Three Centuries of American Poetry by Mandelbaum, Allen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Epigraph Contents Introductions: On the Canon of American Poetry Of Those “Who Live and Speak for Aye” I - The Colonial Era: To 1775

John Smith

The Sea Marke

Roger Williams

Of Eating and Entertainment

Anne Bradstreet

The Author to Her Book To My Dear and Loving Husband Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 Epitaphs for Queen Elizabeth Contemplations from The Four Ages of Man

Old Age The Prologue Anagrams

Michael Wigglesworth

from The Day of Doom

John Cotton of ‘Queen’s Creek’

Bacons Epitaph

Edward Taylor

Prologue from Gods Determinations

The Preface

from Preparatory Meditations: First Series

The Reflexion Meditation 6 Meditation 8 from Meditation 22

from Preparatory Meditations: Second Series

from Meditation 7 from Meditation 35 from Meditation 36 from Meditation 43 from Meditation 77

The Likenings of Edward Taylor: A Gathering of Tropes from Preparatory Meditations: First Series

from Meditation 3 from Meditation 39

from Preparatory Meditations: Second Series

from Meditation 5 from Meditation 18 from Meditation 25 from Meditation 67B from Meditation 75

from Miscellaneous Poems Upon a Spider Catching a Fly Huswifery Upon Wedlock, And Death of Children

Richard Steere

from A Monumental Memorial of Marine Mercy

Thomas Maule

To Cotton Mather, from a Quaker

Ebenezer Cooke

from The Sot-weed Factor

Benjamin Franklin

Epitaph in Bookish Style.

Jane Colman Turell

You Beauteous Dames from An Invitation into the Country

Anonymous

The Cameleon Lover (1732) The Cameleon’s Defence (1732)

Francis Hopkinson

O’er the Hills

Daniel Bliss

Epitaph of John Jack

Anonymous

The Country School

Songs and Hymns: to 1775

The Lord to Mee a Shepherd Is (The Bay Psalm Book, 1640) A Whaling Song (John Osborn, n.d.) Christ the Apple-Tree (Anonymous, 1761) Springfield Mountain (Irma Townsend Ireland, 1761) Let Tyrants Shake (William Billings, 1770) Wak’d by the Gospel’s Joyful Sound (Samson Occom, 1774)

II - Revolution and the Early Republic: 1775-1825

John Trumbull

from M’Fingal

from The Town-Meeting, A.M.

Philip Freneau

from George the Third’s Soliloquy from The House of Night—A Vision from The British Prison Ship The Vanity of Existence—To Thyrsis The Hurricane The Wild Honey Suckle The Indian Burying Ground On the Uniformity and Perfection of Nature Epitaph for Jonathan Robbins

Phillis Wheatley

To the University of Cambridge in New England, America America

Joel Barlow

from The Hasty Pudding from The Vision of Columbus from The Columbiad

Songs and Hymns: 1775–1825

Yankee Doodle (Anonymous, 1776) The Yankee Man-of-War (Anonymous, 1778) See! How the Nations Rage Together (Richard Allen, 1801) I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord (Timothy Dwight, 1801) Poor Wayfaring Stranger (Anonymous, n.d.) Walk Softly (Shaker Hymn, n.d.) I Will Bow and Be Simple (Shaker Hymn, n.d.) Home, Sweet Home (John Howard Payne, 1823) Oh Thou, to Whom in Ancient Time (John Pierpont, 1824)

III - Young America: The Romantic Era: 1826–1859

William Cullen Bryant

Thanatopsis from The Prairies Green River To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe

Lydia H. Sigourney

The Indian’s Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers from The Stars Death of an Infant

George Moses Horton

Early Affection

Edward Coote Pinkney

On Parting

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Sphinx Each and All Hamatreya The Rhodora The Snowstorm Ode Inscribed to W. H. Channing Give All to Love Bacchus Blight Dirge Threnody Concord Hymn Brahma Boston Hymn Days Terminus Experience from Quatrains

Poet [I] Poet [Ii] Shakspeare Memory Climacteric Unity Circles from Life from The Exile

Sarah Helen Whitman

from The Past To—–

Elizabeth Oakes-Smith

Annihilation

John Greenleaf Whittier

Telling the Bees from Snow-Bound—A Winter Idyl Ichabod The Fruit Gift Abraham Davenport The Slave-Ships The Christian Slave from Yorktown

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hymn to the Night A Psalm of Life The Wreck of the Hesperus Excelsior The Slave in the Dismal Swamp The Warning The Arrow and the Song Mezzo Cammin from Fragments

