# The Poets and Poetry of America

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anthology of poetry
To
WASHINGTON ALLSTON
The eldest of the living poets of America
and the
most illustrious of her painters
This Work
is respectfully dedicated
* To the Reader
* Historical Introduction
Contents
* Philip Freneau
** The Dying Indian
** The Indian Burying Ground
** To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw
** To an Old Man
** Columbus to Ferdinand
** The Wild Honeysuckle
** Human Frailty
** The Prospect of Peace
** To a Nighty-Fly, approaching a Candle
* John Trumbull
** Ode to Sleep
** The Country Clown, from "The Progress of Dulness"
** The Frop, from the same
** Character of McFingal, from "{{wikidata link|Q6801174l|McFingal]]"
** Extreme Humanity, from the same
** The Decayed Coquette
* Timothy Dwight
** The Destruction of the Pequods
** The Social Visit
** The County Pastor
** The Country Schoolmaster
** The Battle of Ai, from "The Conquest of Canaan"
** The Lamentation of Selima, from the same
** Prediction to Joshua relative to America, from the same
** Evening after a Battle, from the same
** Columbia
* David Humphreys
** On the Prospect of Peace
** Western Emigration
** American Winter
** Revolutionary Soldiers
* Joel Barlow
** The Hasty Pudding
** Burning of the New England Villages, from "the Columbiad"
** To Freedom, from the same
** Morgan and Tell, from the same
** The Zones of America, from the same
* Richard Alsop
** From a Monody on the Death of Washington
* St. John Honeywood
** Crimes and Punishments
** A Radical Song of 1776
** Reflections on seeing a Bull slain in the Country
** Impromptu on an Order to kill the Dogs in Albany
* William Clifton
** Epistle to William Gifford, Esq.
** Mary will smile
* Robert Treat Paine
** Adams and Liberty
** Extract from a Monody on the Death of Sir John Moore
** Extract from "The Ruling Passion"
** Extract from the same
** Extract from "The Invention of Letters"
* Washington Allston
** The Slyphs of the Seasons
** America to Great Britain
** The Spanish Maid
** The Tuscan Maid
** Rosalie
** To Rembrandt
** To Benjamin West
* James Kirke Paulding
** Ode to Jamestown
** Passage dow the Ohio, from "The Backwoodsman"
** Evening, from the same
** Crossing the Alleghanies, from the same
** The Old Man's Carousel
* Levi Frisbie
** A Castle in the Air
* John Pierpoint
** Passing Away
** Ode for the Charlestown Centennial Celebration
** My Child
** Ode for the Massachusetts Mechanics' Charitable Association
** Her Chosen Spot
** The Pilgrim Fathers
** Plymouth Dedication Hymn
** The Exile at Rest
** Jerusalem
** The Power of Music, from "Airs of Palestine"
** Obsequies of Spurzheim
** Hymn for the Dedication of the Seam's Bethel, in Boston
** The Sparking Bowl
** Ode for the Fourth of July
* Andrews Norton
** To —, on the Death of a young Friend
** Lines written after the Death of Charles Eliot
** A Summer Shower
** Hymn
** To Mrs. —, on her Departure for Europe
** Hymn for the Dedication of a Church
** Fortitude
** The Close of the Year
** To Mrs. —, just after her Marriage
** Funeral Hymn
** A Winter Morning
* Richard Henry Dana
** The Buccaneer
** The Ocean, from "Factitious Life"
** Daybreak
** Extract from "The Husband's and Wife's Grave"
** The Little Beach-Bird
* Richard Henry Wilde
** Ode to Ease
** Solomon and the Genius
** A Farewell to America
** Napoleon's Grave
** "My life is like the summer rose"
** To Lord Byron
** To the Mocking-Bird
* James A. Hillhouse
** The Judgment
** Hadad's Description of the City of Jerusalem
** Untold Love, from "Demetria"
** Scene from "Hadad"
** Arthur's Soliloquey, from "Percy's Masque"
* Charles Sprague
** Curiosity
** Shakspeare Ode
** The Brothers
** Art, an Ode
** The Winged Worshippers
** Dedication Hymn
** To My Cigar
** Centennial Ode
** Lines to a Young Mother
** "I see thee still"
** Lines on the Death of M. S. C.
** The Family Meeting
* Hannah F. Gould
** Changes on the Deep
** The Snow-Flake
** The Waterfall
** The Winds
** The Scar of Lexington
** The Winter Burial
** The Frost
** The Robe
** The Consignment
** The Midnight Mail
** The Ship is Ready
** The Pebble and the Acorn
** The Moon upon the Spire
** The Child on the Beach
** A Name in the Sand
* Carlos Wilcox
** Spring in New England, from "The Age of Benevolence"
** A Summer Noon, from the same
** September, from the same
** Sunset in September, from the same
** The Castle of Imagination, from "The Religion of Taste"
** Rousseau and Cowper, from the same
** The Cure of Melancholy, from the same
** Sights and Sounds of the Night, from the same
** Live for Eternity
* Henry Ware, Jr.
