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100 essential American poems
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From the Book - 1st ed.
The prologue / by Anne Bradstreet
The author to her book / by Anne Bradstreet
Before the birth of one of her children / by Anne Bradstreet
To my dear and loving husband / by Anne Bradstreet
Amazing grace / by John Newton
Yankee doodle dandy / traditional
The star-spangled banner / by Francis Scott Key
A visit from St. Nicholas / by Clement Clarke Moore
Thanatopsis / by William Cullen Bryant
Concord hymn / by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Paul Revere's ride / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The village blacksmith / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A psalm of life / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Barbara Frietchie / by John Greenleaf Whittier
Snow-bound / by John Greenleaf Whittier
Old Ironsides / by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The chambered nautilus / by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The deacon's masterpiece, or The wonderful "one-hoss shay" / by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The raven / by Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen / by Edgar Allan Poe
The bells / by Edgar Allan Poe
What is so rare as a day in June from "The vision of Sir Launfal" / by Jaems Russell Lowell
Billy in the Darbies / by Herman Melville
What is the grass from Leaves of grass / by Walt Whitman
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking / by Walt Whitman
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry / by Walt Whitman
A noiseless patient spider / by Walt Whitman
I hear America singing / by Walt Whitman
When I heard the learn'd astronomer / by Walt Whitman
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / by Walt Whitman
Battle-hymn of the republic / by Julia Ward Howe
Do down, Moses / traditional
Follow the drinking gourd / tradtional
Jeanie with the light brown hair / by Stephen C. Foster
Old folks at home / by Stephen C. Foster
Wild nights!
wild nights! /
by Emily Dickinson
There is no frigate like a book / by Emily Dickinson
"Hope" is the thing with feathers / by Emily Dickinson
I taste a liquor never brewed / by Emily Dickinson
I'm nobody! Who are you? / by Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death / by Emily Dickinson
The face on the barroom floor / by Hugh Antoine D'Arcy
Git along, little dogies / traditional
Sioux ghost dance / translated by James Mooney
The new Colossus / by Emma Lazarus
Little boy blue / by Eugene Feld
Casey at the bat / by Ernest Thayer
Richard Cory / by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Anne Rutledge from Spoon River anthology / by Edgar Lee Masters
A man said to the universe / by Stephen Crane
In the desert (from The black riders and other lives) / by Stephen Crane
The cremation of Sam McGee / by Robert W. Service
The shooting of Dan McGrew / by Robert W. Service
Lfit every voice and sing / by James Weldon Johnson
We wear the mask / by Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Congo / by Vachel Lindsay
A decade / by Amy Lowell
The gift outright / by Robert Frost
The road not taken / by Robert Frost
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / by Robert Frost
Mending wall / by Robert Frost
Death of the hired man / by Robert Frost
Chicago / by Carl Sandburg
Fog / by Carl Sandburg
Grass / by Carl Sandburg
The emperor of ice cream / by Wallace Stevens
Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / by Wallace Stevens
Home / by Edgar Guest
The red wheelbarrow / by William Carlos Williams
This is just to say / by William Carlos Williams
Ancient music / by Ezra Pound
Trees / by Joyce Kilmer
Poetry / by Marianne Moore
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The waste land / by Thomas Stearns Eliot
First fig / by Edna St. Vincent Millay
I, being born a woman and distressed / by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Spring / by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Recuerdo / by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Second fig / by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Résumé / by Dorothy Parker
Buffalo Bill's / by E.E. Cummings
In just- / by E.E. Cummings
Poem: to Brooklyn Bridge / by Hart Crane
Dream deferred / by Langston Hughes
Mother to son / by Langston Hughes
Song of the open road / by Ogden Nash
Reflections on ice-breaking / by Ogden Nash
Cross roads blues / by Robert Johnson
Stagger Lee / traditional
One art / by Elizabeth Bishop
This land is your land / by Woody Guthrie
The death of the ball turret gunner / by Randall Jarrell
For the union dead / by Robert Lowell
We real cool / by Gwendolyn Brooks
Sound off marching cadence count / dereived from the Duckworth Chant, orignially attributed to Pvt. Willie Duckworth
The day Lady died / by Frank O'Hara
A supermarket in California / by Allen Ginsburg
Daddy / by Sylvia Plath
Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes / by Billy Collins.
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