December 18, 1847 August 4, 1856

Elegaic Verse XII Jugurtha The Cross of Snow The Sound of the Sea Chaucer Divina Commedia Snow-flakes The Children’s Hour Sandalphon My Lost Youth Haunted Houses from Evangeline from The Song of Hiawatha

Hiawatha’s Fasting

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport from Michael Angelo: A Fragment

from Monologue: The Last Judgment from In the Coliseum

from From the Anglo-Saxon

The Grave

from Tales of a Wayside Inn

The Landlord’s Tale: Paul Revere’s Ride The Spanish Jew’s Tale: The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi The Spanish Jew’s Tale: Azrael

Delia Dedication

Lucretia Davidson

The Fear of Madness

Edgar Allan Poe

Sonnet—to Science To Helen Israfel The City in the Sea The Haunted Palace Sonnet, Silence The Conqueror Worm Lenore The Raven Ulalume—A Ballad The Bells A Dream Within a Dream For Annie Eldorado Annabel Lee Monody on Doctor Olmsted

Oliver Wendell Holmes

from An After-Dinner Poem (Terpsichore) Aestivation Ballad of the Oysterman The Chambered Nautilus The Deacon’s Masterpiece The Last Leaf Old Ironsides Peau de Chagrin of State Street The Poet Grows Old

Thomas Holley Chivers

The Shell

Margaret Fuller

Let me Gather from the Earth Winged Sphinx

Frances S. Osgood

He Bade me be Happy

Ellen Sturgis Hooper

I Slept and Dreamed

Jones Very

The Dead Thy Better Self Enoch The Latter Rain The Eagles The New Man

Christopher Cranch

Enosis December The Autumn Rain

Henry David Thoreau

Love Equals Swift and Slow Light-Winged Smoke Though All the Fates Salmon Brook I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings All Things Are Current Found My Life Has Been the Poem Any Fool Can Make a Rule I Am Bound, I Am Bound The Poet’s Delay

William Ellery Channing

from The Earth Spirit

American Indian Poems: 1826–1859

Chant to the Fire-fly From the South: I From the South: II

Songs, Hymns, Carols, And Parlor Poems: 1826–1859

The Lament of the Captive (Richard H. Wilde, 1819) A Visit from St. Nicholas (Clement Moore, 1823) The Old Oaken Bucket (Samuel Woodworth, 1826) Mary Had a Little Lamb (Sarah Josepha Hale, 1830) America (Samuel Francis Smith, 1831) Woodman, Spare That Tree (George Pope Morris, 1837) Nearer My God to Thee (Sarah F. Adams, 1841) Old Dan Tucker (Daniel Decatur Emmett, 1841) The Blue Tail Fly (Daniel Decatur Emmett?, 1846) Oh, Susanna! (Stephen Foster, 1848) Camptown Races (Stephen Foster, 1850) It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Edmund Hamilton Sears, 1850) The E-ri-e (Anonymous, c.1850) Turkey in the Straw (Anonymous, 1851) Listen to the Mocking Bird (Septimus Winner, 1855) Jingle Bells (John Pierpont, 1857) The Yellow Rose of Texas (Anonymous, 1858) Sweet Betsey from Pike (John A. Stone, 1858) Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus (George Duffield, Jr., 1858)

IV - The Civil War Era: 1860–1870

Walt Whitman

One’s-Self I sing To the States The Ship Starting Song of Myself (1891–1892 ed.) In Paths Untrodden I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing On the Beach at Night Europe As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life The Dalliance of the Eagles Cavalry Crossing a Ford Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night The Wound-Dresser When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d O Captain! My Captain! A Noiseless Patient Spider A Prairie Sunset The Dismantled Ship Good-Bye My Fancy

James Russell Lowell

from A Fable for Critics

Phoebus Emerson Channing and Thoreau Alcott Hawthorne Cooper Poe Longfellow Philothea (Lydia Child) Holmes Lowell

from The Biglow Papers

from Introduction The ’Cruetin Sarjunt

from Under the Willows Aladdin from Our Own—Progression F

Herman Melville

The Portent Misgivings Shiloh: A Requiem The House-Top, a Night Piece The Martyr The Apparition—A Retrospect The Maldive Shark To Ned The Berg Monody Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem The Ravaged Villa My Jacket Old Pontoosuc from Clarel

from The Hostel from The Inscription from Prelusive from The Cypriote from The Shepherd’s Dale from A New-Comer from Ungar and Rolfe

