{"product_id":"nineteenthcentury-american-poetry-isbn-9780140435870","title":"Nineteenth-Century American Poetry","description":"Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville occupy the center of this anthology of nearly three hundred poems, spanning the course of the century, from Joel Barlow to Edwin Arlington Robinson, by way of Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Holmes, Jones Very, Thoreau, Lowell, and Lanier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ci\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003eSUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING\u003cbr\u003eA NOTE ON THE TEXTS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOEL BARLOW (1754–1812)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Columbiad: Book the Eighth\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794–1978)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThanatopsis\u003cbr\u003eTo a Waterfowl\u003cbr\u003eMutation\u003cbr\u003eHymn to the North Star\u003cbr\u003eTo a Mosquito\u003cbr\u003eA Meditation on Rhode Island Coal\u003cbr\u003eThe Prairies\u003cbr\u003eThe Crowded Street\u003cbr\u003eNot Yet\u003cbr\u003eThe Poet\u003cbr\u003eThe Death of Lincoln\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803–1882)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach and All\u003cbr\u003eThe Humble-Bee\u003cbr\u003eThe Snow-Storm\u003cbr\u003eGrace\u003cbr\u003eBlight\u003cbr\u003eMotto to \"The Poet\"\u003cbr\u003eThe World-Soul\u003cbr\u003eMithridates\u003cbr\u003eHamatreya\u003cbr\u003eOde, Inscribed to W.H. Channing\u003cbr\u003eMerlin I\u003cbr\u003eMotto to \"Nature\"\u003cbr\u003eDays\u003cbr\u003eThe Chartist's Complaint\u003cbr\u003eTwo Rivers\u003cbr\u003eMotto to \"Illusions\"\u003cbr\u003eTerminus\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807–1882)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMezzo Cammin\u003cbr\u003eThe Warning\u003cbr\u003eThe Day Is Done\u003cbr\u003eDante\u003cbr\u003eSand of the Desert in an Hour-Glass\u003cbr\u003eThe Fire of Drift-Wood\u003cbr\u003eThe Jewish Cemetery at Newport\u003cbr\u003eThe Ropewalk\u003cbr\u003eThe Golden Mile-Stone\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Hiawatha: The White Man's Foot\u003cbr\u003eSnow-Flakes\u003cbr\u003eThe Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi\u003cbr\u003eThe Rhyme of Sir Christopher\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807–1892)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Cities of the Plain\u003cbr\u003eThe Farewell\u003cbr\u003eOfficial Piety\u003cbr\u003eThe Haschish\u003cbr\u003eSkipper Ireson's Ride\u003cbr\u003eThe Palm-Tree\u003cbr\u003eBrown of Ossawatomie\u003cbr\u003eA Word for the Hour\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Frietchie\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Tent on the Beach: [The Dreamer]\u003cbr\u003eOverruled\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEDGAR ALLAN POE (1809–1849)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDreams\u003cbr\u003eSonnet: To Science\u003cbr\u003eRomance\u003cbr\u003eA Dream within a Dream\u003cbr\u003eThe City in the Sea\u003cbr\u003eTo One in Paradise\u003cbr\u003eSilence\u003cbr\u003eThe Sleeper\u003cbr\u003eThe Conqueror Worm\u003cbr\u003eDreamland\u003cbr\u003eStanzas\u003cbr\u003eThe Raven\u003cbr\u003eA Valentine\u003cbr\u003eUlalume\u003cbr\u003eAnnabel Lee\u003cbr\u003eEldorado\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809–1894)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOld Ironsides\u003cbr\u003eOur Limitations\u003cbr\u003eLatter-Day Warnings\u003cbr\u003eThe Chambered Nautilus\u003cbr\u003eIris, Her Book\u003cbr\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003eTartarus\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJONES VERY (1813–1880)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe New Birth\u003cbr\u003eThe Son\u003cbr\u003eThe Word\u003cbr\u003eThe Spirit\u003cbr\u003eThe Serpent\u003cbr\u003eThe Robe\u003cbr\u003eThe Winter Rain\u003cbr\u003eThe Cross\u003cbr\u003eThe Mountain\u003cbr\u003eThe Promise\u003cbr\u003eThe Birds of Passage\u003cbr\u003eThe Silent\u003cbr\u003eThe Indian's Retort\u003cbr\u003eSlavery\u003cbr\u003eThe First Atlantic Telegraph\u003cbr\u003eThe Slowness of Belief in a Spiritual World\u003cbr\u003eForevermore\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817–1862)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSic Vita\u003cbr\u003eBrother Where Dost Thou Dwell\u003cbr\u003eOn Ponkawtasset, Since, We Took Our Way\u003cbr\u003eLow-Anchored Cloud\u003cbr\u003eWoof of the Sun, Ethereal Gauze\u003cbr\u003eMy