American poetry
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New York : Harper & Row, [1965].
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xxxiv, 1274 pages ; 21 cm.
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Published
New York : Harper & Row, [1965].
Format
Book
Language
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Bibliography
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [1071]-1243) Bibliography: p. [1245]-1246.
Description
Nearly 700 poems by fifty poets, from colonial times to the present.
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Table of Contents
Preface --
The Prologue --
Contemplations --
The Flesh and the Spirit --
The Author to Her Book --
To My Dear and Loving Husband --
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and a Half Old --
Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 / Anne Bradstreet --
Prologue (from "Preparatory Meditations) --
Meditation I --
The Reflexion --
Meditation 6 --
Meditation 8 --
Meditation 20 --
Meditation 29 --
Meditation 38 --
Meditation 40 --
Meditation 68A, Second Series --
from "Gods Determinations Touching His Elect --
The Preface --
The Glory of and Grace in the Church Set Out --
The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended --
Miscellaneous Poems --
An Address to the Soul Occasioned By a Rain --
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly --
Huswifery --
Upon Wedlock and Death of Children --
The Ebb and Flow / Edward Taylor --
The Power of Fancy --
Death (from "The House of Night") --
The Vanity of Existence --
To the Memory of the Brave Americans --
The Hurricane --
The Wild Honey Suckle --
The Indian Burying Ground --
To Sir Toby --
Ode --
Amanda's Complaint --
On a Honey Bee --
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature / Philip Freneau --
The Hasty-Pudding --
from "The Columbiad" [One Centred System] / Joel Barlow --
Thanatopsis --
The Yellow Violet --
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood --
To a Waterfowl --
Green River --
A Winter Piece --
Summer Wind --
A Forest Hymn --
"Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids" --
The Evening Wind --
To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe --
To the Fringed Gentian --
The Prairies --
Earth --
The Antiquity of Freedom --
"Oh Mother of a Mighty Race" --
The Poet --
The Death of Lincoln / William Cullen Bryant.
The Sphinx --
Each and All --
The Problem --
Uriel --
Alphonso of Castile --
Mithridates --
Hamatreya --
The Rhodora --
The Snow-Storm --
Ode --
Ode to Beauty --
Give All to Love --
The Apology --
Merlin --
Bacchus --
Blight --
Musketaquid --
Threnody --
Concord Hymn --
Brahma --
Days --
Two Rivers --
Waldeinsamkeit --
Terminus --
Compensation / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Hymn to the Night --
The Skeleton in Armor --
The Arsenal at Sspringfield --
Seaweed --
The Fire of Driftwood --
In the Churchyard at Cambridge --
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport --
The Ropewalk --
My Lost Youth --
Snow-Flakes --
Killed at the Ford --
Divina Commedia --
The Challenge --
Aftermath --
The Sicilian's Tale --
Chaucer --
Milton --
Keats --
The Sound of the Sea --
The Harvest Moon --
Nature --
The Chamber over the Gate --
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls --
Jugurtha --
The Cross of Snow / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
Memories --
Proem --
Ichabod --
Skipper Ireson's Ride --
The Old Burying-Ground --
Telling the Bees --
My Playmate --
Barbara Frietchie --
Snow-Bound --
Laus Deo! --
Prelude (from"Among the Hills") --
At Last / John Greenleaf Whittier --
Tamerlane --
Evening Star --
A Dream Within a Dream --
Sonnet-To Science --
Al Aaraaf --
Romance --
To Helen --
Israfel --
The City in the Sea --
The Sleeper --
Lenore --
The Valley of Unrest --
The Coliseum --
To One in Paradise --
The Haunted Palace --
Sonnet-Silence --
The Conqueror Worm --
Dream-Land --
The Raven --
Ulalume-A Ballad --
Eldorado --
For Annie --
To My Mother --
Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe --
The Ballad of the Oysterman --
Old Ironsides --
The Last Leaf --
The Chambered Nautilus --
The Living Temple --
The Deacon's Masterpiece --
Contentment --
The Two Streams --
Manhood (from "Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts") --
Dorothy Q. --
Two Sonnets: Harvard --
The Peau De Chagrin of State Street / Oliver Wendell Holmes.