Epilogue

Alice Cary

The Bridal Veil

Ann Plato

The Natives of America

Joshua McCarter Simpson

from Away to Canada

Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

from Sonnets, First Series

VI Not sometimes, but to him that heeds

from Sonnets, Second Series

V No! Cover not the fault. The wise revere VII His heart was in his garden XVIII And change with hurried hand

from Sonnets, Fourth Series

VIII Nor strange it is, to us who walk

from The Cricket The Refrigerium

F.E.W. Harper

Bury Me in a Free Land from Moses, A Story of the Nile

The Death of Moses

Lucy Larcom

They Said from November

Charles Godfrey Leland

Ballad

Bayard Taylor

Bedouin Song

Rose Terry Cooke

Blue-beard’s Closet

Henry Timrod

Charleston Ethnogenesis La Belle Juive Ode Sung at Magnolia Cemetery

Helen Hunt Jackson

Her Eyes

Emily Dickinson

49 I never lost as much but twice 67 Success is counted sweetest 71 A throe upon the features 76 Exultation is the going 108 Surgeons must be very careful 130 These are the days when Birds come back 146 On such a night 153 Dust is the only Secret 185 “Faith” is a fine invention 187 How many times these low feet staggered 189 It’s such a little thing to weep 201 Two swimmers wrestled on the spar 210 The thought beneath so slight a film 211 Come slowly—Eden! 214 I taste a liquor never brewed 216 Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (1859 and 1861) 234 You’re right—“the way is narrow” 241 I like a look of Agony 249 Wild Nights—Wild Nights! 254 “Hope” is the thing with feathers 258 There’s a certain Slant of light 280 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain 287 A Clock Stopped 288 I’m Nobody! Who are you? 301 I reason, Earth is short 303 The Soul selects her own Society 305 The difference between Despair 315 He fumbles at your Soul 324 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church 326 I cannot dance upon my Toes 341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes 346 Not probable—The barest Chance 352 Perhaps I asked too large 355 ’Tis Opposites—entice 356 The Day that I was crowned 364 The Morning after Woe 365 Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? 367 Over and over, like a Tune 376 Of Course—I prayed 377 To lose one’s faith—surpass 378 I saw no Way—The Heavens were stitched 383 Exhilaration—is within 384 No Rack can torture me 391 A Visitor in Marl 401 What Soft—Cherubic Creatures 405 It might be lonelier 407 If What we could—were what we would 429 The Moon is distant from the Sea 435 Much Madness is divinest Sense 441 This is my letter to the World 448 This was a Poet—It is That 455 Triumph—may be of several kinds 456 So well that I can live without 461 A Wife—at Daybreak I shall be 465 I heard a Fly buzz—when I died 485 To make One’s Toilette—after Death 492 Civilization—spurns—the Leopard! 501 This World is not Conclusion 502 At least—to pray—is left—is left 505 I would not paint—a picture 510 It was not Death, for I stood up 511 If you were coming in the Fall 518 Her sweet Weight on my Heart at Night 536 The Heart asks Pleasure—first 569 I reckon—when I count at all 579 I had been hungry, all the Years 640 I cannot live with You 642 Me from Myself—to banish 650 Pain—has an Element of Blank 657 I dwell in Possibility 675 Essential Oils—are wrung 680 Each Life Converges to some Centre 701 A Thought went up my mind today 709 Publication—is the Auction 724 It’s easy to invent a Life 729 Alter! When the Hills do 754 My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun 777 The Loneliness One dare not sound 785 They have a little Odor—that to me 847 Finite—to fail, but infinite to Venture 861 Split the Lark—and you’ll find the Music 870 Finding is the first Act 875 I stepped from Plank to Plank 883 The Poets light but Lamps 884 An Everywhere of Silver 914 I cannot be ashamed 963 A nearness to Tremendousness 994 Partake as doth the Bee 997 Crumbling is not an instant’s Act 1036 Satisfaction—is the Agent 1072 Title divine—is mine! 1129 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant 1196 To make routine a stimulus 1212 A word is dead 1218 Let my first Knowing be of thee 1226 The Popular Heart is a Cannon first 1333 A little Madness in the Spring 1463 A Route of Evanescence 1624 Apparently with no surprise 1651 A Word made Flesh is seldom 1732 My life closed twice before its close 1755 To make a prairie 1760 Elysium is as far as to 1765 That Love is all there is

Celia Thaxter

Imprisoned Alone

Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens]

Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Fredericksburg Identity Memory

