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Home  »  An American Anthology, 1787–1900  »  III. Second Lyrical Period (In Three Divisions) From the Beginning of the Civil War to the Hundredth Presidential Year—1861–1889 Division III (Woodberry, Bunner, Mrs. Pullen, Miss Reese, H. S. Morris, Miss Cone, Burton, Sherman, Garland, Miss Monroe, Miss Guiney, and Others)

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

III. Second Lyrical Period (In Three Divisions) From the Beginning of the Civil War to the Hundredth Presidential Year—1861–1889 Division III (Woodberry, Bunner, Mrs. Pullen, Miss Reese, H. S. Morris, Miss Cone, Burton, Sherman, Garland, Miss Monroe, Miss Guiney, and Others)

George Edward Woodberry. From “Wild Eden
From “My Country
On a Portrait of Columbus
America to England
At Gibraltar
Love’s Rosary
Song of Eros, in “Agathon
Francis Barton Gummere. John Bright
Henry Cuyler Bunner. The Way to Arcady
She Was a Beauty
A Pitcher of Mignonette
Deaf
Les Morts Vont Vite
The Appeal to Harold
On Reading a Poet’s First Book
Feminine
J. B.
To a June Breeze
The Chaperon
Wilbur Larremore. Madam Hickory
Blossom Time
Elisabeth (Cabazza) Pullen. Her Shadow
Alicia’s Bonnet
Love and Poverty
Derelict
The Sea-Weed
Daniel Lewis Dawson. The Seeker in the Marshes
Lewis Frank Tooker. The Last Fight
Sleep
His Quest
Armistead Churchill Gordon. Kree
Roses of Memory
Edward Sanford Martin. A Girl of Pompeii
A Little Brother of the Rich
Egotism
Lizette Woodworth Reese. Lydia
Anne
Daffodils
Tears
Immortality
Thomas à Kempis
Telling the Bees
In Time of Grief
To a Town Poet
Trust
A Holiday
Keats
Reserve
William Hamilton Hayne. The Southern Snow-Bird
To a Cherokee Rose
Quatrains
A Cyclone at Sea
Sleep and His Brother Death
The Yule Log
George Edgar Montgomery. England
To a Child
A Dead Soldier
At Night
Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Recrimination
Charles Lotin Hildreth. To an Obscure Poet Who Lives on My Hearth
Implora Pace
At the Mermaid Inn
Harrison Smith Morris. Destiny
The Lonely-Bird
A Pine-Tree Buoy
Mohammed and Seid
Walt Whitman
Fickle Hope
Ernest Crosby. Choir Practice
The Search
The Soul of the World
Harry Thurston Peck. Heliotrope
Wonderland
The Other One
Frank Lebby Stanton. One Country
A Plantation Ditty
The Graveyard Rabbit
The Mocking-Bird
A Little Way
Margaret Deland. Love and Death
Sent with a Rose to a Young Lady
The Clover
Love’s Wisdom
Tudor Jenks. Small and Early
The Spirit of the Maine
Alice Brown. Candlemas
Trilby
Cloistered
Life
Sleep
William Morton Payne. Incipit Vita Nova
Ej Blot Til Lyst
Tannhäuser
Lohengrin
Milicent Washburn Shinn. Song and Science
When Almonds Bloom
Yosemite
James Benjamin Kenyon. Tacita
Quatrains
Death and Night
Bring Them Not Back
Come Slowly, Paradise
Charles Henry Crandall. Stella
The Human Plan
With Lilacs
Charles Henry Luders. The Four Winds
The Haunts of the Halcyon
Heart of Oak
An Old Thought
The Mountebanks
Mary Augusta Mason. The Scarlet Tanager
My Little Neighbor
Henry Jerome Stockard. Over Their Graves
As Some Mysterious Wanderer of the Skies
The Mocking-Bird
Sarah Pratt McLean Greene. The Lamp
De Sheepfol
Clarence Urmy. As I Came Down Mount Tamalpais
Blondel
Susan Marr Spalding. A Song’s Worth
The Sea’s Spell
Fate
Robert Bridges. The Unillumined Verge
James McCosh
