Cotton Mather.
1663–1728. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
On the Death of his Son |
On the Death of his Daughter |
Lines to the Memory of Wilson |
Lines to the Memory of Thompson |
Roger Wolcott.
1679–1767. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Brief Account of the Agency of the Hon. John Winthrop |
Michael Wigglesworth.
1631–1705. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Vanity of Vanities |
The Day of Doom |
Benjamin Colman.
1673–1747. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
On Elijah’s Translation |
Jane Turell.
1708–1735. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
A Paraphrase of the One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Psalm |
To My Muse |
On the Poems of Sir Richard Blackmore |
An Invitation into the Country, in Imitation of Horace |
John Adams.
1705–1740. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Address to the Supreme Being |
Version of the Apocalypse |
Translation of an Ode of Horace |
James Ralph.
c. 1705–1762. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Zeuma, or the Love of Liberty |
John Maylem.
1739–1762?. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Conquest of Louisbourg |
Thomas Godfrey.
1736–1763. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Court of Fancy |
Epistle to a Friend |
Nathaniel Evans.
1742–1767. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Epistolary Ode to a Friend |
Ode on the Prospect of Peace, 1761 |
Ode to My Ingenious Friend, Mr Thomas Godfrey |
Hymn to May |
Verses for the New Year, 1762 |
Elegy to the Memory of Mr Thomas Godfrey |
John Osborn.
1713–1753. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
A Whaling Song |
Elegiac Epistle |
Mather Byles.
1706–1788. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Conflagration |
The God of Tempest and Earthquake |
Elegy |
Hymn Written During a Voyage |
Joseph Green.
1706–1780. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Lines on Byles’s Voyage |
A Mournful Lamentation for the Death of Mr Old Tenor |
Fragments |
William Livingston.
1723–1790. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Philosophic Solitude |
Benjamin Church.
1734–1778. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Times |
Lines on the Accession of George II |
James Allen.
1739–1808. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Lines on the Massacre |
The Retrospect |
An Intended Inscription for the Monument on Beacon-Hill, in Boston |
On Washington’s Visit to Boston, 1789 |
Benjamin Franklin.
1706–1790. | Paper |
John Trumbull.
1750–1831. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
M’Fingal, Canto III |
Jonathan Mitchel Sewall.
1748–1808. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
War and Washington |
Francis Hopkinson.
1737–1791. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Battle of the Kegs |
Songs |
Lines on the Quarrel among the Students in Anatomy in Philadelphia |
Ann Eliza Bleecker.
1752–1783. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
To Miss Ten Eyck |
To Mr Bleecker, on His Passage to New York |
An Evening Prospect |
Peace |
Return to Tomhanick |
Margaretta V. Faugeres.
1771–1801. | The Hudson |
On a Painter |
Timothy Dwight.
1752–1817. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Destruction of the Pequods |
The Farmer’s Advice to the Villagers |
Columbia |
The Critics |
The Worship of the Gibeonites |
Battle before the Walls of Ai |
Evening after a Battle |
Procession of Israelitish Virgins to Meet the Returning Army |
Lamentation of Selima for the Death of Irad |
David Humphreys.
1752–1818. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Address to the Armies of the United States |
The Monkey Who Shaved Himself and His Friends |
Lemuel Hopkins.
1750–1801. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Anarchiad |
On a Patient Killed by a Cancer Quack |
The Hypocrite’s Hope |
Philip Freneau.
1752–1832. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Dying Indian |
The Wild Honeysuckle |
The Man of Ninety |
The Indian Student: or, Force of Nature |
The Hurricane |
The Five Ages |
Epistle to a Gay Young Lady Who Was Married to a Doating Old Deacon |
The Indian Burying Ground |
To the Memory of the Brave Americans under General Greene, in South Carolina, Who Fell in the Action of September 8, 1781 |
Port Royal |
Elijah Fitch.
1746–1788. | The Beauties of Religion |
| Sarah Porter. | The Royal Penitent, Part II |
William Moore Smith.
