“By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.”

AMERICAN POETRY

WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO

POE, LONGFELLOW, LOWELL,

AND WHITTIER

EDITED BY

MARGARET SPRAGUE CARHART, A.M.

TEACHER OF ENGLISH IN PASADENA HIGH SCHOOL

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1922

All rights reserved

EducT799, 22, 263

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM THE LIBRARY OF
PROF. GEORGE F. SWAIN

OCT. 20, 1933

COPYRIGHT, 1917,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set
up

and electrotyped. Published January, 1917,

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co. -- Berwick & Smith Co.

Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE

xi

1

INTRODUCTION .

SELECTIONS:

ANNE BRADSTREET:

Contemplation.

MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH :

The Day of Doom

PHILIP FRENEAU:

The Wild Honeysuckle

To a Honey Bee

The Indian Burying-Ground

Eutaw Springs .

FRANCIS HOPKINSON :

The Battle of the Kegs

JOSEPH HOPKINSON :

Hail Columbia

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10

12

14

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TIMOTHY DWIGHT:

Love to the Church

26

SAMUEL WOODWORTH :

The Old Oaken Bucket

28

30

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35

38

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WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT :

Thanatopsis

The Yellow Violet

To a Waterfowl

Green River

The West Wind

"I Broke the Spell that Held Me Long”

A Forest Hymn

The Death of the Flowers

The Gladness of Nature

To the Fringed Gentian

Song of Marion's Men

The Crowded Street

The Snow-Shower

Robert of Lincoln

The Poet

Abraham Lincoln

40

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FRANCIS SCOTT KEY:

The Star-Spangled Banner

59

JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE :

The American Flag

The Culprit Fay

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