeleton in Armour
The Warning
Mezzo Cammin
The Day Is Done
Seaweed
Afternoon in February
The Bridge
Curfew
The Evening Star
Autumn
Couplet: February 24, 1847
Fragment: December 18, 1847
The Fire of Drift-Wood
from Evangeline
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
from The Song of Hiawatha
XIV: Picture-Writing
from XXII: Hiawatha’s Departure
My Lost Youth
The Children’s Hour
from Tales of a Wayside Inn
Prelude: The Wayside Inn
The Landlord’s Tale: Paul Revere’s Ride
The Spanish Jew’s Tale: Azrael
Snow-Flakes
Divina Commedia
Aftermath
Belisarius
Chaucer
Kéramos
Venice
The Harvest Moon
The Cross of Snow
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Night
The Poet’s Calendar
from Elegiac Verse
The Bells of San Blas

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807–1892)
Proem
Song of Slaves in the Desert
from Songs of Labor: Dedication
Ichabod!
Astrja
First-Day Thoughts
The Haschish
Maud Muller
The Barefoot Boy
Skipper Ireson’s Ride
Telling the Bees
My Playmate
Barbara Frietchie
What the Birds Said
Snow-Bound
from Among the Hills: Prelude
My Triumph
Burning Drift-Wood

EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809–1849)
“Stanzas”
The Lake—To ——
To Science
Al Aaraaf
Romance
Fairy-Land
“Alone”
To Helen
Israfel
The Valley of Unrest
The City in the Sea
To F——
The Coliseum
The Haunted Palace
Silence
The Conqueror Worm
Lenore
Dream-Land
The Raven
Ulalume—A Ballad
The Bells
For Annie
Eldorado
Annabel Lee

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809–1865)
My Childhood-Home I See Again

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809–1894)
Old Ironsides
The Chambered Nautilus
The Living Temple
The Deacon’s Masterpiece: or the Wonderful “One-Hoss-Shay”
Contentment
The Voiceless
The Two Streams
from Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts: III. Sympathies
Nearing the Snow-Line
The Flaneur
Prelude to a Volume Printed in Raised Letters for the Blind

THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS (1809–1858)
To Isa Sleeping
Avalon
Apollo
Lily Adair
The Wind

FANNY KEMBLE (1809–1893)
To the Wissahiccon
Impromptu

MARGARET FULLER (1810–1850)
Sistrum
Flaxman

EDMUND HAMILTON SEARS (1810–1876)
“It came upon the midnight clear,” 588

CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH (1813–1892)
Correspondences
Gnosis
The Bird and the Bell
The Cataract Isle
In the Palais Royal Garden
Cornucopia
The Spirit of the Age
An Old Cat’s Confessions
The Evening Primrose
December
My Old Palette
Music
Bird Language
from Seven Wonders of the World
The Printing-Press
The Locomotive
The Photograph

CHARLES TIMOTHY BROOKS (1813–1883)
Our Island Home
Lines: Composed at the Old Temples of Maralipoor

JONES VERY (1813–1880)
The New Birth
“In Him we live, & move, & have our being”
The Morning Watch
The Garden
The Song
The Latter Rain
The Dead
Thy Brother’s Blood
The Earth
The Cup
The New World
The New Man
The Created
Autumn Leaves
The Hand and the Foot
The Eye and Ear
Yourself
The Lost
The Prayer
The Cottage
The Strangers
The Wild Rose of Plymouth
The Lament of the Flowers
Autumn Flowers
The Origin of Man, I

EPES SARGENT (1813–1880)
The Planet Jupiter
The Sea-Breeze at Matanzas
Rockall

DANIEL DECATUR EMMETT (1815–1904)
Dixie’s Land
Boatman’s Dance

PHILIP PENDLETON COOKE (1816–1850)
Florence Vane
Orthone

JOSIAH D. CANNING (1816–1892)
The Indian Gone!

HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817–1862)
“They who prepare my evening meal below”
“On fields oer which the reaper’s hand has passd”
Fog
“Dong, sounds the brass in the east”
Rumors from an Jolian Harp
“My life has been the poem I would have writ”
“I am a parcel of vain strivings tied”
“Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird”
Guido’s Aurora
Music
Inspiration

CORNELIUS MATHEWS (1817–1889)
from Poems on Man in His Various Aspects Under the American Republic
The Sculptor
The Journalist
The Masses

WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1818–1901)
The Harbor
Hymn of the Earth
The Barren Moors
Walden
Murillo’s Magdalen

WILLIAM WETMORE STORY (1819–1895)
Cleopatra
from A Contemporary Criticism

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819–1891)
from The Present Crisis
from A Fable for Critics
from The Biglow Papers: Letter Six—The Pious Editor’s Creed
from The Vision of Sir Launfal: Prelude to Part the First
Remembered Music—A Fragment
from Under the Willows
Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865

JULIA WARD HOWE (1819–1910)
My Last Dance
Battle-Hymn of the Republic

JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (1819–1881)
from The Marble Prophecy

THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH (1819–1902)
Ben Bolt

WALT WHITMAN (1819–1892)
Leaves of Grass (1855)
(Song of Myself)
(A Song for Occupations)
(To Think of Time)
(The Sleepers)
(I Sing the Body Electric)
(Faces)
(Song of the Answerer)
(Europe the 72d and 73d Years of These States)
(A Boston Ballad)
(There Was a Child Went Forth)
(Who Learns My Lesson Complete?)
(Great Are the Myths)
from Leaves of Grass (1860)
Chants Democratic and Native American
from Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
from Inscriptions
Eidólons
from Children of Adam
from Pent-Up Aching Rivers
I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
As Adam Early in the Morning
Calamus
In Paths Untrodden
Scented Herbage of My Breast
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
For You O Democracy
These I Singing in Spring
Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only
Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
The Base of All Metaphysics
Recorders Ages Hence
When I Heard at the Close of the Day
Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?
Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone
Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
Trickle Drops
City of Orgies
Behold This Swarthy Face
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
To a Stranger
This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
The Prairie-Grass Dividing
When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame
We Two Boys Together Clinging
A Promise to California
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
No Labor-Saving Machine
A Glimpse
A Leaf for Hand in Hand
Earth, My Likeness
I Dream’d in a Dream
What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
To the East and to the West
Sometimes with One I Love
To a Western Boy
Fast Anchor’d Eternal O Love!
Among the Multitude
O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
That Shadow My Likeness
Full of Life Now
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Sea-Drift
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
Tears
To the Man-of-War-Bird
Aboard at a Ship’s Helm
On the Beach at Night
The World Below the Brine
On the Beach at Night Alone
Songs for All Seas, All Ships
Patroling Barnegat
After the Sea-Ship
from Drum-Taps
Come Up from the Fields Father
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods
The Wound Dresser
Dirge for Two Veterans
Reconciliation
from Memories of President Lincoln
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
O Captain! My Captain!
By Blue Ontario’s Shore
from Autumn Rivulets
Italian Music in Dakota
Proud Music of the Storm
Passage to India
from Whispers of Heavenly Death
Chanting the Square Deific
A Noiseless Patient Spider

American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century Vol. 2

American Poetry: the Nineteenth Century Vol. 2 (LOA #67) by John Hollander This second volume of The Library of America's two-volume collection of nineteenth-century American poetry follows the evolution of American poetry from the monumental mid-century achievements of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson to the modernist stirrings of Stephen Crane and Edwin Arlington Robinson. The cataclysm of the Civil War-reflected in fervent antislavery protests, in marching songs and poetic calls to arms, and in muted post-bellum expressions of grief and reconciliation-ushered in a period of accelerating change and widening regional perspectives. Here too are the pioneering African-American poets (Frances Harper, Albery Allson Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar); popular humorists (James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field); writers embodying America's newfound cosmopolitanism (Edith Wharton, George Santayana); and extravagant self-mythologizing figures who could have existed nowhere else, like the actress Adah Isaacs Menken and the frontier poet Joaquin Miller. Parodies, dialect poems, song lyrics, and children's verse evoke the liveliness of an era when poetry was accessible to all. Here are poems that played a crucial role in American public life, whether to arouse the national conscience (Edwin Markham's "The Man with the Hoe") or to memorialize the golden age of the national pastime (Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat"). An entire section of this volume is devoted to American Indian poetry in nineteenth-century versions, making available-some for the first time since their initial publication-an astonishing range of translations and adaptations- Ojibwa healing rituals, the songs of the Ghost Dance religion, Zuni mythological narratives, chants from the Kwakiutl Winter Ceremonial. Also included is a generous selection from America's rich heritage of anonymous folk songs, ballads, and hymns. Unprecedented in its textual authority, the anthology includes newly researched biographical sketches of each poet, a year-by-year chronology of poets and poetry from 1800 to 1900, and extensive notes. LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Call Number: PS 607 .A44 vol. 2
ISBN: 9780940450783
Publication Date: 1993-09-01

