Early American Poets Book

	Introduction	v
	Forefathers' Song	1
	A New England Gentleman's Epitaph	3
	Contemplations	4
	"As Weary Pilgrim"	12
	Upon The First Sight of New England	14
	Vanity of Vanities	15
	To Her, Coming Home	20
	Bacon's Epitaph, Made by his Man	21
	The Good Old Times	23
	The Ebb and Flow	25
	Upon What Base Was Fixed the Lath Wherein	26
	Housewifery: I	26
	Housewifery: II	27
	Upon the Sweeping Flood	28
	What Love Is This	28
	Oh! What a Thing Is Man	29
	This Dove & Olive Branch	31
	Father Abbey's Will	32
	The Battle of the Kegs	36
	From "The House of Night"	40
	The Indian Burying Ground	41
	Song of Thyrsis	43
	On Observing a Large Red-streak Apple	43
	On the Death of Benjamin Franklin	45
	Stanzas	46
	To a Honey Bee	48
	Hymn to Peace	50
	The Pudding Praised	51
	The Pudding Prepared	54
	The Pudding Eaten	57
	Freedom	58
	Independence Day	60
	To the Sun-Dial	62
	Hail, Columbia	63
	The Star-Spangled Banner	65
	The Bucket	67
	Whittling	69
	The Pilgrim Fathers	70
	Warren's Address at Bunker Hill	72
	The Little Beach Bird	74
	My Life is Like the Summer Rose	76
	On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake	77
	Home, Sweet Home	79
	To a Waterfowl	81
	Thanatopsis	82
	To the Fringed Gentian	85
	The Yellow Violet	86
	Song of Marion's Men	87
	America	89
	The Death of Lincoln	91
	from "The Antiquity of Freedom"	92
	The American Flag	94
	Seneca Lake	97
	Leila	99
	Serenade	100
	A Health	100
	Woodman, Spare That Tree	103
	Hymn	105
	The Rhodora	106
	Forbearance	106
	The Snow-Storm	107
	Fate	108
	Good-bye	108
	The Hero	109
	Mithridates	110
	Two Rivers	111
	Wealth	112
	Days	114
	The Apology	114
	Bacchus	115
	Give All to Love	117
	Experience	119
	Ode	120
	Uriel	124
	Music	126
	Fable	126
	History	127
	Brahma	128
	Terminus	128
	The Arsenal at Springfield	131
	The Jewish Cemetery at Newport	133
	Nature	135
	The Building of the Ship	136
	The Arrow and the Song	149
	A Psalm of Life	150
	The Rainy Day	151
	Hymn to the Night	152
	Milton	153
	Chaucer	154
	The Village Blacksmith	154
	The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls	156
	My Lost Youth	157
	Snow-Flakes	160
	The Skeleton in Armor	161
	The Discoverer of the North Cape	167
	Sandalphon	171
	The Children's Hour	173
	Hiawatha's Childhood	175
	The Day Is Done	182
	Laus Deo!	185
	My Triumph	187
	The Eternal Goodness	190
	Ichabod	194
	Barbara Frietchie	195
	The Waiting	198
	The Trailing Arbutus	199
	Maud Muller	200
	The Barefoot Boy	205
	Skipper Ireson's Ride	209
	from "Snow-Bound"	212
	The Moral Warfare	220
	Apollo	222
	Song to Isa Singing	223
	Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
	To Helen	225
	A Dream within a Dream	225
	Israfel	226
	The Haunted Palace	228
	The City in the Sea	230
	Annabel Lee	232
	To One in Paradise	234
	Romance	235
	To Science	235
	The Raven	236
	Ulalume	241
	To F--	244
	To My Mother	245
	For Annie	245
	Dream-Land	249
	The Sleeper	251
	Sonnet: Silence	253
	The Lake. To--	254
	The Valley of Unrest	255
	Eldorado	256
	Alone	257
	The Chambered Nautilus	258
	Old Ironsides	259
	Dorothy Q.	260
	The Last Leaf	263
	The Deacon's Masterpiece	265
	The Ballad of the Oysterman	269
	My Aunt	270
	The Height of the Ridiculous	272
	Unsatisfied	273
	Seven Negro Spirituals
	My Lord, what a morning	275
	O, by an' by	275
	Steal away	276
	They crucified my Lord	277
	Sometimes I feel like a motherless child	278
	Ezekiel saw the wheel	278
	I got a robe	279
	Enoch	281
	The Spirit-Land	281
	The Latter Rain	282
	Nature	282
	Day	283
	The Wind-Flower	284
	Morning	284
	The Tree	285
	October	285
	The Robin	286
	The New World	286
	The Dead	287
	The Blind Men and the Elephant	288
	My Familiar	290
	Early Rising	292
	Independence	295
	Smoke	296
	Mist	296
	Haze	297
	All Things Are Current Found	297
	Summer Rain	298
	Men Say They Know Many Things	300
	Love	300
	Conscience	301
	Hymn of the Earth	303
	The Earth-Spirit	304
	And Here the Hermit Sat	305
	The Courtin'	306
	To a Recruiting Sergeant	310
	The Pious Editor's Creed	316
	What Mr. Robinson Thinks	320
	Prelude to "The Vision of Sir Launfal"	322
	Whittier	325
	Freedom	327
	Father Mapple's Hymn	329
	The Night-March	330
	The Maldive Shark	330
	Gold in The Mountain	331
	The March Into Virginia	331
	from "The Martyr"	332
	L'Envoi	334