** To the Ursa Major
** Seasons of Prayer
** The Vision of Liberty
* William Cullen Bryant
** Thanatopsis
** A Forest Hymn
** Hymn to the North Star
** The Prairies
** Song of Marion's Men
** To the Past
** The Hunter of the Prairies
** After a Tempest
** The Rivulet
** June
** To the Evening Wind
** Lines on Revisiting the Country
** The Old Man's Counsel
** An Evening Reverie, from an unfinished poem
** Hymn of the City
** To a Waterfowl
** The Battle-Field
** The Death of the Flowers
** The Winds
** Autumn Woods
* John Neal
** The Soldier's Visit to his Family, from "The Battle of Niagara"
** Birth of a Poet
** Ambition
* Joseph Rodman Drake
** The Culprit Fay
** Bronx
** The American Flag
** To Sarah
* Maria Brooks
** Palace of Gnomes, from "Zophiel"
** The Storm, from the same
** Song, from the same
** The Moon of Flowers
** Morning
** Marriage
* James Gates Percival
** Liberty to Athens
** The Sun
** Consumption
** To the Eagles
** Prevalence of Poetry
** Clouds
** Morning among the Hills
** The Deserted Wife
** The Coral Grove
** Decline of the Imagination
** Genius Slumbering
** Genius Waking
** New England
** May
** To Seneca Lake
** The Last Days of Autumn
** The Flight of Time
** It is great for our Country to Die
** Extract from "Prometheus"
** Home
* Fitz-Greene Halleck
** To a Rose, brought from near Alloway Kirk, Ayrshire, in 1822
** Red Jacket, Chief of the Tuscaroras
** Connecticut
** Marco Bozzaris
* John G. C. Brainard
** Jerusalem
** Connecticut River
** Lines on the Death of Mr. Woodward, at Edinburgh
** On a late Loss
** Sonnet to the Sea-Serpent
** The Fall of Niagara
** On the Death of a Friend
** Epithalamium
** To the Dead
** The Deep
** Mr. Merry's Lament for "Long Tom"
** Indian Summer
** "The dead leaves strew the forest-walk"
** The Storm of War
** The Guerilla
** The Sea-Bird's Song
** To the Daughter of a Friend
** Salmon River
* Samuel Griswold Goodrich
** Birthright of the Humming-Birds
** The River
** The Leaf
** Lake Superior
** The Sportive Sylphs
* Isaac Clason
** Napoleon, from the seventeenth Canto of Don Juan
** Jealousy, from the same
** Early Love, from the same
** All is Vanity, from the eighteenth canto of Don Juan
* Lydia Huntley Sigourney
** The Western Emigrant
** Niagara
** Winter
** Napoleon's Epitaph
** The Mother of Washington
** Felicia Hemans
** The Alpine Flowers
** Contentment
** The Widow's Charge at her Daughter's Burial
** Bernardine du Born
** Thoughts at the Grave of Sir Walter Scott
** [[/A Butterfly at a Child's Grave]/]
** Indian Girl's Burial
** Barzillai the Gileadite
** Death of an Infant
** The Pilgrim Fathers
** Indian Names
* George Washington Doane
** On a very old Wedding-Ring
** The Voices of Rama
** That Silent Moon
** Thermopylae
** The Waters of Marah
** "What is that, Mother?"
** A Cherub
** Lines by the Lake Side
** The Christian's Death
* William B. O. Peabody
** Hymn of Nature
** To William
** Monadnock
** The Winter-Night
** Death
** Autumn Evening
* Robert C. Sands
** Poem to "Yamoyden"
** Dream of the Princess Papantzin
** Monody on the death of Samuel Patch
** Evening, from "Yamoyden"
** Weehawken
** The Green Isle of Lovers
** The Dead of 1832
** Parting
** Conclusion to "Yamoyden"
** Nora's Song, from "Yamoyden"
** Woman, from the same
** Good-Night
* Greenville Mellen
** English Scenery
** Mount Washington
** The Bugle
** On Seeing an Eagle pass near me in Autumn Twilight
** The True Glory of America
* George Hill