HERMAN MELVILLE (1819–1891)
Song from Mardi
“The ribs and terrors in the whale”
The Portent
Misgivings
The Conflict of Convictions
The Temeraire
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Fight
Shiloh: A Requiem
Malvern Hill
The House-top: A Night Piece
The Swamp Angel
“The Coming Storm”
“Formerly a Slave”
The Apparition
America
A Requiem: for Soldiers Lost in Ocean Transports
from Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
The Hostel
The Recluse
Of Mortmain
Concerning Hebrews
The Inscription
Afterward
The Medallion
The Pillow
Symphonies
Dirge
Easter
Via Crucis
Epilogue
from John Marr
Tom Deadlight
The Haglets
The Man-of-War Hawk
The Tuft of Kelp
The Maldive Shark
To Ned
The Berg
Timoleon
After the Pleasure Party
The Ravaged Villa
Monody
The Bench of Boors
Art
Shelley’s Vision
Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century
Venice
In a Bye-Canal
In a Church of Padua
The Archipelago
Rose Window
The Rose Farmer
Pontoosuce
Billy in the Darbies

HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL (1820–1872)
Suspiria Noctis
The Battle Summers

ALICE CARY (1820–1871)
The Sea-Side Cave
To Solitude
Autumn
Katrina on the Porch
The West Country

JOHN HENRY HOPKINS, JR. (1820–1891)
Three Kings of Orient

FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN (1821–1873)
Sonnets
The Question
from Sonnets, First Series
VII: “Dank fens of cedar; hemlock-branches gray”
VIII: “As when, down some broad River dropping, we”
X: “An upper chamber in a darkened house”
XXII: “The morning comes; not slow, with reddening gold”
from Sonnets, Second Series
VII: “His heart was in his garden; but his brain”
XVI: “Under the mountain, as when first I knew”
XVII: “Roll on, sad world! not Mercury or Mars”
XVIII: “And Change, with hurried hand, has swept these scenes”
XXIII: “Some truths may pierce the spirit’s deeper gloom”
XXIX: “How oft in schoolboy-days, from the school’s sway”
XXX: “Yet, even ‘mid merry boyhood’s tricks and scapes”
from Sonnets, Third Series
IV: “Thin little leaves of wood fern, ribbed and toothed”
V: “How well do I recall that walk in state”
X: “Sometimes I walk where the deep water dips”
from Sonnets, Fourth Series
VI: “And two I knew, an old man and a boy”
VII: “But war his overturning trumpet blew”
VIII: “Nor strange it is, to us who walk in bonds”
from Sonnets, Fifth Series
XV: “Let me give something!—though my spring be done”
XVI: “Let me give something!—as the years unfold”
The Cricket

MARIA WHITE LOWELL (1821–1853)
Rouen, Place de la Pucelle
An Opium Fantasy

JAMES MONROE WHITFIELD (1822–1871)
America
To A. H.

THOMAS BUCHANAN READ (1822–1872)
Sheridan’s Ride

GEORGE HENRY BOKER (1823–1890)
from Sonnets: A Sequence on Profane Love
“Farewell once more,—and yet again farewell!”
“The leaden eyelids of wan twilight close”
“If she should give me all I ask of her”
“As stands a statue on its pedestal”
“My darling’s features, painted by the light”
“Ah, lute, how well I know each tone of thee”
“Blood, blood! The lines of every printed sheet”
“Oh! craven, craven! while my brothers fall”
“Brave comrade, answer! When you joined the war”

JAMES MATHEWES LEGARÉ (1823–1859)
To a Lily
Tallulah

GEORGE BOYER VASHON (1824–1878)
Vincent Ogé

CHARLES GODFREY LELAND (1824–1903)
Ballad
Wein Geist
from Hans Breitmann as a Politician, III: The Author Asserts the Vast Intellectual Superiority of Germans to Americans
Breitmann in Paris

PHOEBE CARY (1824–1871)
Samuel Brown
Granny’s House
“The Day Is Done”
Jacob
“When Lovely Woman”
Advice Gratis to Certain Women

BAYARD TAYLOR (1825–1878)
from The Echo Club
Night the Second: All or Nothing
Night the Sixth: Hadramaut
Night the Eighth: Camerados
Bedouin Song

FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER (1825–1911)
The Slave Mother
Bible Defence of Slavery
The Slave Auction
Lines: “At the Portals of the Future”

STEPHEN FOSTER (1826–1864)
Old Folks at Home
My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
Susanna

ROBERT LOWRY (1826–1899)
Beautiful River

ROSE TERRY COOKE (1827–1892)
Blue-Beard’s Closet
Arachne

FRANCIS MILES FINCH (1827–1907)
The Blue and the Gray

JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE (1827–1867)
Mount Shasta
A Cherokee Love Song
The Rainy Season in California
The Stolen White Girl
from California

JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE (1827–1916)
An Idyl of Harvest Time
Recollections of “Lalla Rookh”
Circumstance
The Old Lobsterman

HENRY TIMROD (1828–1867)
Dreams
Retirement
Ethnogenesis
“I know not why, but all this weary day”
The Cotton Boll
La Belle Juive
Carolina
Charleston
Christmas
Lines: “Sleep sweetly in your humble graves”

PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE (1830–1886)
October
On the Occurrence of a Spell of Arctic Weather in May, 1858
Charlotte Bronté

HELEN HUNT JACKSON (1830–1885)
My Lighthouses
Poppies on the Wheat
October
Crossed Threads
September
Dreams
Cheyenne Mountain

EMILY DICKINSON (1830–1886)
Success is counted sweetest
Exultation is the going
Our lives are Swiss
The Bee is not afraid of me
Bring me the sunset in a cup
These are the days when Birds come back
Musicians wrestle everywhere
A Wounded Deer—leaps highest
As if some little Arctic flower
“Faith” is a fine invention
I taste a liquor never brewed
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
I like a look of Agony
Wild Nights—Wild Nights!
I shall keep singing!
I can wade Grief
“Hope” is the thing with feathers
There’s a certain Slant of light
A single Screw of Flesh
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
That after Horror—that ‘twas us
A Clock stopped
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
I know some lonely Houses off the Road
Of Bronze—and Blaze
I got so I could take his name
I reason, Earth is short
The Soul selects her own Society
The Soul’s Superior instants
I should have been too glad, I see
He fumbles at your Soul
I’ll tell you how the Sun rose
The nearest Dream recedes—unrealized
Of all the Sounds despatched abroad
There came a Day at Summer’s full
I cannot dance upon my Toes
Before I got my eye put out
A Bird came down the Walk
‘Tis not that Dying hurts us so
I know that He exists
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
I dreaded that first Robin, so
God is a distant—stately Lover
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?
A precious—mouldering pleasure—‘tis
Of Course—I prayed
There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House
A Visitor in Marl
What Soft—Cherubic Creatures
It might be lonelier
‘Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch
It would never be Common—more—I said
Me—come! My dazzled face
Much Madness is divinest Sense
The Wind—tapped like a tired Man
Prayer is the little implement
This is my letter to the World
This was a Poet—It is That
I died for Beauty—but was scarce
The Outer—from the Inner
I heard a Fly buzz—when I died
They put Us far apart
“Why do I love” You, Sir?
The World is not Conclusion
At least—to pray—is left—is left
Better—than Music! For I—who heard it
I would not paint—a picture
I’m ceded—I’ve stopped being Theirs
It was not Death, for I stood up
‘Twas warm—at first—like Us
I started Early—Took my Dog
Mine—by the Right of the White Election!
The Heart asks Pleasure—first
The Martyr Poets—did not tell
I’ve seen a Dying Eye
One Crucifixion is recorded—only
My period had come for Prayer
We learned the Whole of Love
I reckon—when I count at all
I gave myself to Him
I found the words to every thought
I like to see it lap the Miles
What care the Dead, for Chanticleer
I think I was enchanted
There is a pain—so utter
They shut me up in Prose
Our journey had advanced
Glee—The great storm is over
I asked no other thing
The Tint I cannot take—is best
I watched the Moon around the House
The Brain—is wider than the Sky
When Bells stop ringing—Church—begins
My Portion is Defeat—today
I cannot live with You
Pain—has an Element of Blank
A Prison gets to be a friend
I dwell in Possibility
One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted
The Soul that hath a Guest
Essential Oils—are wrung
They say that “Time assuages”
Victory comes late
The Sun kept setting—setting—still
Their Height in Heaven comforts not
Publication—is the Auction
Because I could not stop for Death
Behind Me—dips Eternity
It’s easy to invent a Life
Four Trees—upon a solitary Acre
Renunciation—is a piercing Virtue
My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun
Presentiment—is that long Shadow—on the Lawn
On a Columnar Self
A Light exists in Spring
The Wind begun to rock the Grass
The Only News I know
Just as He spoke it from his Hands
Split the Lark—and you’ll find the Music
A Shade upon the mind there passes
The Poets light but Lamps
The Admirations—and Contempts—of time
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind
Pain—expands the Time
The Missing All—prevented Me
Far from Love the Heavenly Father
There is a Zone whose even Years
Further in Summer than the Birds
Perception of an object costs
Title divine—is mine!
At Half past Three, a single Bird
Ended, ere it begun
My Cocoon tightens—Colors tease
Between the form of Life and Life
The murmuring of Bees, has ceased
There is another Loneliness
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
The Props assist the House
Ourselves we do inter with sweet derision
After a hundred years
Great Streets of silence led away
Somehow myself survived the Night
My Triumph lasted till the Drums
The Clover’s simple Fame
To pile like Thunder to its close
There is no Frigate like a Book
Go slow, my soul, to feed thyself
“Heavenly Father”—take to thee
A Route of Evanescence
One of the ones that Midas touched
More than the Grave is closed to me
How happy is the little Stone
The Moon upon her fluent Route
As imperceptibly as Grief
The Bible is an antique Volume
Those—dying then
The Clock strikes one that just struck two
The Spirit lasts—but in what mode
He ate and drank the precious Words
There came a Wind like a Bugle
A Word made Flesh is seldom
In Winter in my Room
A Pit—but Heaven over it
By a departing light
I took one Draught of Life
My life closed twice before its close
That it will never come again
This docile one inter
‘Twas here my summer paused
Experiment escorts us last
Too happy Time dissolves itself
The earth has many keys

BENJAMIN PAUL BLOOD (1832–1919)
Late
from The Bride of the Iconoclast

ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN (1832–1911)
Rock Me to Sleep

HENRY CLAY WORK (1832–1884)
Kingdom Coming
Marching Through Georgia
“Come Home, Father!”

EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1833–1908)
Prelude to An American Anthology

JOHN JAMES PIATT (1835–1917)
Farther
To the Statue on the Capitol
Fires in Illinois
My Shadow’s Stature
Taking the Night-Train

AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL (1835–1910)
Night
The Crime of the Ages

ADAH ISAACS MENKEN (1835?–1868)
Judith

MARK TWAIN (1835–1910)
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d.

PHILLIPS BROOKS (1835–1893)
O Little Town of Bethlehem

BRET HARTE (1836–1902)
Plain Language from Truthful James
California Madrigal
Mrs. Judge Jenkins
Truthful James to the Editor
What the Bullet Sang
Chicago

SARAH MORGAN PIATT (1836–1919)
Giving Back the Flower

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS (1837–1920)
Forlorn
The Empty House
The Royal Portraits
In Earliest Spring
November

FORCEYTHE WILLSON (1837–1867)
The Estray
To Hersa
In State

JOAQUIN MILLER (1837–1913)
Sierras
Africa
In Père La Chaise
At Our Golden Gate
Columbus

ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN (1838–1886)
Lines

WILLIAM REED HUNTINGTON (1838–1909)
The Cold Meteorite
Lowlands
From Green Mountain

JOHN HAY (1838–1905)
Jim Bludso, Of the Prairie Belle

HENRY ADAMS (1838–1918)
Buddha and Brahma

JAMES RYDER RANDALL (1839–1908)
Maryland

CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON (1840–1894)
Love Unexpressed
The Florida Beach
Detroit River

EDWARD ROWLAND SILL (1841–1887)
The Fool’s Prayer
Opportunity
Truth at Last
California Winter

CHARLES EDWARD CARRYL (1841–1920)
A Nautical Ballad

SIDNEY LANIER (1842–1881)
Hymns of the Marshes
Sunrise
The Cloud
Marsh Song—At Sunset
The Marshes of Glynn
“Who made thee thy last spring doublet”
Clover
The Waving of the Corn
Song of the Chattahoochee
From the Flats
The Mocking Bird
from Street Cries: To Richard Wagner
A Ballad of Trees and the Master
The Raven Days
The Dying Words of Jackson
The Revenge of Hamish

AMBROSE BIERCE (1842–1914?)
Alone
Body-Snatcher
Corporal
Egotist
Elegy
Freedom
Gorgon
Hypochondriasis
Lead
Nose
Orthography
Prospect
Rimer
Safety-Clutch
The Passing Show
To the Bartholdi Statue
The Statesmen

RICHARD WATSON GILDER (1844–1909)
The Sonnet
On the Bay
An Hour in a Studio

GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE (1844–1925)
Creole Slave Songs
Belle Layotte
The Song of Cayetano’s Circus
“The English muskets went bim! bim!”
The Dirge of St. Malo
Criole Candjo

JOHN BANISTER TABB (1845–1909)
The Bridge
Echoes
Evolution
Milton
Whisper
The Shadow
A Winter Twilight
Echo
The Mid-Day Moon
Tenebrj
The Sisters

EMMA LAZARUS (1849–1887)
from Phantasies (After Robert Schumann): I. Evening
Echoes
The New Colossus
Venus of the Louvre
The Cranes of Ibycus
The South
Long Island Sound
City Visions
In Exile
1492

SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849–1909)
At Home from Church
A Country Boy in Winter
A Caged Bird
The Widows’ House

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY (1849–1916)
The Old Swimmin’-Hole
The Days Gone By
When the Frost Is on the Punkin
Little Orphant Annie

EUGENE FIELD (1850–1895)
The Duel
Dutch Lullaby

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX (1850–1919)
Friendship After Love
No Classes!
The Sonnet
The Engine

ROSE HARTWICK THORPE (1850–1939)
Curfew Must Not Ring To-Night

ALBERY ALLSON WHITMAN (1851–1901)
from Twasinta’s Seminoles, or Rape of Florida
The Lute of Afric’s Tribe
from An Idyll of the South

EDWIN MARKHAM (1852–1940)
The Man with the Hoe
A Leaf from the Devil’s Jest-Book
In Death Valley
After Reading Shakspere

ERNEST FENOLLOSA (1853–1908)
from East and West
from The Separated West
The Separated East
Fuji at Sunrise
from Ode on Reincarnation

JAMES A. BLAND (1854–1911)
Oh, Dem Golden Slippers!
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny

LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE (1856–1935)
Love, Weeping, Laid This Song
One Night
April in Town
In Time of Grief
A Lyric on the Lyric
Death’s Guerdon
The Lavender Woman

KATHARINE LEE BATES (1859–1929)
America the Beautiful

CLINTON SCOLLARD (1860–1932)
As I Came Down from Lebanon
A Bit of Marble

HAMLIN GARLAND (1860–1940)
Indian Summer
In August
On the Mississippi
Fighting Fire
Boyish Sleep

HARRIET MONROE (1860–1936)
To W. S. M.: With a copy of Shelley

LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY (1861–1920)
A Salutation
At a Symphony
W. H., 1778–1830
Open, Time
Fog
Strikers in Hyde Park
The Lights of London
In the Reading-Room of the British Museum
Sunday Chimes in the City

EDITH WHARTON (1862–1937)
The Last Giustiniani
Life
Experience
Chartres
Two Backgrounds
The Tomb of Ilaria Giunigi
An Autumn Sunset

JOHN JAY CHAPMAN (1862–1933)
Bismarck

GEORGE SANTAYANA (1863–1952)
Sonnet III: “O world, thou choosest not the better part!”
Sonnet V: “Dreamt I to-day the dream of yesternight”
Sonnet XXV: “As in the midst of battle there is room”
Sonnet XLIII: “The candour of the gods is in thy gaze”
Sonnet XLVIII: “Of Helen’s brothers, one was born to die,”
On a Piece of Tapestry
Before a Statue of Achilles
Ode V: “Of thee the Northman by his beachèd galley”
Cape Cod
On an Unfinished Statue
Echo

STUART MERRILL (1863–1915)
Ballade of the Chinese Lover
Ballade of the Outcasts

ERNEST LAWRENCE THAYER (1863–1940)
Casey at the Bat

RICHARD HOVEY (1864–1900)
Evening on the Potomac
A Song by the Shore
At Sea
The Mocking-Bird
Earth’s Lyric
Verlaine
Accident in Art

MADISON CAWEIN (1865–1914)
Poetry
The Unimaginative
Music
The Three Elements
Rome
On Reading the Life of Haroun Er Reshid
Echo
The Stars
Beauty
Mnemosyne
The Purple Valleys
Caverns
Dead Cities
Orgie

GELETT BURGESS (1866–1951)
The Purple Cow
The Purple Cow: Suite

WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY (1869–1910)
Gloucester Moors
An Ode in Time of Hesitation
Harmonics
The Bracelet of Grass
The Departure

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869–1935)
The Torrent
Aaron Stark
Supremacy
Boston
A Poem for Max Nordau
Walt Whitman
The Children of the Night
John Evereldown
Luke Havergal
Ballade of Broken Flutes
The House on the Hill
Richard Cory
The Pity of the Leaves
The Clerks
Reuben Bright
“Oh for a poet—for a beacon bright”
“The master and the slave go hand in hand”
George Crabbe
Verlaine
Cliff Klingenhagen

STEPHEN CRANE (1871–1900)
from The Black Riders and Other Lines
I “Black riders came from the sea”
III “In the desert”
IX “I stood upon a high place”
X “Should the wide world roll away”
XXIV “I saw a man pursuing the horizon”
XXV “Behold, the grave of a wicked man”
XXVI “There was set before me a mighty hill”
XXVII “A youth in apparel that glittered”
LVI “A man feared that he might find an assassin”
LXV “Once, I knew a fine song”
LXVI “If I should cast off this tattered coat”
LXVII “God lay dead in Heaven”
from War Is Kind
“Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind”
“A little ink more or less!”
“I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night”
“A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices”
“The wayfarer”
“A man said to the universe”
“Each small gleam was a voice”
“Ah, God, the way your little finger moved”
“Little birds of the night”
“There is a grey thing that lives in the tree-tops”
“A man adrift on a slim spar”
“Unwind my riddle”
“A naked woman and a dead dwarf”

