The Poets and Poetry of America



To

WASHINGTON ALLSTON

The eldest of the living poets of America

and the

most illustrious of her painters

This Work

is respectfully dedicated


 * /To the Reader/
 * /Historical Introduction/

Contents


 * Philip Freneau
 * The Dying Indian
 * The Indian Burying Ground/
 * To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw
 * To an Old Man
 * Columbus to Ferdinand
 * The Wild Honeysuckle
 * /Human Frailty/
 * The Prospect of Peace
 * To a Nighty-Fly, approaching a Candle
 * John Trumbull
 * Ode to Sleep
 * The Country Clown, from "The Progress of Dulness"
 * The Frop, from the same
 * Character of McFingal, from "{{wikidata link|Q6801174l|McFingal]]"
 * Extreme Humanity, from the same
 * The Decayed Coquette
 * Timothy Dwight
 * The Destruction of the Pequods
 * The Social Visit
 * The County Pastor
 * The Country Schoolmaster
 * The Battle of Ai, from "The Conquest of Canaan"
 * The Lamentation of Selima, from the same
 * Prediction to Joshua relative to America, from the same
 * Evening after a Battle, from the same
 * Columbia
 * David Humphreys
 * On the Prospect of Peace
 * Western Emigration
 * American Winter
 * Revolutionary Soldiers
 * Joel Barlow
 * The Hasty Pudding
 * Burning of the New England Villages, from "the Columbiad"
 * To Freedom, from the same
 * Morgan and Tell, from the same
 * The Zones of America, from the same
 * Richard Alsop
 * From a Monody on the Death of Washington
 * St. John Honeywood
 * Crimes and Punishments
 * A Radical Song of 1776
 * Reflections on seeing a Bull slain in the Country
 * Impromptu on an Order to kill the Dogs in Albany
 * William Clifton
 * Epistle to William Gifford, Esq.
 * Mary will smile
 * Robert Treat Paine
 * Adams and Liberty
 * Extract from a Monody on the Death of Sir John Moore
 * Extract from "The Ruling Passion"
 * Extract from the same
 * Extract from "The Invention of Letters"
 * Washington Allston
 * The Slyphs of the Seasons
 * America to Great Britain
 * The Spanish Maid
 * The Tuscan Maid
 * /Rosalie/
 * /To Rembrandt/
 * To Benjamin West
 * James Kirke Paulding
 * Ode to Jamestown
 * Passage dow the Ohio, from "The Backwoodsman"
 * Evening, from the same
 * Crossing the Alleghanies, from the same
 * The Old Man's Carousel
 * Levi Frisbie
 * A Castle in the Air
 * John Pierpoint
 * Passing Away
 * Ode for the Charlestown Centennial Celebration
 * My Child
 * Ode for the Massachusetts Mechanics' Charitable Association
 * Her Chosen Spot
 * The Pilgrim Fathers
 * Plymouth Dedication Hymn
 * The Exile at Rest
 * Jerusalem
 * The Power of Music, from "Airs of Palestine"
 * Obsequies of Spurzheim
 * Hymn for the Dedication of the Seam's Bethel, in Boston
 * The Sparking Bowl
 * Ode for the Fourth of July
 * Andrews Norton
 * To —, on the Death of a young Friend
 * Lines written after the Death of Charles Eliot
 * A Summer Shower
 * Hymn
 * To Mrs. —, on her Departure for Europe
 * Hymn for the Dedication of a Church
 * Fortitude
 * The Close of the Year
 * To Mrs. —, just after her Marriage
 * Funeral Hymn
 * A Winter Morning
 * Richard Henry Dana
 * The Buccaneer
 * The Ocean, from "Factitious Life"
 * Daybreak
 * Extract from "The Husband's and Wife's Grave"
 * The Little Beach-Bird
 * Richard Henry Wilde
 * Ode to Ease
 * Solomon and the Genius
 * A Farewell to America
 * Napoleon's Grave
 * "My life is like the summer rose"
 * To Lord Byron
 * To the Mocking-Bird
 * James A. Hillhouse
 * The Judgment