Life Has Been the Poem I Would Have Writ\u003cbr\u003eInspiration\u003cbr\u003eFor Though the Eaves Were Rabbeted\u003cbr\u003ePray to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong\u003cbr\u003eA Winter and Spring Scene\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819–1891)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Contrast\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e A Fable for Critics\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Biglow Papers: The Pious Editor's Creed\u003cbr\u003eThe Darkened Mind\u003cbr\u003eSonnet: On Being Asked for an Autograph in Venice\u003cbr\u003eThe Boss\u003cbr\u003eIn a Copy of Omar Khayyam\u003cbr\u003eScience and Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWALT WHITMAN (1819–1892)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSong of Myself\u003cbr\u003eCrossing Brooklyn Ferry\u003cbr\u003eOut of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking\u003cbr\u003eI Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing\u003cbr\u003eCavalry Crossing a Ford\u003cbr\u003eBeat! Beat! Drums!\u003cbr\u003eAs I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado\u003cbr\u003eYears of the Modern\u003cbr\u003eWhen Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd\u003cbr\u003eA Noiseless Patient Spider\u003cbr\u003ePassage to India\u003cbr\u003ePrayer of Columbus\u003cbr\u003eTo a Locomotive in Winter\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHERMAN MELVILLE (1819–1891)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImmolated\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Battle-Pieces\u003cbr\u003eThe Portent\u003cbr\u003eMisgivings\u003cbr\u003eThe March into Virginia\u003cbr\u003eThe Temeraire\u003cbr\u003eA Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight\u003cbr\u003eStonewall Jackson: Mortally Wounded at Chancellorsville\u003cbr\u003eStonewall Jackson: Ascribed to a Virginian\u003cbr\u003eThe House-Top\u003cbr\u003eThe College Colonel\u003cbr\u003eThe Martyr\u003cbr\u003eThe Apparition\u003cbr\u003eIris\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Clarel\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Part I, canto xiii: The Arch\u003cbr\u003ePart II, canto vii: Guide and Guard\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Part II, canto xxiii: By the Jordan\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Part III, canto xx: Afterward\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Part III, canto xxix: Rolfe and the Palm\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Part IV, canto iii: The Island\u003cbr\u003ePart IV, canto xxxi: Dirge\u003cbr\u003ePart IV, canto xxxiv: Via Crucis\u003cbr\u003ePart IV, canto xxxv: Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e John Marr and Other Sailors\u003cbr\u003eTom Deadlight\u003cbr\u003eThe Aeolian Harp\u003cbr\u003eThe Maldive Shark\u003cbr\u003eThe Berg\u003cbr\u003eThe Enviable Isles\u003cbr\u003ePebbles\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Timoleon\u003cbr\u003eAfter the Pleasure Party\u003cbr\u003eThe Night-March\u003cbr\u003eArt\u003cbr\u003eHerba Santa\u003cbr\u003eIn a Bye-Canal\u003cbr\u003eThe Attic Landscape\u003cbr\u003eThe Parthenon\u003cbr\u003eIn the Desert\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Weeds and Wildings, Chiefly; with a Rose or Two\u003cbr\u003eThe Little Good Fellows\u003cbr\u003eThe Chipmunk\u003cbr\u003eTime's Betrayal\u003cbr\u003eRosary Beads\u003cbr\u003eMiscellaneous Poems\u003cbr\u003eThe Rusty Man\u003cbr\u003eCamoens\u003cbr\u003eFruit and Flower Painter\u003cbr\u003eIn Shards the Sylvan Vases Lie\u003cbr\u003eTo ––\u003cbr\u003ePontoosuce\u003cbr\u003eBilly in the Darbies\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN (1821–1873)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSonnets: First Series\u003cbr\u003eInfatuation\u003cbr\u003eRhotruda\u003cbr\u003eAs Sometimes in a Grove\u003cbr\u003eCoralie\u003cbr\u003eThe Cricket\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEMILY  DICKINSON (1830–1886)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e49. I never lost as much but twice\u003cbr\u003e95. My nosegays are for Captivies––\u003cbr\u003e77. I never hear the word \"escape\"\u003cbr\u003e89. Some things that fly there be––\u003cbr\u003e135. Water, is taught by thirst\u003cbr\u003e185. \"Faith\" is a fine invention\u003cbr\u003e211. Come slowly––Eden!\u003cbr\u003e213. Did the Harebell loose her girdle\u003cbr\u003e243. I've known a Heaven, like a Tent–\u003cbr\u003e249. Wild Nights––Wild Nights!\u003cbr\u003e257. Delight is as the flight––\u003cbr\u003e258. There's a certain Slant of light\u003cbr\u003e281. 