Charlotte L.F. Grimke

Wordsworth

Adah Isaacs Menken

Infelix

Sidney Lanier

The Crystal Marsh Song—at Sunset from Sunrise The Raven Days from Clover The Mocking Bird Song of the Chattahoochee The Marshes of Glynn A Ballad of Trees and the Master

Songs, Hymns, Spirituals, and Carols: 1859–1870

Dixie’s Land (Daniel Decatur Emmett, 1859) Battle Hymn of the Republic (Julia Ward Howe, 1862) When Johnny Comes Marching Home (“Louis Lambert” [Patrick S. Gilmore], 1863) When You and I Were Young, Maggie (George W. Johnson, 1866) Nobody Knows de Trouble I’ve Had (Unknown, 1867) Rock O’ My Soul (Unknown, 1867) Many Thousand Gone (Unknown, 1867) Michael Row the Boat Ashore (Unknown, 1867) O Little Town of Bethlehem (Phillips Brooks, 1868) There Is a Balm in Gilead (Unknown)

V - The Era of Reconstruction and Expansion: 1870–1900

Emma Lazarus

The New Ezekiel The New Colossus

James Whitcomb Riley

Little Orphant Annie

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Solitude

Henrietta Cordelia Ray

My Spirit’s Complement

Edwin Markham

The Man with the Hoe

Edith Matilda Thomas

Frost To-Night

Lizette Woodworth Reese

Rachel Renunciation To Life Crows

Samuel Alfred Beadle

Words

George Marion McClellan

A September Night

Bliss Carman

A Vagabond Song

Louise Imogen Guiney

from The Knight Errant Borderlands The Wild Ride

George Santayana

O World, thou choosest not the better part To W.P. from Normal Madness

Richard Hovey

The Sea Gypsy

Madison Cawein

Uncalled Deserted

James Edwin Campbell

Mors et Vita

W.E.B. Du Bois

A Litany at Atlanta

William Vaughn Moody

Gloucester Moors The Bracelet of Grass Faded Pictures

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Walt Whitman Luke Havergal Richard Cory Miniver Cheevy For a Dead Lady Eros Turannos Mr. Flood’s Party The Man Against the Sky

Jesse Rittenhouse

Debt

George Sterling

Aldebaran at Dusk The Black Vulture

Edgar Lee Masters

Petit, the Poet Many Soldiers from Chicago Cities of the Plain from Henry C. Calhoun

American Indian Poetry: 1870–1900

Song of Sequence (Navajo) Invocation to Dsilyi N’eyani (Navajo) The Whole World is Coming (Sioux) from The Walum Olum or Red Score (Lenape)

Songs, Spirituals, Hymns, and Popular Poems: 1870–1900

Frankie and Johnny (Unknown, 1870–75) John Henry (Unknown, 1873) Home on the Range (Brewster Higley, c.1876) What a Friend We Have in Jesus (Joseph Scriven, 1876) Carry Me Back to Old Virginny (James A. Bland, 1878) Polly Wolly Doodle (Unknown, 1883) Oh My Darling Clementine (Percy Montrose, 1884) Casey at the Bat (Ernest Lawrence Thayer, 1888) I Been Working on the Railroad (Unknown, 1894) The Sidewalks of New York (James W. Blake, 1894) When the Saints Go Marching In (Unknown, 1896) I Never Saw a Purple Cow (Gelett Burgess, 1898)

VI - The Advent of the Modern: 1901–1922

Stephen Crane

from The Black Riders

III In the desert XXIV I saw a man pursuing the horizon

from War is Kind

I Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind VI I explain the silvered passing XXI A man said to the universe

James Weldon Johnson

O Black and Unknown Bards Lift Every Voice and Sing

Lola Ridge

from The Alley

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Sympathy We Wear the Mask When All Is Done The Paradox The Poet

Guy Wetmore Carryl

The Patrician Peacocks and the Overweening Jay

Robert Frost

Storm Fear from Mountain Interval

Hyla Brook from The Hill Wife

IV. The Oft-Repeated Dream V. The Impulse

from New Hampshire

The Lockless Door The Need of Being Versed in Country Things

Mending Wall The Death of the Hired Man After Apple-Picking The Road Not Taken The Oven Bird Birches ‘Out, Out—’

Robert W. Service

The Cremation of Sam McGee

“Edward E. Paramore, Jr.”