 * Hadad's Description of the City of Jerusalem
 * Untold Love, from "Demetria"
 * Scene from "Hadad"
 * Arthur's Soliloquey, from "Percy's Masque"
 * Charles Sprague
 * Curiosity
 * Shakspeare Ode
 * The Brothers
 * Art, an Ode
 * The Winged Worshippers
 * Dedication Hymn
 * To My Cigar
 * Centennial Ode
 * Lines to a Young Mother
 * "I see thee still"
 * Lines on the Death of M. S. C.
 * The Family Meeting
 * Hannah F. Gould
 * Changes on the Deep
 * The Snow-Flake
 * The Waterfall
 * The Winds
 * The Scar of Lexington
 * The Winter Burial
 * The Frost
 * The Robe
 * The Consignment
 * The Midnight Mail
 * The Ship is Ready
 * The Pebble and the Acorn
 * The Moon upon the Spire
 * The Child on the Beach
 * A Name in the Sand
 * Carlos Wilcox
 * Spring in New England, from "The Age of Benevolence"
 * A Summer Noon, from the same
 * September, from the same
 * Sunset in September, from the same
 * The Castle of Imagination, from "The Religion of Taste"
 * Rousseau and Cowper, from the same
 * The Cure of Melancholy, from the same
 * Sights and Sounds of the Night, from the same
 * Live for Eternity
 * Henry Ware, Jr.
 * To the Ursa Major
 * Seasons of Prayer
 * The Vision of Liberty
 * William Cullen Bryant
 * /Thanatopsis/
 * /A Forest Hymn/
 * Hymn to the North Star
 * The Prairies
 * Song of Marion's Men
 * To the Past
 * The Hunter of the Prairies
 * /After a Tempest/
 * The Rivulet
 * /June/
 * To the Evening Wind
 * Lines on Revisiting the Country
 * The Old Man's Counsel
 * An Evening Reverie, from an unfinished poem
 * /Hymn of the City/
 * /To a Waterfowl/
 * The Battle-Field
 * /The Death of the Flowers/
 * The Winds
 * Autumn Woods
 * John Neal
 * The Soldier's Visit to his Family, from "The Battle of Niagara"
 * Birth of a Poet
 * Ambition
 * Joseph Rodman Drake
 * /The Culprit Fay/
 * /Bronx/
 * /The American Flag/
 * To Sarah
 * Maria Brooks
 * Palace of Gnomes, from "Zophiel"
 * The Storm, from the same
 * Song, from the same
 * The Moon of Flowers
 * Morning
 * Marriage
 * James Gates Percival
 * Liberty to Athens
 * The Sun
 * Consumption
 * To the Eagles
 * Prevalence of Poetry
 * Clouds
 * Morning among the Hills
 * The Deserted Wife
 * The Coral Grove
 * Decline of the Imagination
 * Genius Slumbering
 * Genius Waking
 * New England
 * May
 * To Seneca Lake
 * The Last Days of Autumn
 * The Flight of Time
 * It is great for our Country to Die
 * Extract from "Prometheus"
 * Home
 * Fitz-Greene Halleck
 * /To a Rose, brought from near Alloway Kirk, Ayrshire, in 1822/
 * Red Jacket, Chief of the Tuscaroras
 * Connecticut
 * /Marco Bozzaris/
 * John G. C. Brainard
 * Jerusalem
 * Connecticut River
 * Lines on the Death of Mr. Woodward, at Edinburgh
 * On a late Loss
 * Sonnet to the Sea-Serpent
 * The Fall of Niagara
 * On the Death of a Friend
 * Epithalamium
 * To the Dead
 * The Deep
 * Mr. Merry's Lament for "Long Tom"
 * Indian Summer
 * "The dead leaves strew the forest-walk"
 * The Storm of War
 * The Guerilla
 * The Sea-Bird's Song
 * To the Daughter of a Friend
 * Salmon River
 * Samuel Griswold Goodrich
 * Birthright of the Humming-Birds
 * The River
 * The Leaf
 * Lake Superior
 * The Sportive Sylphs
 * Isaac Clason
 * Napoleon, from the seventeenth Canto of Don Juan
 * Jealousy, from the same
 * Early Love, from the same
 * All is Vanity, from the eighteenth canto of Don Juan
 * Lydia Huntley Sigourney
 * The Western Emigrant
 * Niagara
 * Winter
 * Napoleon's Epitaph
