| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| A Foreword | p. xix |
| First Planting | |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) | |
| Spring | p. 11 |
| Contemplations | p. 13 |
| "As Weary Pilgrim" | p. 19 |
| Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705) | |
| The Infants' Petition | p. 24 |
| Vanity of Vanities | p. 28 |
| Anonymous (ca. 1630) | |
| Forefather's Song | p. 33 |
| Edward Taylor (1642-1729) | |
| The Ebb and Flow | p. 37 |
| Housewifery | p. 37 |
| The Glory of and Grace in the Church | p. 38 |
| What Love Is This | p. 39 |
| Like to the Marigold | p. 40 |
| Oh! What a Thing Is Man | p. 41 |
| The Hartford Wits | |
| John Trumbull (1750-1831) | |
| The Aging Coquette | p. 47 |
| The Town Meeting | p. 48 |
| Joel Barlow (1754-1812) | |
| Freedom | p. 54 |
| Praise of the Pudding | p. 54 |
| The Pudding Prepared and Eaten | p. 56 |
| John Pierpont (1785-1866) | |
| Warren's Address to the American Soldiers | p. 61 |
| The Fourth of July | p. 61 |
| On Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument | p. 62 |
| Centennial Hymn | p. 63 |
| Richard Henry Dana (1787-1879) | |
| The Little Beach-Bird | p. 66 |
| The Island | p. 67 |
| Full Flower | |
| Introduction | |
| William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) | |
| Thanatopsis | p. 77 |
| To the Fringed Gentian | p. 79 |
| The Yellow Violet | p. 79 |
| To a Waterfowl | p. 81 |
| Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood | p. 82 |
| Forest Hymn | p. 83 |
| Hymn of the Waldenses | p. 86 |
| Autumn Woods | p. 87 |
| "Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids" | p. 88 |
| The Stream of Life | p. 89 |
| The Planting of the Apple Tree | p. 89 |
| The Snow-Shower | p. 92 |
| The Death of the Flowers | p. 93 |
| The Evening Wind | p. 94 |
| The White-Footed Deer | p. 96 |
| To a Mosquito | p. 98 |
| Robert of Lincoln | p. 100 |
| The African Chief | p. 102 |
| Song of Marion's Men | p. 104 |
| The Green Mountain Boys | p. 106 |
| Our Country's Call | p. 106 |
| The Antiquity of Freedom | p. 108 |
| James Gates Percival (1795-1856) | |
| The Coral Grove | p. 112 |
| Seneca Lake | p. 113 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) | |
| The Rhodora | p. 119 |
| Hymn | p. 119 |
| Duty | p. 120 |
| Brahma | p. 120 |
| Good-bye | p. 121 |
| Give All to Love | p. 122 |
| Eros | p. 123 |
| Bacchus | p. 123 |
| The Snow-Storm | p. 125 |
| Each and All | p. 126 |
| The Problem | p. 127 |
| Days | p. 129 |
| Experience | p. 130 |
| Song of Nature | p. 130 |
| Two Rivers | p. 133 |
| Woodnotes | p. 134 |
| Ode | p. 138 |
| Astraea | p. 141 |
| Uriel | p. 142 |
| Hamatreya | p. 144 |
| Earth-Song | p. 144 |
| The Humble-Bee | p. 145 |
| Music | p. 147 |
| Forbearance | p. 148 |
| Fable | p. 148 |
| Forerunners | p. 149 |
| Compensation | p. 150 |
| Ode Sung in the Town Hall | p. 150 |
| Boston Hymn | p. 151 |
| Xenophanes | p. 154 |
| Merlin: I | p. 155 |
| Merlin: II | p. 157 |
| Threnody | p. 158 |
| Character | p. 166 |
| Orator | p. 166 |
| Hush! | p. 166 |
| Poet | p. 166 |
| Shakespeare | p. 167 |
| From the Persian | p. 167 |
| Terminus | p. 167 |
| John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) | |
| Proem | p. 175 |
| The Moral Warfare | p. 176 |
| Massachusetts to Virginia | p. 177 |
| Ichabod | p. 180 |
| Barbara Frietchie | p. 181 |
| Laus Deo! | p. 183 |
| Maud Muller | p. 185 |
| The Barefoot Boy | p. 189 |
| Skipper Ireson's Ride | p. 192 |
| Telling the Bees | p. 195 |
| Snow-Bound | p. 197 |
| Songs of Labor | |
| Dedication | p. 218 |
| The Ship-Builders | p. 219 |
| The Shoemakers | p. 221 |
| The Quaker of the Olden Time | p. 224 |
| Abraham Davenport | p. 225 |
| In School Days | p. 227 |
| My Triumph | p. 228 |
| The Eternal Goodness | p. 230 |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) | |
| My Lost Youth | p. 239 |