To the Canary Bird --
Thy Beauty Fades --
The New Birth --
Nature --
Life --
The Garden --
The columbine --
The Dead --
The Slave --
Love --
Thy Brother's Blood --
The Hand and Foot --
Psyche --
The Barberry-Bush --
Man in Harmony with Nature --
On the Completion of the Pacific Telegraph --
The Broken Bowl --
The April Snow --
Soul-Sickness --
The Clouded Morning --
Abdolonymus the Sidonian --
The Fugitive Slaves --
On Visiting the Graves of Hawthorne and Thoreau --
The New Man --
The New World / Jones Very --
Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life --
Great God, I Ask Thee for No Meaner Pelf --
Light-Winged Smoke, Icarian Bird --
Though All the Fates Should Prove Unkind --
Woof of the Sun, Ethereal Gauze --
Lately, Alas, I Knew a Gentle Boy --
The Inward Morning --
My Books I'd Fain Cast Off, I Cannot Read --
I Am A Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied --
Inspiration --
The Fall of the Leaf / Henry David Thoreau --
To the Dandelion --
From "A Fable for Critics" [Emerson] --
[Bryant] --
[Whittier] --
[Hawthorne] --
[Cooper] --
[Poe and Longfellow] --
[Lowell] --
Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration --
Sunthin' in the Pastoral Line --
The Washers of the Shroud --
Auspex --
The Recall --
On Receiving a Copy of Mr. Austin Dobson's "Old World Idylls" --
Verses, Intended to Go With a Posset Dish / James Russell Lowell --
Song of Myself --
From "To Think of Time" --
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry --
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking --
From "Children of Adam" --
To the Garden the World --
From Pent-up Aching Rivers --
Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals --
As adam Early in the Morning --
From "Calamus" In Paths Untrodden --
Scented Herbage of My Breast --
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing --
When I Heard at the Close of the Day --
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me --
I Dream'd in a Dream --
From "Drum-Taps" Beat! Beat! Drums! --
Cavalry Crossing a Ford --
Bivouac on a Mountain Side --
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame --
The Wound-Dresser --
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim --
To the Leaven'd Soil they Trod --
O Captain! My Captain! --
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd --
Sparkles From the Wheel --
A Noiseless Patient Spider --
To a Locomotive in Winter --
Good-Bye My Fancy! / Walt Whitman.
