Selections from the American poets / by William Cullen Bryant [electronic text]

CONTENTS

PHILIP FRENEAU.

• Columbus to Ferdinand 13
• The Dying Indian 15
• The Indian Burying-ground 17
• Stanzas occasioned by Lord Bellamont's, Lady Hay's, and other skeletons being dug up in Fort George (N.Y.), 1790 19

JOEL BARLOW.

• The Hasty Pudding 20

ROBERT C. SANDS.

• The Sleep of Papantzin 30
• Waking of Papantzin in the Sepulchre 33
• Good-night 36
• The Dead of 1832 37

JAMES A. HILLHOUSE.

• Descent of the Judge and his Angels 39
• Adam, Cæsar, and Abraham at the Resurrection 41
• Last setting of the Sun and Moon 42
• Scene from Hadad 44

TIMOTHY DWIGHT.

• The Country Schoolmaster 50
• The Social Visit 50
• The Destruction of the Pequods 52

JOHN TRUMBULL.

• Character of M'Fingal 61

ST. JOHN HONEYWOOD.

• Inefficacy of Punishments 65

WILLIAM CLIFTON.

• Ancient and Modern Literature 65

WASHINGTON ALSTON.

• The Sylph of Spring 68
• The Paint-King 70
• Rosalie 76

RICHARD H. DANA.

• Murder of a Spanish Lady by a Pirate 77
• The Husband's and Wife's Grave 81
• Daybreak 84

NATHANIEL P. WILLIS.

• The Baptism of Christ 87
• Spring 89
• April 90
• The Belfry Pigeon 91

JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.

• Journey of the Culprit Fay 92
• Bronx 98

WILLIAM LEGGETT.

• A Sacred Melody 99

JOHN G. C. BRAINARD.

• The Fall of Niagara 100
• Mr. Merry's Lament for "Long Tom" 101
• The Indian Summer 102
• "The Dead Leaves strow the Forest Walk" 102

WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS.

• Scene from Atalantis 104
• The edge of the Swamp 109

RUFUS DAWES.

• To an Infant sleeping in a Garden 110
• Sunrise from Mount Washington 111

LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON.

• The Prophecy 112
• To a Lady whose Singing resembled that of an Absent Sister 112

MARGARET MILLER DAVIDSON.

• Home 115
• To my Mother 115

CARLOS WILCOX.

• Spring in New-England 117
• September 120
• The Castle of Imagination 121
• Rousseau and Cowper 125
• The Cure of Melancholy 127

FITZ-GREENE HALLECK.

• Burns 129
• Red Jacket 133

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

• The Light of Stars 136
• Footsteps of Angels 137
• The Spirit of Poetry 139

CHARLES SPRAGUE.

• The Force of Curiosity 140
• The Traveller's Fate 142
• I see thee still 144
• The Family Meeting 145
• The Winged Worshippers 147

EDWARD C. PINKNEY.

• The Indian's Bride 148
• Memory 151

EMMA C. EMBURY.

• Christ in the Tempest 151
• Lines suggested by the Moravian Burial-ground at Bethlehem 153

HENRY PICKERING.

• The Last Days of Autumn 154

JAMES G. PERCIVAL.

• The Patriarchal Age 155
• The Sun 157
• The Deserted Wife 162
• The Coral Grove 163
• Clouds 164

JAMES WALLIS EASTBURN.

• Evening on Narraganset Bay 166
• Song of an Indian Mother 169
• Philip's Dream 170

JOHN PIERPONT.

• The Power of Music 173
• For a Celebration of the Massachusetts Mechanics' Charitable Association 176
• The Exile at Rest 178
• Her Chosen Spot 179
• For the Charlestown Centennial Celebration 180

GEORGE HILL.

• From the Ruins of Athens 182
• The Mountain Girl 185
• The Lost Pleiad 187
• Autumn Noon 188

GEORGE W. DOANE.

• Thermopylæ 188
• The Waters of Marah 189

LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY.