| A Psalm of Life | p. 241 |
| The Reaper and the Flowers | p. 242 |
| The Wreck of the Hesperus | p. 243 |
| The Village Blacksmith | p. 246 |
| Hymn of the Night | p. 248 |
| The Skeleton in Armor | p. 249 |
| The Secret of the Sea | p. 253 |
| Paul Revere's Ride | p. 255 |
| The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi | p. 258 |
| King Robert of Sicily | p. 260 |
| The Arrow and the Song | p. 266 |
| Daybreak | p. 266 |
| Haunted Houses | p. 267 |
| The Slave's Dream | p. 268 |
| The Arsenal at Springfield | p. 270 |
| The Jewish Cemetery at Newport | p. 271 |
| The Evening Star | p. 273 |
| The Building of the Ship | p. 274 |
| The Discoverer of the North Cape | p. 284 |
| Sandalphon | p. 288 |
| The Day Is Done | p. 289 |
| The Children's Hour | p. 291 |
| From The Song of Hiawatha | |
| Introduction | p. 292 |
| The Peace-Pipe | p. 295 |
| The Four Winds | p. 299 |
| Hiawatha's Childhood | p. 307 |
| Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis | p. 313 |
| Evangeline | p. 320 |
| The Cumberland | p. 362 |
| Snow-Flakes | p. 364 |
| The Rainy Day | p. 364 |
| Gaspar Becerra | p. 365 |
| Dante | p. 366 |
| Divina Commedia | p. 366 |
| Nature | p. 368 |
| The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls | p. 369 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) | |
| Old Ironsides | p. 373 |
| The Last Leaf | p. 373 |
| The Chambered Nautilus | p. 375 |
| The Deacon's Masterpiece | p. 376 |
| The Ballad of the Oysterman | p. 379 |
| My Aunt | p. 380 |
| The Height of the Ridiculous | p. 381 |
| The Moral Bully | p. 383 |
| At the Pantomime | p. 384 |
| Contentment | p. 386 |
| AEstivation | p. 389 |
| How the Old Horse Won the Bet | p. 390 |
| A Sun-Day Hymn | p. 395 |
| Unsatisfied | p. 396 |
| Dorothy Q. | p. 397 |
| Jones Very (1813-1880) | |
| The New World | p. 402 |
| The Dead | p. 402 |
| The Wind-Flower | p. 403 |
| Morning | p. 403 |
| The Tree | p. 403 |
| October | p. 404 |
| The Robin | p. 404 |
| Day | p. 405 |
| John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) | |
| Early Rising | p. 407 |
| Sonnet to a Clam | p. 408 |
| My Familiar | p. 409 |
| The Blind Men and the Elephant | p. 410 |
| Echo | p. 412 |
| Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) | |
| All Things Are Current Found | p. 418 |
| Prayer | p. 418 |
| The Fisher's Boy | p. 419 |
| Inspiration | p. 419 |
| Smoke | p. 420 |
| Summer Rain | p. 421 |
| Men Say They Know Many Things | p. 422 |
| Love | p. 422 |
| Woof of the Sun, Ethereal Gauze | p. 423 |
| Smoke in Winter | p. 423 |
| I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied | p. 424 |
| Conscience | p. 425 |
| Independence | p. 426 |
| William Ellery Channing II (1818-1901) | |
| Hymn of the Earth | p. 429 |
| The Earth-Spirit | p. 429 |
| James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) | |
| The Vision of Sir Launfal | p. 434 |
| Auspex | p. 444 |
| Hebe | p. 445 |
| The Courtin' | p. 446 |
| To a Recruiting Sergeant | p. 449 |
| What Mr. Robinson Thinks | p. 453 |
| The Pious Editor's Creed | p. 455 |
| From A Fable for Critics | |
| Emerson | p. 460 |
| Bryant | p. 462 |
| Hawthorne | p. 465 |
| Cooper | p. 466 |
| Poe and Longfellow | p. 469 |
| Irving | p. 470 |
| Holmes | p. 471 |
| Aladdin | p. 471 |
| The First Snow-Fall | p. 472 |
| St. Michael the Weigher | p. 473 |
| Lincoln | p. 475 |
| Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) | |
| Sometimes, When Winding Slow | p. 479 |
| And So the Day Drops By | p. 479 |
| An Upper Chamber in a Darkened House | p. 480 |
| Yet Vain, Perhaps, the Fruits | p. 480 |
| Tall Stately Plants with Spikes and Forks of Gold | p. 481 |
| Roll On, Sad World! | p. 481 |
| Second Harvest | |
| Introduction | |
| Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) | |
| This Is My Letter to the World | p. 491 |
| Alter? When the Hills Do | p. 491 |
