| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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III. Second Lyrical Period
(In Three Divisions)
From the Beginning of the Civil War to the Hundredth Presidential Year—1861–1889
Division I
(Mitchell, Timrod, Hayne, Mrs. Jackson, Miss Dickinson, Stedman, the Piatts, Mrs. Stofford, Mrs. Moulton, Winter, Aldrich, Howells, Hay, Harte, Sill, Miller, Lanier, and Others)
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| Silas Weir Mitchell. | On a Boy’s First Reading of “King Henry V” |
| To a Magnolia Flower in the Garden of the Armenian Convent at Venice |
| Of One Who Seemed to Have Failed |
| The Quaker Graveyard |
| Idleness |
| A Decanter of Madeira, Aged 86, to George Bancroft, Aged 86, Greeting |
| Henry Timrod. | The Cotton Boll |
| Quatorzain |
| Charleston |
| At Magnolia Cemetery |
| Paul Hamilton Hayne. | Aspects of the Pines |
| Vicksburg |
| Between the Sunken Sun and the New Moon |
| A Storm in the Distance |
| The Rose and Thorn |
| A Little While I Fain Would Linger Yet |
| In Harbor |
| Emily Dickinson. | Life |
| Love |
| Nature |
| Time and Eternity |
| Will Wallace Harney. | Adonais |
| The Stab |
| Helen Fiske Jackson. | Coronation |
| Morn |
| Emigravit |
| Poppies in the Wheat |
| A Last Prayer |
| Habeas Corpus |
| Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. | Samuel Hoar |
| Ariana |
| Joel Benton. | At Chappaqua |
| The Scarlet Tanager |
| Elizabeth Akers Allen. | Sea-Birds |
| “My Dearling” |
| The Last Landlord |
| In a Garret |
| Rock Me to Sleep |
| Mary Ashley Townsend. | Sonnets |
| Embryo |
| A Georgia Volunteer |
| John Albee. | Music and Memory |
| A Soldier’s Grave |
| Landor |
| Bos’n Hill |
| Dandelions |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman. | Song from a Drama |
| The Discoverer |
| Pan in Wall Street |
| Kearny at Seven Pines |
| The Hand of Lincoln |
| Salem |
| Falstaff’s Song |
| The World Well Lost |
| Helen Keller |
| Morgan |
| On a Great Man Whose Mind Is Clouding |
| Si Jeunesse Savait! |
| Mors Benefica |
| Quest |
| Invocation |
| Tracy Robinson. | Song of the Palm |
| Charles Henry Webb. | With a Nantucket Shell |
| March |
| Gil, the Toreador |
| Dum Vivimus Vigilemus |
| Richard Realf. | Indirection |
| The Word |
| An Old Man’s Idyl |
| George Arnold. | Farewell to Summer |
| Beer |
| Frances Louisa Bushnell. | World Music |
| Unfulfilment |
| In the Dark |
| Annie Fields. | On Waking from a Dreamless Sleep |
| Theocritus |
| Little Guinever |
| The Return |
| “Song, to the Gods, Is Sweetest Sacrifice” |
| Harriet McEwen Kimball. | The Guest |
| All ’s Well |
| White Azaleas |
| John James Piatt. | The Mower in Ohio |
| Rose and Root |
| To Abraham Lincoln |
| Farther |
| The Child in the Street |
| To a Lady |
| The Guerdon |
| Torch-Light in Autumn |
| Ireland |
| Leaves at My Window |
| The Lost Genius |
| Purpose |
| Harriet Prescott Spofford. | Phantoms All |
| Evanescence |
| Music in the Night |
| A Sigh |
| The Pines |
| Voice |
| The Hunt |
| Louise Chandler Moulton. | To-Night |
| A Painted Fan |
| The Shadow Dance |
| Laus Veneris |
| Laura Sleeping |
| Hic Jacet |
| The Last Good-By |
| Were but My Spirit Loosed upon the Air |
| We Lay Us Down to Sleep |
| Louisa May Alcott |
| Love’s Resurrection Day |
| William Hayes Ward. | To John Greenleaf Whittier |
| The New Castalia |
| Irving Browne. | My New World |
| At Shakespeare’s Grave |
| Man’s Pillow |
| Lucius Harwood Foote. | Poetry |
| On the Heights |
| Don Juan |
| El Vaquero |
| The Derelict |
| Theodore Tilton. | God Save the Nation |
| Cœur de Lion to Berengaria |
| The Flight from the Convent |
| Sir Marmaduke’s Musings |
