Back American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume Two: Melville to Stickney, American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals

American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume Two: Melville to Stickney, American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals

Edited by John Hollander

“John Hollander’s American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century is a wonder. It is also a work of amazing and quite tactful, almost invisible, erudition.” — Robert Haas

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From lyrics and sonnets to folk ballads and moving spirituals, one of our greatest cultural legacies is the distinctly American poetry that arose in the first 125 years of the United States. This second volume of The Library of America’s two-volume collection of nineteenth-century American poetry follows the evolution of American poetry from the monumental mid-century achievements of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson to the modernist stirrings of Stephen Crane and Edwin Arlington Robinson. The cataclysm of the Civil War—reflected in fervent antislavery protests, in marching songs and poetic calls to arms, and in muted post-bellum expressions of grief and reconciliation—ushered in a period of accelerating change and widening regional perspectives.

Among the unfamiliar pleasures to be savored in this volume are the penetrating meditations of the reclusive Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, the eloquent lyricism of Emma Lazarus, the mournful, superbly crafted fin de siècle verse of Trumbull Stickney.

Here too are the pioneering African-American poets (Frances Harper, Albery Allson Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar); popular humorists (James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field); writers embodying America’s newfound cosmopolitanism (Edith Wharton, George Santayana); and extravagant self-mythologizing figures who could have existed nowhere else, like the actress Adah Isaacs Menken and the frontier poet Joaquin Miller.

Parodies, dialect poems, song lyrics, and children’s verse evoke the liveliness of an era when poetry was accessible to all. Here are poems that played a crucial role in American public life, whether to arouse the national conscience (Edwin Markham’s “The Man with the Hoe”) or to memorialize the golden age of the national pastime (Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat”).

An entire section of this volume is devoted to American Indian poetry in nineteenth-century versions, making available—some for the first time since their initial publication—an astonishing range of translations and adaptations: Ojibwa healing rituals, the songs of the Ghost Dance religion, Zuni mythological narratives, chants from the Kwakiutl Winter Ceremonial. Also included is a generous selection from America’s rich heritage of anonymous folk songs, ballads, and hymns.

Unprecedented in its textual authority, the anthology includes newly researched biographical sketches of each poet, a year-by-year chronology of poets and poetry from 1800 to 1900, and extensive notes.

Distinguished poet and critic John Hollander (1929–2013), volume editor, was A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English at Yale University.

This Library of America series edition is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker.

American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume Two is kept in print by a gift from the Ingram Merrill Foundation to the Guardians of American Letters Fund, made in memory of James Merrill.
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May 4, 2022

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May 13, 2021

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March 30, 2018

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December 1, 2017

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Table of Contents

HERMAN MELVILLE (1819–1891)
Song from Mardi
“The ribs and terrors in the whale”
The Portent
Misgivings
The Conflict of Convictions
The Temeraire
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Fight
Shiloh: A Requiem
Malvern Hill
The House-top: A Night Piece
The Swamp Angel
“The Coming Storm”
“Formerly a Slave”
The Apparition
America
A Requiem: for Soldiers Lost in Ocean Transports
from Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
The Hostel
The Recluse
Of Mortmain
Concerning Hebrews
The Inscription
Afterward
The Medallion
The Pillow
Symphonies
Dirge
Easter
Via Crucis
Epilogue
from John Marr
Tom Deadlight
The Haglets
The Man-of-War Hawk
The Tuft of Kelp
The Maldive Shark
To Ned
The Berg
Timoleon
After the Pleasure Party
The Ravaged Villa
Monody
The Bench of Boors
Art
Shelley’s Vision
Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century
Venice
In a Bye-Canal
In a Church of Padua
The Archipelago
Rose Window
The Rose Farmer
Pontoosuce
Billy in the Darbies

HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL (1820–1872)
Suspiria Noctis
The Battle Summers

ALICE CARY (1820–1871)
The Sea-Side Cave
To Solitude
Autumn
Katrina on the Porch
The West Country