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872–1906)
Accountability
The Mystery
Song of Summer
A Summer’s Night
We Wear the Mask
Compensation
When Malindy Sings
Little Brown Baby
A Negro Love Song
Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes
The Colored Soldiers
Sympathy
An Ante-Bellum Sermon
Signs of the Times

ALEXANDER L. POSEY (1873–1908)
Song of the Oktahutchee
July
Midsummer
Autumn
Nightfall

GEORGE CABOT LODGE (1873–1909)
Tuckanuck, I: “I am content to live the patient day”
Pastoral
Fall
On an Jolian Harp
“Strong saturation of sea! O widely flown”
Lower New York

TRUMBULL STICKNEY (1874–1904)
In Ampezzo
Mnemosyne
Eride, V: “Now in the palace gardens warm with age”
“You say, Columbus with his argosies”
On Rodin’s “L’Illusion, Skur d’Icare”
On Some Shells Found Inland
“Live blindly and upon the hour”
“Be still. The Hanging Gardens were a dream”
On the Concert
“The melancholy year is dead with rain”
“As a sad man, when evenings grayer grow”
“He said: `If in his image I was made”
Lakeward
Pandora’s Songs from Prometheus Pyrphoros
“And, the last day being come, Man stood alone”
At Sainte-Marguerite
An Athenian Garden
Sonnets from Greece
Sunium
Mt. Lykaion
Near Helikon
Eleusis
Mt. Ida: I, II, III
Six O’Clock
“The Autumn’s done; they have the golden corn in”
“Here in the North I chase an old despair”
On Sandro’s Flora
from Dramatic Fragments
“Sir, say no more”
“I hear a river thro’ the valley wander”

19TH-CENTURY VERSIONS OF AMERICAN INDIAN POETRY
The Song of the Lenape Warriors Going Against the Enemy (Delaware)
Two Cherokee Songs of Friendship
Specimens of Indian Songs (Miami)
Music and Poetry of the Indians (Ojibwa)
Hoatchunk’ Narwoanar, or Winnebago War Song
Medicine Song of an Indian Lover (Ojibwa)
from War Dance (Iowa)
The Loon Upon the Lake (Ojibwa)
Death Song (Ojibwa)
George Copway’s Dream Song (Ojibwa)
Meda Songs (Ojibwa)
Prophetic Powers (Ojibwa)
Chants to the Deity (Ojibwa)
Song of the Owl (Ojibwa)
Magic Song (Ojibwa)
Hawk Chant of the Saginaws (Ojibwa)
Love Song (Ojibwa)
War Songs (Ojibwa)
Corn Song (Ojibwa)
Chant to the Fire-Fly (Ojibwa)
Minnetare Songs (Hidatsa)
Song for a Fallen Warrior (Blackfeet)
War Songs (Sioux)
Songs of the Sacred Mysteries (Sioux)
Southern Paiute Poetry
Songs and Chants (Southern Paiute)
from Sacred Songs of the Konkau
Soldier’s Song (Sioux)
from Ancient Rites of the Condoling Council (Iroquois)
Chant from the Iroquois Book of Rites (Onondaga)
Hunter’s Song (Hitchiti)
The Song of the Stars (Passamaquoddy)
from The Walam Olum, or Red Score, of the Lenāxapé (Delaware)
from The Mountain Chant (Navajo)
Summer Song (Eskimo)
Chinook Songs
Pawnee War-Song
Incantation Songs of the Klamath Lake People
Incantations of Modoc Conjurers
Medicine Songs (Omaha)
The Thanksgivings (Iroquois)
Imploration for Clear Weather (Ojibwa)
Prayer Upon Cutting Down the Sacred Tree (Sioux)
A Rain Song of the Shu’-wi Chai’än (Snake Society) (Sia)
A Rain Song of the Quer’ränna Chai’än (Sia)
Eskimo Songs
from The Hardening of the World, and the First Settlement of Men (Zuni)
from The Generation of the Seeds, or the Origin of Corn (Zuni)
Ghost-Dance Songs
Songs of the Kwakiutl Indians
Dances and Songs of the Winter Ceremonial (Kwakiutl)
Kū’siut Song (Bella Coola)
Songs of Spirits (Wintun)
Captive’s Song (Omaha)
Songs from the Great Feast to the Dead (Eskimo)
The Mocking-Bird’s Song (Tigua)
Song of an Old Gray Wolf (Cheyenne)
The Wizard’s Chant (Passamaquoddy)
from The Night Chant (Navajo)
from The Hako (Pawnee)
from History Myth of the Coming of the A’shiwi as Narrated by tKiäklo (Zuni)
Invocation to the U’wannami (Zuni)

FOLK SONGS AND SPIRITUALS
Blow Your Trumpet, Gabriel
Buffalo Gals
The Cowboy’s Lament
Cripple Creek
Cumberland Gap
The Days of ’49
Deep River
Dere’s No Hidin’ Place Down Dere
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel
Down in the Valley
Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit
Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
Frankie and Albert
Free at Last
Got a Home in That Rock
He Never Said a Mumblin’ Word
A Home on the Range
I Know Moon-Rise
Jesse James
Jim Crack Corn, or the Blue Tail Fly
John Brown’s Body
John Hardy
John Henry
“Johnny come down de hollow”
Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jerico
Let My People Go
Lonesome Valley
Lord, Remember Me!
Low Bridge, Everybody Down
Many Thousand Gone
Michael Row the Boat Ashore
My Lord, What a Morning
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Had
Oh My Darling Clementine
Old Joe Clark
Old Time Religion
One More River
Poor Naomi
Red River Valley
Roll, Jordan, Roll
Rye Whisky
Shady Grove
Shenandoah
Simple Gifts
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Stackalee
Starving to Death on a Government Claim
The State of Arkansas
Steal Away
Sweet Betsey from Pike
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
“We raise de wheat”
Were You There?
What Yo’ Gwine t’ Do When de Lamp Burn Down?
Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Git Along Little Dogies
Working on the Railway

American Poetry: The Twentieth Century Vol. 1

American Poetry: the Twentieth Century Vol. 1 (LOA #115) by Robert Hass In the years between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of World War II, American poetry was transformed, producing a body of work whose influence was felt throughout the world. Now for the first time the landmark two-volume Library of America anthology of twentieth-century poetry through the post-War years restores that era in all its astonishing beauty and explosive energy. This first volume of the set, organized chronologically by the poets' birthdates, takes the reader from Henry Adams (1838-1918) to Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), and in the process reveals the unfolding of a true poetic renaissance. Included are generous selections from some of the century's greatest poets- Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, H.D., Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot. Here they are seen as part of an age that proposed new and often contentious definitions of what American poetry could be and fresh perceptions of a society undergoing rapid and often tumultuous change. The multifarious aesthetic influences brought to bear-Chinese and Japanese poetry, the African-American sermon, the artistic revolutions of Cubism and Dada, the cadences of jazz, the brash urgencies of vernacular speech-resulted in a poetic culture of dynamic energy and startling contrasts. The poets of this era transformed not only style but traditional subject matter- there are poems here on a silent movie actress, a lynching, the tenements of New York, the trench warfare of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the landscape of Mars. Here too are folk ballads on events like the assassination of McKinley and the sinking of theTitanic; popular and humorous verse by Don Marquis and Franklin P. Adams; the famous "Spectra" hoax; song lyrics by Ma Rainey, Joe Hill, and Irving Berlin; and poems by writers as unexpected as Djuna Barnes, Sherwood Anderson, John Reed, and H. P. Lovecraft. Included are some of the century's most important poems, presented in full- Pound'sHugh Selwyn Mauberley, Eliot'sThe Waste Land, Steven'sNotes Toward a Supreme Fiction. LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Call Number: PS 613 .A4 2000 vol. 1
ISBN: 1883011779
Publication Date: 2000-03-20

EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1868-1950)
from Spoon River Anthology
Serepta Mason
Amanda Barker
Constance Hately
Benjamin Pantier
Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
Reuben Pantier
Emily Sparks
Trainor, the Druggist
Minerva Jones
“Indignation” Jones
Doctor Meyers
Mrs. Meyers
“Butch” Weldy
Flossie Cabanis
Margaret Fuller Slack
Justice Arnett
A. D. Blood
Editor Whedon
Ralph Rhodes
Oscar Hummel
Archibald Higbie
Harry Wilmans
Willie Metcalf
Webster Ford

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)
Isaac and Archibald
Calverly’s
Shadrach O’Leary
How Annandale Went Out
Miniver Cheevy
For a Dead Lady
Cassandra
Hillcrest
Eros Turannos
The Unforgiven
The Poor Relation
The Mill
Souvenir
Mr. Flood’s Party
The Sheaves
Karma
Why He Was There

GEORGE STERLING (1869-1926)
The Black Vulture

ARTHUR GUITERMAN (1871-1943)
On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871-1938)
Lift Every Voice and Sing
O Black and Unknown Bards
To America
The White Witch
Sunset in the Tropics
Brer Rabbit, You’s de Cutes’ of ‘Em All
The Creation
The Judgment Day