'Tis so appalling––it exhilarates––\u003cbr\u003e290. Of Bronze––and Blaze––\u003cbr\u003e301. I reason, Earth is short––\u003cbr\u003e307. The One who could repeat the Summer day––\u003cbr\u003e315. He fumbles at your Soul\u003cbr\u003e326. I cannot dance upon my Toes––\u003cbr\u003e328. A Bird came down the Walk––\u003cbr\u003e338. I know that He exists\u003cbr\u003e357. God is a distant––stately Lover––\u003cbr\u003e410. The first Day's Night had come––\u003cbr\u003e414. 'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch\u003cbr\u003e435. Much Madness is divinest Sense––\u003cbr\u003e448. This was a Poet––It is That\u003cbr\u003e501. This World is not Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e502. At least––to pray––is left––is left––\u003cbr\u003e506. He touched me, so I live to know\u003cbr\u003e519. 'Twas warm––at first––like Us––\u003cbr\u003e547. I've seen a Dying Eye\u003cbr\u003e556. The Brain, within its Groove\u003cbr\u003e577. If I may have it, when it's dead\u003cbr\u003e599. There is a pain––so utter––\u003cbr\u003e606. The Trees like Tassels––hit––and swung–\u003cbr\u003e612. It would have starved a Gnat––\u003cbr\u003e613. They shut me up in Prose––\u003cbr\u003e622. To know just how He suffered––would be dear––\u003cbr\u003e629. I watched the Moon around the House\u003cbr\u003e632. The Brain––is wider than the Sky––\u003cbr\u003e640. I cannot live with You––\u003cbr\u003e652. A Prison gets to be a friend––\u003cbr\u003e656. The Name––of it––is \"Autumn\"––\u003cbr\u003e657. I dwell in Possibility––\u003cbr\u003e670. One need not be a Chamber––to be Haunted––\u003cbr\u003e754. My Life had stood––a Loaded Gun––\u003cbr\u003e1053. It was a quiet way––\u003cbr\u003e1712. A Pit––but Heaven over it––\u003cbr\u003e525. I think the Hemlock likes to stand\u003cbr\u003e665. Dropped into the Ether Acre––\u003cbr\u003e709. Publication––is the Auction\u003cbr\u003e771. None can experience stint\u003cbr\u003e812. A Light exists in Spring\u003cbr\u003e824. The Wind begun to rock the Grass\u003cbr\u003e854. Banish Air from Air––\u003cbr\u003e915. Faith––is the Pierless Bridge\u003cbr\u003e925. Struck, was I, not yet by Lightning––\u003cbr\u003e949. Under the Light, yet under\u003cbr\u003e959. A loss of something ever felt I––\u003cbr\u003e997. Crumbling is not an instant's Act\u003cbr\u003e1056. There is a Zone whose even Years\u003cbr\u003e1090. I am afraid to own a Body––\u003cbr\u003e1128. These are the Nights that Beetles love––\u003cbr\u003e1173. The Lightning is a yellow Fork\u003cbr\u003e1235. Like Rain it sounded till it curved\u003cbr\u003e1247. To pile like Thunder to its close\u003cbr\u003e1311. This dirty––little––Heart\u003cbr\u003e1331. Wonder––is not precisely Knowing\u003cbr\u003e1575. The Bat is dun, with wrinkled Wings––\u003cbr\u003e1400. What mystery pervades a well!\u003cbr\u003e1433. How brittle are the Piers\u003cbr\u003e1445. Death is the supple Suitor\u003cbr\u003e1527. Oh give it Motion––deck it sweet\u003cbr\u003e1542. Come show thy Durham Breast\u003cbr\u003e1551. Those––dying then\u003cbr\u003e1670. In Winter in my Room\u003cbr\u003e1718. Drowning is not so pitiful\u003cbr\u003e1751. There comes an hour when begging stops\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT (1836–1919)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Palace-Burner\u003cbr\u003eA Doubt\u003cbr\u003eThis World\u003cbr\u003eIn Her Prison\u003cbr\u003eAnswering a Child\u003cbr\u003eNo Help\u003cbr\u003eIn a Queen's Domain\u003cbr\u003eIf I Had Made the World\u003cbr\u003eStone for a Statue\u003cbr\u003eArmy of Occupation\u003cbr\u003eA Lesson in a Picture\u003cbr\u003eA Pique at Parting\u003cbr\u003eHer Word of Reproach\u003cbr\u003eSad Spring-Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSIDNEY LANIER (1842–1881)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSong for \"The Jacquerie\"\u003cbr\u003eNirvana\u003cbr\u003eTo Beethoven\u003cbr\u003eTo Richard Wagner\u003cbr\u003eThe Revenge of Hamish\u003cbr\u003eTo Bayard Taylor\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869–1935)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWalt Whitman\u003cbr\u003eJohn Evereldown\u003cbr\u003eLuke Havergal\u003cbr\u003eThree Quatrains\u003cbr\u003eThe House on the Hill\u003cbr\u003eAaron Stark\u003cbr\u003eSonnet\u003cbr\u003eVerlaine\u003cbr\u003eRichard Cory\u003cbr\u003eCliff Klingenhagen\u003cbr\u003eReuben Bright\u003cbr\u003eThe Tavern\u003cbr\u003eOctaves XV, XIX, XX\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEXPLANATORY NOTES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam C. 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