** Extract from "The Ruins of Athens"
** The Mountain Girl
** The Might of Greece, from "The Ruins of Athens"
** The Fall of the Oak
** Sonnets to Liberty, A Young Mother, and Spring
** Nobility
* James G. Brooks
** Greece—1832
** To the Dying Year
** To the Autumn Leaf
** The Last Song
** Joy and Sorrow
* Albert B. Greene
** The Baron's Last Banquet
** To the Weathercock on our Steeple
** "Oh, think not that the bosom's light"
* William Leggett
** A Sacred Melody
** Love and Friendship
** "I trust the frown thy features wear"
** Life's Guiding Star
** To Elmira
* Edward C. Pinkney
** Italy
** The Indian's Bride
** "We break a glass whose sacred wine"
** A Health
** The Voyager's Song
** A Picture-Song
** The Old Tree
** To —
** Elysium
** To H—
** Serenade
** The Widow's Song
** "I need not name thy thrilling name"
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
** Each in All
** "Good-bye, proud world!"
** To the Humble-Bee
** The Rhodora
** The Snow-Storm
* Sumner Lincoln Fairfield
** Destruction of Pompeii, from "The Last Night of Pompeii"
** Visions of Romance
** An Evening Song of Piedmont
* Rufus Dawes
** Lancaster
** Anne Boleyn
** Sunrise, from Mount Washington
** Spirit of Beauty
** Love Unchangeable
** Extract from "Geraldine"
* Edmund D. Griffin
** Lines Written on Leaving Italy
** Description of Love by Venus
** Emblems
** To a Lady
* J. H. Bright
** The Vision of Death
** He Wedded Again
** "Should Sorrow o'er thy brow"
* George D. Prentice
** The Closing Year
** Lines to a Lady
** The Dead Mariner
** Sabbath Evening
** To a Lady
** Lines written at my Mother's Grave
* William Croswell
** The Synagogue
** The Clouds
** The Ordinal
** Christmas Eve
** The Death of Stephen
** The Christmas Offering
* Walter Colton
** The Sailor
** To my Pipe
** Byron
** The Last Wreck
** To Cathara
** My First Love, and my Last
** Unrequited Love, and Suicide
** The Parting
* Charles Fenno Hoffman
** Moonlight on the Hudson
** Thaw-King's Visit to New York
** Lines written in a Lady's Prayer-Book
** To a Belle who talked of Giving up the World
** The Bob-o'Linkum
** The Forester
** The Myrtle and Steel
** Epitaph upon a Dog
** Anacreontic
** A Hunter's Matin
** Love and Politics
** What is Solitude?
** The Student's Song
** "Withering—withering—all are withering"
** Inscription for a Lady's Flora
** "I do not love thee—by my word I do not!"
** Trust in thee? Ay, dearest! there's no one but must"
** "I know thou dost love me—ay! frown as thou wilt"
** "I knew not how I loved thee—no!"
** Indian Summer, 1828
** Town Repinings
** To a Lady Blushing
** The Farewell
** "I will love her no more—'tis a waste of the heart"
** Boat-Song
** Morning Hymn
** The Western Hunter to his Mistress
** Thy Name
** Rosalie Clare
** "Think of me, dearest"
** "We parted in sadness"
** The Origin of Mint Juleps
** Sparkling and Bright
** "Why seek her heart to understand"
** "Ask me not why I should love her"
** "She loves, but 'tis not me she loves"
** "I know I share thy smiles with many"
** Language of Flowers
** To an Autumn Rose
** "Where dost thou loiter, Spring?"
** Serenade
** Lines written in Spring-Time
** A Portrait
** Melody
** Dream
* Mrs. Seba Smith
** The Acorn
** The Drowned Mariner
** To the Hudson
* N. P. Willis
** Melanie
** The Confessional
** Lines on Leaving Europe
** Spring
** To Ermengarde
** Hagar in the Wilderness
** Thoughts while making a Grave for a first Child, born dead
** The Belfry Pigeon
** April
** The Annoyer
** To a Face Beloved
* Edward Sanford
** Address to Black-Hawk
** To a Mosquito
* J. O. Rockwell