EDWIN FORD PIPER (1871-939)
Big Swimming
Indian Counsel

LEONORA SPEYER (1872-1956)
Witch!
To a Song of Sappho Discovered in Egypt

W. C. HANDY (1873-1958)
St. Louis Blues
Beale Street Blues

LOLA RIDGE (1873-1941)
from The Ghetto
The Fifth-Floor Window
Kerensky

ELSA VON FREYTAG-LORINGHOVEN (1874-1927)
A Dozen Cocktails-Please
Klink-Hratzvenga (Deathwail)
CafÈ du Dome

ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)
The Pasture
Storm Fear
Mowing
The Tuft of Flowers
Mending Wall
The Death of the Hired Man
Home Burial
After Apple-Picking
The Wood-Pile
The Road Not Taken
An Old Man’s Winter Night
Hyla Brook
The Oven Bird
Bond and Free
Birches
Putting in the Seed
The Sound of Trees
‘Out, Out-’
A Star in a Stone-Boat
The Witch of CoÆs
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Fire and Ice
Dust of Snow
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
For Once, Then, Something
The Onset
To Earthward,
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
Spring Pools
The Freedom of the Moon
Once by the Pacific
A Minor Bird
Bereft
Tree at My Window
Acquainted with the Night
West-Running Brook
The Investment
Two Tramps in Mud Time
A Drumlin Woodchuck
Desert Places
The Strong Are Saying Nothing
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
Design
Unharvested
Provide, Provide
On a Bird Singing in Its Sleep
The Silken Tent
All Revelation
Come In
The Most of It
Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same
The Subverted Flower
Directive
A Cliff Dwelling
Choose Something Like a Star
A Cabin in the Clearing
One More Brevity
The Draft Horse
Questioning Faces

AMY LOWELL (1874-1925)
The Pike
Patterns
Thompson’s Lunch Room-Grand Central Station
Spring Longing
Vernal Equinox
Venus Transiene
Bright Sunlight
The Weather-Cock Points South
Shore Grass
Lilacs
Meeting-House Hill
Katydids
New Heavens for Old
Dissonance

GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946)
from Tender Buttons: Objects
Susie Asado
from Lifting Belly: Lifting Belly Is So Kind
Idem the Same. A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson
from Stanzas in Meditation
from The World Is Round

ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH (1875-1937)
The Monk in the Kitchen
In the Beginning Was the Word
from Sonnets from a Lockbox

SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941)
American Spring Song

SARAH N. CLEGHORN (1876-1959)
Comrade Jesus
The Golf Links Lie So Near the Mill

WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD (1876-1944)
from Two Lives

MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877-1943)
Fishmonger
“Lapping of waters”
Wingaersheek Beach
What Have We All-A Soliloquy of Essences
West Pitch at the Falls
This Crusty Fragment
Indian Point
As the Buck Lay Dead

WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG (1878-1954)
Voyage à l’Infini
Ing
Arithmetical Progression of the Verb “To Be”
Axiom
Theorem

ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (1878-1914)
November Night
Release
Triad
Snow
Anguish
Trapped
Moon-Shadows
Susanna and the Elders
The Guarded Wound
Night Winds
Arbutus
Amaze
The Warning
Niagara
On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees
The Sun-Dial
Song
The Witch
The Lonely Death
Fragment
To a Hermit Thrush

DON MARQUIS (1878-1937)
from the coming of archy
the song of mehitabel
aesop revised by archy
archy confesses

CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967)
Chicago
The Harbor
Mag
Mamie
Fog
Under a Hat Rim
Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard
Window
Harrison Street Court
Languages
Sunset from Omaha Hotel Window
Adelaide Crapsey
Bilbea
Portrait of a Motor Car
Cool Tombs
Galoots
Manual System
Cahoots
from The People, Yes
On a Flimmering Floom You Shall Ride

JOE HILL (1879-1915)
The Preacher and the Slave

VACHEL LINDSAY (1879-1931)
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
The Eagle That Is Forgotten
The Congo
Factory Windows Are Always Broken
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
Mae Marsh, Motion Picture Actress
Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan
The Daniel Jazz

WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)
Sunday Morning
Peter Quince at the Clavier
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Nomad Exquisite
Infanta Marina
Domination of Black
The Snow Man
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock
To the One of Fictive Music
The Death of a Soldier
Sea Surface Full of Clouds
The Idea of Order at Key West
The Sun This March
Meditation Celestial & Terrestrial
A Postcard from the Volcano
Autumn Refrain
Poetry Is a Destructive Force
The Poems of Our Climate
Study of Two Pears
The Man on the Dump
Landscape with Boat
Phosphor Reading by His Own Light
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction
God Is Good. It Is a Beautiful Night
The Motive for Metaphor
Men Made Out of Words
The Auroras of Autumn
Large Red Man Reading
To an Old Philosopher in Rome
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
The Rock
A Discovery of Thought
The Course of a Particular
The Plain Sense of Things
The Planet on the Table
The River of Rivers in Connecticut
Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself
Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination
Of Mere Being

ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE (1880-1958)
Dawn
Dusk
Grass Fingers
Tenebris
A Mona Lisa
Epitaph on a Living Woman

FRANKLIN P. ADAMS (1881-1960)
If-

WITTER BYNNER (1881-1968)
Opus 2 (Emanuel Morgan)
Opus 17 (Emanuel Morgan)
The Wave
The Wall
Lightning
Horses
A Sigh
The Moon
Tiles
Wistaria
Donald Evans
Driftwood.
Drinking Alone with the Moon
Lovers
A Foreigner
Idols
Defeat
The Titanic
from New Poems
“All tempest”
“Any other time would have done”
“But for these apertures”

ABBIE HUSTON EVANS (1881-1983)
Juniper
The Old Yellow Shop
Under Cover
Fringed Gentians
Martian Landscape

JOHN G. NEIHARDT (1881-1973)
from The Song of the Messiah

ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS (1881-1941)
Evening Song
The Song of the Dove
An Old Love in Song
Disconsolate Morning

MINA LOY (1882-1966)
Songs to Joannes
Poe
Apology of Genius
Lunar Baedeker
Der Blinde Junge
Brancusi’s Golden Bird
Gertrude Stein
On Third Avenue

ANNE SPENCER (1882-1976)
At the Carnival
Lines to a Nasturtium

BADGER CLARK JR. (1883-1957)
A Border Affair

MAX EASTMAN (1883-1969)
To John Reed
To Genevieve Taggard Who Called Me Traitor in a Poem

ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE (1883-1945)
Opus 118 (Anne Knish)
Opus 131 (Anne Knish)

ALFRED KREYMBORG (1883-1966)
The Tree
Ants
Culture
Improvisation
Tiger Lily

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)
The Young Housewife
Pastoral
Chicory and Daisies
Dawn
Spring Strains
Sympathetic Portrait of a Child
January Morning
Romance Moderne
The Desolate Field
Thursday
Queen-Anne’s-Lace
The Widow’s Lament in Springtime
The Lonely Street
from Spring and All
Young Sycamore
Hemmed-in Males
On Gay Wallpaper
“There are no perfect waves-”
“The moon, the dried weeds”
This Is Just To Say
Flowers by the Sea
The Yachts
Perpetuum Mobile: The City
Paterson: Episode 17
These
Between Walls
The Last Words of My English Grandmother
The Predicter of Famine
A Sort of a Song
Paterson: The Falls
The Dance
Burning the Christmas Greens
The Descent
To Daphne and Virginia
To a Man Dying on His Feet
The World Contracted to a Recognizable Image

DONALD EVANS (1884-1921)
En Monocle
In the Vices

ARTURO GIOVANNITTI (1884-1959)
The Walker

WILBERT SNOW (1884-1977)
Advice to a Clam-Digger

SARA TEASDALE (1884-1933)
The Shrine
The Look
At Night
Moods
I Shall Not Care
Enough
Summer Night, Riverside
After Love
Night Song at Amalfi
Jewels
Wood Song
The Broken Field
“A Little While”
“There Will Come Soft Rains”
The Unchanging
The Sanctuary
“I Shall Live To Be Old”
Moon’s Ending
Lines

EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
De Aegypto
Sestina: Altaforte
Planh for the Young English King
The Seafarer
The Return
Portrait d’une Femme
Of Jacopo del Sellaio
The Garden
A Pact
In a Station of the Metro
Les Millwin
A Song of the Degrees
Tame Cat
Liu Ch’e
Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord
The Study in Æsthetics
Exile’s Letter
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
Lament of the Frontier Guard
Papyrus
Near Perigord
Alba
from Homage to Sextus Propertius
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Canto II
Canto IV
Canto XIII
Canto XVII
Canto XXXVI
Canto XLV
Canto XLVII
Canto XLIX
Canto LXXXI
Canto XC
Canto CXVI
from Notes for Canto CXVII et seq.
from The Classic Anthology as Defined by Confucius
Choruses from Women of Trakis

ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928)
Beauty
Wild Peaches
August
Village Mystery
Incantation
Sonnet
Let No Charitable Hope
Preference
Self-Portrait
Now That Your Eyes Are Shut
Confession of Faith
Parting Gift
Green Hair
Ejaculation

