101 Great American Poems

This book includes classic american poetry by such eminent poets as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sara Teasdale, William Butler Yeats, Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Gertrude Stein and others.

Contents:

Anne Bradstreet

To My Dear and Loving Husband

Phillis Wheatley

To the Right Honourable WILLIAM,

Earl of DARTMOUTH, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North-America, & c.

William Cullen Bryant

The Planting of the Apple-Tree

Thanatopsis

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Concord Hymn

The Snow-storm

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Arrow and the Song

The Builders

The Children’s Hour

The Day Is Done

The Landlord’s Tale. Paul Revere’s Ride

Edgar Allan Poe

Alone

Annabel Lee

The Conqueror Worm

The Raven

To Helen

Abraham Lincoln

My Childhood’s Home I See Again

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Old Ironsides

Herman Melville

Misgivings

Walt Whitman

I Hear America Singing

I Sit and Look Out

Miracles

A Noiseless Patient Spider

О Captain! My Captain!

From Song of My self

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

Frances E. W. Harper

Bury Me in a Free Land

Songs for the People

Emily Dickinson

‘Because I could not stop for Death’

‘Death sets a thing significant’

‘Hope is the thing with feathers’

‘I died for beauty’

‘If I can stop one heart from breaking’

‘I’m nobody! Who are you?’

‘Mv life closed twice before its close’

‘Success is couated sweetest’

‘There is no frigate like a book’

‘This is my letter to the world’

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Solitude

Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Casey at the Bat

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Miniver Cheevy

Mr. Flood’s Party

Richard Cory

Stephen Crane

I saw a man pursuing the horizon’

War Is Kind

James Weldon Johnson

Sence You Went Away

Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Lesson

Sympathy

We Wear the Mask

Gertrude Stein

Susie Asado

Vachel Lindsay

Abraham Lincoln. Walks at Midnight

Euclid

The Leaden-Eyed

Claude McKay

After the Winter

If We Must Die

The Tropics in New York

Countee Cullen

For Paul Laurence Dunbar

Incident

Amy Lowell

Venetian Glass

Song

The Swans

Prime

James Oppenheim

Hebrews

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Juliet Of Nations

A Musical Instrument

Emma Lazarus

The Crowing Of The Red Cock

Youth And Death

Age And Death

Louisa May Alcott

Fairy Song

My Kingdom

Transfiguration

Lullaby

Ellis Parker Butler

Good — Better — Best

The Whale

A Lost Angel

The Ballade Of The Automobile

Hugh Henry Brackenridge

From A poem on divine revelation

Matthew Arnold

To A Friend

Shakespeare

The Last Word

William Butler Yeats

Brown Penny

The Chambermaid’s First Song

A Song From ‘The Player Queen’

September 1913

Leda And The Swan

A Prayer For Old Age

William Blake

A Poison Tree

The Garden Of Love

The Fly

Laughing song

Sara Teasdale

Wisdom

Peace

A Cry

After Love

Alone

I Am Not Yours

On A March Day

The Mystery

William Barnes

The Broken Heart

The Young that Died in Beauty

The Woodlands