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Home  »  An American Anthology, 1787–1900  »  III. Second Lyrical Period (In Three Divisions) From the Beginning of the Civil War to the Hundredth Presidential Year—1861–1889 Division I (Mitchell, Timrod, Hayne, Mrs. Jackson, Miss Dickinson, Stedman, the Piatts, Mrs. Stofford, Mrs. Moulton, Winter, Aldrich, Howells, Hay, Harte, Sill, Miller, Lanier, and Others)

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908).  An American Anthology, 1787–1900.  1900.

III. Second Lyrical Period (In Three Divisions) From the Beginning of the Civil War to the Hundredth Presidential Year—1861–1889 Division I (Mitchell, Timrod, Hayne, Mrs. Jackson, Miss Dickinson, Stedman, the Piatts, Mrs. Stofford, Mrs. Moulton, Winter, Aldrich, Howells, Hay, Harte, Sill, Miller, Lanier, and Others)

Silas Weir Mitchell. On a Boy’s First Reading of “King Henry V
To a Magnolia Flower in the Garden of the Armenian Convent at Venice
Of One Who Seemed to Have Failed
The Quaker Graveyard
Idleness
A Decanter of Madeira, Aged 86, to George Bancroft, Aged 86, Greeting
Henry Timrod. The Cotton Boll
Quatorzain
Charleston
At Magnolia Cemetery
Paul Hamilton Hayne. Aspects of the Pines
Vicksburg
Between the Sunken Sun and the New Moon
A Storm in the Distance
The Rose and Thorn
A Little While I Fain Would Linger Yet
In Harbor
Emily Dickinson. Life
Love
Nature
Time and Eternity
Will Wallace Harney. Adonais
The Stab
Helen Fiske Jackson. Coronation
Morn
Emigravit
Poppies in the Wheat
A Last Prayer
Habeas Corpus
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. Samuel Hoar
Ariana
Joel Benton. At Chappaqua
The Scarlet Tanager
Elizabeth Akers Allen. Sea-Birds
My Dearling
The Last Landlord
In a Garret
Rock Me to Sleep
Mary Ashley Townsend. Sonnets
Embryo
A Georgia Volunteer
John Albee. Music and Memory
A Soldier’s Grave
Landor
Bos’n Hill
Dandelions
Edmund Clarence Stedman. Song from a Drama
The Discoverer
Pan in Wall Street
Kearny at Seven Pines
The Hand of Lincoln
Salem
Falstaff’s Song
The World Well Lost
Helen Keller
Morgan
On a Great Man Whose Mind Is Clouding
Si Jeunesse Savait!