** The Sum of Life
** To Ann
** The Lost at Sea
** The Death-Bed of Beauty
** To the Ice-Mountain
** The Prisoner for Debt
** To a Wave
* Thomas Ward
** Musings on Rivers
** To the Magnolia
** To an Infant in Heaven
* John H. Bryant
** The New England Pilgrim's Funeral
** A Recollection
** My Native Village
** The Indian Summer
** The Blind Restored to Sight
** Two Sonnets
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
** A Psalm of Life
** T/he Light of Stars/
** Endymion
** Footsteps of Angels
** The Beleaguered City
** It is not always May/
** Midnight Mass for the Dying Year
** The Village Blacksmith
** Excelsior
** The Rainy Day
** Maidenhood
* William Gilmore Simms
** The Slain Eagle
** The Brooklet
** The Shaded Water
** To the Breeze
** The Lost Pleiad
** The Edge of the Swamp
** Changes of Home
* George Lunt
** Autumn Musings
** Jewish Battle-Song
** "Pass on, relentless world"
** Hampton Beach
** Pilgrim Song
** The Lyre and Sword
** Bloody Brook
* Jonathan Lawrence
** Thoughts of a Student
** Sea-Song
** Look Aloft
** To May
* Louisa J. Hall
** A Scene from "Miriam"
** Prayer
** Miriam to Paulus
* Emma C. Embury
** Autumn Evening
** The Old Man's Lament
** Stanzas on the Death of the Duke of Reichstadt
** Peace
** Madame de Stael
** Ballad
** Sonnet
* John Greenleaf Whittier
** Mogg Megone
** The Female Martyr
** The Frost Spirit
** The Cypress-Tree of Ceylon
** The Worship of Nature
** The Funeral Tree of the Sokokis
** Palestine
** Pentucket
** Lines on the Death of S. Oliver Torrey, of Boston
** The Prisoner for Debt
** The Merrimack
** St. John
* Oliver Wendell Holmes
** The Cambridge Churchyard
** An Evening Thought
** La Grisette
** The Treadmill Song
** Departed Days
** The Dilemma
** The Star and the Water-Lily
** The Music-Grinders
** The Philosopher to his Love
** L'Inconnue
** The Last Reader
** The Last Leaf
** Old Ironsides
** "Strange! that one lightly-whisper'd tone"
** The Steamboat
* Albert Pike
** Hymns to the Gods
          To Neptune
          To Apollo
          To Venue
          To Diana
          To Mercury
          To Bacchus
          To Somnus
          To Ceres
** To the Planet Jupiter
** To the Mocking-Bird
** To Spring
** Lines Written on the Rocky Mountains
* Park Benjamin
** Gold
** Upon seeing a Portrait of a Lady
** The Stormy Petrel
** The Nautilus
** To one Beloved
** The Tired Hunter
** The Departed
** "I am not old"
** The Dove's Errand
** "How cheery are the mariners?"
** Lines spoken by a Blind Boy
** The Elysian Isle
** Sonnets
          A Great Name
          Indolence
          Sport
          M. I.
          To My Sister
          To ——
          To ——
          To a Lady with a Bouquet
          New York Harbor, on a Calm Day
          A Monument to Walter Scott
          Twilight
          Spring
          The Stars
          Written while Departing for Italy
          Domestic Love
* Willis Gaylord Clark
** A Lament
** Memory
** Song of May
** Death of the First-Born
** Summer
** The Early Dead
** The Signs of God
** Euthanasia
** An Invitation
** The Burial-Place at Laurel-Hill, near Philadelphia
** A Contrast
** The Faded One
** A Remembrance
* William D. Gallagher
** To the West
** August
** Spring Verses
** May
** Our Early Days
** The Labourer
** The Mothers of the West
* James Freeman Clarke
** Hymn and Prayer
** The Poet
** Jacob's Well
** The Violet
** To a Bunch of Flowers
* Elizabeth F. Ellet