The Portent --
Misgivings --
The Conflict of Convictions --
The March into Virginia --
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight --
Shiloh --
Malvern Hill --
The House-Top --
A Dirge for McPherson --
On the Grave of a Young Cavalry Officer Killed in the Valley of Virginia --
Commemorative of a Naval Victory --
Epilogue (from "Clarel") --
The Æolian Harp --
The Maldive Shark --
The Berg --
Pebbles --
After the Pleasure Party --
The Ravaged Villa --
Monody --
Art / Herman Melville --
The Question --
Refrigerium --
Sonnets: Part I - XXII --
XXIV --
XXV --
XXVI --
Sonnets: Part II - VII --
VIII --
IX --
X --
XI --
XII --
XIII --
XIV --
XV --
XVI --
XVII --
XXXI --
XXXII --
XXXIII --
XXXIV / Frederick Goddard Tuckerman --
Charleston --
Spring --
The Unknown Dead --
Ode / Henry Timrod --
49 I never lost as much but twice --
67 Success is counted sweetest --
76 Exultation is the going --
80 Our lives are Swiss --
126 To fight aloud, is very brave --
128 Bring me the sunset in a cup --
130 These are the days when birds come back --
160 Just lost, when I was saved --
165 A wounded deer, leaps highest --
187 How many times these low feet staggered --
214 I taste a liquor never brewed --
216 Safe in their alabaster chambers --
241 I like a look of agony --
249 Wild nights-wild nights --
258 There's a certain slant of light --
280 I felt a funeral, in my brain --
287 A clock stopped --
290 Of bronze-and blaze --
303 The soul selects her own society --
318 I'll tell you how the sun rose --
322 There came a day at summer's full --
328 A bird came down the walk --
341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes --
348 I dreaded that first robin, so --
376 Of course-I prayed --
378 I saw no way-the Heavens were stitched --
401 What soft-cherubic creatures --
435 Much madness is divinest sense / Emily Dickinson.
441 This is my letter to the world --
448 This was a poet, it is that --
449 I died for beauty-but was scarce --
465 I heard a fly buzz-when I died --
474 They put us far apart --
502 At least-to pray-is left-is left --
511 If you were coming in the fall --
526 To hear an oriole sing --
536 The heart asks pleasure-first --
556 The brain, within it's groove --
585 I like to see it lap the miles --
620 It makes no difference abroad --
640 I cannot live with you --
650 Pain-has an element of blank --
657 I dwell in possibility --
664 Of all the souls that stand create --
675 Essential oils-are wrung --
712 Because I could not stop for death --
721 Behind me-dips eternity --
742 Four trees-upon a solitary acre --
754 My life had stood-a loaded gun --
764 Presentiment-is that long shadow-on the lawn --
813 This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies --
822 This consciousness that is aware --
829 Ample make this bed --
861 Split the lark-and you'll find the music --
870 Finding is the first act --
875 I stepped from plank to plank --
888 When I have seen the sun emerge --
946 It is an honorable thought --
949 Under the light, yet under --
985 The missing all, prevented me --
986 A narrow fellow in the grass --
997 Crumbling is not an instant's act --
1052 I never saw a moor --
1068 Further in summer than the birds --
1072 Title divine-is mine --
1078 The bustle in a house --
1082 Revolution is the pod --
1084 At half past three, a single bird --
1129 Tell all the truth but tell it slant --
1176 We never know how high we are --
1207 He preached upon "Breadth" till it argued him narrow --
1243 Safe despair it is that raves --
1304 Not with a club, the heart is broken --
1333 A little madness in the spring --
1393 Lay this laurel on the one --
1463 A route of evanescence --
1540 As imperceptibly as grief --
1587 He ate and drank the precious words --
1612 The auctioneer of parting --
1624 Apparently with no surprise --
1670 In winter in my room --
1672 Lightly stepped a yellow star --
1695 There is a solitude of space --
1712 A pit-but Heaven over it --
1732 My life closed twice before its close / Emily Dickinson --
Thar's more in the man than thar is in the land --
Corn --
The Symphony --
The Waving of the Corn --
Evening Song --
Song of the Chattahoochee --
The Harlequin of Dreams --
The Revenge of Hamish --
The Marshes of Glynn --
A Ballad of Trees and the Master / Sidney Lanier --
Glouchester Moors --
An Ode in Time of Hesitation --
On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines --
The Menagerie --
The Bracelet of Grass --
Faded Pictures --
Thammuz / William Vaughn Moody --
George Crabbe --
Luke Havergal --
Credo --
Cliff Klingenhagen --
How Annandale went out --
Miniver Cheevy --
For a Dead Lady --
The Gift of God --
Hillcrest --
Eros Turannos --
Bewick Finzer --
The Man Against the Sky --
Demos --
The Dark Hills --
Mr. Flood's Party --
The Sheaves --
Karma / Edwin Arlington Robinson --
From "The Black Riders" - I --
III --
VI --
VIII --
IX --
X --
XII --
XIV --
XVIII --
XIX --
XXI --
XXIII --
XXIV --
XXVIII --
XXIX --
XXXIV --
XXXIX --
XLI --
XLVI --
XLIX --
LI --
LIV --
LX --
LXVI --
LXVII --
The Blue Battalions --
From "War is Kind" - [I] --
[VI] --
[VII] --
[XI] --
[XII] --
[XVIII] --
[XIX] --
[XXI] --
[XXIII] --
Three Poems / Stephen Crane.
The Tuft of Flowers --
Mending Wall --
Home Burial --
After Apple-Picking --
The Road Not Taken --
The Oven Bird --
The Witch of Coös --
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening --
For Once, Then, Something --
The Onset --
To Earthward --
Two Look at Two --
Acquainted with the Night --
West-Running Brook --
Two Tramps in Mud Time --
Desert Places --
Neither Out Far Nor in Deep --
Design --
The Gift Outright --
Directive / Robert Frost --
Chicago --
Sketch --
Fog --
Pool --
Prayers of Steel --
Wilderness --
Handfuls --
Cool Tombs --
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind --
When Death Came April Twelve 1945 / Carl Sandburg --
Domination of Black --
The Snow Man --
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle --
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman --
The Emperor of Ice-Cream --
Sunday Morning --
Anecdote of the Jar --
To the One of Fictive Music --
