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TITLE: SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN POETRY
AUTHOR: MARGERET SPRAGUE CARHART
EBOOK: E01052 (O'Briens Book Cellar)

SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN POETRY 

With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier

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 Helen
     Annabel Lee
     The Bells
     Eldorado

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
     Hymn to the Night
     A Psalm of Life
     The Skeleton in Armor
     The Wreck of the Hesperus
     The Village Blacksmith
     It is not Always May
     Excelsior
     The Rainy Day
     The Arrow and the Song
     The Day is Done
     Walter Von Vogelweide
     The Builders
     Santa Filomena
     The Discoverer of the North Cape
     Sandalphon
     Tales of a Wayside Inn
          The Landlord's Tale
          The Sicilian's Tale
          The Theologian's Tale

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
     Proem
     The Frost Spirit
     Songs of Labor Dedication
     Songs of Labor The Lumberman
     Barclay of Ury
     All's Well
     Raphael
     Seed-Time and Harvest
     The Prophecy of Samuel Sewall
     Skipper Ireson's Ride
     The Double-headed Snake of Newbury
     Maud Muller
     Burns
     The Hero
     The Eternal Goodness
     The Pipes at Lucknow
     Cobbler Keezar's Vision
     The Mayflowers  

RALPH WALDO EMERSON
     Goodbye
     Each and All
     The Problem
     The Rhodora
     The Humble-Bee
     The Snow-Storm
     Fable
     Forbearance
     Concord Hymn
     Boston Hymn
     The Titmouse

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
     Hakon's Lay
     Flowers
     Impartiality
     My Love
     The Fountain
     The Shepherd of King Admetus
     Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration
     Prelude to the Vision of Sir Launfal
     Biglow Papers
          What Mr Robinson Thinks
          The Courtin'
          Sunthin' in the Pastoral Line
     An Indain Summer Reverie
     A Fable for Critics (selection)

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 
     Old Ironsides
     The Last Leaf
     My Aunt
     The Chambered Nautilus
     Contentment
     The Deacon's Masterpiece

THOMAS BUCHANAN READ
     Storm on the St. Bernard
     Drifting

WALT WHITMAN
     O Captain! My Captain!
     Pioneers! O Pioneers!

NOTES

                     SELECTIONS OF AMERICAN POETRY

INTRODUCTION

If we define poetry as the heart of man expressed in beautiful language,
we shall not say that we have no national poetry.  True, America has
produced no Shakespeare and no Milton, but we have an inheritance in all
English literature; and many poets in America have followed in the
footsteps of their literary British forefathers.

Puritan life was severe.  It was warfare, and manual labor of a most
exhausting type, and loneliness, and devotion to a strict sense of duty. 
It was a life in which pleasure was given the least place and duty the
greatest.  Our Puritan ancestors thought music and poetry dangerous, 
if not actually sinful, because they made men think of this world rather
than of heaven.  When Anne Bradstreet wrote our first known American
poems, she was expressing English thought; "The tenth muse" was not
animated by the life around her, but was living in a dream of the land
she had left behind; her poems are faint echoes of the poetry of England. 
After time had identified her with life in the new world, she wrote
"Contemplations," in which her English nightingales are changed to
crickets and her English gilli-flowers to American blackberry vines.  
The truly representative poetry of  colonial times is Michael
Wigglesworth's "Day of Doom.  This is the real heart of the Puritan, 
his conscience, in imperfect rhyme.  It fulfills the first part of our

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