Major Voices: 19th Century American Women's Poetry Book

	Preface
	Introduction: Women's Voices	1
	Bibliographical Comments	17
	To a Shred of Linen	37
	Indian Names	39
	A Name	41
	The Suttee	41
	On the Admission of Michigan into the Union	43
	The Ark and Dove	45
	Imitation of Parts of the Prophet Amos	46
	Abraham at Macpelah	51
	Pilgrim Fathers	52
	The Fathers of New England	53
	The Western Emigrant	55
	The Volunteer	58
	The Mother of Washington	59
	Our Aborigines	61
	Funeral of Mazeen	62
	Indian Girl's Burial	64
	The African Mother at her Daughter's Grave	66
	To An Absent Daughter	68
	Forgotten Flowers to a Bride	69
	The Bride	70
	Death of an Infant	71
	On The Death of a Sister While Absent at School	72
	School of Young Ladies	73
	Benevolence	74
	A Cottage Scene	75
	Statue of the Spinning Girl	76
	Poetry	77
	Farewell of the Soul to the Body	78
	The Sacred Poet	80
	The Muse	81
	The Needle, Pen, and Sword	83
	Prudence	97
	Getting Along	98
	"They Said"	100
	A Loyal Woman's No	100
	Hannah Binding Shoes	103
	Her Choice	104
	The Loaf-Giver: From An Idyll of Work	106
	The Light-Houses	111
	Goody Grunsell's House	112
	A Gambrel Roof	115
	The Schoolmistress	120
	A Call to Kansas	122
	Elsie in Illinois	123
	Blue-Eyed Grace	126
	The Nineteenth of April (1861)	128
	The Sinking of the Merrimack (May, 1862)	129
	Waiting for News (July 4, 1863)	130
	Re-enlisted (May, 1864)	133
	Tolling (April 15, 1865)	135
	The Flag (June 17, 1865)	136
	The Secret	137
	My Angel-Dress	138
	Canticle De Profundis	139
	The Weeping Prophet	141
	The Rose Enthroned	142
	Heaven's Need	145
	My Name-Aunt	146
	Unwedded	148
	Weaving	151
	Bury Me in a Free Land	163
	Bible Defence of Slavery	164
	Vashti	165
	Dedication Poem	168
	Rizpah, the Daughter of Ai	170
	Ruth and Naomi	171
	Burial of Sarah	173
	Retribution	175
	Simon's Feast	176
	The Slave Auction	177
	The Slave Mother	178
	Eliza Harris	180
	The Fugitive's Wife	181
	The Slave Mother, A Tale of the Ohio	182
	Ethiopia	185
	Free Labor	186
	The Freedom Bell	187
	The Change	188
	Fifteenth Amendment	189
	An Appeal to the American People	190
	An Appeal to my Country Women	191
	A Double Standard	193
	The Contrast	195
	The Revel	197
	Going East	198
	The Present Age	200
	God Bless Our Native Land	203
	The Artist	203
	Songs for the People	204
	Aunt Chloe	205
	Church Building	208
	Aunt Chloe's Politics	209
	Learning to Read	209
	Deliverance	211
	Growing Rich	225
	The Washerwoman	226
	The West Country	229
	The Emigrants	230
	Written on the Fourth of July, 1864	231
	The Past and Present	232
	Revolutionary Story	233
	Abraham Lincoln	235
	The Dawn of Peace	236
	The Spectre Woman	238
	The Women at the Sepulchre	239
	The Poor	239
	A Dying Hymn	240
	Contradictory	241
	My Poet	242
	Secret Writing	244
	Who is the Richer	244
	The Old Homestead	245
	Make Believe	247
	The Bridal Veil	248
	The Unwise Choice	249
	Fame	250
	Women	250
	Contradiction	251
	The Lovers	253
	Samuel Brown	254
	The Day is Done	256
	Jacob	257
	A Psalm of Life: What the Heart of the Young Woman Said to the Old Maid	258
	When Lovely Woman	259
	Shakesperian Readings	260
	Moral Lessons	260
	The Wife	260
	The Annoyers	261
	John Thompson's Daughter	262
	Kate Ketchem	264
	Dorothy's Dower: In Three Parts	267
	Granny's House	268
	I Remember, I Remember	272
	The Change	273
	Coming Round	274
	Worser Moments	275
	Helpless	277
	My Lady	278
	Equality	279
	Happy Women	280
	To Miss Susan Anthony, on her Fiftieth Birthday	281
	Advice Gratis to Certain Women by a Woman	282
	Was He Henpecked?	283
	Man Believes the Strong	287
	Moralizings	288
	The Outcast	290
	Nobody's Child	291
	The Brothers	292
	John Brown	293
	Our Good President	294
	A Tent Scene	296
	Peace	296
	Nearer Home	297
	Burial Hymn	298
	The Spiritual Body	299
	Sabbath Thoughts	301
	The City Life	302
	Homes for All	303
	Do You Blame Her?	304
	A Woman's Conclusions	306
	Battle-Hymn of the Republic	319
	Our Orders	320
	The New Exodus	321
	The Question	322
	The First Martyr	323
	April 19	325
	Requital	326
	The Battle-Eucharist	327
	Left Behind	327
	Harvard Student's Song	328
	"Save the Old South!"	329
	Outside the Party	330
	The Soul-Hunter	331
	At a Corner	333
	The Fine Lady	333
	The Black Coach	335
	Contrasts	336
	Amanda's Inventory	337
	Lyke-Wake	338
	Bargains	338
	The Charitable Visitor	339
	A Thought for Washing Day	340
	Of Woman	341
	Woman	343
	The Rough Sketch: Samuel Gridley Howe	344
	To My Master	345
	The Royal Guest	345
	The Tea-Party	346
	A Visit to C. H.	347
	Sybil	349
	Mother Mind	350
	An Apology: For a Warm Word Spoken	351
	Success is counted sweetest	363
	My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -	363
	It feels a shame to be Alive -	364
	My Triumph lasted till the Drums	365
	Victory comes late -	365
	It always felt to me - a wrong	366
	I took my Power in my Hand -	367
	Four Trees - upon a solitary Acre -	367
	I saw no Way - The Heavens were stitched -	368
	Title divine, is mine	368
	I'm "wife" - I've finished that -	368
	A solemn thing - it was - I said -	369
	I meant to have but modest needs -	369
	Severer Service of myself	370
	He fumbles at your Soul	371
	I would not paint - a picture -	372
	This was a Poet -	373
	The Soul selects her own Society -	373
	Renunciation - is a piercing Virtue -	374
	After great pain, a formal feeling comes -	374
	The Spirit lasts - but in what mode -	375
	I am afraid to own a Body -	375
	Ended, ere it begun -	376
	Prayer is the little implement	376
	The Martyr Poets - did not tell -	376
	I'm Nobody! Who are you?	377
	Two Truths	387
	A Woman's Battle	387
	Found Frozen	388