 * The Mother of Washington
 * Felicia Hemans
 * The Alpine Flowers
 * Contentment
 * /The Widow's Charge at her Daughter's Burial/
 * Bernardine du Born
 * Thoughts at the Grave of Sir Walter Scott
 * [[/A Butterfly at a Child's Grave]/]
 * Indian Girl's Burial
 * Barzillai the Gileadite
 * Death of an Infant
 * The Pilgrim Fathers
 * Indian Names
 * George Washington Doane
 * On a very old Wedding-Ring
 * The Voices of Rama
 * That Silent Moon
 * Thermopylae
 * The Waters of Marah
 * "What is that, Mother?"
 * A Cherub
 * Lines by the Lake Side
 * The Christian's Death
 * William B. O. Peabody
 * Hymn of Nature
 * To William
 * Monadnock
 * The Winter-Night
 * Death
 * Autumn Evening
 * Robert C. Sands
 * Poem to "Yamoyden"
 * Dream of the Princess Papantzin
 * Monody on the death of Samuel Patch
 * Evening, from "Yamoyden"
 * Weehawken
 * The Green Isle of Lovers
 * The Dead of 1832
 * Parting
 * Conclusion to "Yamoyden"
 * Nora's Song, from "Yamoyden"
 * Woman, from the same
 * Good-Night
 * Greenville Mellen
 * English Scenery
 * Mount Washington
 * The Bugle
 * On Seeing an Eagle pass near me in Autumn Twilight
 * The True Glory of America
 * George Hill
 * Extract from "The Ruins of Athens"
 * The Mountain Girl
 * The Might of Greece, from "The Ruins of Athens"
 * The Fall of the Oak
 * Sonnets to Liberty, A Young Mother, and Spring
 * Nobility
 * James G. Brooks
 * Greece—1832
 * To the Dying Year
 * To the Autumn Leaf
 * The Last Song
 * Joy and Sorrow
 * Albert B. Greene
 * The Baron's Last Banquet
 * To the Weathercock on our Steeple
 * "Oh, think not that the bosom's light"
 * William Leggett
 * A Sacred Melody
 * Love and Friendship
 * "I trust the frown thy features wear"
 * Life's Guiding Star
 * To Elmira
 * Edward C. Pinkney
 * /Italy/
 * The Indian's Bride
 * "We break a glass whose sacred wine"
 * /A Health/
 * The Voyager's Song
 * A Picture-Song
 * The Old Tree
 * To —
 * /Elysium/
 * To H—
 * /Serenade/
 * /The Widow's Song/
 * "I need not name thy thrilling name"
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * Each in All
 * "Good-bye, proud world!"
 * /To the Humble-Bee/
 * /The Rhodora/
 * /The Snow-Storm/
 * Sumner Lincoln Fairfield
 * Destruction of Pompeii, from "The Last Night of Pompeii"
 * Visions of Romance
 * An Evening Song of Piedmont
 * Rufus Dawes
 * Lancaster
 * Anne Boleyn
 * Sunrise, from Mount Washington
 * Spirit of Beauty
 * Love Unchangeable
 * Extract from "Geraldine"
 * Edmund D. Griffin
 * Lines Written on Leaving Italy
 * Description of Love by Venus
 * Emblems
 * To a Lady
 * J. H. Bright
 * The Vision of Death
 * He Wedded Again
 * "Should Sorrow o'er thy brow"
 * George D. Prentice
 * The Closing Year
 * Lines to a Lady
 * The Dead Mariner
 * Sabbath Evening
 * To a Lady
 * Lines written at my Mother's Grave
 * William Croswell
 * The Synagogue
 * The Clouds
 * The Ordinal
 * Christmas Eve
 * The Death of Stephen
 * The Christmas Offering
 * Walter Colton
 * The Sailor
 * To my Pipe
 * Byron
 * The Last Wreck
 * To Cathara
 * My First Love, and my Last
 * Unrequited Love, and Suicide
 * The Parting
 * Charles Fenno Hoffman
 * Moonlight on the Hudson
 * Thaw-King's Visit to New York
 * Lines written in a Lady's Prayer-Book
 * To a Belle who talked of Giving up the World
 * The Bob-o'Linkum
 * The Forester
 * The Myrtle and Steel
 * Epitaph upon a Dog
 * Anacreontic
 * A Hunter's Matin
 * Love and Politics
 * What is Solitude?
 * The Student's Song
