Format:
Book
Title:
A treasury of American verse / edited by Walter Learned.
Author:
Learned, Walter, 1847-1915.
Call Number:
811.08 L479tr
Publisher, Date:
New York : F. A. Stokes Company, c1897.
Description:
xx, 307 p. ; 20 cm.
Subjects:
American poetry.
Contents:
List of Authors and their Poems : Anne Reeve Aldrich / Insomnia -- A Little Story -- A Prayer -- James Aldrich / A Death Bed -- Thomas Baily Aldrich / Identity -- A Snow Flake -- Love's Calendar -- Sleep -- Mary S. Bacon / Promoted -- George A. Baker / "Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamne" -- Arlo Bates / Speak Gently -- Mary G. Brainard / Not Knowing -- John G.C. Brainard / The Captain -- The Fall of Niagara -- Mary Bolles Branch / The Petrified Fern -- Phoebe H. Brown / Private Devotion -- William Cullen Bryant / Thanatopsis -- To a Water Fowl -- The Death of the Flowers -- Henry Cuyler Bunner / One, Two, Three -- The Old Flag -- Holiday Home -- Candor -- Richard Burton / God's Garden -- Masks -- The City -- Mortis Dignitas -- Across the Fields to Anne -- Phoebe Carey / Nearer Home -- Alice Carey / My Creed -- Charles Edward Carryl / Robinson Crusoe -- John Vance Cheney / At the Hearthside -- The Way of it -- After the cows -- McDonald Clarke / Love Under the Ledger -- Richard Coe, Jr. / Life -- Thomas S. Collier / Not Lost -- Helen Gray Cone / The Dandelions -- Rose Terry Cooke / Saint Symphorien -- Marc Cook (Vandyke Brown) / A Seaside Incident -- Eliza Cook / The Old Arm Chair -- Ina D. Coolbrith / "When the Grass Shall Cover Me" -- George Cooper / The Leaves and the Wind -- Henry S. Cornwell / My Owl -- Unrest -- December -- January -- February -- May -- Charles P. Cranch / Stanzas -- Mary Evelyn Moore Davis / Counsel -- Julia C.R. Door / Knowing -- Alexander W. Drake / Kensel Green -- Charles G. Eastman / The Farmer sat in his Easy Chair -- Maurice Egan / Theocritus -- Samuel R. Elliot / The Burden of Night -- Ralph Waldo Emerson / Hymn, (Sung at the completion of Concord Monument, April 19, 1846) -- The Humble-Bee -- Thomas Dunn English / Ben Bolt -- Edgar Fawcett / A Toad -- Wild Roses -- The Old Beau -- A Dead Friend -- Baby's Dreams -- Eugene Field / Little Boy Blue -- The Tea Gown -- James T. Fields / The Tempest -- Stephen Collins Foster / Old Folks at Home -- My Old Kentucky Home -- O, Boys, Carry me 'Long -- Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground -- William D. Gallagher / The Labourer -- William Lloyd Garrison / The Free Mind -- Richard Watson Gilder / "The Woods that bring the Sunset Near" -- The Sonnet -- Albert G. Greene / Old Grimes -- Sarah Pratt McLean Greene / De Massa ob de Sheepfol' -- Fitz-Greene Halleck / On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake -- Marco Bozzaris -- Annie D. Hanks / Example -- Francis Bret Harte / Dickens in Camp -- The Engineer's Signal -- William Hamilton Hayne / Loneliness -- John Langdon Heaton / The Inconsistent Sex -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson / Two Lessons -- Charles Fenno Hoffman / Sparkling and Bright -- Monterey -- Oliver Wendell Holmes / Old Ironsides -- The Music Grinders -- Before the Curfew -- The Last Leaf -- On Lending a Punch Bowl -- The Chambered Nautilus -- Joseph Hopkinson / Hail Columbia -- Ralph Hoyt / Old -- Ellen C. Howarth / 'Tis but a Little Faded Flower -- Julia Ward Howe / Battle Hymn of the Republic -- Helen Hunt Jackson / Two Truths -- When the Baby Died -- Coronation -- Best -- Robert Underwood