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Title: Selections From American Poetry

Author: Various

Editor: Margeret Sprague Carhart

Release Date: January, 2003 [Etext #3650]
Posting Date: June 17, 2009

Language: English

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SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN POETRY

By Various Authors

With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier

Edited by Margaret Sprague Carhart

CONTENTS:

Introduction

ANNE BRADSTREET
Contemplation

MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH
The Day of Doom

PHILLIP FRENEAU
The Wild Honeysuckle
To a Honey Bee
The Indian Burying Ground
Eutaw Springs

FRANCIS HOPKINSON
The Battle of the Kegs

JOSEPH HOPKINSON
Hail Columbia

ANONYMOUS
The Ballad of Nathan Hale
A Fable

TIMOTHY DWIGHT
Love to the Church

SAMUEL WOODWORTH
The Old Oaken Bucket

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
Thanatopsis
The Yellow Violet
To a Waterfowl
Green River
The West Wind
"I Broke the Spell that Held Me Long"
A Forest Hymn
The Death of the Flowers
The Gladness of Nature
To the Fringed Gentian
Song of Marion's Men
The Crowded Street
The Snow Shower
Robert of Lincoln
The Poet
Abraham Lincoln

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
The Star Spangled Banner

JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE
The American Flag
The Culprit Fay

FITZ-GREENE HALLECK
Marco Bozzaris
On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake

JOHN HOWARD PAYNE
Home Sweet Home

EDGAR ALLAN POE
To Helen
Israfel
Lenore
The Coliseum
The Haunted Palace
To One in Paradise
Eulalie A Song
The Raven
To Hele