** The Delaware Water-Gap
** Susquehanna
** Lake Ontario
** Sodus Bay
** To a Waterfall
** To the Condor
** The Isle of Rest
** The Vanity of the Vulgar Great
** A Parallel
** Lake George
** To the Whip-poor-will
** "Come, fill a pledge to sorrow"
* James Aldrich
** Morn at Sea
** A Death-bed
** My Mother's Grave
** A Spring-Day Walk
** To One far Away
** Beatrice
** "Underneath this marble cold"
** The Dreaming Girl
* Anna Peyre Dinnies
** Wedded Love
** To a White Chrysanthemum
** Thoughts in Autumn
** The Wife
** "I could not hush that constant theme"
** The Heart
** Happiness
* Edgar A. Poe
** Coliseum
** The Haunted Palace
** The Sleeper
* Isaac McLellan, Jr.
** New England's Dead
** The Death of Napoleon
** The Notes of the Birds
** Lines suggested by a Picture by Washington Allston
** The Passion for Life
** June
* Jones Very
** To the Painted Columbine
** Lines to a Withered Leaf, seen on a Poet's Table
** The Heart
** Sonnets
          To the Canary Bird
          "Thy beauty fades, and with it too my love"
          The Wind-Flower
          Enoch
          Morning
          Night
          The Spirit-Land
          The Trees of Life
          The Ark
          Nature
          The Tree
          The Son
          The Robin
          The Rail-Road
          The Latter Rain
* Alfred B. Street
** The Gray Forest-Eagle
** Fowling
** A Forest Walk
** Winter
** The Settler
** An American Forest in Spring
** The Lost Hunter
* William H. Burleigh
** Elegiac Stanzas
** "Let there be light!"
** June
** Spring
** Requiem
** Stanzas written on visiting my Birth-place
** To H. A. B.
** To ——
** "Believe not the slander, my dearest Katrine!"
** Sonnets
          The Brook
          The Times
          Solitude
          Rain
          The Pilgrim Fathers
* William Jewett Pabodie
** "Go forth into the fields"
** To the Autumn Forest
** Lines on the Death of a Friend
** Our Country
** "I hear thy voice, O Spring!
** "I stood beside the grave of him"
* Louis Legrand Noble
** The Cripple-Boy
** Love and Beauty
** A Little Green Isle
* C. P. Cranch
** The Music of the Spheres
** The Blind Seer
** The Hours
** "Thought is deeper than all speech"
** My Thoughts
** Beauty
** On hearing triumphant Music
* Henry Theodore Tuckerman
** Mary
** The Ringlet
** To an Elm
** Tri-Mountain
** Love and Fame
** Greenough's Washington
* Epes Sargent
** Records of a Summer-Voyage to Cuba
          The Departure
          The Gale
          Morning after the Gale
          To a Land-Bird
          A Thought of the Past
          Tropical Weather
          A Calm
          A Wish
          A Tropical Night
          The Planet Jupiter
          To Egeira
          Cuba
** The Days that are Past
** The Martyr of the Arena
** Summer in the Heart
** The Fugitive from Love
** The Night-Storm at Sea
* Lucy Hooper
** Oseola
** The Daughter of Herodias
** "Time, Faith, Energy"
** "Give me armour of proof"
** Lines suggested by a scene in "Master Humphrey's Clock"
* Arthur Cleveland Coxe
** Manhood
** Old Churches
** The Heart's Song
** The Chimes of England
** March
* James Russell Lowell
** Rosaline
** The Beggar
** "Lift up the curtains of thine eyes"
** Sonnets
          Anne
          The Way of Life
          To a Friend
          The Poet
          Green Mountains
          The Dead
          Love
          Caroline
* Amelia B. Welty
** The Presence of God
** To the Memory of a Friend
** To a Sea-Shell
** My Sisters
** "I know that thy spirit"
* Lucretia and Margaret Davidson
** A Prophecy
** To Mrs. Townsend
** "I would fly from the city"
** To my Mother