| Mary Emily Bradley. | A Chrysalis |
| In Death |
| Beyond Recall |
| A Spray of Honeysuckle |
| John Aylmer Dorgan. | The Beautiful |
| The Dead Solomon |
| Frances Laughton Mace. | Alcyone |
| William Henry Venable. | The School Girl |
| My Catbird |
| Anna Callender Brackett. | Sonnets |
| Charles Frederick Johnson. | The Modern Romans |
| Then and Now |
| Celia Thaxter. | Seaward |
| The Sandpiper |
| Song |
| May Morning |
| William Winter. | My Queen |
| Asleep |
| The Night Watch |
| On the Verge |
| Adelaide Neilson |
| Arthur |
| The Passing Bell at Stratford |
| I. H. B. |
| Unwritten Poems |
| Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt. | After Wings |
| My Babes in the Wood |
| The Witch in the Glass |
| Tradition of Conquest |
| The Watch of a Swan |
| In Clonmel Parish Churchyard |
| A Call on Sir Walter Raleigh |
| An Irish Wild-Flower |
| Transfigured |
| The Term of Death |
| Envoy |
| David Gray. | On Lebanon |
| Divided |
| The Cross of Gold |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich. | Appreciation |
| To Hafiz |
| When the Sultan Goes to Ispahan |
| Palabras Cariñosas |
| Heredity |
| Identity |
| Unguarded Gates |
| Guilielmus Rex |
| Sargent’s Portrait of Edwin Booth at “The Players” |
| Tennyson |
| A Shadow of the Night |
| Sonnets |
| Prescience |
| Memory |
| Thalia |
| Quatrains |
| An Ode |
| A Petition |
| William Dean Howells. | In Earliest Spring |
| The Two Wives |
| From Generation to Generation |
| Change |
| If |
| Hope |
| Vision |
| Judgment Day |
| What Shall It Profit? |
| Forceythe Willson. | The Old Sergeant |
| From “In State” |
| William Reed Huntington. | Tellus |
| Authority |
| Margaret Elizabeth Sangster. | Whittier |
| Awakening |
| Henry Ames Blood. | Comrades |
| Shakespeare |
| Mary Mapes Dodge. | The Two Mysteries |
| Once Before |
| The Stars |
| Emerson |
| Shadow-Evidence |
| William Bull Wright. | From “The Brook” |
| John Hay. | Liberty |
| The Surrender of Spain |
| Christine |
| Pike County Ballads |
| Little Breeches |
| The Stirrup-Cup |
| Edna Dean Proctor. | From “The Song of the Ancient People” |
| Heaven, O Lord, I Cannot Lose |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates. | A Character |
| The Clue |
| Delay |
| Woodbines in October |
| The Living Book |
| James Ryder Randall. | My Maryland |
| John Pelham |
| Why the Robin’s Breast Was Red |
| Abram Joseph Ryan. | The Conquered Banner |
| A Child’s Wish |
| Francis Bret Harte. | At the Hacienda |
| Chiquita |
| Grizzly |
| Crotalus |
| “Jim” |
| The Society upon the Stanislaus |
| The Aged Stranger |
| Madroño |
| What the Bullet Sang |
| Stephen Henry Thayer. | Europa |
| Poet of Earth |
| The Waiting Chords |
| Rossiter Johnson. | Evelyn |
| A Soldier Poet |
| Amelia Walstien Carpenter. | The Ride to Cherokee |
| Recollection |
| Old Flemish Lace |
| John Lancaster Spalding. | Believe and Take Heart |
| The Starry Host |
| Silence |
| Forepledged |
| From “God and the Soul” |
| Henry Bernard Carpenter. | The Reed |
| Robert Kelley Weeks. | Medusa |
| A Song for Lexington |
| Man and Nature |
| John White Chadwick. | The Making of Man |
| The Golden-Robin’s Nest |
| Recognition |
| Starlight |
| The Rise of Man |
| His Mother’s Joy |
| A Wedding-Song |
| George Alfred Townsend. | Army Correspondent’s Last Ride |
| In Rama |
| Edward Rowland Sill. | The Fool’s Prayer |
| Before Sunrise in Winter |
| The Lover’s Song |
| The Coup de Grace |
| Tempted |
| Force |
| A Prayer |
| William Gordon McCabe. | Christmas Night of ’62 |
| Dreaming in the Trenches |
| Titus Munson Coan. | A Dream of Flowers |
| The Crystal |
| Nihil Humani Alienum |
| Nora Perry. | Cressid |
| The Love-Knot |
| Riding Down |