Mors Benefica
Quest
Invocation
Tracy Robinson. Song of the Palm
Charles Henry Webb. With a Nantucket Shell
March
Gil, the Toreador
Dum Vivimus Vigilemus
Richard Realf. Indirection
The Word
An Old Man’s Idyl
George Arnold. Farewell to Summer
Beer
Frances Louisa Bushnell. World Music
Unfulfilment
In the Dark
Annie Fields. On Waking from a Dreamless Sleep
Theocritus
Little Guinever
The Return
Song, to the Gods, Is Sweetest Sacrifice
Harriet McEwen Kimball. The Guest
All ’s Well
White Azaleas
John James Piatt. The Mower in Ohio
Rose and Root
To Abraham Lincoln
Farther
The Child in the Street
To a Lady
The Guerdon
Torch-Light in Autumn
Ireland
Leaves at My Window
The Lost Genius
Purpose
Harriet Prescott Spofford. Phantoms All
Evanescence
Music in the Night
A Sigh
The Pines
Voice
The Hunt
Louise Chandler Moulton. To-Night
A Painted Fan
The Shadow Dance
Laus Veneris
Laura Sleeping
Hic Jacet
The Last Good-By
Were but My Spirit Loosed upon the Air
We Lay Us Down to Sleep
Louisa May Alcott
Love’s Resurrection Day
William Hayes Ward. To John Greenleaf Whittier
The New Castalia
Irving Browne. My New World
At Shakespeare’s Grave
Man’s Pillow
Lucius Harwood Foote. Poetry
On the Heights
Don Juan
El Vaquero
The Derelict
Theodore Tilton. God Save the Nation
Cœur de Lion to Berengaria
The Flight from the Convent
Sir Marmaduke’s Musings
Mary Emily Bradley. A Chrysalis
In Death
Beyond Recall
A Spray of Honeysuckle
John Aylmer Dorgan. The Beautiful
The Dead Solomon
Frances Laughton Mace. Alcyone
William Henry Venable. The School Girl
My Catbird
Anna Callender Brackett. Sonnets
Charles Frederick Johnson. The Modern Romans
Then and Now
Celia Thaxter. Seaward
The Sandpiper
Song
May Morning
William Winter. My Queen
Asleep
The Night Watch
On the Verge
Adelaide Neilson
Arthur
The Passing Bell at Stratford
I. H. B.
Unwritten Poems
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt. After Wings
My Babes in the Wood
The Witch in the Glass
Tradition of Conquest
The Watch of a Swan
In Clonmel Parish Churchyard
A Call on Sir Walter Raleigh
An Irish Wild-Flower
Transfigured
The Term of Death
Envoy
David Gray. On Lebanon
Divided
The Cross of Gold
Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Appreciation
To Hafiz
When the Sultan Goes to Ispahan
Palabras Cariñosas
Heredity
Identity
Unguarded Gates
Guilielmus Rex
Sargent’s Portrait of Edwin Booth at “The Players
Tennyson
A Shadow of the Night
Sonnets
Prescience
Memory
Thalia
Quatrains
An Ode
A Petition
William Dean Howells. In Earliest Spring
The Two Wives
From Generation to Generation
Change
If
Hope
Vision
Judgment Day
What Shall It Profit?
Forceythe Willson. The Old Sergeant
From “In State
William Reed Huntington. Tellus
Authority
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster. Whittier
Awakening
Henry Ames Blood. Comrades
Shakespeare
Mary Mapes Dodge. The Two Mysteries
Once Before
The Stars
Emerson
Shadow-Evidence
William Bull Wright. From “The Brook
John Hay. Liberty
The Surrender of Spain
Christine
Pike County Ballads
Little Breeches
The Stirrup-Cup
Edna Dean Proctor. From “The Song of the Ancient People
Heaven, O Lord, I Cannot Lose
Charlotte Fiske Bates. A Character
The Clue
Delay
Woodbines in October
The Living Book
James Ryder Randall. My Maryland
John Pelham
Why the Robin’s Breast Was Red
Abram Joseph Ryan. The Conquered Banner
A Child’s Wish
Francis Bret Harte. At the Hacienda
Chiquita
Grizzly
Crotalus
Jim
The Society upon the Stanislaus
The Aged Stranger
Madroño
What the Bullet Sang
Stephen Henry Thayer. Europa
Poet of Earth
The Waiting Chords
Rossiter Johnson. Evelyn
A Soldier Poet
Amelia Walstien Carpenter. The Ride to Cherokee
Recollection
Old Flemish Lace
John Lancaster Spalding. Believe and Take Heart
The Starry Host
Silence
Forepledged
From “God and the Soul
Henry Bernard Carpenter. The Reed
Robert Kelley Weeks. Medusa
A Song for Lexington
Man and Nature
John White Chadwick. The Making of Man
The Golden-Robin’s Nest
Recognition
Starlight
The Rise of Man
His Mother’s Joy
A Wedding-Song
George Alfred Townsend. Army Correspondent’s Last Ride
In Rama
Edward Rowland Sill. The Fool’s Prayer
Before Sunrise in Winter
The Lover’s Song
The Coup de Grace
Tempted
Force
A Prayer
William Gordon McCabe. Christmas Night of ’62
Dreaming in the Trenches
Titus Munson Coan. A Dream of Flowers
The Crystal
Nihil Humani Alienum
Nora Perry. Cressid
The Love-Knot
Riding Down
Who Knows?
