Anthology of American poetry
"The work of America's great poets, representing three centuries of our nation's splendid literary history, is collected in this magnificent Anthology of American Poetry. In its pages readers will find more than 600 poems, songs, and ballads--both familiar favorites and new discoveries that make this volume a treasure trove of fine literature and a must for every home library."-- P. [4] of cover
Print Book, English, ©1983
Avenel Books : Distributed by Crown Publishers, New York, ©1983
xv, 735 pages ; 24 cm
9780517385586, 9780517385579, 0517385589, 0517385570
8930162
I. Poets of America
Anne Bradstreet
Philip Freneau
Richard Henry Dana
Fitz-Greene Halleck
William Cullen Bryant
Joseph Rodman Drake
Edward Coate Pinkney
George Pope Morris
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Greenleaf Whittier
Edgar Allan Poe
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jones Very
John Godfrey Saxe
Henry David Thoreau
James T. Fields
James Russell Lowell
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Thomas Buchanan Read
George Henry Boker
Bayard Taylor
Richard Henry Stoddard
John Townsend Trowbridge
Henry Timrod
Paul Hamilton Hayne
Emily Dickinson
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
John Hay
Bret Harte
Joaquin Miller
Edward Rowland Sill
Sidney Lanier
James Whitcomb Riley
Eugene Field
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ben King
Bliss Carman
George Santayana
Richard Hovey
William Vaughn Moody
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Stephen Crane
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Amy Lowell
Robert Frost
Carl Sandburg
Wallace Stevens
William Carlos Williams
Sara Teasdale
Ezra Pound
William Rose Benet
H.D
Marianne Moore
John Crowe Ransom
T.S. Eliot
Conrad Aiken
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Archibald MacLeish
Dorothy Parker
e. e. cummings
Stephen Vincent Benet
Ogden Nash
Theodore Roethke
John Updike
II. Poems and Songs of America
Patriotism and Courage
The Star-Spangled Banner
Hail Columbia
America
Yankee Doodle
The Battle of the Kegs
God Save the Plough
Battle-Hymn of the Republic
Warren's Address to the American Soldiers
All Quiet Along the Potomac
Little Giffen of Tennessee
The High Tide at Gettysburg
The Bivouac of the Dead
The Fighting Race
Monterey
My Maryland
The Blue and the Gray
The Conquered Banner
Tippecanoe and Tyler Too
Bonnie Blue Flag
Dixie
The Battle-Cry of Freedom
America's Hearbeat: Home and Sentiment
The House by the Side of the Road
When the Great Gray Ships Come In
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night
Home, Sweet Home
Six O'Clock
Old Folks at Home
The Old Oaken Bucket
Humor and Parodies
How a Girl Was Too Reckless of Grammar
Ballad of the Canal
The Ideal Husband to His Wife
The Ahkoond of Swat
Clementine
The Zealless Xylographer
Hans Breitmann's Party
The Four Nights' Drunk
The Constant Cannibal Maiden
The Day Is Done
Roy Bean
The Chaperon
Nature: Land and Sea
A Life on the Ocean Wave
Wind and Wave
In the Past
Sport
Fireflies
Twilight at Sea
An Opium Fantasy
Wild Honey
Religious and Spiritual
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Harps Hung Up in Babylon
The Song of a Heathen
From Greenland's Icy Mountains
Go Down Moses
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Native American Poetry
Calling One's Own
The Child Is Introduced to the Cosmos at Birth
Magpie Song
Songs in the Garden of the House God
Rain Song of the Giant Society
Miscellaneous
The Way to Arcady
Ben Bolt
The Camptown Races
Florence Vane
The Baron's Last Banquet
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
Rock Me to Sleep, Mother
Sonnets
The Old Arm-Chair
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep
Oh! Susanna
Casey at the Bat
The Man with the Hoe
Tears
Celeste Dancing
Opportunity
Waiting
Sally in Our Alley
Heredity
My Life Is Like the Summer Rose
Wearyin' For You
Child Labor
A Visit from St. Nicholas
Includes index