H.D. [HILDA DOOLITTLE] (1886-1961)
Orchard
Oread
Sea Rose
Mid-Day
Evening
Garden
Sea Violet
Sea Poppies
Storm
Sea Iris
The Pool
Hippolytus Temporizes
Fragment 113
At Baia
Song
The Whole White World
Egypt
Helen
Lethe
Trance
Birds in Snow
from Songs from Cyprus
from Let Zeus Record
Epitaph
The Mysteries: Renaissance Choros
from Sigil
from The Walls Do Not Fall
from Tribute to the Angels
from The Flowering of the Rod

JOHN GOULD FLETCHER (1886-1950)
Blue Symphony

HAZEL HALL (1886-1924)
Seams
The Listening Macaws
Light Sleep
Woman Death

ROY HELTON (b.1886)
Lonesome Water

GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON (1886-1966)
I Want To Die While You Love Me

JOYCE KILMER (1886-1918)
Trees

MA RAINEY (1886-1939)
Southern Blues

JOHN HALL WHEELOCK (1886-1978)
The Fish-Hawk
Afternoon: Amagansett Beach
Earth, Take Me Back

SKIPWITH CANNELL (1887-1957)
The King

ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962)
Salmon Fishing
Shine, Perishing Republic
Granite and Cypress
Birds
Haunted Country
Apology for Bad Dreams
Hurt Hawks
Tor House
The Bed by the Window
The Place for No Story
Love the Wild Swan
Rock and Hawk
Prescription of Painful Ends
For Una
Advice to Pilgrims
Cassandra
Animals
The Beauty of Things
Carmel Point
The Deer Lay Down Their Bones
Vulture
“I have been warned. It is more than thirty years since I wrote-”

ORRICK JOHNS (1887-1946)
Salon des Vers
Invitation
Wild Plum

MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)
To an Intra-Mural Rat
To a Steam Roller
Is Your Town Nineveh?
The Past Is the Present
“He Wrote the History Book”
Critics and Connoisseurs
To a Chameleon
Like a Bulrush
The Monkeys
Those Various Scalpels
The Fish
Black Earth
Peter
When I Buy Pictures
Poetry
A Grave
Marriage
An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish
Silence
To a Snail
Bowls
The Steeple-Jack
Smooth Gnarled Crape Myrtle
Bird-Witted
The Pangolin
He “Digesteth Harde Yron”
In Distrust of Merits
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing
Tom Fool at Jamaica
O To Be a Dragon

CHARLIE PATTON (1887-1934)
High Water Everywhere

JOHN REED (1887-1920)
from America in 1918

IRVING BERLIN (1888-1989)
Slumming on Park Avenue

T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady
Preludes
The Boston Evening Transcript
La Figlia Che Piange
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
Whispers of Immortality
Gerontion
The Waste Land
The Hollow Men
Marina
Ash-Wednesday
Sweeney Agonistes
Burnt Norton

FENTON JOHNSON (1888-1958)
Tired
Aunt Hannah Jackson
The Minister

HANIEL LONG (1888-1956)
Daphnis and Chloe
Lightning
Cobweb
In the Dark World
Day and Night
A New Music
For Tony, Embarking in Spring
Our Spring Needs Shoveling

JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974)
Spectral Lovers
Bells for John Whitesides’ Daughter
Here Lies a Lady
Judith of Bethulia
Nocturne
Blackberry Winter
Captain Carpenter
Philomela
Janet Waking
Piazza Piece
The Equilibrists
Blue Girls
Painted Head

ALAN SEEGER (1888-1916)
I Have a Rendezvous with Death…

CONRAD AIKEN (1889-1973)
Morning Song of Senlin
Tetélestai
And in the Hanging Gardens
The Room
Sea Holly
from Preludes for Memnon

H. P. LOVECRAFT (1890-1937)
The Well
Alienation

CLAUDE MCKAY (1890-1948)
The Lynching
The Harlem Dancer
The Castaways
The Tropics in New York
Harlem Shadows
If We Must Die
The White City
Dawn in New York
Africa
Outcast
Birds of Prey
Subway Wind
Jasmines
Negro Spiritual

COLE PORTER (1891-1964)
I Get a Kick Out of You
Anything Goes
Just One of Those Things

DJUNA BARNES (1892-1982)
Portrait of a Lady Walking
The Walking-Mort

JOHN PEALE BISHOP (1892-1944)
Speaking of Poetry
In the Dordogne
Young Men Dead
Metamorphoses of M
The Return

MAXWELL BODENHEIM (1892-1954)
Death
Interlude
Rear Porches of an Apartment Building

ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (1892-1982)
Ars Poetica
Cinema of a Man
Return
You, Andrew Marvell
Epistle To Be Left in the Earth
Sentiments for a Dedication
Voyage West

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)
Afternoon on a Hill
Sorrow
Witch-Wife
“If I should learn, in some quite casual way”
Bluebeard
God’s World
First Fig
Second Fig
Recuerdo
“I think I should have loved you presently”
“I shall forget you presently, my dear”
Spring
Eel-Grass
Passer Mortuus Est
Elegy
“Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.”
“What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why”
The Wood Road
Scrub
Never May the Fruit Be Plucked
Siege
“I, being born a woman and distressed”
“Gazing upon him now, severe and dead”
Winter Night
“Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink”
Rendezvous
Menses
Sonnet

DONALD DAVIDSON (1893-1968)
Sanctuary

SAMUEL GREENBERG (1893-1917)
The Glass Bubbles
Secrecy
Etching
God
African Desert
To Dear Daniel

DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967)
Résumé
One Perfect Rose
Ballade at Thirty-Five
Men
News Item
Observation
Symptom Recital
The Red Dress
Bric-à-Brac
A Pig’s-Eye View of Literature
Bohemia
Coda

American Poetry: The Twentieth Century Vol. 2

American Poetry: the Twentieth Century Vol. 2 (LOA #116) by Robert Hass "The editing is more than brilliant- It is nearly unimaginable how the Library of America team managed to do so much so well. . . . Every possible kind of poem is here in its best examples. No one has ever done a better anthology of modern American poetry, or even come close." -Talk This second volume of the landmark two-volume Library of America anthology of twentieth-century poetry, organized chronologically by the poets' birthdates, takes the reader from E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) to May Swenson (1913-1989). In the wake of the modernist renaissance, American poets continued to experiment with new techniques and themes, while the impact of the Depression and World War II and the continuing political struggle of African Americans became part of the fabric of a literature in transition. New schools and definitions of poetry seemed often to divide the literary scene. This was the era of the Harlem Renaissance, the Objectivists, the Fugitives, the proletarian poets. It was also an era of vigorously individuated voices-knotty, defiant, sometimes eccentric. The range of tone and subject matter is immense- here are Melvin B. Tolson's swirlingly allusive Harlem portraits, Phyllis McGinley's elegant verse transcriptions of suburbia, May Swenson's playful meditations on the laws of physics. The diversity of formal approaches includes the extreme linguistic experiments of Eugene Jolas and Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, Rolfe Humphries's adaptation of traditional Welsh meter, the haiku of Richard Wright, the ballads of Helen Adam and Elder Olson, the epigrams of J.V. Cunningham. A selection of light verse is joined by lyrics from the era's greatest songwriters, including Robert Johnson, Woody Guthrie, and Ira Gershwin. Several important long poems are presented complete, including Hart Crane'sThe Bridge, Louis Zukofsky'sPoem beginning "The"and Robert Penn Warren'sAudubon- A Vision. Rounding out the volume are such infrequently anthologized figures as Vladimir Nabokov, James Agee, Tennessee Williams, and John Cage. LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Call Number: PS 613 .A4 2000 vol. 2
ISBN: 1883011787
Publication Date: 2000-03-20

E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)
“All in green went my love riding”
“in Just-/ spring when the world is mud-”
“Tumbling -hair / picker of buttercups”
“Humanity i love you”
“O sweet spontaneous”
“stinging / good swarms”
“between green / mountains”
“Babylon slim / -ness of”
“ta / ppin / g / toe”
“Buffalo Bill’s / defunct”
“the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls”
“god pity me whom (god distinctly has)”
“Dick Mid’s large bluish face without eyebrows”
“Spring is like a perhaps hand”
POEM, OR BEAUTY HURTS MR. VINAL
“she is being Brand”
“on the Madam’s best april the”
MeMORABILIA
“next to of course america i”
“lis / -ten / / you know what i mean when”
“my sweet old etcetera”
“Among / these / red pieces of”
“in spite of everything”
“since feeling is first”
“i sing of Olaf glad and big”
“twi-/ is -Light bird”
“a clown’s smirk in the skull of a baboon”
“somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond”
“r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r”
“the boys I mean are not refined”
“as freedom is a breakfast food”
“anyone lived in a pretty how town”
“my father moved through dooms of love”
“plato told”
“pity this busy monster, manunkind”
“a grin without a”

