| Mannahatta by Walt Whitman |
| Verrazano in New York Harbour, 1524 by Clinton Scollard |
| Hudson’s Last Voyage, 1611 (abridged) by Henry van Dyke |
| Manhattan, 1609 by Edwin Markham |
| Knickerbocker by Austin Dobson |
| The “Goed Vrow” and the Dutch Pilgrim Fathers, May 4, 1626 (abridged) by Edward Hopper |
| Wouter Van Twiller, 1633 by Clinton Scollard |
| To the Patrons of New Netherland, 1656 by Evert Nieuwenhof |
| Peter Stuyvesant’s New Year’s Call by Edmund Clarence Stedman |
| Epitaph for Peter Stuyvesant, 1682 by Henricus Selyns |
| The Knickerbocker’s Address to the Stuyvesant Pear Tree, 1647–1857 (abridged) by Henry Webb Dunshee |
| The Dutch Patrol by Edmund Clarence Stedman |
| A Legend of Hell Gate by Gideon J. Tucker |
| Maiden Lane by Louise Morgan Sill |
| The Stamp Act in New York, 1765 (abridged) by George Lansing Raymond |
| When Broadway Was a Country Road by Charles Coleman Stoddard |
| Nathan Hale, September 22, 1776 (abridged) by John MacMullen, A.M. |
| Nathan Hale by Francis Miles Finch |
| Bowling Green by Louise Morgan Sill |
| The Congratulation (abridged) by Dr. Jonathan Odell |
| The Wallabout Martyrs by Walt Whitman |
| The Tomb of the Patriots by Philip Freneau |
| The Prison Ships, 1776 (abridged) by Thomas Walsh |
| Sea-Gulls of Manhattan by Henry van Dyke |
| Song for a Venison Dinner at Mr. Bunyan’s, New York, 1781 (abridged) by Joseph Stansbury |
| Evacuation of New York by the British, 1783 (abridged) by Anonymous |
| The Ball, 1789 by H. C. Bunner |
| The Vow of Washington, New York, April 30, 1789 by John Greenleaf Whittier |
| Stanzas Occasioned by Lord Bellamont’s, Lady Hay’s, and Other Skeletons Being Dug up in Fort George, N. Y., 1790 (abridged) by Philip Freneau |
| On the Demolition of Fort George, 1790 by Philip Freneau |
| The Sieur De Rochefontaine by Clinton Scollard |
| Old St. Paul’s by Arthur Upson |
| Nabby, the New York Housekeeper by Philip Freneau |
| Columbia College, 1796 (abridged) by Josiah Shippey, A.B. |
| An Evening Walk by Clinton Scollard |
| On the City Encroachments on the River Hudson, 1800 (abridged) by Philip Freneau |
| The Old Brevoort Farm, A. D. 1800 by Gideon J. Tucker |
| An Ivory Miniature by Helen Gray Cone |
| The Fashions, 1806 by L. Beach |
| At Trinity by Andrew E. Watrous |
| Lawrence and Ludlow by Anonymous |
| The Grave of Lawrence by Clinton Scollard |
| Descriptive View of New York, 1813 (abridged) by Thomas Eaton |
| On the British Blockade, and Expected Attack on New York—1814 (abridged) by Philip Freneau |
| On the Prospect of Returning to New York, after the War, in 1815 by Josiah Shippey |
| Bronx, 1818 by Joseph Rodman Drake |
| Tammany Hall, 1819 by Fitz-Greene Halleck |
| Election Returns at Tammany Hall, 1819 (extract from The State Triumvirate) by Gulian Crommelin Verplanck |
| To Simon by Fitz-Greene Halleck and Joseph Rodman Drake |
| The Balloon, 1819 (abridged) by Moses Y. Scott |
| Ode to Fortune by Fitz-Greene Halleck and Joseph Rodman Drake |
| Weehawken, 1820 by Fitz-Greene Halleck |
| Burlesque Address (abridged) by Fitz-Greene Halleck |
| On a Forgotten By-Way—Andrew E. Watrous |
| Lafayette En Amérique (abridged) by Pierre Jean de Béranger |
| First of May in New York by Robert Stevenson Coffin |
| Hoboken, 1825 by Robert Stevenson Coffin |
| An Ode for the Grand Canal Celebration, November 4, 1825 (abridged) by Samuel Woodworth |
| Winter, 1825 (extract from The Seasons) by Samuel Woodworth |
| The Sweep’s Carol, 1826 by George P. Morris |
| Harlem Mary by Samuel Woodworth |
| New York in 1826 (abridged) by George P. Morris |
| Their Wedding Journey—1834 by H. C. Bunner |
| Deliciæ Novi Eboraci, 1839 by Jedediah Huntington |
| The Pity of the Park Fountain by Nathaniel P. Willis |
| Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel P. Willis |
| Five Points, 1838 (extract from The Vision of Rubeta) by Laughton Osborn |
| Fanny Elssler, 1840 (extract from An Elssleralic Romance) by Anonymous |
