The New Anthology of American Poetry: Volume II: Modernisms: 1900-1950 Book

Preface
Acknowledgments

PART ONE: PRE-COLUMBIAN PERIOD TO 1800
Introduction

NATIVE-AMERICAN SONGS, RITUAL POETRY, AND LYRIC POETRY (Pre-1492 1800)
The Tree of the Great Peace [iroquois]
Sayatasha's Night Chant [zuni]
Song [copper eskimo]
Love Song [aleut]
Song of Repulse to a Vain Lover [makah] To'ak
Formula to Secure Love [cherokee]
Formula to Cause Death [cherokee] A'yunini, or the Swimmer
Woman's Song [chippewa]
Song of War [chippewa] Odjib'we
Song for Bringing a Child into theWorld [seminole]
Song for the Dying [seminole]

GASPAR PE REZ DE VILLAGRA (1555 1620)
from Historia de la Nueva Me xico/ The History of New Mexico
Canto Primero/Canto 1

ANNE BRADSTREET (ca. 1612 1672)
The Prologue
An Epitaph on My Dear and Ever Honored Mother
The Author to Her Book
Contemplations
The Flesh and the Spirit
To Her Father with Some Verses
To My Dear and Loving Husband
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
In Reference to Her Children
For Deliverance from a Fever
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet
Verses upon the Burning of Our House
As Weary Pilgrim

MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH (1631 1705)
from The Day of Doom

EDWARD TAYLOR (ca. 1642 1729)
from Preparatory Meditations
Prologue
Meditation 8 (First Series)
Meditation 16 (First Series)
Meditation 22 (First Series)
Meditation 39 (First Series)
Meditation 42 (First Series)
Meditation 150 (Second Series)
from God's Determinations
The Preface
from Miscellaneous Poems
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold
Huswifery
Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children

LUCY TERRY (ca. 1730 1821)
Bars Fight

PHILIP FRENEAU (1752 1832)
To Sir Toby
On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country
The Wild Honey Suckle
The Indian Burying Ground
On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man

PHILLIS WHEATLEY (ca. 1753 1784)
On Being Brought from Africa to America
To the University of Cambridge, in New England
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770
On Imagination
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
To His Excellency General Washington

JOEL BARLOW (1754 1812)
from The Hasty Pudding
Canto 1

SONGS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND NEW NATION
PATRIOT LYRICS
The Liberty Song
Chester
Alphabet
The King's own Regulars; And their Triumphs over the Irregulars
The Irishman's Epistle to the Officers and Troops at Boston
The Yankee's Return from Camp
The Public Spirit of the Women
A Toast to Washington Francis Hopkinson
Adams and Liberty Thomas Paine
LOYALIST LYRICS
When Good Queen Elizabeth Governed the Realm
Song for a Fishing Party
Burrowing Yankees
A Refugee Song

PART TWO: EARLY TO MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY
Introduction

AFRICAN-AMERICAN SLAVE SONGS (1800 1863)
Go Down, Moses
Many Thousand Gone
Michael Row the Boat Ashore
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Had
Roll, Jordan, Roll
There's a Meeting Here To-Night

NATIVE-AMERICAN SONGS, RITUAL POETRY, AND LYRIC POETRY (1800 1900)
from The Mountain Chant [navajo]
One of the Awl Songs
Last Song of the Exploding Stick
from The Night Chant [navajo]
Song in the Rock
Last Song in the Rock
Prayer of First Dancers
Song of the Earth [navajo]
The Dancing Speech of O-No'-Sa [iroquois]
SIX DREAM SONGS
You and I Shall Go [wintu]
Minnows and Flowers [wintu]
Sleep [wintu]
Dandelion Puffs [wintu]
There Above [wintu]
Strange Flowers [wintu]
GHOST DANCE SONGS
[The Father Says So] [sioux]
[Give Me Back My Bow] [Sioux]
[The Whole World Is Coming] [sioux]

LYDIA HOWARD HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY (1791 1865)
The Suttee
Indian Names

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794 1878)
Thanatopsis
To a Waterfowl
An Indian Story
A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson
Hymn of the City
The Death of Lincoln

GEORGE MOSES HORTON (ca. 1797 1883)
On Liberty and Slavery

JANE JOHNSTON SCHOOLCRAFT [BAME-WA-WA-GE-ZHIK-A-QUAY, WOMAN OF THE STARS RUSHING THROUGH THE SKY] (1800 1841)
To Sisters on a Walk in the Garden, after a Shower
from The Forsaken Brother, a Chippewa Tale
Neesya, neesya, shyegwuh gushuh/My brother, my brother

SARAH HELEN WHITMAN (1803 1878)
The Raven
from Sonnets [to Poe]
To

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803 1882)
Concord Hymn
Each and All
The Rhodora
The Snow-Storm
The Humble-Bee
Hamatreya
Merlin
Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing
Days
Brahma
from Voluntaries
PROSE
The Poet
Letter to Walt Whitman

ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH (1806 1893)
The Unattained

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807 1882)
A Psalm of Life
Hymn to the Night
The Wreck of the Hesperus
Mezzo Cammin
The Day Is Done
The Bridge
from Evangeline
[Prologue]
My Lost Youth
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
from The Song of Hiawatha
V. Hiawatha's Fasting
XIV. Picture-Writing
The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride
Aftermath
Milton
Nature
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
The Cross of Snow

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807 1892)
Massachusetts to Virginia
Ichabod!
Skipper Ireson's Ride
Telling the Bees
Snow-Bound

EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809 1849)
[Alone]
Sonnet To Science
Romance
To Helen
Israfel
The City in the Sea
The Haunted Palace
The Raven
Ulalume
Eldorado
To Helen
To My Mother
The Bells
Annabel Lee
PROSE
The Philosophy of Composition

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809 1894)
Old Ironsides
The Chambered Nautilus
The Deacon's Masterpiece, or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay
The Flaneur

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

MARGARET FULLER (1810 1850)
Meditations

FRANCES SARGENT LOCKE OSGOOD (1811 1850)
The Maiden's Mistake
The Wraith of the Rose
Lines
The Hand That Swept the Sounding Lyre

ADA [SARAH LOUISA FORTEN] (ca. 1814 1898)
The Slave Girl's Farewell
The Slave

HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817 1862)
Sic Vita
Haze
Smoke
My life has been the poem I would have writ
Mist
Between the traveller and the setting sun

JULIA WARD HOWE (1819 1910)
Battle Hymn of the Republic

HERMAN MELVILLE (1819 1891) . . . . . . . . .
from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
The Portent
The March into Virginia
Shiloh
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight
The House-Top
The College Colonel
The Apparition
OTHER POEMS
The Maldive Shark
Art
Monody

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819 1891)
from A Fable for Critics
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edgar Allan Poe
James Russell Lowell

WALT WHITMAN (1819 1892)
Song of Myself
There Was a Child Went Forth
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life
I Sit and Look Out
Native Moments
Once I Pass'd through a Populous City
Facing West from California's Shores
As Adam Early in the Morning
In Paths Untrodden
Hours Continuing Long
Trickle Drops
City of Orgies
Behold This Swarthy Face
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
A Hand-Mirror
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
The Wound-Dresser
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
Bivouac on a Mountain Side
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Reconciliation
One's-Self I Sing
A Noiseless Patient Spider
Passage to India
The Dalliance of the Eagles
Good-Bye My Fancy

ALICE CARY (1820 1871)
The Sea-Side Cave
Contradiction

FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN (1821 1873)
Sonnets
The Cricket

PHOEBE CARY (1824 1871)
Dorothy's Dower
Samuel Brown

FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER (1825 1911)
The Slave Mother
Bible Defence of Slavery
The Slave Auction
Lines
The Slave Mother, a Tale of the Ohio
Bury Me in a Free Land
Aunt Chloe's Politics
Learning to Read
Church Building
A Double Standard

MARIA WHITE LOWELL (1827 1853)
Africa
The Sick-Room
An Opium Fantasy

ROSE TERRY COOKE (1827 1892)
Captive
Blue-Beard's Closet
Che Sara Sara
Semele
A Hospital Soliloquy
Schemhammphorasch
Arachne
R.W. Emerson

JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE (1827 1867)
The Stolen White Girl

HENRY TIMROD (1828 1867)
Ode

HAWAI'IAN PLANTATION WORK SONGS (1825 1930)
Uya Anma/My Mother Dear Nae Nakasone
Hana-Hana: Working
The Five O'Clock Whistle!
Hole Hole Bushi/Stripping Leaves from Sugarcane

JINSHAN GE/SONGS OF GOLD MOUNTAIN (1838 1920)
[Jinshan Fu Xing]/Song of the Wife of a Gold Mountain Man

POPULAR EUROPEAN-AMERICAN SONGS
On Top of Old Smoky
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Clementine
Aura Lee
The Battle Cry of Freedom
Tenting on the Old Camp Ground
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Come Home, Father Henry Clay Work
I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
from America, the Beautiful Katherine Lee Bates

PART THREE: LATER NINETEENTH CENTURY
Introduction

CORRIDOS (1860s 1930s)
Kiansis I/Kansas 1

ZARAGOZA CLUBS (1860s)
Me jico libre ha de ser/Mexico will be free Merced J. de Gonza les
En la antigua Roma haby a/In ancient Rome there stood
Filomena Ibarra