 * "Withering—withering—all are withering"
 * Inscription for a Lady's Flora
 * "I do not love thee—by my word I do not!"
 * Trust in thee? Ay, dearest! there's no one but must"
 * "I know thou dost love me—ay! frown as thou wilt"
 * "I knew not how I loved thee—no!"
 * Indian Summer, 1828
 * Town Repinings
 * To a Lady Blushing
 * The Farewell
 * "I will love her no more—'tis a waste of the heart"
 * Boat-Song
 * Morning Hymn
 * The Western Hunter to his Mistress
 * Thy Name
 * Rosalie Clare
 * "Think of me, dearest"
 * "We parted in sadness"
 * The Origin of Mint Juleps
 * Sparkling and Bright
 * "Why seek her heart to understand"
 * "Ask me not why I should love her"
 * "She loves, but 'tis not me she loves"
 * "I know I share thy smiles with many"
 * Language of Flowers
 * To an Autumn Rose
 * "Where dost thou loiter, Spring?"
 * Serenade
 * Lines written in Spring-Time
 * A Portrait
 * Melody
 * Dream
 * Mrs. Seba Smith
 * The Acorn
 * The Drowned Mariner
 * To the Hudson
 * N. P. Willis
 * Melanie
 * The Confessional
 * Lines on Leaving Europe
 * /Spring/
 * /To Ermengarde/
 * Hagar in the Wilderness
 * Thoughts while making a Grave for a first Child, born dead
 * /The Belfry Pigeon/
 * /April/
 * /The Annoyer/
 * /To a Face Beloved/
 * Edward Sanford
 * Address to Black-Hawk
 * To a Mosquito
 * J. O. Rockwell
 * The Sum of Life
 * To Ann
 * The Lost at Sea
 * The Death-Bed of Beauty
 * To the Ice-Mountain
 * The Prisoner for Debt
 * To a Wave
 * Thomas Ward
 * Musings on Rivers
 * To the Magnolia
 * To an Infant in Heaven
 * John H. Bryant
 * The New England Pilgrim's Funeral
 * A Recollection
 * My Native Village
 * The Indian Summer
 * The Blind Restored to Sight
 * Two Sonnets
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 * /A Psalm of Life/
 * T/he Light of Stars/
 * /Endymion/
 * /Footsteps of Angels/
 * /The Beleaguered City/
 * It is not always May/
 * /Midnight Mass for the Dying Year/
 * /The Village Blacksmith/
 * /Excelsior/
 * /The Rainy Day/
 * Maidenhood
 * William Gilmore Simms
 * The Slain Eagle
 * /The Brooklet/
 * The Shaded Water
 * To the Breeze
 * The Lost Pleiad
 * The Edge of the Swamp
 * Changes of Home
 * George Lunt
 * Autumn Musings
 * Jewish Battle-Song
 * "Pass on, relentless world"
 * Hampton Beach
 * Pilgrim Song
 * The Lyre and Sword
 * Bloody Brook
 * Jonathan Lawrence
 * Thoughts of a Student
 * Sea-Song
 * Look Aloft
 * To May
 * Louisa J. Hall
 * A Scene from "Miriam"
 * Prayer
 * Miriam to Paulus
 * Emma C. Embury
 * Autumn Evening
 * The Old Man's Lament
 * Stanzas on the Death of the Duke of Reichstadt
 * Peace
 * Madame de Stael
 * Ballad
 * Sonnet
 * John Greenleaf Whittier
 * Mogg Megone
 * The Female Martyr
 * The Frost Spirit
 * The Cypress-Tree of Ceylon
 * The Worship of Nature
 * The Funeral Tree of the Sokokis
 * Palestine
 * Pentucket
 * Lines on the Death of S. Oliver Torrey, of Boston
 * The Prisoner for Debt
 * The Merrimack
 * St. John
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes
 * The Cambridge Churchyard
 * An Evening Thought
 * La Grisette
 * The Treadmill Song
 * Departed Days
 * The Dilemma
 * The Star and the Water-Lily
 * The Music-Grinders
 * The Philosopher to his Love
 * L'Inconnue
 * The Last Reader
 * The Last Leaf
 * Old Ironsides
 * "Strange! that one lightly-whisper'd tone"
 * The Steamboat
 * Albert Pike
 * Hymns to the Gods
 * To Neptune
 * To Apollo
 * To Venue
 * To Diana
 * To Mercury
 * To Bacchus
 * To Somnus
 * To Ceres