JOHN HENRY HOPKINS, JR. (1820–1891)
Three Kings of Orient

FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN (1821–1873)
Sonnets
The Question
from Sonnets, First Series
VII: “Dank fens of cedar; hemlock-branches gray”
VIII: “As when, down some broad River dropping, we”
X: “An upper chamber in a darkened house”
XXII: “The morning comes; not slow, with reddening gold”
from Sonnets, Second Series
VII: “His heart was in his garden; but his brain”
XVI: “Under the mountain, as when first I knew”
XVII: “Roll on, sad world! not Mercury or Mars”
XVIII: “And Change, with hurried hand, has swept these scenes”
XXIII: “Some truths may pierce the spirit’s deeper gloom”
XXIX: “How oft in schoolboy-days, from the school’s sway”
XXX: “Yet, even ‘mid merry boyhood’s tricks and scapes”
from Sonnets, Third Series
IV: “Thin little leaves of wood fern, ribbed and toothed”
V: “How well do I recall that walk in state”
X: “Sometimes I walk where the deep water dips”
from Sonnets, Fourth Series
VI: “And two I knew, an old man and a boy”
VII: “But war his overturning trumpet blew”
VIII: “Nor strange it is, to us who walk in bonds”
from Sonnets, Fifth Series
XV: “Let me give something!—though my spring be done”
XVI: “Let me give something!—as the years unfold”
The Cricket

MARIA WHITE LOWELL (1821–1853)
Rouen, Place de la Pucelle
An Opium Fantasy

JAMES MONROE WHITFIELD (1822–1871)
America
To A. H.

THOMAS BUCHANAN READ (1822–1872)
Sheridan’s Ride

GEORGE HENRY BOKER (1823–1890)
from Sonnets: A Sequence on Profane Love
“Farewell once more,—and yet again farewell!”
“The leaden eyelids of wan twilight close”
“If she should give me all I ask of her”
“As stands a statue on its pedestal”
“My darling’s features, painted by the light”
“Ah, lute, how well I know each tone of thee”
“Blood, blood! The lines of every printed sheet”
“Oh! craven, craven! while my brothers fall”
“Brave comrade, answer! When you joined the war”

JAMES MATHEWES LEGARÉ (1823–1859)
To a Lily
Tallulah

GEORGE BOYER VASHON (1824–1878)
Vincent Ogé

CHARLES GODFREY LELAND (1824–1903)
Ballad
Wein Geist
from Hans Breitmann as a Politician, III: The Author Asserts the Vast Intellectual Superiority of Germans to Americans
Breitmann in Paris

PHOEBE CARY (1824–1871)
Samuel Brown
Granny’s House
“The Day Is Done”
Jacob
“When Lovely Woman”
Advice Gratis to Certain Women

BAYARD TAYLOR (1825–1878)
from The Echo Club
Night the Second: All or Nothing
Night the Sixth: Hadramaut
Night the Eighth: Camerados
Bedouin Song

FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER (1825–1911)
The Slave Mother
Bible Defence of Slavery
The Slave Auction
Lines: “At the Portals of the Future”

STEPHEN FOSTER (1826–1864)
Old Folks at Home
My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
Susanna

ROBERT LOWRY (1826–1899)
Beautiful River

ROSE TERRY COOKE (1827–1892)
Blue-Beard’s Closet
Arachne

FRANCIS MILES FINCH (1827–1907)
The Blue and the Gray

JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE (1827–1867)
Mount Shasta
A Cherokee Love Song
The Rainy Season in California
The Stolen White Girl
from California

JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE (1827–1916)
An Idyl of Harvest Time
Recollections of “Lalla Rookh”
Circumstance
The Old Lobsterman

HENRY TIMROD (1828–1867)
Dreams
Retirement
Ethnogenesis
“I know not why, but all this weary day”
The Cotton Boll
La Belle Juive
Carolina
Charleston
Christmas
Lines: “Sleep sweetly in your humble graves”

PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE (1830–1886)
October
On the Occurrence of a Spell of Arctic Weather in May, 1858
Charlotte Bronté

HELEN HUNT JACKSON (1830–1885)
My Lighthouses
Poppies on the Wheat
October
Crossed Threads
September
Dreams
Cheyenne Mountain

