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Tables of Contents for An Anthology of the New England Poets
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xv
A Foreword
xix
FIRST PLANTING
Introduction
3
8
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
Spring
11
2
Contemplations
13
6
``As Weary Pilgrim''
19
5
Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705)
The Infants' Petition
24
4
Vanity of Vanities
28
5
Anonymous (ca. 1630)
Forefather's Song
33
4
Edward Taylor (1642-1729)
The Ebb and Flow
37
1
Housewifery
37
1
The Glory of and Grace in the Church
38
1
What Love is This
39
1
Like to the Marigold
40
1
Oh! What a Thing is Man
41
6
The Hartford Wits John Trumbull (1750-1831)
The Aging Coquette
47
1
The Town Meeting
48
6
Joel Barlow (1754-1812)
Freedom
54
1
Praise of the Pudding
54
2
The Pudding Prepared and Eaten
56
5
John Pierpont (1785-1866)
Warren's Address to the American Soldiers
61
1
The Fourth of July
61
1
On Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument
62
1
Centennial Hymn
63
3
Richard Henry Dana (1787-1879)
The Little Beach-Bird
66
1
The Island
67
10
FULL FLOWER
Introduction
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Thanatopsis
77
2
To the Fringed Gentian
79
1
The Yellow Violet
79
2
To a Waterfowl
81
1
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood
82
1
Forest Hymn
83
3
Hymn of the Waldenses
86
1
Autumn Woods
87
1
``Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids''
88
1
The Stream of Life
89
1
The Planting of the Apple Tree
89
3
The Snow-Shower
92
1
The Death of the Flowers
93
1
The Evening Wind
94
2
The White-Footed Deer
96
2
To a Mosquito
98
2
Robert of Lincoln
100
2
The African Chief
102
2
Song of Marion's Men
104
2
The Green Mountain Boys
106
1
Our Country's Call
106
2
The Antiquity of Freedom
108
4
James Gates Percival (1795-1856)
The Coral Grove
112
1
Seneca Lake
113
6
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
The Rhodora
119
1
Hymn
119
1
Duty
120
1
Brahma
120
1
Good-bye
121
1
Give All to Love
122
1
Eros
123
1
Bacchus
123
2
The Snow-Storm
125
1
Each and All
126
1
The Problem
127
2
Days
129
1
Experience
130
1
Song of Nature
130
3
Two Rivers
133
1
Woodnotes
134
4
Ode
138
3
Astraea
141
1
Uriel
142
2
Hamatreya
144
1
Earth-Song
144
1
The Humble-Bee
145
2
Music
147
1
Forbearance
148
1
Fable
148
1
Forerunners
149
1
Compensation
150
1
Ode Sung in the Town Hall
150
1
Boston Hymn
151
3
Xenophanes
154
1
Merlin: I
155
2
Merlin: II
157
1
Threnody
158
8
Character
166
1
Orator
166
1
Hush!
166
1
Poet
166
1
Shakespeare
167
1
From the Persian
167
1
Terminus
167
8
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Proem
175
1
The Moral Warfare
176
1
Massachusetts to Virginia
177
3
Ichabod
180
1
Barbara Frietchie
181
2
Laus Deo!
183
2
Maud Muller
185
4
The Barefoot Boy
189
3
Skipper Ireson's Ride
192
3
Telling the Bees
195
2
Snow-Bound
197
21
Songs of Labor
Dedication
218
1
The Ship-Builders
219
2
The Shoemakers
221
3
The Quaker of the Olden Time
224
1
Abraham Davenport
225
2
In School Days
227
1
My Triumph
228
2
The Eternal Goodness
230
9
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
My Lost Youth
239
2
A Psalm of Life
241
1
The Reaper and the Flowers
242
1
The Wreck of the Hesperus
243
3
The Village Blacksmith
246
2
Hymn to the Night
248
1
The Skeleton in Armor
249
4
The Secret of the Sea
253
2
Paul Revere's Ride
255
3
The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi
258
2
King Robert of Sicily
260
6
The Arrow and the Song
266
1
Daybreak
266
1
Haunted Houses
267
1
The Slave's Dream
268
2
The Arsenal at Springfield
270
1
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
271
2
The Evening Star
273
1
The Building of the Ship
274
10
The Discoverer of the North Cape
284
4
Sandalphon
288
1
The Day is Done
289
2
The Children's Hour
291
1
From The Song of Hiawatha
292
28
Introduction
292
3
The Peace-Pipe
295
4
The Four Winds
299
8
Hiawatha's Childhood
307
6
Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis
313
7
Evangeline
320
42
The Cumberland
362
2
Snow-Flakes
364
1
The Rainy Day
364
1
Gaspar Becerra
365
1
Dante
366
1
Divina Commedia
366
2
Nature
368
1
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
369
4
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Old Ironsides
373
1
The Last Leaf
373
2
The Chambered Nautilus
375
1
The Deacon's Masterpiece
376
3
The Ballad of the Oysterman
379
1
My Aunt
380
1
The Height of the Ridiculous
381
2
The Moral Bully
383
1
At the Pantomime
384
2
Contentment
386
3
Æstivation
389
1
How the Old Horse Won the Bet
390
5
A Sun-Day Hymn
395
1
Unsatisfied
396
1
Dorothy Q
397
5
Jones Very (1813-1880)
The New World
402
1
The Dead
402
1
The Wind-Flower
403
1
Morning
403
1
The Tree
403
1
October
404
1
The Robin
404
1
Day
405
2
John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)
Early Rising
407
1
Sonnet to a Clam
408
1
My Familiar
409
1
The Blind Men and the Elephant
410
2
Echo
412
6
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
All Things Are Current Found
418
1
Prayer
418
1
The Fisher's Boy
419
1
Inspiration
419
1
Smoke
420
1
Summer Rain
421
1
Men Say They Know Many Things
422
1
Love
422
1
Woof of the Sun, Ethereal Gauze
423
1
Smoke in Winter
423
1
I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied
424
1
Conscience
425
1
Independence
426
3
William Ellery Channing II (1818-1901)
Hymn of the Earth
429
1
The Earth-Spirit
429
5
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
The Vision of Sir Launfal
434
10
Auspex
444
1
Hebe
445
1
The Courtin'
446
3
To a Recruiting Sergeant
449
4
What Mr. Robinson Thinks
453
2
The Pious Editor's Creed
455
5
From A Fable for Critics
Emerson
460
2
Bryant
462
3
Hawthorne
465
1
Cooper
466
3
Poe and Longfellow
469
1
Irving
470
1
Holmes
471
1
Aladdin
471
1
The First Snow-Fall
472
1
St. Michael the Weigher
473
2
Lincoln
475
4
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873)
Sometimes, When Winding Slow
479
1
And So the Day Drops By
479
1
An Upper Chamber in a Darkened House
480
1
Yet Vain, Perhaps, the Fruits
480
1
Tall Stately Plants with Spikes and Forks of Gold
481
1
Roll on, Sad World!