1759–1821. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Fall of Zampor |
Ode to Meditation |
Lampoon |
John D. M’Kinnon.
1767–1830. | The Mohawk |
Samuel Low.
b. 1765. | Winter |
To a Violet |
To a Segar |
To the Genius of Poetry |
Benjamin Pratt.
1710–1763. | Death |
Joseph Lathrop.
1731–1820. | The Existence of a Deity |
Stephen Sewall.
1734–1804. | On the Death of George II |
James Bowdoin.
1727–1790. | Woman |
John Lowell.
1744–1822. | Lines |
Peter Oliver.
1713–1791. | Lines |
Joseph Brown Ladd.
1764–1786. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Arouet to Amanda |
Remonstrance of Almasa Allicawn, Wife of Almas Allicawn, to Warren Hastings |
The War Horse |
Retirement |
What Is Happiness? |
| Edward Church. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Dangerous Vice ********* |
| Samuel Ewing. | Reflections in Solitude |
St George Tucker.
1752–1827. | Stanzas |
Joseph Hopkinson.
1770–1842. | Hail Columbia |
Richard B. Davis.
1771–1799. | To a Sleeping Infant |
Thou Art the Muse |
To Emma |
Joel Barlow.
1754–1812. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Hasty Padding |
From the Vision of Columbus |
Embassy of Rocha |
George Richards.
b. c. 1760–1814. | The Declaration of Independence |
Mercy Otis Warren.
1728–1814. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Simplicity |
Thomas Dawes.
1757–1825. | The Law Given at Sinai |
Richard Devens.
1749–1835. | Paraphrase of Job |
Samuel Dexter.
1761–1816. | The Progress of Science |
St John Honeywood.
1765–1798. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
On the President’s Farewell Address |
On the Capture of Rome by the French |
Modern Argumentation |
Royall Tyler.
1757–1826. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Country Ode for the Fourth of July |
My Mistresses |
Address to Della Crusca |
Choice of a Wife |
On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country |
The Town Eclogue |
Richard Alsop.
1761–1815. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Echo No. 1 |
Verses to the Shearwater—On the Morning after a Storm at Sea |
The Incantation of Ulfo |
Theodore Dwight.
1764–1846. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
African Distress |
Echo No. 14 |
Lines on the Death of Washington |
Lines Addressed to a Mother, Who Had Been Absent from Home Several Weeks, on Her Seeing Her Infant Child Asleep |
Sarah Wentworth Morton.
1759–1846. | The African Chief |
Josias Lyndon Arnold.
1768–1796. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
A Modern Eclogue |
The Warrior’s Death Song |
Fragment, Descriptive of Those Extraordinary Animals Whose Bones Have Been Found in the Western Country |
Song |
William Boyd.
1777–1800. | Woman |
William Cliffton.
1772–1799. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Mary Will Smile |
To a Robin |
To Fancy |
A Flight of Fancy |
Robert Treat Paine.
1773–1811. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Adams and Liberty |
The Street Was a Ruin |
Ode Sung at the Anniversary of the Faustus Association |
John Lathrop.
1772–1820. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Speech of Canonicus |
Joseph Story.
1779–1845. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
From the Power of Solitude |
David Everett.
1770–1813. | A Branch of the Maple |
Thomas Green Fessenden.
1771–1837. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Elegy on the Death of Washington |
An Ode |
Tabitha Towzer |
Signior Squeak’s Dancing Advertisement |
John Blair Linn.
1777–1804. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Powers of Genius |
John Shaw.
1778–1809. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Autumnal Flower |
Song |
William Leigh Pierce.
1790?–1814. | The Year |
Lucius M. Sargent.
1786–1867. | The Plunderer’s Grave |
William Ray.
1771–1826. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Tripoli |
The Way to Be Happy |
Village Greatness |
William Crafts.
1787–1826. | Rapids in Love |
Serenade Song |
Selleck Osborn.
1783–1826. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Ruins |
The Quarrels of Love |
The Sailor |
Washington Allston.