The Ballad of Yukon Jake

Trumbull Stickney

Mnemosyne Live Blindly At Sainte-Marguerite He Said: “If in His Image I was Made”

Josephine Preston Peabody

After Music A Far-Off Rose

Amy Lowell

Solitaire Meeting-House Hill A Lady Wind and Silver

Gertrude Stein

from Bee Time Vine

from Yet Dish

from Tender Buttons

A Frightful Release A Purse A Mounted Umbrella A Cloth More from Rooms

Ridgely Torrence

The Son

Anna Hempstead Branch

Ere the Golden Bowl is Broken Connecticut Road Song

William Stanley Braithwaite

Rhapsody

Carl Sandburg

Chicago Fog Bones Cool Tombs Grass Haze

Adelaide Crapsey

November Night Triad Susanna and the Elders Night Winds The Warning

Don Marquis

The Coming of Archy

Vachel Lindsay

General William Booth Enters into Heaven Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight The Leaden-Eyed

Wallace Stevens

Peter Quince at the Clavier Disillusionment of Ten O’clock Sunday Morning Domination of Black Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Metaphors of a Magnifico Anecdote of the Jar The Snow Man Le Monocle de Mon Oncle The Emperor of Ice-Cream The Comedian as the Letter C O Florida, Venereal Soil To the One of Fictive Music To the Roaring Wind

Witter Bynner

Tiles The Highest Bidder from Spectra

Opus 6

Anne Spencer

Letter to my Sister

Kahlil Gibran

The Madman (Prologue)

Arthur Davison Ficke

The Three Sisters Sonnet

William Carlos Williams

from Kora in Hell: Improvisations from The Wanderer: A Rococo Study [First Version]

Paterson—The Strike

Grotesque Spring Strains A Coronal The Widow’s Lament in Springtime To Mark Anthony in Heaven from Spring and All

Sara Teasdale

I Shall not Care Let It Be Forgotten On the Dunes The Long Hill

Donald Evans

Dinner at the Hotel de la Tigresse Verte

Ezra Pound

Sestina: Altaforte The Seafarer An Immorality A Virginal Portrait d’une Femme In a Station of the Metro Alba L’Art, 1910 Ancient Music from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts)

E.P. / Ode pour l’Election de Son Sepulchre Envoi (1919) 1920 (Mauberley) “The Age Demanded” Medallion

The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter Night Litany Sandalphon from Quia Pauper Amavi

Canto III

Elinor Wylie

Wild Peaches Spring Pastoral

Georgia Johnson

I Want to Die While You Love Me

Joyce Kilmer

Trees

H. D. [Hilda Doolittle]

Heat Orchard Oread The Islands Song Pear Tree Lethe

John Gould Fletcher

Clipper Ships

Marianne Moore

Poetry

T. S. Eliot

Preludes The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Morning at the Window Gerontion The Hippopotamus The Waste Land The Boston Evening Transcript Conversation Galante La Figlia che Piange

Fenton Johnson

Children of the Sun Tired

Alan Seeger

I Have a Rendez-Vous with Death

Conrad Aiken

Chance Meetings Miracles

E. E. Cummings

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls O sweet spontaneous Buffalo Bill ’s Picasso

Claude Mckay

The Harlem Dancer Harlem Shadows The Lynching

Edna St. Vincent Millay

from Renascence

Langston Hughes

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

American Indian Poems: 1900–1921

I Sing for the Animals (Teton Sioux) Carrying My Mind Around (Tlingit) Haida Cradle-Song First Song of the Thunder (Navaho “Mountain Chant”) The Creation of the Earth (Navaho) Corn Ceremony (Apache) Song of the Pleiades (Pawnee) Arrow Song

Songs of the Modern Era: 1900–1922

A Bird in a Gilded Cage (Arthur J. Lamb, 1900) Give My Regards to Broadway (George M. Cohan, 1904) His Eye Is on the Sparrow (Mrs. C. D. Martin, 1905) Take Me Out to the Ball Game (Jack Norworth, 1908) Casey Jones (Wallace Saunders, 1909) Let Me Call You Sweetheart (Beth Slater Whitson, 1910) Alexander’s Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin, 1911) Whiffenpoof Song (Meade Minnigerode, George S. Pomeroy, and Ted B. Galloway, 1911) The Old Rugged Cross (George Bennard, 1913) St. Louis Blues (W. C. Handy, 1914) Oh! How I Hate to Get up in the Morning (Irving Berlin, 1918) Look for the Silver Lining (Jerome Kern, 1920) Stairway to Paradise (B. G. De Sylva and Arthur Francis, 1900–1922)

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