 * To the Planet Jupiter
 * To the Mocking-Bird
 * To Spring
 * Lines Written on the Rocky Mountains
 * Park Benjamin
 * Gold
 * Upon seeing a Portrait of a Lady
 * The Stormy Petrel
 * The Nautilus
 * To one Beloved
 * The Tired Hunter
 * The Departed
 * "I am not old"
 * The Dove's Errand
 * "How cheery are the mariners?"
 * Lines spoken by a Blind Boy
 * The Elysian Isle
 * Sonnets
 * A Great Name
 * Indolence
 * Sport
 * M. I.
 * To My Sister
 * To ——
 * To ——
 * To a Lady with a Bouquet
 * New York Harbor, on a Calm Day
 * A Monument to Walter Scott
 * Twilight
 * Spring
 * The Stars
 * Written while Departing for Italy
 * Domestic Love


 * Willis Gaylord Clark
 * A Lament
 * Memory
 * Song of May
 * Death of the First-Born
 * Summer
 * The Early Dead
 * The Signs of God
 * Euthanasia
 * An Invitation
 * The Burial-Place at Laurel-Hill, near Philadelphia
 * A Contrast
 * The Faded One
 * A Remembrance
 * William D. Gallagher
 * To the West
 * August
 * Spring Verses
 * May
 * Our Early Days
 * The Labourer
 * The Mothers of the West
 * James Freeman Clarke
 * Hymn and Prayer
 * The Poet
 * Jacob's Well
 * The Violet
 * To a Bunch of Flowers
 * Elizabeth F. Ellet
 * The Delaware Water-Gap
 * Susquehanna
 * Lake Ontario
 * Sodus Bay
 * To a Waterfall
 * To the Condor
 * The Isle of Rest
 * The Vanity of the Vulgar Great
 * A Parallel
 * Lake George
 * To the Whip-poor-will
 * "Come, fill a pledge to sorrow"
 * James Aldrich
 * Morn at Sea
 * A Death-bed
 * My Mother's Grave
 * A Spring-Day Walk
 * To One far Away
 * Beatrice
 * "Underneath this marble cold"
 * The Dreaming Girl
 * Anna Peyre Dinnies
 * Wedded Love
 * To a White Chrysanthemum
 * Thoughts in Autumn
 * The Wife
 * "I could not hush that constant theme"
 * The Heart
 * Happiness
 * Edgar A. Poe
 * Coliseum
 * The Haunted Palace
 * The Sleeper
 * Isaac McLellan, Jr.
 * New England's Dead
 * The Death of Napoleon
 * The Notes of the Birds
 * Lines suggested by a Picture by Washington Allston
 * The Passion for Life
 * June
 * Jones Very
 * To the Painted Columbine
 * Lines to a Withered Leaf, seen on a Poet's Table
 * The Heart
 * Sonnets
 * To the Canary Bird
 * "Thy beauty fades, and with it too my love"
 * The Wind-Flower
 * Enoch
 * Morning
 * Night
 * The Spirit-Land
 * The Trees of Life
 * The Ark
 * Nature
 * The Tree
 * The Son
 * The Robin
 * The Rail-Road
 * The Latter Rain