| My Life Closed Twice | p. 491 |
| Of All the Souls That Stand Create | p. 492 |
| Apparently with No Surprise | p. 492 |
| The Brain Is Wider than the Sky | p. 492 |
| The Soul Selects Her Own Society | p. 493 |
| The Heart Asks Pleasure First | p. 493 |
| I'm Nobody! Who Are You? | p. 494 |
| I Never Saw a Moor | p. 494 |
| Autumn | p. 494 |
| A Day | p. 495 |
| Simplicity | p. 495 |
| To Make a Prairie | p. 496 |
| What Soft, Cherubic Creatures | p. 496 |
| I Died for Beauty | p. 496 |
| Forbidden Fruit: I | p. 497 |
| Forbidden Fruit: II | p. 497 |
| The Bee | p. 497 |
| Indian Summer | p. 498 |
| Rearrange a Wife's Affection? | p. 498 |
| Struck Was I, Nor Yet by Lightning | p. 499 |
| One Crucifixion Is Recorded Only | p. 500 |
| Because I Could Not Stop for Death | p. 500 |
| I Cannot Live with You | p. 501 |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) | |
| Identity | p. 506 |
| Realism | p. 506 |
| Memory | p. 506 |
| Guilielmus Rex | p. 507 |
| Enamored Architect of Airy Rhyme | p. 507 |
| Untimely Thought | p. 508 |
| Maple Leaves | p. 508 |
| Pessimist and Optimist | p. 508 |
| Originality | p. 509 |
| Unguarded Gates | p. 509 |
| Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887) | |
| Opportunity | p. 513 |
| The Fool's Prayer | p. 513 |
| Solitude | p. 514 |
| Dare You? | p. 515 |
| Five Lives | p. 516 |
| The Future | p. 517 |
| Home | p. 518 |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) | |
| Miniver Cheevy | p. 523 |
| The House on the Hill | p. 524 |
| Reuben Bright | p. 524 |
| Bewick Finzer | p. 525 |
| Uncle Ananias | p. 526 |
| An Old Story | p. 527 |
| Richard Cory | p. 527 |
| Calvary | p. 528 |
| The Clerks | p. 528 |
| Credo | p. 529 |
| Eros Turannos | p. 529 |
| For a Dead Lady | p. 531 |
| Mr. Flood's Party | p. 531 |
| Veteran Sirens | p. 533 |
| Karma | p. 534 |
| Amy Lowell (1874-1925) | |
| Patterns | p. 538 |
| Lilacs | p. 541 |
| The Sisters | p. 544 |
| Robert Frost (1875-) | |
| The Pasture | p. 553 |
| The Tuft of Flowers | p. 553 |
| Hyla Brook | p. 555 |
| Mowing | p. 555 |
| The Onset | p. 556 |
| After Apple-Picking | p. 556 |
| Mending Wall | p. 557 |
| Home Burial | p. 559 |
| An Old Man's Winter Night | p. 562 |
| The Witch of Coos | p. 563 |
| The Death of the Hired Man | p. 567 |
| Birches | p. 572 |
| Two Tramps in Mud Time | p. 574 |
| Tree at My Window | p. 576 |
| The Runaway | p. 576 |
| Departmental | p. 577 |
| Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | p. 578 |
| Fire and Ice | p. 579 |
| The Road Not Taken | p. 579 |
| Come In | p. 580 |
| Choose Something Like a Star | p. 580 |
| Wallace Stevens (1879-) | |
| Sunday Morning | p. 583 |
| Peter Quince at the Clavier | p. 585 |
| Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb | p. 587 |
| Walter Hard (1882-) | |
| Youth of the Mountain | p. 589 |
| A Health Note | p. 590 |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-) | |
| Pity Me Not | p. 594 |
| I Shall Go Back | p. 594 |
| Elegy | p. 595 |
| Dirge Without Music | p. 596 |
| Robert P. T. Coffin (1892-) | |
| New Englanders Are Maples | p. 599 |
| Getting Through | p. 599 |
| Elizabeth Coatsworth (1893-) | |
| Daniel Webster's Horses | p. 602 |
| The Barn | p. 603 |
| Song of the Rabbits Outside the Tavern | p. 604 |
| E. E. Cummings (1894-) | |
| O Sweet Spontaneous | p. 607 |
| Portrait | p. 608 |
| Sonnet | p. 608 |
| Nobody Loses All the Time | p. 609 |
| "Next to of Course God" | p. 610 |
| Somewhere I Have Never Travelled | p. 610 |
| Robert Hillyer (1895-) | |
| The Untended Field | p. 614 |
| The Assassination | p. 614 |
| Robert Lowell (1917-) | |
| Salem | p. 618 |
| Colloquy in Black Rock | p. 618 |
| Where the Rainbow Ends | p. 619 |
| Mary Winslow | p. 620 |
| Index of Authors | p. 621 |
| Index of Titles | p. 622 |
| Index of First Lines | p. 630 |
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