| City Lyrics by Nathaniel P. Willis |
| The Croton Ode (abridged) by George P. Morris |
| To the Lady in the Chemisette with Black Buttons by Nathaniel P. Willis |
| The City, 1850 (extract) by John G. Saxe |
| Spring in Town by William Cullen Bryant |
| Hymn of the City by William Cullen Bryant |
| The Dog-Star Rages, 1850 by George P. Morris |
| Emporium versus New York, 1854 (abridged) by Jacob Bigelow |
| The Wedded Flags by George Washington Doane, D.D. |
| The Prince’s Ball, 1860 (abridged) by Edmund Clarence Stedman |
| First O Songs for a Prelude by Walt Whitman |
| The March of the Regiment, 1861 by H. H. Brownell, U.S.N. |
| To the Tenth Legion, New York State Volunteers; 1862 by Ruth N. Cromwell |
| The Draft Riot by Charles deKay |
| Le Grenier by Robertson Trowbridge |
| Siro Delmonico by Samuel Ward |
| Brown, of Grace Church, 1864 by Peter Marié |
| The Tweed Ring, 1868 by Anonymous |
| The Streets, 1869 (extract from The Royal Decrees of Scanderoon) by W. O. Stoddard |
| Dawn in the City by Charles deKay |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck (abridged) by John Greenleaf Whittier |
| The “Stay at Home’s” Plaint, 1878 by George A. Baker, Jr. |
| Ballade of Barristers by C. C. Starkweather |
| A Summer Summary by Franklin P. Adams |
| Hymn Sung at the Presentation of the Obelisk to the City of New York, February 22, 1881 by Richard Watson Gilder |
| The Buntling Ball, 1884 (extracts) by Edgar Fawcett |
| The Burial of Grant by Richard Watson Gilder |
| A Ballad of Claremont Hill by Henry van Dyke |
| Riverside by John Myers O’Hara |
| The Last of the New Year’s Callers by H. C. Bunner |
| The Columbus Parade, 1893 by Starr Hoyt Nichols |
| When the Great Gray Ships Come in by Guy Wetmore Carryl |
| Intercessional, 1898 by McCready Sykes |
| The Old Lyceum (abridged) by A. E. Lancaster |
| The Regiment, 1909 by John Curtis Underwood |
| Consecrated Ground by Edwin Markham |
| New York Harbor by Park Benjamin |
| New York in Sunset by William Ellery Leonard |
| New York Bay at Dusk by Mildred L. McNeal-Sweeney |
| On the Bay by Richard Watson Gilder |
| Return to New York by John Hall Wheelock |
| The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus |
| Bartholdi’s Pharos by George Alfred Townsend |
| At Ellis Island by Margaret Chanler Aldrich |
| “Scum o’ the Earth” by Robert Haven Schauffler |
| The Hudson by Starr Hoyt Nichols |
| The Shadowy City Looms by Lloyd Mifflin |
| The City by Marion Couthouy Smith |
| New York by Don Marquis |
| Brooklyn Bridge Towers by George Alfred Townsend |
| Brooklyn Bridge at Dawn by Richard Le Gallienne |
| The Towers of Manhattan by Don Marquis |
| The Moraine by John Curtis Underwood |
| That Dear Coney (abridged) by Chester Firkins |
| City of Ships by Walt Whitman |
| The India Wharf (abridged) by Sara Teasdale |
| New York by Wendell Phillips Stafford |
| The East River Bridge Market by James Oppenheim |
| Lower New York—A Storm by Don Marquis |
| In Trinity Churchyard at Sunset by Thomas S. Jones, Jr. |
| The Wall Street Pit, May, 1901 by Edwin Markham |
| Pan in Wall Street by Edmund Clarence Stedman |
| A Faun in Wall Street by John Myers O’Hara |
| The Curb-Brokers by Florence Wilkinson Evans |
| In Lower New York by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer |
| When Betsy Comes Down-Town by Louise Morgan Sill |
| In New York by John Hall Wheelock |
| Monody on the Astor House by Franklin P. Adams |
| A Forgotten Bard by Clinton Scollard |
| Nathan Hale by Chester Firkins |
| Digging Foundations at Night by Harvey Maitland Watts |
| The Angel of the Cornice by Florence Wilkinson Evans |
| The Woolworth Building by Madison Cawein |
| From the Woolworth Tower by Sara Teasdale |
| New York by Florence Earle Coates |
| A Dream Temple by Edith M. Thomas |
| The Empire City by George Sylvester Viereck |
| New York, from a Skyscraper by James Oppenheim |
