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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908).  An American Anthology, 1787–1900.  1900.

(The Quarter Century Preceding Bryant and His Contemporaries)

I. Early Years of the Nation

Edmund Clarence Stedman. Prelude
Philip Freneau. Eutaw Springs
Epitaph
Song of Thyrsis
The Wild Honeysuckle
The Indian Burying-Ground
Death’s Epitaph
The Parting Glass
On the Ruins of a Country Inn
On a Travelling Speculator
The Scurrilous Scribe
To a Caty-Did
To a Honey Bee
Plato to Theon
Anonymous. The Yankee Man-of-War
Timothy Dwight. The Smooth Divine
Love to the Church
St. George Tucker. Days of My Youth
St. John Honeywood. Darby and Joan
Alexander Wilson. The Fisherman’s Hymn
The Blue-Bird
John Quincy Adams. To Sally
The Lip and the Heart
Joseph Hopkinson. Hail Columbia
John Shaw. Song
Sleighing Song
Clement Clarke Moore. A Visit from St. Nicholas
Francis Scott Key. The Star-Spangled Banner
James Kirke Paulding. The Old Man’s Carousal
Washington Allston. America to Great Britain
Rosalie
On the Late S. T. Coleridge
Thomas Hastings. The Latter Day
In Sorrow
Exhortation
Samuel Woodworth. The Bucket
Loves she like me?
Richard Henry Dana. The Little Beach-Bird
Immortality
The Chanting Cherubs
The Moss supplicateth for the Poet
Sarah Josepha Hale. Alice Ray
The Watcher
James Abraham Hillhouse. The Demon-Lover
Richard Henry Wilde. Stanzas
A Farewell to America
To the Mocking-Bird
  Additional Selections.
William Martin Johnson. On Snow-Flakes melting on His Lady’s Breast
Daniel Webster. On the Death of My Son Charles
Phoebe Hinsdale Brown. Private Devotion
Andrews Norton. Hymn for the Dedication of a Church
Emma Hart Willard. Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep
Lavinia Stoddard. The Soul’s Defiance
Hannah Flagg Gould. A Name in the Sand
James Fenimore Cooper. My Brigantine