 * Alfred B. Street
 * The Gray Forest-Eagle
 * Fowling
 * A Forest Walk
 * Winter
 * The Settler
 * An American Forest in Spring
 * The Lost Hunter
 * William H. Burleigh
 * Elegiac Stanzas
 * "Let there be light!"
 * June
 * Spring
 * Requiem
 * Stanzas written on visiting my Birth-place
 * To H. A. B.
 * To ——
 * "Believe not the slander, my dearest Katrine!"
 * Sonnets
 * The Brook
 * The Times
 * Solitude
 * Rain
 * The Pilgrim Fathers


 * William Jewett Pabodie
 * "Go forth into the fields"
 * To the Autumn Forest
 * Lines on the Death of a Friend
 * Our Country
 * "I hear thy voice, O Spring!
 * "I stood beside the grave of him"
 * Louis Legrand Noble
 * The Cripple-Boy
 * Love and Beauty
 * A Little Green Isle
 * C. P. Cranch
 * The Music of the Spheres
 * The Blind Seer
 * The Hours
 * "Thought is deeper than all speech"
 * My Thoughts
 * Beauty
 * On hearing triumphant Music
 * Henry Theodore Tuckerman
 * Mary
 * The Ringlet
 * To an Elm
 * Tri-Mountain
 * Love and Fame
 * Greenough's Washington
 * Epes Sargent
 * Records of a Summer-Voyage to Cuba
 * The Departure
 * The Gale
 * Morning after the Gale
 * To a Land-Bird
 * A Thought of the Past
 * Tropical Weather
 * A Calm
 * A Wish
 * A Tropical Night
 * The Planet Jupiter
 * To Egeira
 * Cuba


 * The Days that are Past
 * The Martyr of the Arena
 * Summer in the Heart
 * The Fugitive from Love
 * The Night-Storm at Sea
 * Lucy Hooper
 * Oseola
 * The Daughter of Herodias
 * "Time, Faith, Energy"
 * "Give me armour of proof"
 * Lines suggested by a scene in "Master Humphrey's Clock"
 * Arthur Cleveland Coxe
 * Manhood
 * Old Churches
 * The Heart's Song
 * The Chimes of England
 * March
 * James Russell Lowell
 * Rosaline
 * The Beggar
 * "Lift up the curtains of thine eyes"
 * Sonnets
 * Anne
 * The Way of Life
 * To a Friend
 * The Poet
 * Green Mountains
 * The Dead
 * Love
 * Caroline


 * Amelia B. Welty
 * The Presence of God
 * To the Memory of a Friend
 * To a Sea-Shell
 * My Sisters
 * "I know that thy spirit"
 * Lucretia and Margaret Davidson
 * A Prophecy
 * To Mrs. Townsend
 * "I would fly from the city"
 * To my Mother

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