William Lindsey. En Garde, Messieurs
The Hundred-Yard Dash
Horace L. Traubel. I Served in a Great Cause
If All the Voices of Men
Epicedium
Danske Dandridge. The Dead Moon
The Spirit of the Fall
William Roscoe Thayer. The Last Hunt
Man in Nature
The Violin’s Complaint
Helen Gray Cone. The Ride to the Lady
Arraignment
Thisbe
The Contrast
The Last Cup of Canary
The Spring Beauties
Fair England
Richard Burton. The First Song
On a Ferry Boat
Black Sheep
The Forefather
Extras
Love Is Strong
An Unpraised Picture
The Polar Quest
In Sleep
Katharine Lee Bates. Robin’s Secret
A Song of Riches
The Little Knight in Green
George Pellew. On a Cast from an Antique
Death
Robert Mowry Bell. The Tutelage
The Second Volume
Frank Dempster Sherman. On a Greek Vase
To a Rose
On Some Buttercups
The Library
Quatrains
The Rose’s Cup
The Shadows
At Midnight
John Hall Ingham. George Washington
Genesis
A Summer Sanctuary
Harry Lyman Koopman. Sea and Shore
John Brown
Icarus
The Satirist
Revealed
Oscar Fay Adams. At Lincoln
On a Grave in Christ-Church, Hants
Hamlin Garland. Pioneers
In the Grass
The Meadow Lark
The Massasauga
A Tribute of Grasses
A Wish
The Gift of Water
The Ute Lover
Do You Fear the Wind?
The Gold-Seekers
The Greeting of the Roses
Virginia Woodward Cloud. The Mother’s Song
An Old Street
Care
Youth
Clinton Scollard. Sidney Godolphin
As I Came Down from Lebanon
Khamsin
Memnon
Be Ye in Love with April-Tide
A Bell
Harriet Monroe. From the “Commemoration Ode
In the Beginning
The Fortunate One
The Night-Blooming Cereus
A Farewell
Charlotte Perkins Stetson. A Common Inference
The Beds of Fleur-de-Lys
A Conservative
Louise Imogen Guiney. Ode for a Master Mariner Ashore
In Leinster
Pax Paganica
On First Entering Westminster Abbey
Martyr’s Memorial
A Footnote to a Famous Lyric
The Wild Ride
Valse Jeune
Of Joan’s Youth
Sanctuary
Lilla Cabot Perry. Meeting after Long Absence
Life and Death
Art
Hannah Parker Kimball. Beyond
Soul and Sense
One Way of Trusting
Albert Bigelow Paine. The Little Child
In Louisiana
Ernest McGaffey. As the Day Breaks
Mark
A “Rise
Geronimo
I Fear No Power a Woman Wields
Katrina Trask. Sorrow
Love
At Last
Aidenn
  Additional Selections.
Annie R. Stillman. Birth
Andrew Bice Saxton. The First Step
Annie Eliot Trumbull. To O. S. C.
Frederick Keppel. A Plain Man’s Dream
James Buckham. A Child of To-day
Alice Learned Bunner. Vingtaine
Lucy Evangeline Tilley. When Even Cometh On
James Ernest Nesmith. The Statue of Lorenzo de’ Medici
James Berry Bensel. Ahmed
Duffield Osborne. Ave! Nero Imperator
George Horton. A Night in Lesbos
George Meason Whicher. Bacchylides
Montgomery Schuyler. Carlyle and Emerson
Sam Walter Foss. The Town of Hay
Joseph Ernest Whitney. A Drop of Ink
John Langdon Heaton. Sea Irony
Frederick Peterson. Solitude
John Elton Wayland. An Epilogue at Wallack’s
William Henry Gardner. When Love Comes Knocking
Amy E. Leigh. If I but Knew
Lew Wallace. Song from “Ben Hur
Peyton Van Rensselaer. At Twilight
Frances Dorr (Swift) Tatnall. Art Thou the Same
Harry Bache Smith. The Song of the Turnkey
The Armorer’s Song
Theron Brown. His Majesty
Hattie Starr. Little Alabama Coon
Edward D. Barker. Go Sleep, Ma Honey
Richard Henry Buck. Kentucky Babe
Hattie Whitney. A Little Dutch Garden
Park Benjamin. The Old Sexton
Elizabeth Bogart. He Came Too Late