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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Part I. The Earliest Bards
Joel Barlow
From The Columbiad
From The Hasty Pudding
Thomas Law
The Moth
John Quincy Adams
To a Lady
The Lip and the Heart
To the Sun-Dial
Thomas Kennedy
Ode to the Mammoth Cheese
James Kirke Paulding
The Old Man’s Carousal
Francis Scott Key
Defense of Fort M’Henry
Song
To My Cousin Mary
Joseph Story
Advice to a Young Lawyer
The Druid Rites: A Fragment
George Washington Parke Custis
Lines Written for the Centennial Anniversary of the Birth of Washington
John Agg
Mrs. Adams’s Ball
George Watterston
My Native Home
Emma Willard
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep
To a Young Lady
Lafayette’s Welcome
Part II. The Rift of the Civil War
John Pierpont
A Word from a Petitioner
Oft, in the Chilly Night
B. B. French
A Short Poem on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
From Fitz Clarence: A Poem
Albert Pike
Dixie
The Magnolia
Margaret Lucy Shands Bailey
Endurance
William Slade
The Slave to His Star
Arthur Bowen
Farewell
Frederick Douglass
A Parody
After the Departure of a Friend
Walt Whitman
By Broad Potomac’s Shore
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
The Wound-Dresser
Sara Clarke Lippincott (Grace Greenwood)
The Leap from the Long Bridge
George Boyer Vashon
From Vincent Ogé
Mary E. Nealy
Arlington
O. O. Howard
The Blue and the Gray
John Sella Martin
From The Hero and the Slave
The Sentinel of Freedom
Elizabeth Akers Allen
Spring at the Capital
Lost Light
Rock Me to Sleep
John L. McCreery
There Is No Death
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
Hearing the Battle—July 21, 1861
Army of Occupation
April at Washington
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Accomplices
Fredericksburg
Memory
Fanny Jackson Coppin
The Black Volunteers
John Willis Menard
The Negro’s Lament
Laura Reddon Searing (Howard Glyndon)
In Time of War
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
John A. Joyce
Grant’s Mustered Out!
Decoration Day Poem
Walter H. Brooks
The Fall of Richmond, April 3, 1865
Jeanie Gould Lincoln
My Soldier’s Grave
T. Thomas Fortune
Nat Turner
Lincoln
The Diamond in the Clay
Slavery to the Slave!
Part III. Poets of Moral Persuasion
Daniel Alexander Payne
From The Pleasures
Christopher Pearse Cranch
Correspondences
The Pines and the Sea
Jane Grey Swisshelm
To George D. Prentiss
November
Anna Hanson Dorsey
From Sunset among the Alps
Charles Astor Bristed (Carl Benson)
The Drinker’s Apology
The Pertinacious Toper
Caroline Healey Dall
At a Death-Bed
Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren
A First Pair of Spectacles
The Blue Ridge
Solomon G. Brown
God’s Vengeance Is Creeping
Fifty Years To-Day
Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton)
Note
To Dr. Bailey, with a Pair of Gloves, Christmas
Henry McNeal Turner
Hymn
One Year Ago Today
Mary Emily Neeley Bradley
Beyond Recall
Margaret Louisa Sullivan Burke
In Spite of Fate
Mary Clemmer Ames
The Joy of Work
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland
From The Dilemma of the Nineteenth Century
Marian Longfellow O’Donoghue (Miriam Lester)
Leeward
Newell Houston Ensley
Write Thy Name
Wendell Phillips Stafford
On the Photograph of a Lynching
The Cry of the Dark
Passing Mount Vernon
John Henry Paynter
To Emperor Selassie
Kelly Miller
The Cat
Isabel Likens Gates
R.O.T.C., 1917
Bertha Gerneaux Davis
At Arlington
The Service Flag
Kendall Banning
God’s Puppets
Part IV. Poets of the American Scene
Horatio King
“All’s Well”
Anne Lynch Botta
Webster
The Bee
To an Astronomer
In the Library
Donn Piatt
We Parted at the Omnibus
Jeremiah Eames Rankin
From Broken Cadences: An Ode in Three Parts
Charles G. Halpine (Miles O’Reilly)
Webster
Eliza Woodworth
Asleep upon the Grass
On the Beach