EMILY DICKINSON (1830–1886)
Success is counted sweetest
Exultation is the going
Our lives are Swiss
The Bee is not afraid of me
Bring me the sunset in a cup
These are the days when Birds come back
Musicians wrestle everywhere
A Wounded Deer—leaps highest
As if some little Arctic flower
“Faith” is a fine invention
I taste a liquor never brewed
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
I like a look of Agony
Wild Nights—Wild Nights!
I shall keep singing!
I can wade Grief
“Hope” is the thing with feathers
There’s a certain Slant of light
A single Screw of Flesh
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
That after Horror—that ‘twas us
A Clock stopped
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
I know some lonely Houses off the Road
Of Bronze—and Blaze
I got so I could take his name
I reason, Earth is short
The Soul selects her own Society
The Soul’s Superior instants
I should have been too glad, I see
He fumbles at your Soul
I’ll tell you how the Sun rose
The nearest Dream recedes—unrealized
Of all the Sounds despatched abroad
There came a Day at Summer’s full
I cannot dance upon my Toes
Before I got my eye put out
A Bird came down the Walk
‘Tis not that Dying hurts us so
I know that He exists
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
I dreaded that first Robin, so
God is a distant—stately Lover
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?
A precious—mouldering pleasure—‘tis
Of Course—I prayed
There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House
A Visitor in Marl
What Soft—Cherubic Creatures
It might be lonelier
‘Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch
It would never be Common—more—I said
Me—come! My dazzled face
Much Madness is divinest Sense
The Wind—tapped like a tired Man
Prayer is the little implement
This is my letter to the World
This was a Poet—It is That
I died for Beauty—but was scarce
The Outer—from the Inner
I heard a Fly buzz—when I died
They put Us far apart
“Why do I love” You, Sir?
The World is not Conclusion
At least—to pray—is left—is left
Better—than Music! For I—who heard it
I would not paint—a picture
I’m ceded—I’ve stopped being Theirs
It was not Death, for I stood up
‘Twas warm—at first—like Us
I started Early—Took my Dog
Mine—by the Right of the White Election!
The Heart asks Pleasure—first
The Martyr Poets—did not tell
I’ve seen a Dying Eye
One Crucifixion is recorded—only
My period had come for Prayer
We learned the Whole of Love
I reckon—when I count at all
I gave myself to Him
I found the words to every thought
I like to see it lap the Miles
What care the Dead, for Chanticleer
I think I was enchanted
There is a pain—so utter
They shut me up in Prose
Our journey had advanced
Glee—The great storm is over
I asked no other thing
The Tint I cannot take—is best
I watched the Moon around the House
The Brain—is wider than the Sky
When Bells stop ringing—Church—begins
My Portion is Defeat—today
I cannot live with You
Pain—has an Element of Blank
A Prison gets to be a friend
I dwell in Possibility
One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted
The Soul that hath a Guest
Essential Oils—are wrung
They say that “Time assuages”
Victory comes late
The Sun kept setting—setting—still
Their Height in Heaven comforts not
Publication—is the Auction
Because I could not stop for Death
Behind Me—dips Eternity
It’s easy to invent a Life
Four Trees—upon a solitary Acre
Renunciation—is a piercing Virtue
My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun
Presentiment—is that long Shadow—on the Lawn
On a Columnar Self
A Light exists in Spring
The Wind begun to rock the Grass
The Only News I know
Just as He spoke it from his Hands
Split the Lark—and you’ll find the Music
A Shade upon the mind there passes
The Poets light but Lamps
The Admirations—and Contempts—of time
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind
Pain—expands the Time
The Missing All—prevented Me
Far from Love the Heavenly Father
There is a Zone whose even Years
Further in Summer than the Birds
Perception of an object costs
Title divine—is mine!
At Half past Three, a single Bird
Ended, ere it begun
My Cocoon tightens—Colors tease
Between the form of Life and Life
The murmuring of Bees, has ceased
There is another Loneliness
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
The Props assist the House
Ourselves we do inter with sweet derision
After a hundred years
Great Streets of silence led away
Somehow myself survived the Night
My Triumph lasted till the Drums
The Clover’s simple Fame
To pile like Thunder to its close
There is no Frigate like a Book
Go slow, my soul, to feed thyself
“Heavenly Father”—take to thee
A Route of Evanescence
One of the ones that Midas touched
More than the Grave is closed to me
How happy is the little Stone
The Moon upon her fluent Route
As imperceptibly as Grief
The Bible is an antique Volume
Those—dying then
The Clock strikes one that just struck two
The Spirit lasts—but in what mode
He ate and drank the precious Words
There came a Wind like a Bugle
A Word made Flesh is seldom
In Winter in my Room
A Pit—but Heaven over it
By a departing light
I took one Draught of Life
My life closed twice before its close
That it will never come again
This docile one inter
‘Twas here my summer paused
Experiment escorts us last
Too happy Time dissolves itself
The earth has many keys

BENJAMIN PAUL BLOOD (1832–1919)
Late
from The Bride of the Iconoclast

ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN (1832–1911)
Rock Me to Sleep

HENRY CLAY WORK (1832–1884)
Kingdom Coming
Marching Through Georgia
“Come Home, Father!”

EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1833–1908)
Prelude to An American Anthology

JOHN JAMES PIATT (1835–1917)
Farther
To the Statue on the Capitol
Fires in Illinois
My Shadow’s Stature
Taking the Night-Train

AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL (1835–1910)
Night
The Crime of the Ages

ADAH ISAACS MENKEN (1835?–1868)
Judith

MARK TWAIN (1835–1910)
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d.

PHILLIPS BROOKS (1835–1893)
O Little Town of Bethlehem

BRET HARTE (1836–1902)
Plain Language from Truthful James
California Madrigal
Mrs. Judge Jenkins
Truthful James to the Editor
What the Bullet Sang
Chicago

SARAH MORGAN PIATT (1836–1919)
Giving Back the Flower

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS (1837–1920)
Forlorn
The Empty House
The Royal Portraits
In Earliest Spring
November

FORCEYTHE WILLSON (1837–1867)
The Estray
To Hersa
In State

JOAQUIN MILLER (1837–1913)
Sierras
Africa
In Père La Chaise
At Our Golden Gate
Columbus

ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN (1838–1886)
Lines

WILLIAM REED HUNTINGTON (1838–1909)
The Cold Meteorite
Lowlands
From Green Mountain

JOHN HAY (1838–1905)
Jim Bludso, Of the Prairie Belle

HENRY ADAMS (1838–1918)
Buddha and Brahma

JAMES RYDER RANDALL (1839–1908)
Maryland

CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON (1840–1894)
Love Unexpressed
The Florida Beach
Detroit River

EDWARD ROWLAND SILL (1841–1887)
The Fool’s Prayer
Opportunity
Truth at Last
California Winter

CHARLES EDWARD CARRYL (1841–1920)
A Nautical Ballad

SIDNEY LANIER (1842–1881)
Hymns of the Marshes
Sunrise
The Cloud
Marsh Song—At Sunset
The Marshes of Glynn
“Who made thee thy last spring doublet”
Clover
The Waving of the Corn
Song of the Chattahoochee
From the Flats
The Mocking Bird
from Street Cries: To Richard Wagner
A Ballad of Trees and the Master
The Raven Days
The Dying Words of Jackson
The Revenge of Hamish

AMBROSE BIERCE (1842–1914?)
Alone
Body-Snatcher
Corporal
Egotist
Elegy
Freedom
Gorgon
Hypochondriasis
Lead
Nose
Orthography
Prospect
Rimer
Safety-Clutch
The Passing Show
To the Bartholdi Statue
The Statesmen

RICHARD WATSON GILDER (1844–1909)
The Sonnet
On the Bay
An Hour in a Studio

GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE (1844–1925)
Creole Slave Songs
Belle Layotte
The Song of Cayetano’s Circus
“The English muskets went bim! bim!”
The Dirge of St. Malo
Criole Candjo

JOHN BANISTER TABB (1845–1909)
The Bridge
Echoes
Evolution
Milton
Whisper
The Shadow
A Winter Twilight
Echo
The Mid-Day Moon
Tenebrj
The Sisters

EMMA LAZARUS (1849–1887)
from Phantasies (After Robert Schumann): I. Evening
Echoes
The New Colossus
Venus of the Louvre
The Cranes of Ibycus
The South
Long Island Sound
City Visions
In Exile
1492

SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849–1909)
At Home from Church
A Country Boy in Winter
A Caged Bird
The Widows’ House

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY (1849–1916)
The Old Swimmin’-Hole
The Days Gone By
When the Frost Is on the Punkin
Little Orphant Annie

EUGENE FIELD (1850–1895)
The Duel
Dutch Lullaby

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX (1850–1919)
Friendship After Love
No Classes!
The Sonnet
The Engine

ROSE HARTWICK THORPE (1850–1939)
Curfew Must Not Ring To-Night

ALBERY ALLSON WHITMAN (1851–1901)
from Twasinta’s Seminoles, or Rape of Florida
The Lute of Afric’s Tribe
from An Idyll of the South