1779–1842. | The Paint King |
William Maxwell.
1784–1857. | The Revery |
The Prize |
Tea |
To a Fair Lady |
Robert S. Coffin.
1797–1827. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Song |
William B. Walter.
c. 1796–1822. | Romance |
Richard Dabney.
1787?–1825. | The Spring of Life |
A Western War Song |
The Heroes of the West |
Turn Not to the East |
To a Lady |
Washington Irving.
1783–1859. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Falls of the Passaic |
Henry T. Farmer.
1782–1828. | The Battle of the Isle |
James K. Paulding.
1778–1860. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Backwoodsman |
Paul Allen.
1775–1826. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Noah, Canto II |
John Milton Harney.
1789–1825. | Crystalina |
Lydia H. Sigourney.
1791–1865. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Excuse for Not Fulfilling an Engagement |
The Coral Insect |
Death of an Infant |
With Wild Flowers to a Sick Friend |
Missolonghi |
Burial of the Young |
To the Moon |
A Vision of the Alps |
Connecticut River |
Flora’s Party |
Musing Thoughts |
Robert C. Sands.
1797?–1819. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Yamoyden |
Robert Dinsmoor.
1757–1836. | The Braes of Glenniffer |
Samuel Woodworth.
1784–1842. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Bucket |
The Landsend |
Love’s Eyes |
The Pride of the Valley |
Wreath of Love |
John Pierpont.
1785–1866. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Airs of Palestine |
The Pilgrim Fathers |
Warren’s Address to the American Soldiers, before the Battle of Bunker Hill |
On Laying the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument |
Independence |
For a Lady’s Album |
Henry Pickering.
1781–1838. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
To a Beautiful Lake |
Daphne |
Flowers |
I Thought It Slept |
To the Fringilla Melodia |
The Waterfall |
Descriptive Sonnets |
Henry C. Knight.
1789–1835. | The Country Oven |
Francis Scott Key.
1779–1843. | The Star-Spangled Banner |
Katharine A. Ware.
1797–1843. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
There Is a Voice |
Greece |
The Parting |
Sarah J. Hale.
1788–1879. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Father’s Choice |
The Victor’s Crown |
The Light of Home |
The Gifts |
The Mother to Her Child |
Enoch Lincoln.
1788–1829. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Village |
John C. M’Call.
1793–1846. | The Troubadour |
Edwin C. Holland.
1794–1824. | The Pillar of Glory |
Rise Columbia |
Daniel Bryan.
1795–1866. | Lafayette |
Alonzo Lewis.
1794–1861. | Death Song |
The Minstrel’s Love |
The Wanderer of Africa |
Nathaniel A. Haven.
1790–1826. | Lines on Frederic the Great |
The Purse of Charity |
Autumn |
James N. Barker.
1784–1858. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Little Red Riding Hood |
George Washington Doane.
1790–1859. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
That Silent Moon |
Oh! That I Had Wings Like a Dove |
Lines, Suggested by a Very Brilliant Sun-Setting |
Spirit of Spring |
On a Very Old Wedding Ring |
The Cloud Bridge: A Remembered Vision |
Nathaniel H. Wright.
1787–1824. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Isle of Flowers |
The Star of Bethlehem |
Solyman Brown.
1790–1876. | Lady Byron to Her Husband |
The Emigrant’s Farewell |
Joseph Rodman Drake.
1795–1820. | The American Flag |
James Abraham Hillhouse.
1789–1841. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Hadad, Scene III |
An Apologue |
| Thomas Wells. | At Musing Hour |
Solitude |
A Vision |
The Battle of New Orleans |
Sonnet |
William B. Tappan.
1794–1849. | Retrospection |
Why Should We Sigh? |
When Death Shall Lay |
O Come from a World |
To the North Star |
Samuel H. Jenks.
1789–?. | O! May We Not Weep |
The Patriot’s Grave |
Powers of Rhyme |
Anthony Bleecker.