481
10
SECOND HARVEST
Introduction
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
This is My Letter to the World
491
1
Alter? When the Hills do
491
1
My Life Closed Twice
491
1
Of All the Souls That Stand Create
492
1
Apparently with No Surprise
492
1
The Brain is Wider than the Sky
492
1
The Soul Selects Her Own Society
493
1
The Heart Asks Pleasure First
493
1
I'm Nobody! Who are You?
494
1
I Never Saw a Moor
494
1
Autumn
494
1
A Day
495
1
Simplicity
495
1
To Make a Prairie
496
1
What Soft, Cherubic Creatures
496
1
I Died for Beauty
496
1
Forbidden Fruit: I
497
1
Forbidden Fruit: II
497
1
The Bee
497
1
Indian Summer
498
1
Rearrange a Wife's Affection?
498
1
Struck Was I, Nor Yet by Lightning
499
1
One Crucifixion is Recorded Only
500
1
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
500
1
I Cannot Live with You
501
5
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
Identity
506
1
Realism
506
1
Memory
506
1
Guilielmus Rex
507
1
Enamored Architect of Airy Rhyme
507
1
Untimely Thought
508
1
Maple Leaves
508
1
Pessimist and Optimist
508
1
Originality
509
1
Unguarded Gates
509
4
Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887)
Opportunity
513
1
The Fool's Prayer
513
1
Solitude
514
1
Dare You?
515
1
Five Lives
516
1
The Future
517
1
Home
518
5
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Miniver Cheevy
523
1
The House on the Hill
524
1
Reuben Bright
524
1
Bewick Finzer
525
1
Uncle Ananias
526
1
An Old Story
527
1
Richard Cory
527
1
Calvary
528
1
The Clerks
528
1
Credo
529
1
Eros Turannos
529
2
For a Dead Lady
531
1
Mr. Flood's Party
531
2
Veteran Sirens
533
1
Karma
534
4
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
Patterns
538
3
Lilacs
541
3
The Sisters
544
9
Robert Frost (1875- )
The Pasture
553
1
The Tuft of Flowers
553
2
Hyla Brook
555
1
Mowing
555
1
The Onset
556
1
After Apple-Picking
556
1
Mending Wall
557
2
Home Burial
559
3
An Old Man's Winter Night
562
1
The Witch of Coos
563
4
The Death of the Hired Man
567
5
Birches
572
2
Two Tramps in Mud Time
574
2
Tree at My Window
576
1
The Runaway
576
1
Departmental
577
1
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
578
1
Fire and Ice
579
1
The Road Not Taken
579
1
Come In
580
1
Choose Something Like a Star
580
3
Wallace Stevens (1879- )
Sunday Morning
583
2
Peter Quince at the Clavier
585
2
Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb
587
2
Walter Hard (1882- )
Youth of the Mountain
589
1
A Health Note
590
4
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892- )
Pity Me Not
594
1
I Shall Go Back
594
1
Elegy
595
1
Dirge Without Music
596
3
Robert P. T. Coffin (1892- )
New Englanders Are Maples
599
1
Getting Through
599
3
Elizabeth Coatsworth (1893- )
Daniel Webster's Horses
602
1
The Barn
603
1
Song of the Rabbits Outside the Tavern
604
3
E. E. Cummings (1894- )
O Sweet Spontaneous
607
1
Portrait
608
1
Sonnet
608
1
Nobody Losses All the Time
609
1
``Next to of Course God''
610
1
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled
610
4
Robert Hillyer (1895- )
The Untended Field
614
1
The Assassination
614
4
Robert Lowell (1917- )
Salem
618
1
Colloquy in Black Rock
618
1
Where the Rainbow Ends
619
1
Mary Winslow
620
1
Index of Authors
621
1
Index of Titles
622
8
Index of First Lines
630