EDWIN MARKHAM (1852–1940)
The Man with the Hoe
A Leaf from the Devil’s Jest-Book
In Death Valley
After Reading Shakspere

ERNEST FENOLLOSA (1853–1908)
from East and West
from The Separated West
The Separated East
Fuji at Sunrise
from Ode on Reincarnation

JAMES A. BLAND (1854–1911)
Oh, Dem Golden Slippers!
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny

LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE (1856–1935)
Love, Weeping, Laid This Song
One Night
April in Town
In Time of Grief
A Lyric on the Lyric
Death’s Guerdon
The Lavender Woman

KATHARINE LEE BATES (1859–1929)
America the Beautiful

CLINTON SCOLLARD (1860–1932)
As I Came Down from Lebanon
A Bit of Marble

HAMLIN GARLAND (1860–1940)
Indian Summer
In August
On the Mississippi
Fighting Fire
Boyish Sleep

HARRIET MONROE (1860–1936)
To W. S. M.: With a copy of Shelley

LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY (1861–1920)
A Salutation
At a Symphony
W. H., 1778–1830
Open, Time
Fog
Strikers in Hyde Park
The Lights of London
In the Reading-Room of the British Museum
Sunday Chimes in the City

EDITH WHARTON (1862–1937)
The Last Giustiniani
Life
Experience
Chartres
Two Backgrounds
The Tomb of Ilaria Giunigi
An Autumn Sunset

JOHN JAY CHAPMAN (1862–1933)
Bismarck

GEORGE SANTAYANA (1863–1952)
Sonnet III: “O world, thou choosest not the better part!”
Sonnet V: “Dreamt I to-day the dream of yesternight”
Sonnet XXV: “As in the midst of battle there is room”
Sonnet XLIII: “The candour of the gods is in thy gaze”
Sonnet XLVIII: “Of Helen’s brothers, one was born to die,”
On a Piece of Tapestry
Before a Statue of Achilles
Ode V: “Of thee the Northman by his beachèd galley”
Cape Cod
On an Unfinished Statue
Echo

STUART MERRILL (1863–1915)
Ballade of the Chinese Lover
Ballade of the Outcasts

ERNEST LAWRENCE THAYER (1863–1940)
Casey at the Bat

RICHARD HOVEY (1864–1900)
Evening on the Potomac
A Song by the Shore
At Sea
The Mocking-Bird
Earth’s Lyric
Verlaine
Accident in Art

MADISON CAWEIN (1865–1914)
Poetry
The Unimaginative
Music
The Three Elements
Rome
On Reading the Life of Haroun Er Reshid
Echo
The Stars
Beauty
Mnemosyne
The Purple Valleys
Caverns
Dead Cities
Orgie

GELETT BURGESS (1866–1951)
The Purple Cow
The Purple Cow: Suite

WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY (1869–1910)
Gloucester Moors
An Ode in Time of Hesitation
Harmonics
The Bracelet of Grass
The Departure

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869–1935)
The Torrent
Aaron Stark
Supremacy
Boston
A Poem for Max Nordau
Walt Whitman
The Children of the Night
John Evereldown
Luke Havergal
Ballade of Broken Flutes
The House on the Hill
Richard Cory
The Pity of the Leaves
The Clerks
Reuben Bright
“Oh for a poet—for a beacon bright”
“The master and the slave go hand in hand”
George Crabbe
Verlaine
Cliff Klingenhagen

STEPHEN CRANE (1871–1900)
from The Black Riders and Other Lines
I “Black riders came from the sea”
III “In the desert”
IX “I stood upon a high place”
X “Should the wide world roll away”
XXIV “I saw a man pursuing the horizon”
XXV “Behold, the grave of a wicked man”
XXVI “There was set before me a mighty hill”
XXVII “A youth in apparel that glittered”
LVI “A man feared that he might find an assassin”
LXV “Once, I knew a fine song”
LXVI “If I should cast off this tattered coat”
LXVII “God lay dead in Heaven”
from War Is Kind
“Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind”
“A little ink more or less!”
“I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night”
“A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices”
“The wayfarer”
“A man said to the universe”
“Each small gleam was a voice”
“Ah, God, the way your little finger moved”
“Little birds of the night”
“There is a grey thing that lives in the tree-tops”
“A man adrift on a slim spar”
“Unwind my riddle”
“A naked woman and a dead dwarf”