1770–1827. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
On Revisiting the Cottage of Rosa in Early Spring, after a Long Absence |
Trenton Falls, near Utica |
Jungfrau Spaiger’s Apostrophe to Her Cat |
Epitaph of Mornai du Plessis, Imitated from the Latin of Grotius |
| G. A. Gamage. | My Early Day |
Albert G. Greene.
1802–1868. | Lines |
Lucifer |
William H. Bradley.
1802–1825. | Giuseppino |
Samuel Deane.
1784–1834. | The Populous Village |
Samuel Gilman.
1791–1858. | History of a Ray of Light |
Richard H. Dana.
1787–1879. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Buccaneer |
James Gates Percival.
1795–1856. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Night Watching |
The Deserted Wife |
The Coral Grove |
To Seneca Lake |
Consumption |
The Serenade |
The Graves of the Patriots |
Spring |
The Desolate City |
William E. Gallaudet.
1795?–1821. | Lines to the Western Mummy |
Edward Everett.
1794–1865. | Dirge of Alaric |
John Everett.
1801–1826. | St. Paul’s Church, Boston |
Songs |
To Fanni in a Ball Dress |
Thomas O. Folsom.
1802–1827. | Clouds |
War Song |
| Jonathan M. Scott. | Blue Lights, or the Convention |
George Bancroft.
1800–1891. | The Fairy of the Wengern-Alp |
| John Rudolph Sutermeister. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
A Contrasted Picture |
The Lament |
Faded Hours |
| Mary A. Brooks. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Zophiel |
Edward Coate Pinkney.
1802–1828. | Italy |
A Health |
Song |
A Picture Song |
John Neal.
1793–1876. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Eagle |
Battle of Niagara |
Goldau |
The Birth of a Poet |
Ambition |
The Sleeper |
Ode to Peace |
Joseph Hazard.
1757–1817. | The Fashionable Rake |
Nathaniel H. Carter.
1787–1830. | Hymn for Christmas |
Pains of the Imagination |
| Moses Y. Scott. | Pocahontas |
Henry Ware, Jr..
1794–1843. | The Vision of Liberty |
Seasons of Prayer |
| John E. Hall. | Reflections of a Recluse |
Carlos Wilcox.
1794–1827. | The Religion of Taste |
Samuel B. Beach.
1793/4–1866. | Escalala |
William Cullen Bryant.
1794–1878. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Ages |
Thanatopsis |
To a Waterfowl |
The Murdered Traveller |
An Indian Story |
Hymn to the North Star |
Song of the Stars |
Autumn Woods |
The Close of Autumn |
Samuel Webber.
1797–1880. | Logan |
Levi Frisbie.
1784–1822. | Morning Hymn |
Evening Hymn |
Dream. To *** |
| Mrs Little. | Thanksgiving |
Fitz-Greene Halleck.
1790–1867. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Alnwick Castle |
Marco Bozzaris |
To **** |
Love |
Connecticut |
Twilight |
Weehawken |
Joseph Hutton.
1787–1828. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Field of Orleans |
Charles Sprague.
1791–1875. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Prologue on the Opening of the New York Theatre, September 1, 1821 |
Prologue on the Opening of the Philadelphia Theatre, December 1, 1822 |
Shakspeare Ode |
To My Cigar |
The Winged Worshippers |
Art |
John G. C. Brainard.
1796–1828. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
The Falls of Niagara |
Epithalamium |
On a Late Loss |
Colonization Society |
The Captain |
The Deep |
The Indian Summer |
The Two Comets |
Address to Connecticut River |
The Dead Leaves Strew the Forest Walk |
Robert Waln.
1794–1825. | Songs |
Rufus Dawes.
1803–1859. | The Spirit of Beauty |
Sunrise from Mount Washington |
Anne Bullen |
Richard Penn Smith.
1799–1854. | The Cottage Lovers |
Fragment |
Norman Pinney.
1800–1862. | Sabbath Morning |
To ——— |
Sumner Lincoln Fairfield.
1803–1844. | Household Hours |
James Nack.