H. L. Davis (1894-1960)
Proud Riders

Rolfe Humphries (1894-1969)
Europa
Test Paper
From the Green Book of Yfan

Eugene Jolas (1894-1952)
Mater Dolorosa

H. Phelps Putnam (1894-1948)
Words of an Old woman
Hasbrouck and the Rose
Bill Gets Burned

Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)
“On Brooklyn Bridge I saw a man drop dead”
“I met in a merchant’s place”
“The shopgirls leave their work”
“How shall we mourn you who are killed and wasted”
“My work done , I lean on the window -sill”
“In the shop, she, her mother, and grandmother”
The Idiot
“She who worked patiently”
Epidemic
“Her work was to count linings-”
“The house-wreckers have left the door and a staircase”
Aphrodite Vrania
April
“Out of the hills the trees bulge”
“How difficult for me is Hebew”
“I have learnt the Hebrew blessing before eating bread”
“After I had worked all day at what I earn my living”
“The Hebrew of your poets, Zion”
“Though our thoughts often, we ourselves”
“Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies”
Epitaphs
Millitary District [ ‘The clouds….”]
“A dead gull in the road”
“I Like this secret walking”
Rainy Season
“Of course, we must die”
“My grandfather, dead long before I was born”
“A grove with small trees, thick with berries”
Millinery District [ “Many fair hours…”]
Similies
Epitaph
Free Verse
From Early History of a Writer

Bessie Smith
Empty Bed Blues

Genevieve Taggard (1894-1937)
Everyday Alchemy
Thrist
To One Loved Wholly Within Wisdom
To Mr. Maunder Maunder, Professional Poet
To the Powers of Desolation
To the Natural World: at 37
Try Tropic
All Around the Town
Bounding Line
Hymm to Yellow
The Weed
Fructus

Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
Reapers
Cotton Song,
Georgia Dusk
Nullo
Evening Song
Portrait in Georgia
Seventh Street
Storm Ending
Her Lips Are Copper Wire
Gum
The Gods Are Here

Mark Van Doren (1894-1972 )
The Amber Sunstream
Axle Song
The Hear House
Midland
So Simple
Where I Saw the Snake
The First Poem

Alter Brody (1895-1979)
Lamentations
Winter Nocturne: The Hospital

Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)
“To an Amiable Child”
Creatures in the Zoo

Abraham Lincoln Gillespie (1895-1950)
A Purplexicon of Dissynthegrations

Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960)
Ol’ Man River

Lorenz Hart (1895-1943)
Little Girl Blue
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

Robert Hillyer (1895-1961)
Dead Man’s Corner

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972)
Epitaphas
A House of the Eighties
The Omlet of A. Macleish

John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
Newsreel LIII

Thomas Hornsby Ferril (1896-1988)
Waltz Against the Mountains
Something Starting Over
Noon

Ira Gershwin (1896-1983)
I Can’t Get Started
They All Laughed

Ramon Guthrie (1896-1973)
Elegy for Melusine from the Intensive Care Ward
Red-Headed Intern, Taking Notes
Scene: A Bedside in the Witches’ Kitchen

E. Y. Harburg (1896-1981)
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?

Isidor Schneider (1896-1977)
Insects
A History of the Caesars

Louisa Bogan (1897-1970)
Medusa
Knowledge
Women
The Alchemist
My Voice Not Being Proud
Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom
Sub Contra
Cassandra
Winter Swam
Dark Summer
Late
Song
Short Summary
Roman Fountain
Evening Star
Baroque Comment
Kept
Heard by a Girl
Several Voices Out of a Cloud
Musician
Zone
Night
Morning
The Dragonfly

Emanuel Carnevali (1897-1942?)
Sermon
Serenade
Kiss
Almost a God

Blind Lemon Jefferson (1897-1929)
Long Distance Moan

Walter Lowenfels (1897-1976)
From Elegy in the Manner of a Requiem in the memory of D.H. Lawrence

David McCord (1897-1997)
Waiter,
History of Education

John Wheelwright (1897-1940)
Slow Curtain
Why Must You Know?
Would You Think?
Fish Food: An Obituary to Hart Crane
Come Over and Help Us
Anathema. Maranatha!
In the Bathtub, to Mnemosyne
Espirit d’Escalier
Cross Questions

Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943)
From John Brown’s Body
American Names
Cotton Mather
Daniel Boone
Metropolitan Nightmare

Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989)
Winter Tenement
Ernest

Harry Crosby (1898-1929)
Vision
Photoheliograph

Horace Gregory (1898-1982)
From Chorus for Survival
The Cage of Voices

Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966)
From Libretto for the Reblic of Liberia
From Harlem Gallery

Leonie Adams (1899-1988)
April Morality
Ghostly Tree
The Rounds and Garlands Done
The Moon and Spectator
Fragmentary Stars
The Horn
The Figurehead
Grapes Making

Hart Crane (1899-1932)
Chaplinesque
For the Marriage of Faustas and Helen
Voyages
Repose of Rivers
The Wine Menagerie
At Melville’s Tomb
The Bridge
O Carib Isle!
The Broken Tower

Thomas A. Dorsey (1899-1993)
Take My Hand, Precious Lord

Hildegarde Flanner (1899-1987)
Dumb
Moments
Fern Song
Frog Song
True Western Summer

Janet Lewis (1899-1998)
From The Indians in the Woods
Girl Help
The Reader
Winter Garden
Helen Grown Old
For the Father of Sandro Gullota
The Ancient Ones: Betatakin
Garden Note I, Los Altos
Garden Note II, March

Joseph Moncure March (1899-1977)
From The Wild Party

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
From Lolita
On Translating Eugene Onegin

Lynn Riggs (1899-1954)
Santo Domingo Corn Dance

Allen Tate (1899-1979)
Mr. Pope
Ode to the Confederate Dead
The Twelve
Last Days of Alice
The Wolves
Aeneas at Washington
The Ivory Tower
The Mediterranean
Sonnets at Christmas
The Swimmers

Edward Hahlberg (1900-1977)
February Ground
Walt Whitman

Yvor Winters (1900-1968)
Two Songs of Advent
The Magpie’s Shadow
The Solitude of Glass
October
Vacent Lot
The Cold
Nocturne
The Barnyard
Wild Sunflower
The Realization
Apollo and Daphne
The Fable
The Fall of Leaves
The Slow Pacific Swell
To A Young Writer
By the Road to the Sunnyvale Air-Base
Elegy on a Young Airedale Bitch Lost Two Years Since in the Salt-Marsh
On Teaching the Young
Time and Garden
In Praise of California Wines
To the Moon

Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)
Long Gone
Scottie Has His Say
Sister Lou
Southern Road
Memphis Blues
Ma Rainey
Slim in Atlanta
Children’s Children
Chillen Get Shoes
Sporting Beasley
Caberet
Old Lem

Robert Francis (1901-1987)
A Broken View
Onion Fields
Earthworm
Slow
By Night
The Curse
While I Slept
The Sound I Listened For
As Easily As Trees
Waxwings
Pitcher
Cypresses
Swimmer
Farm Boy After Summer
Museum Vase

Lindley Williams Hubbell (1901-1994)
Ordovician Fossil Algae
Sounds
A student who sat facing me during the Osaka express
Beer Bottles
Waka

Laura Riding (1901-1991)
An Ancient Revisits
As Well As Any Other
Prisms
Lucrece and Nara
O Vacables of Love
Faith Upon the Waters
Sea, False Philosophy
The Map of Places
Chloe or . . .
Take Hands
The World and I
The Wind , the clock, the We
Nothing So Far
Divestment of Beauty
Because of Clothes
With the Face

Arna Bontemps (1902-1973)
Reconnaissance
Southern Mansion
Dark Girl
A Black Man Talks of Reaping

Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961)
Green Light
Evening Song
1933
Escape
Dirge
Portrait
American Rhapsody (4 )
Literary
How Do I Feel?
Art Review
Reception Good
Beware
4 A.M.
Bryce & Tomlins

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Aunt Sue’s Stories
When Sue Wears Red
Young Prostitute
My People
Dream Variations
Subway Face
I, Too
Suicide’s Note
Summer Night
Strange Hurt
A House in Taos
Railroad Avenue
Sea Calm
Drum
Cubes
Little Lyric (Of Great Importance)
Evil
Songs
Luck
Curious
American Heartbreak
From Montage of a Dream Deferred

Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
Spring Comes to Murray Hill
Refection on Ice-Breaking
The Terrible People
Song of the Open Road
Very Like a Whale
A Necessary Dirge
Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man
The Germ
Glossina Morsitans, or, the Tsetse
Samson Agonistes
Inter-Office Memorandum
Which the Chicken, Which the Egg?