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872–1906)
Accountability
The Mystery
Song of Summer
A Summer’s Night
We Wear the Mask
Compensation
When Malindy Sings
Little Brown Baby
A Negro Love Song
Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes
The Colored Soldiers
Sympathy
An Ante-Bellum Sermon
Signs of the Times

ALEXANDER L. POSEY (1873–1908)
Song of the Oktahutchee
July
Midsummer
Autumn
Nightfall

GEORGE CABOT LODGE (1873–1909)
Tuckanuck, I: “I am content to live the patient day”
Pastoral
Fall
On an Jolian Harp
“Strong saturation of sea! O widely flown”
Lower New York

TRUMBULL STICKNEY (1874–1904)
In Ampezzo
Mnemosyne
Eride, V: “Now in the palace gardens warm with age”
“You say, Columbus with his argosies”
On Rodin’s “L’Illusion, Skur d’Icare”
On Some Shells Found Inland
“Live blindly and upon the hour”
“Be still. The Hanging Gardens were a dream”
On the Concert
“The melancholy year is dead with rain”
“As a sad man, when evenings grayer grow”
“He said: `If in his image I was made”
Lakeward
Pandora’s Songs from Prometheus Pyrphoros
“And, the last day being come, Man stood alone”
At Sainte-Marguerite
An Athenian Garden
Sonnets from Greece
Sunium
Mt. Lykaion
Near Helikon
Eleusis
Mt. Ida: I, II, III
Six O’Clock
“The Autumn’s done; they have the golden corn in”
“Here in the North I chase an old despair”
On Sandro’s Flora
from Dramatic Fragments
“Sir, say no more”
“I hear a river thro’ the valley wander”

19TH-CENTURY VERSIONS OF AMERICAN INDIAN POETRY
The Song of the Lenape Warriors Going Against the Enemy (Delaware)
Two Cherokee Songs of Friendship
Specimens of Indian Songs (Miami)
Music and Poetry of the Indians (Ojibwa)
Hoatchunk’ Narwoanar, or Winnebago War Song
Medicine Song of an Indian Lover (Ojibwa)
from War Dance (Iowa)
The Loon Upon the Lake (Ojibwa)
Death Song (Ojibwa)
George Copway’s Dream Song (Ojibwa)
Meda Songs (Ojibwa)
Prophetic Powers (Ojibwa)
Chants to the Deity (Ojibwa)
Song of the Owl (Ojibwa)
Magic Song (Ojibwa)
Hawk Chant of the Saginaws (Ojibwa)
Love Song (Ojibwa)
War Songs (Ojibwa)
Corn Song (Ojibwa)
Chant to the Fire-Fly (Ojibwa)
Minnetare Songs (Hidatsa)
Song for a Fallen Warrior (Blackfeet)
War Songs (Sioux)
Songs of the Sacred Mysteries (Sioux)
Southern Paiute Poetry
Songs and Chants (Southern Paiute)
from Sacred Songs of the Konkau
Soldier’s Song (Sioux)
from Ancient Rites of the Condoling Council (Iroquois)
Chant from the Iroquois Book of Rites (Onondaga)
Hunter’s Song (Hitchiti)
The Song of the Stars (Passamaquoddy)
from The Walam Olum, or Red Score, of the Lenāxapé (Delaware)
from The Mountain Chant (Navajo)
Summer Song (Eskimo)
Chinook Songs
Pawnee War-Song
Incantation Songs of the Klamath Lake People
Incantations of Modoc Conjurers
Medicine Songs (Omaha)
The Thanksgivings (Iroquois)
Imploration for Clear Weather (Ojibwa)
Prayer Upon Cutting Down the Sacred Tree (Sioux)
A Rain Song of the Shu’-wi Chai’än (Snake Society) (Sia)
A Rain Song of the Quer’ränna Chai’än (Sia)
Eskimo Songs
from The Hardening of the World, and the First Settlement of Men (Zuni)
from The Generation of the Seeds, or the Origin of Corn (Zuni)
Ghost-Dance Songs
Songs of the Kwakiutl Indians
Dances and Songs of the Winter Ceremonial (Kwakiutl)
Kū’siut Song (Bella Coola)
Songs of Spirits (Wintun)
Captive’s Song (Omaha)
Songs from the Great Feast to the Dead (Eskimo)
The Mocking-Bird’s Song (Tigua)
Song of an Old Gray Wolf (Cheyenne)
The Wizard’s Chant (Passamaquoddy)
from The Night Chant (Navajo)
from The Hako (Pawnee)
from History Myth of the Coming of the A’shiwi as Narrated by tKiäklo (Zuni)
Invocation to the U’wannami (Zuni)