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton (Owen Meredith)
The Cloud
John James Piatt
Taking the Night-Train
To Walt Whitman, the Man
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Evanescence
Reprieve
A Weed
Mary Toles Peet
Ethel’s Letter
John Burroughs
The Bobolink
Waiting
Charlotte Forten Grimké
The Gathering of the Grand Army
Charles Sumner
Wordsworth
At Newport
A Parting Hymn
Cincinnatus Heine Miller (Joaquin Miller)
By the Pacific Ocean
Sea-Blown
Henry Adams
Prayer to the Dynamo
The Capitol by Moonlight
John Hay
The Crows at Washington
Two on the Terrace
Esmerelda Boyle
Love Me Little, Love Me Long
George Alfred Townsend (Gath)
Cloture
Julia Von Stosch Schayer
The Moon-Flower
Ambrose Bierce
The Statesmen
The New Decalogue
A Year’s Casualties
Alfred Islay Walden
Dedicated to a Young Lady Representing the Indian Race at Howard University
The Nation’s Friend
Charles Warren Stoddard
The First Rain
Emily Thornton Charles (Emily Hawthorn)
Rondeau
William Henry Babcock
Walt Whitman
Edgar Poe’s Grave
Grace Denio Litchfield
The Setting Sun
Good Bye
Robert Underwood Johnson
In Tesla’s Laboratory
On Nearing Washington
William Temple Hornaday
The Whispering Pine
Anne Kelledy Gilbert
Grief
Arlington
Snow
Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice
The St. Gaudens Monument at Rock Creek Cemetery
Carrie Williams Clifford
To Howard University
Peril
Tercentenary of the Landing of Slaves at Jamestown
Egyptian Sphinx
Lincoln
Maud Andrews Ohl (Annulet Andrews)
Why Is It?
Richard Hovey
An Off-Shore Villanelle
Evening on the Potomac
John Claggett Proctor
Georgia Avenue
Helen Hay Whitney
Alone
Sapphics
The Seal
Part V. The Rise of the Personal
Paul Claudel
Sieste/Nap
Alice Archer Sewall James
There Is a Veil
The Greek Bath
James Weldon Johnson
Mother Night
To America
O Black and Unknown Bards
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Lover’s Lane
Slow through the Dark
Douglass
We Wear the Mask
Leonora Speyer
The Saint-Gaudens Statue in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington
Suddenly
Ascent
Measure Me, Sky
Mary Berri Chapman Hansbrough
Debonair
After Grief
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
I Sit and Sew
The Lights at Carney’s Point
Sonnet
To the Negro Farmers of the United States
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša)
Winona’s Aria: The Magic of the Night
Natalie Clifford Barney
More Night!
A Sonnet to My Lady with the Jaundice
How Write the Beat of Love
Georgia Douglas Johnson
The Heart of a Woman
Little Son
Prejudice
Common Dust
To John Brown
Pledge
Eloise Bibb Thompson
Tribute
After Reading Bryant’s Lines to a Waterfowl
Don Marquis
The Prude’s Alphabet
A Politician
Angelina Weld Grimké
A Winter Twilight
The Want of You
Dawn
To the Dunbar High School: A Sonnet
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké
Juan Ramón Jiménez
El mar/The Sea
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Oriflamme
Dead Fires
Rondeau
La vie c’est la vie
Edith B. Mirick
Turn of Tide
Walter Everette Hawkins
A Spade Is Just a Spade
Where Air of Freedom Is
Child of the Night
Louise Kidder Sparrow
Hokkus in Sequence
Elinor Wylie
Wild Peaches
Sonnet
Atavism
Mariano Brull
Interior: Soneto V/Interior: Sonnet V
Caresse Crosby
Coffin’s Beach
Nile-Boat
Archibald MacLeish
Soul-Sight
Jean Toomer
Beehive
Seventh Street
Her Lips Are Copper Wire
Reapers
Otto Leland Bohanan
The Washer-Woman
Muna Lee
Methodist Revival
Electors
Melilot
Herbert Gerhard Bruncken
To a Thrush at Evening
Rondeau
Esther Popel Shaw
Flag Salute
Grant Me Strength
Theft
Ruth Muskrat Bronson
Sentenced: A Dirge
Songs of the Spavinaw
The Hunter’s Wooing
Joseph Auslander
Dawn at the Rain’s Edge
Home-Bound
Lewis Grandison Alexander
Hokku
Frank Smith Horne
To a Persistent Phantom
Bibliography
Index
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