Peter Quince at the Clavier --
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird --
Sea Surface Full of Clouds --
The Idea of Order at Key West --
Anglais Mort À Florence --
A Postcard from the Volcano --
Study of Two Pears --
The Glass of Water --
The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man --
Mrs. Alfred Uruguay --
Asides on the Oboe --
The Motive for Metaphor --
Credences of Summer --
To an Old Philosopher in Rome --
The Rock --
The World as Meditation --
As You Leave the Room / Wallace Stevens --
Tract --
The Widow's Lament in Springtime --
Queen-Ann's-Lace --
Spring and All --
To Elsie --
Rain --
The Yachts --
These --
Preface to Paterson: Book One --
The Semblables --
Burning the Christmas Greens --
The Injury / Ezra Pound --
Portrait d'Une Femme --
The Seafarer --
A Virginal --
The Return --
Lament of the Frontier Guard --
Liu Ch'e --
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley --
Canto I --
Canto II / William Carlos Williams --
Adonis --
Heat --
Pear Tree --
Oread --
From Citron-Bower --
Erige Cor Tuum Ad Me in Caelum / H.D. --
Night --
Birds --
Apology for Bad Dreams --
Hurt Hawks --
Promise of Peace --
The Eye --
Ocean --
My Burial Place --
Let Them Alone --
But I am Growing Old and Indolent / Robinson Jeffers --
Poetry --
The Steeple-Jack --
No Swan so Fine --
The Pangolin --
What are Years? --
The Mind is an Enchanting Thing --
In Distrust of Merits --
Armour's Undermining Modesty --
Tom Fool at Jamaica --
Melchior Vulpius / Maianne Moore --
Winter Remembered --
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter --
Captain Carpenter --
Vision by Sweetwater --
Piazza Piece --
Antique Harvesters --
The Equilibrists --
Painted Head --
Master's in the Garden Again --
Prelude to an Evening / John Crowe Ransom.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock --
Sweeney Among the Nightingales --
Gerontion --
The Waste Land --
The Hollow Men --
Ash-Wednesday / T.S. Eliot --
The Road --
Sea Holly --
Elder Tree --
The Room --
Doctors' Row --
North Infinity Street --
The lovers --
Music / Conrad Aiken --
Ars Poetica --
The End of the World --
You, Andrew Marvell --
Immortal Autumn --
"Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments" --
Pole Star --
Theory of Poetry / Archibald MacLeish --
O Sweet Spontaneous --
A Man Who Had Fallen Among Thieves --
"Next to of Course God America I --
Somewhere I have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond --
Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town --
My Father Moved through Dooms of Love --
Pity this Busy Monster, Manunkind --
What if a Much of a Which of a WInd --
Now Does Our World Descend --
Enter No (Silence is the Blood Whose Flesh) / e.e. cummings --
Black Tambourine --
Praise for an Urn --
Chaplinesque --
Repose of Rivers --
The Wine Menagerie --
For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen --
At Melville's Tomb --
Voyages --
To Brooklyn Bridge (Proem to "The Bridge") --
The River (from "The Bridge") --
The Tunnel (from "The Bridge") --
O Carib Isle! --
Royal Palm --
The Hurricane --
The Broken Tower / Hart Crane --
Mr. Pope --
The Subway --
Ode to the Confederate Dead --
The Cross --
Sonnets at Christmas (1934) --
The Mediterranean --
Aeneas at Washington --
Pastoral --
Seasons of the Soul --
The Swimmers / Allen Tate --
Open House --
Cuttings, Later --
Dolor --
The Lost Son --
Elegy for Jane --
Four for Sir John Davies --
The Waking --
Words for the Wind --
The Song --
First Meditation (from "Meditations of an Old Woman") / Theodore Roethke --
The Dome of Sunday --
The Potomac --
Nostalgia --
Elegy for a Dead Soldier --
V-Letter --
The Sickness of Adam (from "Adam and Eve') / Karl Shapiro --
90 North --
Second Air Force --
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner --
A Camp in the Prussian Forest --
The Orient Express --
The Woman at the Washington Zoo / Randall Jarrell --
Winter Landscape --
Cloud and Flame --
The Dispossessed --
Three Around the Old Gentleman / John Berryman --
In Memory of Arthur Winslow --
Christmas Eve Under Hooker's Statue --
The Drunken Fisherman --
Children of Light --
The Exile's Return --
Colloquy in Black Rock --
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket --
As a Plane Tree by the Water --
Mr. Edwards and the Spider --
After the Surprising Conversions --
Where the Rainbow Ends --
Falling Asleep Over the Aeneid --
Words for Hart Crane --
Skunk Hour --
The Public Garden / Robert Lowell --
First Snow in Alsace --
Bell Speech --
Still, Citizen Sparrow --
The Death of a Toad --
Lamarck Elaborated --
Pangloss's song: A Comic-Opera Lyric / Richard Wilbur --
The Heaven of Animals --
Between Two Prisoners --
The Scratch --
The Dusk of Horses --
The Beholders / James Dickey --
On an East Wind From the Wars --
Love Song: I and Thou --
Funeral Oration for a Mouse --
Elegy --
Plague of Dead Sharks / Alan Dugan --
Pleasures --
The Goddess --
Come into Animal Presence --
The Well --
The Novel / Denise Levertov --
Returned to Frisco, 1946 --
The Campus on the Hill --
April Inventory --
Heart's Needle: 5 --
A Flat One / W. D. Snodgrass --
Hart Crane --
The Way --
The Rose --
The Wife --
The Snow / Robert Creeley --
Dictum: For a Masque of Deluge --
When I Came From Colchis --
The Annunciation --
John Otto --
In the Night Fields / W. S. Merwin --
a Man Walking and Singing --
Canticle --
May Song --
Ascent --
The Guest --
November 26, 1963 / Wendell Berry.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Allen, G. W., Rideout, W. B., & Robinson, J. K. (1965). American poetry . Harper & Row.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Allen, Gay Wilson, 1903-1995, Walter B. Rideout and James K. Robinson. 1965. American Poetry. Harper & Row.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Allen, Gay Wilson, 1903-1995, Walter B. Rideout and James K. Robinson. American Poetry Harper & Row, 1965.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Allen, Gay Wilson, Walter B Rideout, and James K Robinson. American Poetry Harper & Row, 1965.
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