James Herbert Morse. Silence
Brook Song
The Wild Geese
His Statement of the Case
The Wayside
Joaquin Miller. Columbus
At the Grave of Walker
Westward Ho!
Crossing the Plains
Vaquero
By the Pacific Ocean
Twilight at the Heights
Dead in the Sierras
Peter Cooper
To Russia
The Voice of the Dove
Juanita
Joseph O’Connor. What Was My Dream?
The General’s Death
Charles Goodrich Whiting. Blue Hills beneath the Haze
The Eagle’s Fall
The Way to Heaven
Charles Edward Carryl. The Song in the Dell
Robinson Crusoe
Sidney Lanier. Song for “The Jaquerie
Night and Day
The Stirrup-Cup
Song of the Chattahoochee
The Marshes of Glynn
The Mocking Bird
The Harlequin of Dreams
A Ballad of Trees and the Master
Sunrise
May Riley Smith. My Uninvited Guest
Departure
Henry Abbey. Donald
Winter Days
In Memory of General Grant
Faith’s Vista
Ambrose Bierce. The Death of Grant
The Bride
Another Way
Montefiore
Presentiment
Creation
T. A. H.
Charles Warren Stoddard. The Royal Mummy to Bohemia
Wind and Wave
Albatross
The Cocoa-Tree
Francis Fisher Browne. Vanquished
Under the Blue
Santa Barbara
Mary Ainge De Vere. The Wind-Swept Wheat
A Farewell
Faith Trembling
The Spinner
When the Most Is Said
Poet and Lark
A Breath
Friend and Lover
God Keep You
  Additional Selections.
Hezekiah Butterworth. The Thanksgiving in Boston Harbor
Guy Humphreys McMaster. Carmen Bellicosum
William Cleaver Wilkinson. At Marshfield
John Antrobus. The Cowboy
Ethel Lynn Beers. All Quiet along the Potomac
Charles Graham Halpine. Sambo’s Right to Be Kilt
John Esten Cooke. The Band in the Pines
Elbridge Jefferson Cutler. The Volunteer
Henry Lynden Flash. Stonewall Jackson
Nathaniel Graham Shepherd. Roll-Call
Robert Henry Newell. Picciola
Michael O’Connor. Reveille
William Tuckey Meredith. Farragut
Kate Putnam Osgood. Driving Home the Cows
Anonymous. Negro Spirituals
Augusta Cooper Bristol. The Pyxidanthera
Constance Fenimore Woolson. Yellow Jessamine
Mary Bolles Branch. The Petrified Fern
Mary Elizabeth Blake. The Dawning o’ the Year
David Law Proudfit. The Willis
Samuel Willoughby Duffield. Two of a Trade
Caroline Atherton Mason. Sonnets
Mary Barker Dodge. Now
William Augustus Croffut. A Living Memory
John Burroughs. Waiting
Mary Mathews Adams. Dead Love
Laura Redden Searing. Disarmed
Wendell Phillips Garrison. Post-Meridian
Louisa May Alcott. Thoreau’s Flute
John James Ingalls. Opportunity
Edward Howland. The Condemned
Minot Judson Savage. My Birth
Sarah Knowles Bolton. The Inevitable
Thomas Stephens Collier. Quatrains
William Croswell Doane. Ancient of Days
Phillips Brooks. O Little Town of Bethlehem
Mary Frances Butts. In Galilee
David Banks Sickels. Reincarnation
Frank Sewall. Roll Out, O Song
Mary Gardiner Brainard. Not Knowing
Benjamin Dionysius Hill. To St. Mary Magdalen
Eugene Henry Pullen. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Annie Douglas Robinson. One Saturday
Marguerite Elizabeth Easter. My Laddie’s Hounds
Charles Monroe Dickinson. The Children
Laurence Hutton. The Doves of Venice
Harriet S. Morgridge. Mother Goose Sonnets
George Thomas Lanigan. A Threnody