SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN POETRY

By Various Authors

With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier

Edited by Margaret Sprague Carhart

CONTENTS

SELECTIONS OF AMERICAN POETRY

INTRODUCTION

ANNE BRADSTREET

CONTEMPLATIONS

THE DAY OF DOOM

PHILIP 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