Thirty-Seven American Poems

Anne Bradstreet: Contemplations

Phillis Wheatley: To a LADY on her remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North-Carolina

Francis Scott Key: The Star-Spangled Banner

John Howard Payne: Home, Sweet Home

Philip Freneau: The Wild Honeysuckle

William Cullen Bryant: Thanatopsis

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Village Blacksmith

John Greenleaf Whittier: Seed-Time and Harvest

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Snowstorm

Emily Dickinson: In Vain

George Pope Morris: Woodman, Spare that Tree!

Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney: Spring

Edgar Allan Poe: Lenore

Sidney Lanier: The Mocking-Bird

Edgar A. Guest: The Path that Leads to Home

Herman Melville: March into Virginia, Ending in the first Manassas (July, 1861)

Walt Whitman: Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand

Helen Hunt Jackson: May

T. S. Eliot: Sweeney Among the Nightingales

Robert Frost: A Late Walk

Hilda Doolittle: Sheltered Garden

Edgar Lee Masters: Pauline Barrett

Vachel Lindsay: Springfield Magical

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Five Sonnets

Lola Ridge: Manhattan

Paul Laurence Dunbar: Ships that Pass in the Night

James Weldon Johnson: O Black and Unknown Bards

Georgia Douglas Johnson: The Heart of a Woman

Anne Spencer: Translation

William Carlos Williams: Queen Anne's Lace

Elinor Wylie: Wild Peaches

Sara Teasdale: Spring Night

Ralph Chaplin: Mourn Not the Dead

Ezra Pound: Poem XII, from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

Dorothy Parker: Reformers: A Hymn of Hate

Amy Lowell: Lilacs

Conrad Aiken: Tetelestai