| Who Knows? |
| James Herbert Morse. | Silence |
| Brook Song |
| The Wild Geese |
| His Statement of the Case |
| The Wayside |
| Joaquin Miller. | Columbus |
| At the Grave of Walker |
| Westward Ho! |
| Crossing the Plains |
| Vaquero |
| By the Pacific Ocean |
| Twilight at the Heights |
| Dead in the Sierras |
| Peter Cooper |
| To Russia |
| The Voice of the Dove |
| Juanita |
| Joseph O’Connor. | What Was My Dream? |
| The General’s Death |
| Charles Goodrich Whiting. | Blue Hills beneath the Haze |
| The Eagle’s Fall |
| The Way to Heaven |
| Charles Edward Carryl. | The Song in the Dell |
| Robinson Crusoe |
| Sidney Lanier. | Song for “The Jaquerie” |
| Night and Day |
| The Stirrup-Cup |
| Song of the Chattahoochee |
| The Marshes of Glynn |
| The Mocking Bird |
| The Harlequin of Dreams |
| A Ballad of Trees and the Master |
| Sunrise |
| May Riley Smith. | My Uninvited Guest |
| Departure |
| Henry Abbey. | Donald |
| Winter Days |
| In Memory of General Grant |
| Faith’s Vista |
| Ambrose Bierce. | The Death of Grant |
| The Bride |
| Another Way |
| Montefiore |
| Presentiment |
| Creation |
| T. A. H. |
| Charles Warren Stoddard. | The Royal Mummy to Bohemia |
| Wind and Wave |
| Albatross |
| The Cocoa-Tree |
| Francis Fisher Browne. | Vanquished |
| Under the Blue |
| Santa Barbara |
| Mary Ainge De Vere. | The Wind-Swept Wheat |
| A Farewell |
| Faith Trembling |
| The Spinner |
| When the Most Is Said |
| Poet and Lark |
| A Breath |
| Friend and Lover |
| God Keep You |
| Additional Selections. |
| Hezekiah Butterworth. | The Thanksgiving in Boston Harbor |
| Guy Humphreys McMaster. | Carmen Bellicosum |
| William Cleaver Wilkinson. | At Marshfield |
| John Antrobus. | The Cowboy |
| Ethel Lynn Beers. | All Quiet along the Potomac |
| Charles Graham Halpine. | Sambo’s Right to Be Kilt |
| John Esten Cooke. | The Band in the Pines |
| Elbridge Jefferson Cutler. | The Volunteer |
| Henry Lynden Flash. | Stonewall Jackson |
| Nathaniel Graham Shepherd. | Roll-Call |
| Robert Henry Newell. | “Picciola” |
| Michael O’Connor. | Reveille |
| William Tuckey Meredith. | Farragut |
| Kate Putnam Osgood. | Driving Home the Cows |
| Anonymous. | Negro Spirituals |
| Augusta Cooper Bristol. | The Pyxidanthera |
| Constance Fenimore Woolson. | Yellow Jessamine |
| Mary Bolles Branch. | The Petrified Fern |
| Mary Elizabeth Blake. | The Dawning o’ the Year |
| David Law Proudfit. | The Willis |
| Samuel Willoughby Duffield. | Two of a Trade |
| Caroline Atherton Mason. | Sonnets |
| Mary Barker Dodge. | Now |
| William Augustus Croffut. | A Living Memory |
| John Burroughs. | Waiting |
| Mary Mathews Adams. | Dead Love |
| Laura Redden Searing. | Disarmed |
| Wendell Phillips Garrison. | Post-Meridian |
| Louisa May Alcott. | Thoreau’s Flute |
| John James Ingalls. | Opportunity |
| Edward Howland. | The Condemned |
| Minot Judson Savage. | My Birth |
| Sarah Knowles Bolton. | The Inevitable |
| Thomas Stephens Collier. | Quatrains |
| William Croswell Doane. | Ancient of Days |
| Phillips Brooks. | O Little Town of Bethlehem |
| Mary Frances Butts. | In Galilee |
| David Banks Sickels. | Reincarnation |
| Frank Sewall. | Roll Out, O Song |
| Mary Gardiner Brainard. | Not Knowing |
| Benjamin Dionysius Hill. | To St. Mary Magdalen |
| Eugene Henry Pullen. | Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep |
| Annie Douglas Robinson. | One Saturday |
| Marguerite Elizabeth Easter. | My Laddie’s Hounds |
| Charles Monroe Dickinson. | The Children |
| Laurence Hutton. | “The Doves of Venice” |
| Harriet S. Morgridge. | Mother Goose Sonnets |
| George Thomas Lanigan. | A Threnody |
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