Eve Triem (1902-1992)
For Paul

Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
Yet Do I Marvel
Atlantic City Waiter
Incident
Heritage
For My Grandmother
For a Lady I know
For One Who Gayly Sowed His Oats
For Hazel Hall, American Poet
From the Dark Tower

Edwin Denby (1903-1968)
The Subway
A New York Face
“I had heard it’s a fight. At the first clammy touch”
“Smelling or feeling of the several holes”

Dudley Fitts (1903-1968)
“Ya se van los pastores”

Brewster Ghiselin (b. 1903)
Shore Bird
Bath of Aphrodite
The Food of Birds
The Net Breaker
Learning the Language

Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970)
“Remember my little granite pail?”
“The clothesline post is set”
“There’s a better shine”
“What horror to awake at night”
“Paul / when the leaves / fall”
“The death of my poor father”
“Women in the middle life”
“He lived-childhood summers”
“I rose from marsh mud”
The Graves
“My friend tree”
“The men leave the car”
“My life is hung up”
“Get a load / of April’s”
Poet’s Work
“I married”
My Life By Water
“Far reach / of sand”
“Stone / and that hard / contact-”
Sewing a Dress
Paean to Place
“Not all harsh sounds displease-”
Darwin

Carl Rakosi (b. 1903)
The January of a Gnat
Amulet
Figures in an Ancient Ink
The Lobster
Lying In Bed on a Summer Morning
Young Girl
Americana
To an Anti-Semite
Discoveries, Trade Names, Genitals, and Ancient Instuments
Two Variations on a Theme
Instructions to the Player
The Avocado Pit

R. P. Blackmur (1904-1965)
Redwing
“One grey and foaming day”
Mirage
Seas Incarnadine
Since There’s No Help….
The Communiques from Yalta
Sunt Lacrimae Rerum et Mentem Mortalia Tangunt

Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)
This Fevers Me
The Groundhog
‘ I Walked Over the Grave of Henry James,’
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
On a Squirrel Crossing the Road in Autumn, in New England
La Crosse at Ninety Miles an Hour
Gnat on My Paper

John Holmes (1904-1962)
The Old Professor
Four and a Half

Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978)
I Sent Thee Late
Poem beginning “The”
“Not much more than being”
“Cocktails”
Ferry
Tibor Serly
“in that this happening”
“To my wash-stand”
“When the crickets”
“It’s hard to see but think of a sea”
“The lines of this new song are nothing”
“Can a mote of sunlight defeat its purpose”
( Ryokan’s scroll)
Xenophanes
“As To How Much”
Shang Cup
“A“II
from “A“I2

Howard Baker (1905-1990)
Advice to a Man Who Just Lost A Dog
Sappho’s Leap

Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987)
Christ Is a Dixie Nigger
Sam Jackson

Dorothy Fields (1905-1974)
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love

Stanley Kunitz (b. 1905)
The Science of the Night
The Dragonfly
The Testing-Tree
The Catch
The Quarrel
Route Six
Touch Me

Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978)
Twelfth Night
Spring Comes to the Suburbs
The 5:32
Portrait of Girl with Comic Book

Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982)
Spring, Coast Range
Anree Rexroth
The Signature of All Things
Lyell’s Hypothesis Again
It Is a German Honeymoon
On Flower Wreath Hill
From the Love Poems of Marichiko

Byron Vazakas (1905-1987)
The Pavilion on the Pier
Epitaph for the Old Howard

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
The Return: An Elegy
Bearded Oaks
Where the Slow Fig’s Purple Sloth
Audubon: A vision
Birth of Love
Evening Hawk
Heart of Autumn
Vision
Muted Music

Stanley Burnshaw (b. 1906)
End of the Flower World
Bread

Waring Cuney (1906-1976)
No Images
The Death Bed
Conception

Joseph Kalar (1906-1972)
Papermill

Richmond Lattimore (1906-1984)
North Philadelphia Trenton and New York
Vergil Georgia I.489-514

Helene Johnson (1907-1995)
Bottled
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem
Magalu

Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996)
Gloria
P.E.O.

Constance Carrier (1906-1991)
A Point of View
Clause for a Covenant
Elegy
Laudare
Helianthus

Alton Delmore (1908-1964)
The Girl by the River

Josephine Jacobsen (b. 1908)
Poems for My Cousin
Yellow

George Oppen (1908-1984)
Discete Series
Eclogue
Image of the Engine
From Disaster
Psalm
The Occurrences
Route
But So As By Fire
In Memoriam Charles Reznikoff

Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
The Heron
The Bat
Cuttings
Cuttings (later)
Root Cellar
Old Florist
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze
My Papa’s Waltz
The Lost Son
Four for Sir John Davies
Elegy for Jane
The Waking
I Knew a Woman
A Walk in Late Summer
The Rose
The Thing
In a Dark Time

Richard Wright (1908-1960)
I Have Seen Black Hands
The FB Eye Blues
Selected Haiku

Helen Adam (1909-1993)
Mune Rune
The Huntsman
Shallow-Water Warning

James Agee (1909-1955)
“Not met and marred with the year’s whole turn of grief
“So it begins. Adam is in his earth”
“Now stands our love on that still verge of day”
“This little time the breath and bulk of being”
To Walker Evans
“Wake up Threeish”

Mary Barnard (b. 1909)
Shoreline
Logging Trestle
The Field
Static
The Solitary
Probably Nobody
The Pleiades
Lethe

Johnny Mercer (1909-1976)
Blues in the Night
Midnight Sun

Elder Olson (1909-1992)
The Four Black Bogman

Edwin Rolfe (1909-1954)
Casuality
Paris-Christmas 1938
First Love

Bukka White (1909-1977)
Fixin’ to Die

Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985)
Manuscript with Illumination
Horae
Et Quidquid Aspiciebam Mors Erat
Farewell
Mutations
History
Souls Lake
South Side
Spring Shade

Frank Loesser (1910-1969)
Luck, Be a Lady

Rosalie Moore (b. 1910)
The Mind’s Disguise
Memory of Quiet
Height

Charles Olsen (1910-1970)
La Preface
These Days
In Cold Hell, in Thicket
The Moon Is the Number 18
Merce of Egypt
As the Dead Pray Upon Us
Variations Done for Gerald Van De Weile
From The Maximus Poems
Letter 3
Maximus, to himself
The Ocean
“flowering of the underworld”
“I live underneath / the light of day”

Winfield Townley Scott (1910-1968)
Crocus Air
Flowering Quince
The U.S. Sailor with the Japanese Skull
Winslow Homer

Ben Belitt (b. 1911)
The Orange Tree
Kites: Ars Poetica

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
The Map
The Man-Moth
Sleeping on the Ceiling
Roosters
The Fish
Over 2000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance
The Bight
At the Fishhouses
The Prodigal
The Shampoo
Song for the Rainy Season
The Armadillo
Sestina
Sandpiper
Twelfth Morning; or What You Will
In the Waiting Room
Crusoe in England
One Art
Sonnet

J. V. Cunningham (1911-1985)
Dream Vision
A Moral Poem
For My Contemporaries
Montana Pastoral
Selected Epigrams
To What Strangers, What Welcome

Rose Drachler (1911-1982)
The Evening of the Sixth Day

Paul Goodman (1911-1972)
The Lordly Hudson

Robert Johnson (1911-1938)
Stones in My Passway
Hellhound on My Trail
Me and the Devil Blues

Josephine Miles (1911-1985)
Housewife
All Hollow
Sale
“After noon I lie down”
Album

Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972)
Street Corner College
Religion Is That I Love You
23rd Street Runs into Heaven
The Figure Motioned with It’s Mangled Hands Towards the Wall Behind It
The Horses of Yilderlin
The Origin of Baseball
The Lions of Fire Shall Have Their Hunting
Lonesome Boy Blues

Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962)
The Airman Who Flew Over Shakespeare’s England
Winter, Never Mind Where
For T.S.E. Only
As The Great Horse Rots on the Hill

Anne Porter (b. 1911)
Consider the Lilies of the Sea
Winter Twilight

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
The Beanstalk Country

John Cage (1912-1992)
2 Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance
From Composition in Retrospect

William Everson (1912-1994)
Muscat Pruning
Tor House
Rainy Easter
A Canticle to the Waterbirds
Gale at Dawn
Stone Face Falls

Jean Garrigue (1912-1972)
Song in Sligo
The Grand Canyon
Grenoble Cafýý

Woody Guthrie (1912-1967)
Dust Storm Disaster
Talking Dust Bowl
Vigilante Man

Lightnin’ Hopkins (1912-1982)
Death Bells

May Sarton (1912-1995)
Moving In
The Snow Light
February Days

Virginia Hamilton Adair (b. 1913)
Buckroe, After the Season
Exit Amor

Charles Henri Ford (b. 1913)
The Fox with the Blue Velvet Band
The Overturned Lake
I Wouldn’t Put It Past You

Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
Those Winter Sundays
Homage to the Empress of the Blues
Middle Passage
Runagate Runagate
Soledad
The Night-Blooming Cereus
Ice Storm
Bone-Flower Elegy

John Frederick Nims (1913-1999)
The Evergreen

Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
The Book of the Dead
Ajanta
The Outer Banks
The Speed of Darkness
The Poem as Mask
Myth

David Schubert (1913-1946)
Monterey
It Is Sticky in the Subway
Prospect Park
Victor Record Catalog
A Successful Summer
No Title

Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966)
In the Naked Bed, in Plato’s Cave
Sonnet: The Beautiful American Word, Sure
Far Rockaway
Tired and Unhappy, You Think of Houses
In the Slight Ripple, the Mind Perceives the Heart
The Ballet of the Fifth Year
Do the Others Speak of Me Mockingly, Maliciously?
The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me
Darkling Summer, Ominous Dusk, Rumorous Rain
The Mind Is an Ancient and Famous Capital
Lincoln

Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
Auto Wreck
University
Troop Train
Full Moon: New Guinea
Homecoming
The Alphabet
The Confirmation
The First Time
I Am an Atheist Who Says His Prayers
The Funeral of Poetry

May Swenson (1913-1989)
Question
The Centaur
Almanac
Riding the “A”
Distance and a Certain Light
Colors Without Objects
Unconscious Came a Beauty
The Shape of Death
Electric Sound
How Everything Happens (Based on a study of the Wave)
Bronco Busting, Event # 1
One of the Strangest
Shu Swamp, Spring
Staring at the Sea on the Day of a Death of Another

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