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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) | |
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| From The Tenth Muse | |
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| "The Prologue" | |
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| "Of the Four Ages of Man" | |
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| "A Dialogue Between Old England and New" | |
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| "The Vanity of All Worldly Things" | |
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| From Several Poems | |
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| "Before the Birth of One of Her Children" | |
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| "To My Dear and Loving Husband" | |
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| "A Letter to Her Husband" | |
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| "The Author to Her Book" | |
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| "In Reference to Her Children" | |
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| "Contemplations" | |
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| "In Memory of Elizabeth Bradstreet" | |
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| "On Simon Bradstreet" | |
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| From the Andover Manuscript | |
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| "Meditation: May 13, 1657" | |
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| "Upon My Dear and Loving Husband" | |
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| "Upon the Burning of Our House" | |
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| "As Weary Pilgrim" | |
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| Edward Taylor (1642?-1729) | |
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| From Gods Determinations touching his Elect | |
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| "The Preface" | |
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| "Gods Selecting Love in the Decree" | |
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| "The Frowardness of the Elect in the Work of Conversion" | |
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| "Christs Reply" | |
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| "First Satans Assault against those that first Came up to Mercys terms" | |
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| "An Extasy of Joy let in by this Reply returnd in Admiration" | |
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| "The Joy of Church Fellowship rightly attended" | |
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| Occasional Poems | |
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| "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly" | |
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| "Upon a Wasp Child with Cold" | |
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| "Huswifery" | |
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| "Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children" | |
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| From Preparatory Meditations, First Series | |
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| "Prologue" | |
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| "The Experience" | |
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| "The Return" | |
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| "[6] Another Meditation at the same time" | |
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| "8. Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the Living Bread" | |
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| "10. Meditation. Joh. 6.55. My Blood is Drinke indeed" | |
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| "16. Meditation. Lu. 7.16. A Greate Prophet is risen up" | |
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| "21. Meditation. Phil. 2.9. God hath Highly Exalted Him" | |
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| "23. Meditation. Cant. 4.8. My Spouse" | |
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| "29. Meditation. Joh. 20.17. My Father, and your Father, to my God, and your God" | |
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| "32. Meditation. 1 Cor. 3.22. Whether Paul or Apollos, or Cephas" | |
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| "39. Meditation. from 1 Joh. 2.1. If any man sin, we have an Advocate" | |
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| From Preparatory Meditations, Second Series | |
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| "4. Meditation. Gal. 4.24. Which things are an Allegorie" | |
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| "7. Meditation. Ps. 105.17. He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold etc." | |
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| "14. Meditation. Col. 2.3. In whom are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom, and Knowledge" | |
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| "Meditation 44. John. 1.14. The word was made Flesh" | |
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| "56. Meditation. Joh. 15.24. Had I not done amongst them the works, that none other man hath done, etc." | |
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| "77. Meditation. Zech. 9.11. The Pit wherein is no water" | |
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| "95. Meditation. Joh. 14.2. I go to prepare a place for you" | |
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| "142. Meditation. Can. 6.9. My Dove is One the onely One of her mother the Choice One of her that bare her etc." | |
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| Timothy Dwight (1752-1817) | |
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| From The Conquest of Canaan, Book VI | |
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| From The Triumph of Infidelity | |
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| "The Gathering" | |
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| From Greenfield Hill | |
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| "The Prospect" | |
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| "The Flourishing Village" | |
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| "The Destruction of the Pequods" | |
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| Philip Freneau (1752-1832) | |
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| From The Poems of Philip Freneau | |
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| "Ode to Fancy" | |
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| "The Vernal Ague" | |
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| "The Vision of the Night" | |
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| "The Beauties of Santa Cruz" | |
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| "George the Third's Soliloquy" | |
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| From "The British Prison Ship," Canto III ("The Hessian Doctor") | |
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| "To the Memory of the Brave Americans" | |
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| "A Picture of the Times" | |
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| "The Deserted Farm-House" | |
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| From The Miscellaneous Works | |
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| "The Wild Honey Suckle" | |
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| "The Indian Burying Ground" | |
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| "To an Author" | |
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| From Poems Written between the Years 1768 and 1794 | |
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| "The Vanity of Existence" | |
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| "The Hurricane" | |
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| "Elegiac Lines on the Death of a Fiddler" | |
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| "The Dish of Tea" | |
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| "Ode" | |
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| From A Collection of Poems on American Affairs | |
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| "Lines Addressed to Mr. Jefferson" | |
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| "On the Uniformity and Perfection of Nature" | |
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| "On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature" | |
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| "On the Religion of Nature" | |
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| "Stanzas to a Caty-Did" | |
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| From The Fredonian | |
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| "A Fragment of Bion" | |
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| William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) | |
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| Poems | |
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| "The Yellow Violet" | |
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| "Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood" | |
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| "To a Waterfowl" | |
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| "'I Cannot Forget with What Fervid Devotion'" | |
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| "Thanatopsis" | |
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| "A Winter Piece" | |
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| "Hymn to Death" | |
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| "'Oh, Fairest of the Rural Maids'" | |
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| "Monument Mountain" | |
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| "Mutation" | |
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| "A Forest Hymn" | |
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| "To a Mosquito" | |
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| "The Death of the Flowers" | |
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| "The Journey of Life" | |
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| "The Hurricane" | |
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| "To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe" | |
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| "Hymn of the City" | |
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| "The Prairies" | |
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| "The Old Man's Counsel" | |
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| "The Painted Cup" | |
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| "The Antiquity of Freedom" | |
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| "'Oh Mother of a Mighty Race'" | |
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| "The Twenty-seventh of March" | |
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| "Robert of Lincoln" | |
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| "The Poet" | |
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| "The Path" | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705) | |
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| "'God's Controversy with New-England'" | |
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| Ebenezer Cook (c. 1670-c. 1732) | |
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| The Sot-Weed Factor | |
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| Joel Barlow (1754-1812) | |
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| "The Hasty Pudding" | |
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| Index of Poets and Titles | |
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| Index of First Lines | |