• Indian Names 190
• Contentment 191
• The Western Emigrant 192
• The Widow's Charge at her Daughter's Bridal 194

HANNAH F. GOULD.

• The Pebble and the Acorn 195
• The Waterfall 197
• The Dream 198
• The Child on the Beach 200

PROSPER M. WETMORE.

• "Twelve Years have flown" 203

WILLIAM C. BRYANT.

• The Past 204
• The Prairies 206
• The Rivulet 209
• "Earth's Children cleave to Earth" 212

JAMES K. PAULDING.

• Passage down the Ohio 212

JOHN G. WHITTIER.

• The Female Martyr 214
• The Worship of Nature 216
• Pentucket 218

JONATHAN LAWRENCE.

• Look Aloft 220
• To —— on the Death of a favourite Bird 221

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

• The Cambridge Churchyard 223
• Old Ironsides 226
• The Treadmill Song 227

JOHN H. BRYANT.

• "And I went and washed, and I received sight" 228
• My Native Village 229

ELIZABETH F. ELLET.

• Lake Ontario 230
• The Vanity of the Vulgar Great 232
• To the Whipporwill 233

GRENVILLE MELLEN.

• Mount Washington 233

JAMES G. BROOKS.

• Joy and Sorrow 235

ANNE MARIA WELLS.

• The White Hare 235
• To a Young Mother 237

CAROLINE GILMAN.

• To —— 237

SARAH J. HALE.

• The Rose-tree at the Birthplace of Washington 238

CHARLES F. HOFFMAN.

• Indian Summer 240

PARK BENJAMIN.

• Sonnet 241
• Sonnet 241

WILLIAM B. TAPPAN.

• The twenty thousand Children of the Sabbath Schools in New-York celebrating together the 4th of July, 1839 242

GEORGE LUNT.

• Autumn Musings 243

EPES SARGENT.

• A Wish 245

JOHN NEAL.

• The Soldier's Visit to his Family 246

ROBERT M. CHARLTON.

• To the River Ogeechee 248

JONES VERY.

• To the Canary Bird 249
• The Tree 249
• The Wind-Flower 250
• The Son 250
• Enoch 251
• The Living God 251

FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD.

• The Morning Walk, or the Stolen Blush 252

ANDREWS NORTON.

• Scene after a Summer Shower 253

W. O. P. PEABODY.

• Hymn of Nature 254
• The Autumn Evening 256

ELIZABETH TOWNSEND.

• Incomprehensibility of God 257

HENRY WARE, JR.

• To the Ursa Major 258
• The Vision of Liberty 263

W. E. GALLAUDET.

• Lines to the Western Mummy 265

J. M'LELLAN, JR.

• The Notes of the Birds 267

MICAH P. FLINT.

• Lines on passing the Grave of my Sister 270

GEORGE H. CALVERT.

• Washington. From Andre and Arnold, a Dramatic fragment 271

ALFRED B. STREET.

• A Forest Walk 273
• An American Forest Spring 276

J. K. MITCHELL.

• Song of the Prairie 278

EDWARD SANFORD.

• Address to Black Hawk 280

J.B. VAN SCHAICK.

• Joshua commanding the Sun and Moon to stand still 283

CLEMENT C. MOORE.

• A Visit from St. Nicholas 285

LUCY HOOPER.

• The Daughter of Herodias 287

THOMAS C. UPHAM.

• The Millennial Day 288
• God Worshipped in his Works 289

ELIZA FOLLEN.

• Nahant 289

W. J. SNELLING.

• The Birth of Thunder 290

WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK.

• The Burial-place at Laurel Hill 295
• The Early Dead 296
• Death of the Firstborn 297

ALBERT PIKE.

• To Spring 298

H. T. TUCKERMAN.

• Tri-Mountain 300

SEBA SMITH.

• The Mother perishing in a Snowstorm 302

NEHEMIAH CLEAVELAND.

• An Air-Chateau 303

WILLIAM D. GALLAHER.

• August 304

ELIZABETH PARK.

• Scene from "Miriam" 306