1809–1879. | The Minstrel Boy |
William Leggett.
1801–1839. | Song |
The Warrior’s Return |
A Song at Sea |
Hannah F. Gould.
1789–1865. | The Mermaid’s Song |
A Funeral Piece |
The Conqueror |
Cupid’s Warning |
To the Automaton Chess Player |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
1807–1882. | Hymn of the Moravian Nuns, at the Consecration of Pulaski’s Banner |
The Indian Hunter |
The Sea Diver |
George D. Prentice.
1802–1870. | The Ocean |
To a Lady |
Charles West Thomson.
1798–1879. | Birds |
The Wild Boy |
Micah P. Flint.
1807–1830. | The Hunter |
James A. Jones.
1791–1854. | A Moor’s Curse on Spain |
The Lay of a Mountain Spirit |
The Fay |
Nathaniel Parker Willis.
1806–1867. | Critical and Biographical Notice |
Absalom |
Better Moments |
The Soldier’s Widow |
The Hindoo Mother |
Extract from a Poem Delivered at the Departure of the Senior Class of Yale College, in 1826 |
| James W. Miller. | A Poet’s Reverie |
James G. Brooks.
1801–1841. | Greece |
The Dirge |
| Frederic S. Hill. | Musings |
A Fragment |
Persian Songs |
| Oliver C. Wyman. | The Devotee |
To the Clouds |
The Bridal |
Song of the Bee |
William George Crosby.
1806–1881. | To a Lady with a Withered Leaf |
| Asa M. Bolles. | The Album |
Henry J. Finn.
1787–1840. | The Tribute of Truth |
The Funeral at Sea |
Emma C. Embury.
1806–1863. | Jane of France |
Stanzas |
Henry Whiting.
1788–1851. | Ontwa |
| George W. Patten. | The Isle of Love |
The Warrior |
The Mother |
Willis Gaylord Clark.
1808–1841. | Lines Written at an Unknown Grave |
Extract from a New Year Address |
| Robert Morris. | The Broken Hearted |
Ebenezer Bailey.
1795–1839. | The Triumphs of Liberty |
Address to the Mermaid |
Grenville Mellen.
1799–1841. | Dream of the Sea |
Mount Washington |
The Air Voyage |
| Charles J. Locke. | A Dream of the Ocean |
The Harp of Battle |
The Queen of the Mist |
| Frederic Mellen. | Sabbath Evening |
The Herdsman’s Grave |
William B. O. Peabody.
1799–1847. | Hymn of Nature |
On Seeing a Deceased Infant |
| T. W. Stone. | The Bay of Naples |
| I. M’Lellan. | The Pride of the Village |
| J. B. Van Schaick. | Joshua Commanding the Sun and Moon to Stand Still |
| John W. Whitman. | The Jersey Prison Ship |
| Joseph H. Nichols. | Bennett’s Bridge |
The Falls of the Housatonick |
| James O. Rockwell. | To the Ice Mountain |
| Milton Ward. | The Lyre |
George Lunt.
1803–1885. | The Grave of Byron |
| Mary E. Brooks. | Romance |
Psalm CXXXVII |
| George P. Morris. | Woman |
The Miniature |
What Can It Mean? |
| G. Wallingford Clarke. | The Buried Maid |
Inscription |
The Nun |
| William Croswell. | Confirmation |
Drink and Away |
Home |
Sonnet Vindicatory |
South Sea Missionaries |
Christmas |
| James Hall. | Wedded Love’s First Home |
| A. M. Wells. | Hope |
The Tamed Eagle |
Fragment |
Samuel Bartlett Parris.
1806–1827. | On a Sprig of Juniper, from the Tomb of Washington, Presented to the Author |
| William Cutter. | The Valley of Silence |
| Charles C. Beaman. | The Water Excursion |
Evening Thoughts |
| Louisa P. Smith. | The Huma |
Recollections |
| J. G. Whittier. | The Sicilian Vespers |
| F. S. Eckhard. | The Ruined City |