Johnson / Illusions -- Francis Scott Key / The Star-Spangled Banner -- Harriet McEwen Kimball / The Crickets -- In Reverie -- George Kringle / Why Mother is Proud -- To-morrow's News -- Sidney Lanier / A Ballade of Trees and the Master -- On the Shore -- Lucy Larcom / A Strip of Blue -- George Parsons Lathrop / The Phoebe Bird -- The Flown Soul -- Marthy Virginia's Hand -- Jonathan Lawrence / Look Aloft -- Walter Learned / Consolation -- The Song of the Vane -- The Wayside Well -- The Last Reservation -- Five Little White Heads -- On a Fly Leaf of a Book of Old Plays -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / The Chamber Over the Gate -- A psalm of Life -- The Wreck of the Hesperus -- The Skeleton in Armor -- Resignation -- The Old Clock on the Stairs -- The Day is Done -- The Rainy Day -- The Arrow and the Song -- James Russell Lowell / Extreme Unction -- The First Snow Fall -- To the Dandelion -- An Incident in a Railway Car -- R.H. Messinger / Give me the Old -- Bessie Morgan / "Spacially Jim" -- George P. Morris / Woodman, Spare that Tree -- Near the Lake -- James Herbert Morse / Who Knows -- R.K. Munkittrick / June in January -- John Boyle O'Reilly / Dying in Harness -- Kate Putnam Osgood / Driving Home the Cows.
Henry Robinson Palmer / Two Views of War -- Ray Palmer / My Faith Looks up to Thee -- Thomas W. Parsons / On a Bust of Dante -- A Song for September -- John Howard Payne / Home, Sweet Home -- Samuel Minturn Peck / Little Bopeep and Little Boy Blue -- A Kiss in the Rain -- Nora Perry / In June -- The Love Knot -- Sarah M.B. Piatt / The Witch in the Glass -- John Pierpont / My Child -- E.C. Pinkney / A Health -- Edgar Allen Poe / To Helen -- Annabel Lee -- David L. Proudfit / Cousin Floy -- Thomas Buchann Read / The Brave at Home -- Sheridan's Ride -- The Summer Shower -- Drifting -- Lizette W. Reese / Elizabeth -- Anne -- James Whitcomb Riley / The Days Gone by -- A Boy's Mother -- A Life Lesson -- When She Comes Home -- The Lost Kiss -- Margaret E. Sangster / Our Own -- Clinton Scollard / In Solitude -- Perpetuity -- E. Rowland Sill / Opportunity -- Frank Dempster Sherman / Winter's Starlight -- Bacchus -- Samuel Francis Smith / America -- Yates Snowden / A South Carolina Bourbon, Aet, 79 -- Susan Marr Spaulding / Fate -- Edmund C. Stedman / The Doorstep -- The Wedding-day -- Toujours Amour -- Rowan Stephens / Cradle Song -- Richard Henry Stoddard / Never Again -- Sorrow and Joy -- Bayard Taylor / Proposal -- Bedouin Song -- The Song of the Camp -- Benjamin F. Taylor / The Old-Fashioned Choir -- Going Home -- The River of Time -- Celia Thaxter / The Sandpiper -- Edith M. Thomas / Revival of Romance -- Constancy -- The Night is Still -- Gray Hair in Youth -- Maurice Thompson / Farewell -- A.E. Watrous / Her First Train -- On a Forgotten By-way -- Charles Henry Webb / Alec. Dunham's Boat -- The King and the Pope -- Little Mamma -- Walt. Whitman / O Captain! My Captain! -- John Greenleaf Whittier / The Barefoot Boy -- The River Path -- Ichabod -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox / Solitude -- The Beautiful Land of Nod -- Mary E. Wilkins / Her Bonnet -- Nathaniel P. Willis / The Leper -- E.J. Wheeler / The Boy to the Schoolmaster -- Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney / Rags and Robes -- Humpty Dumpty -- Samuel Woodworth / The Old Oaken Bucket -- Anonymous / Good Night -- When the Little Boy Ran Away -- The Main Truck, of a Leap for Life -- Afeared of a Gal.