FOLK SONGS AND SPIRITUALS
Blow Your Trumpet, Gabriel
Buffalo Gals
The Cowboy’s Lament
Cripple Creek
Cumberland Gap
The Days of ’49
Deep River
Dere’s No Hidin’ Place Down Dere
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel
Down in the Valley
Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit
Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
Frankie and Albert
Free at Last
Got a Home in That Rock
He Never Said a Mumblin’ Word
A Home on the Range
I Know Moon-Rise
Jesse James
Jim Crack Corn, or the Blue Tail Fly
John Brown’s Body
John Hardy
John Henry
“Johnny come down de hollow”
Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jerico
Let My People Go
Lonesome Valley
Lord, Remember Me!
Low Bridge, Everybody Down
Many Thousand Gone
Michael Row the Boat Ashore
My Lord, What a Morning
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Had
Oh My Darling Clementine
Old Joe Clark
Old Time Religion
One More River
Poor Naomi
Red River Valley
Roll, Jordan, Roll
Rye Whisky
Shady Grove
Shenandoah
Simple Gifts
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Stackalee
Starving to Death on a Government Claim
The State of Arkansas
Steal Away
Sweet Betsey from Pike
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
“We raise de wheat”
Were You There?
What Yo’ Gwine t’ Do When de Lamp Burn Down?
Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Git Along Little Dogies
Working on the Railway
Contributors

Henry Adams
Elizabeth Akers Allen
Katharine Lee Bates
Ambrose Bierce
James A. Bland
Benjamin Paul Blood
George Henry Boker
Augusta Cooper Bristol
Phillips Brooks
Henry Howard Brownell
Gelett Burgess
George Washington Cable
Charles Edward Carryl
Alice Cary
Phoebe Cary
Madison Cawein
John Jay Chapman
Rose Terry Cooke
Stephen Crane
Emily Dickinson
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ernest Fenollosa
Eugene Field
Francis Miles Finch
Stephen Foster
Hamlin Garland
Richard Watson Gilder
Louise Imogen Guiney
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Bret Harte
John Hay
Paul Hamilton Hayne
John Henry Hopkins Jr.
Richard Hovey
William Dean Howells
William Reed Huntington
Helen Hunt Jackson
Sarah Orne Jewett
Sidney Lanier
Emma Lazarus
James Mathewes Legaré
Charles Godfrey Leland
George Cabot Lodge
Maria White Lowell
Robert Lowry
Edwin Markham
Herman Melville
Adah Isaacs Menken
Stuart Merrill
Joaquin Miller
Harriet Monrow
William Vaughn Moody
John James Platt
Sarah Morgan Platt
Alexander L. Posey
James Ryder Randall
Thomas Buchanan Read
Lizette Woodworth Reese
John Rollin Ridge
James Whitcomb Riley
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Abram Joseph Ryan
George Santayana
Clinton Scollard
Edward Rowland Sill
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Trumbull Stickney
John Banister Tabb
Bayard Taylor
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Rose Hartwick Thorpe
Henry Timrod
John Townsend Trowbridge
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Mark Twain
George Boyer Vashon
Edith Wharton
James Monroe Whitfield
Albery Allson Whitman
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Forceythe Willson
Constance Fenimore Woolson
Henry Clay Work
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Contributors of 19th C Versions of American Indian Poetry
Caleb Atwater
Franz Boas
John Gregory Bourke
Daniel Garrison Brinton
Lewis Cass
George Catlin
Harriet Maxwell Converse
George Copway
Jeremiah Curtin
Frank Hamilton Cushing
John Comfort Filmore
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
Albert Samuel Gatschet
Horatio Hale
John Heckewelder
Charles Fenno Hoffman
W.J. Hoffman
Edwin James
Alfred L. Kroeber
Francis La Flesche
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Washington Matthews
Samuel Latham Mitchell
James Mooney
Lewis Henry Morgan
Edward William Nelson
John Wesley Powell
Stephen Powers
John Dyneley Prince
Alfred Longley Riggs
Stephen Return Riggs
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Matilda Coxe Stevenson
John Tanner

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