| The Red Box at Vesey Street by H. C. Bunner |
| On Cedar Street, New York by Helen Hay Whitney |
| Isaak Walton in Maiden Lane by Percy MacKaye |
| At the Shrine by Richard Kendall Munkittrick |
| The Factories by Margaret Widdemer |
| The Children by John Hall Wheelock |
| Chinatown Unvisited by George Macdonald Major |
| Chinatown Visited by George Macdonald Major |
| The Greek Quarter by John Myers O’Hara |
| Ballad of Dead Girls by Dana Burnet |
| Bowery Gals by Anonymous |
| Romaios by W. G. Ballantine |
| A Sweetheart: Thompson Street by Samuel McCoy |
| Washington Square by Richard Watson Gilder |
| Washington Square by James Oppenheim |
| On Sick Leave, 1916 by Hamilton Fish Armstrong |
| Washington Square, North by Walter Prichard Eaton |
| Old Trails by Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| Old Saws and See-Saws by Andrew E. Watrous |
| The Menu by Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
| Grace Chimes by Meredith Nicholson |
| At Half-Past Five by Andrew E. Watrous |
| Youth by Samuel McCoy |
| Macaroni by Arthur Guiterman |
| Twilight on Sixth Avenue by Charles G. D. Roberts |
| The Night Court by Ruth Comfort Mitchell |
| Union Square (abridged) by Walter Malone |
| Gramercy Park by Sara Teasdale |
| Chelsea, 1860 by Rt. Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coxe, D.D. |
| The Parks by Charles Hanson Towne |
| Nothing to Wear (abridged) by William Allen Butler |
| Madison Square: Christmas by Brian Hooker |
| The Clock in the Air by John Curtis Underwood |
| The Metropolitan Tower by Sara Teasdale |
| At the Farragut Statue by Robert Bridges |
| The Little Church Around the Corner by John Myers O’Hara |
| Quality Hill by Clinton Scollard |
| The Gateway by Harvey Maitland Watts |
| The Switch Yard by John Curtis Underwood |
| Herald Square by John Curtis Underwood |
| Three O’Clock by Ridgely Torrance |
| Night in New York by George Parsons Lathrop |
| Rainy Sunday by John Hall Wheelock |
| Broadway by Walt Whitman |
| The City by Richard Watson Gilder |
| Lilacs in the City by Brian Hooker |
| The Little Fruit-Shop by Florence Wilkinson Evans |
| New York by Richard Hovey |
| To a New York Shop-Girl Dressed for Sunday by Anna Hempstead Branch |
| On Broadway by George Sylvester Viereck |
| In Broadway by Vance Thompson |
| The White Lights by Edward Arlington Robinson |
| After the Play by Hamilton Fish Armstrong |
| A Rhyme about an Electrical Advertising Sign by Vachel Lindsay |
| Seven Sandwichmen on Broadway by Jefferson Butler Fletcher |
| In New York by William Vaughn Moody |
| To Fifth Avenue (extract from The Baroness of New York) by Joaquin Miller |
| Fifth Avenue—Spring Afternoon by Louis Untermeyer |
| May Day by Sara Teasdale |
| Fifth Avenue at Night by Charles Hanson Towne |
| Rondeau à la New York by Robert Grant |
| On the Plaza by Bliss Carman |
| Morning in Central Park by James Oppenheim |
| Central Park by John Myers O’Hara |
| The May Party by James Oppenheim |
| The Pines, Sixty-seventh Street by Harvey Maitland Watts |
| Central Park at Dusk by Sara Teasdale |
| Twilight by the Mall by Seldon L. Whitcomb |
| Spring Night by Sara Teasdale |
| Whistles at Night by John Hall Wheelock |
| The Flat-Hunter’s Way by Franklin P. Adams |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Lloyd Mifflin |
| The City by Edith M. Thomas |
| On a Subway Express by Chester Firkins |
| Subway Track-Walkers by Dana Burnet |
| Roses in the Subway by Dana Burnet |
| N. Y. by Ezra Pound |
| Of City Flowers by Shaemus O’Sheel |
| New York Days by William Ellery Leonard |
| Poe’s Cottage at Fordham by Walter Malone |
| The Fleet by Chester Firkins |
| Manhattan by Charles Hanson Towne |
| Villanelle of City and Country by Zoë Akins |
| The Enchanted Island by Edith M. Thomas |
| New York by Florence Wilkinson Evans |
| Golden Hill by Hamilton Fish Armstrong |
| The Statue of Liberty, A. D. 2900 by Arthur Upson |
| Mannahatta by Walt Whitman |