DEWITT CLINTON DUNCAN [TOO-QUA-STEE] (1829 1909)
The Dead Nation

HELEN HUNT JACKSON (1830 1885)
Found Frozen
Danger
Cheyenne Mountain

EMILY DICKINSON (1830 1886)
I never lost as much but twice
Success is counted sweetest
These are the days when birds come back
The daisy follows soft the sun
Title divine is mine!
Faith is a fine invention
I taste a liquor never brewed
We don't cry - Tim and I
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Wild nights -Wild nights!
There's a certain slant of light
I felt a funeral in my brain
I'm ceded - I've stopped being their's
It was not death, for I stood up
A bird came down the walk
The soul has bandaged moments
After great pain a formal feeling comes
This world is not conclusion
One need not be a chamber to be haunted
The soul selects her own society
I had been hungry all the years
They shut me up in prose
This was a poet
I died for beauty but was scarce
I dwell in possibility
I was the slightest in the house
Because I could not stop for death
A still volcano life
This is my letter to the world
For largest woman's heart I knew
I heard a fly buzz when I died
The brain is wider than the sky
Much madness is divinest sense
I've seen a dying eye
I started early - took my dog
I cannot live with you
Pain has an element of blank
My life had stood a loaded gun
Publication is the auction
This consciousness that is aware
Color - caste - denomination
She rose to his requirement - dropt
Under the light yet under
A narrow fellow in the grass
The bustle in a house
Tell all the truth but tell it slant
What mystery pervades a well!
Volcanoes be in Sicily
My life closed twice before it's close
LETTERS
To Susan Gilbert (Dickinson) (June 27, 1852)
To Samuel Bowles (About February 1861)
To recipient unknown (About 1861)
To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (April 15, 1862)
To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (April 25, 1862)
To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (June 7, 1862)
To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (July 1862)
To Otis P. Lord (About 1878)
To Susan Gilbert Dickinson (About 1884)

ADAH ISAACS MENKEN (ca. 1835 1868)
Myself
A Memory
Infelix

SARAH M. B. PIATT (1836 1919)
Giving Back the Flower
Shapes of a Soul
A Hundred Years Ago
The Palace-Burner
Her Blindness in Grief
We Two
The Witch in the Glass

LYDIA KAMAKAEHA [QUEEN LILI'UOKALANI] (1838 1917)
Aloha `Oe/Farewell to Thee
Ku`u Pua I Paoa-ka-lani/My Flower at Paoa-ka-lani
Sanoe/Sanoe

INA COOLBRITH (1841 1928)
The Mariposa Lily
The Sea-Shell
The Captive of the White City
Sailed
Woman

SIDNEY LANIER (1842 1881)
The Marshes of Glynn

EMMA LAZARUS (1849 1887)
Long Island Sound
The Cranes of Ibycus
The South
Echoes
City Visions
In Exile
The New Colossus
1492
Venus of the Louvre

SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849 1909)
A Caged Bird

ALBERY ALLSON WHITMAN (1851 1901)
from The Octoroon

EDWIN MARKHAM (1852 1940)
The Man with the Hoe
Preparedness
Outwitted

JOSE MARTI (1853 1895)
from Versos sencillos/Simple Verses

ERNEST FRANCISCO FENOLLOSA (1853 1908)
The Wood Dove
Fuji at Sunrise

LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY (1861 1920)
Tarpeia
Planting the Poplar

MARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSA (1865 1954)
Miyoko San
Yuki

OWL WOMAN [JUANA MANWELL] (1867 1957)
from Songs for Treating Sickness, Parts One and Two

SADAKICHI HARTMANN (1867 1944)
Cyanogen Seas Are Surging
from My Rubaiyat
Tanka
from Haikai

EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1868 1950)
from Spoon River Anthology
The Unknown
Elsa Wertman
Hamilton Greene

W. E. B. DU BOIS (1868 1963)
A Litany of Atlanta
My Country 'Tis of Thee
The Quadroon

WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY (1869 1910)
The Bracelet of Grass
An Ode in Time of Hesitation

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869 1935)
The House on the Hill
The Children of the Night
John Evereldown
Luke Havergal
Richard Cory
Calverly's
Miniver Cheevy
Eros Turannos
The Mill
Mr. Flood's Party

STEPHEN CRANE (1871 1900)
from The Black Riders and Other Lines
1 ("Black riders came from the sea")
3 ("In the desert")
9 ("I stood upon a high place")
19 ("A god in wrath")
24 ("I saw a man pursuing the horizon")
27 ("A youth in apparel that glittered")
46 ("Many red devils ran from my heart")
56 ("A man feared that hemight find an assassin")
fromWar is Kind
76 ("Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind")
96 ("A man said to the universe")
POSTHUMOUSLY PUBLISHED POEMS
113 ("A man adrift on a slim spar")

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871 1938)
O Black and Unknown Bards
My City

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872 1906)
Accountability
The Mystery
A Summer's Night
We Wear the Mask
When Malindy Sings
Dawn
Sympathy
The Poet
Douglass
The Debt
The Haunted Oak
To Alice Dunbar
Compensation

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