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348660The Poets and Poetry of America1842Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Title page of the 1855 edition of The Poets and Poetry of America

To

WASHINGTON ALLSTON

The eldest of the living poets of America

and the

most illustrious of her painters

This Work

is respectfully dedicated

Contents

  • Philip Freneau
    • The Dying Indian
    • The Indian Burying Ground/
    • To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw
    • To an Old Man
    • Columbus to Ferdinand
    • The Wild Honeysuckle
    • Human Frailty
    • The Prospect of Peace
    • To a Nighty-Fly, approaching a Candle
  • John Trumbull
    • Ode to Sleep
    • The Country Clown, from "The Progress of Dulness"
    • The Frop, from the same
    • Character of McFingal, from "{{wikidata link|Q6801174l|McFingal]]"
    • Extreme Humanity, from the same
    • The Decayed Coquette
  • Timothy Dwight
    • The Destruction of the Pequods
    • The Social Visit
    • The County Pastor
    • The Country Schoolmaster
    • The Battle of Ai, from "The Conquest of Canaan"
    • The Lamentation of Selima, from the same
    • Prediction to Joshua relative to America, from the same
    • Evening after a Battle, from the same
    • Columbia
  • David Humphreys
    • On the Prospect of Peace
    • Western Emigration
    • American Winter
    • Revolutionary Soldiers
  • Joel Barlow
    • The Hasty Pudding
    • Burning of the New England Villages, from "the Columbiad"
    • To Freedom, from the same
    • Morgan and Tell, from the same
    • The Zones of America, from the same
  • Richard Alsop
  • St. John Honeywood
    • Crimes and Punishments
    • A Radical Song of 1776
    • Reflections on seeing a Bull slain in the Country
    • Impromptu on an Order to kill the Dogs in Albany
  • William Clifton
    • Epistle to William Gifford, Esq.
    • Mary will smile
  • Robert Treat Paine
    • Adams and Liberty
    • Extract from a Monody on the Death of Sir John Moore
    • Extract from "The Ruling Passion"
    • Extract from the same
    • Extract from "The Invention of Letters"
  • Washington Allston
    • The Slyphs of the Seasons
    • America to Great Britain
    • The Spanish Maid
    • The Tuscan Maid
    • Rosalie
    • To Rembrandt
    • To Benjamin West
  • James Kirke Paulding
    • Ode to Jamestown
    • Passage dow the Ohio, from "The Backwoodsman"
    • Evening, from the same
    • Crossing the Alleghanies, from the same
    • The Old Man's Carousel
  • Levi Frisbie
    • A Castle in the Air
  • John Pierpoint
    • Passing Away
    • Ode for the Charlestown Centennial Celebration
    • My Child
    • Ode for the Massachusetts Mechanics' Charitable Association
    • Her Chosen Spot
    • The Pilgrim Fathers
    • Plymouth Dedication Hymn
    • The Exile at Rest
    • Jerusalem
    • The Power of Music, from "Airs of Palestine"
    • Obsequies of Spurzheim
    • Hymn for the Dedication of the Seam's Bethel, in Boston
    • The Sparking Bowl
    • Ode for the Fourth of July
  • Andrews Norton
    • To —, on the Death of a young Friend
    • Lines written after the Death of Charles Eliot
    • A Summer Shower
    • Hymn
    • To Mrs. —, on her Departure for Europe
    • Hymn for the Dedication of a Church
    • Fortitude
    • The Close of the Year
    • To Mrs. —, just after her Marriage
    • Funeral Hymn
    • A Winter Morning
  • Richard Henry Dana
    • The Buccaneer
    • The Ocean, from "Factitious Life"
    • Daybreak
    • Extract from "The Husband's and Wife's Grave"
    • The Little Beach-Bird
  • Richard Henry Wilde
    • Ode to Ease
    • Solomon and the Genius
    • A Farewell to America
    • Napoleon's Grave
    • "My life is like the summer rose"
    • To Lord Byron
    • To the Mocking-Bird
  • James A. Hillhouse
    • The Judgment
    • Hadad's Description of the City of Jerusalem
    • Untold Love, from "Demetria"
    • Scene from "Hadad"
    • Arthur's Soliloquey, from "Percy's Masque"
  • Charles Sprague
    • Curiosity
    • Shakspeare Ode
    • The Brothers
    • Art, an Ode
    • The Winged Worshippers
    • Dedication Hymn
    • To My Cigar
    • Centennial Ode
    • Lines to a Young Mother
    • "I see thee still"
    • Lines on the Death of M. S. C.
    • The Family Meeting
  • Hannah F. Gould
    • Changes on the Deep
    • The Snow-Flake
    • The Waterfall
    • The Winds
    • The Scar of Lexington
    • The Winter Burial
    • The Frost
    • The Robe
    • The Consignment
    • The Midnight Mail
    • The Ship is Ready
    • The Pebble and the Acorn
    • The Moon upon the Spire
    • The Child on the Beach
    • A Name in the Sand
  • Carlos Wilcox
    • Spring in New England, from "The Age of Benevolence"
    • A Summer Noon, from the same
    • September, from the same
    • Sunset in September, from the same
    • The Castle of Imagination, from "The Religion of Taste"
    • Rousseau and Cowper, from the same
    • The Cure of Melancholy, from the same
    • Sights and Sounds of the Night, from the same
    • Live for Eternity
  • Henry Ware, Jr.
    • To the Ursa Major
    • Seasons of Prayer
    • The Vision of Liberty
  • William Cullen Bryant
  • John Neal
    • The Soldier's Visit to his Family, from "The Battle of Niagara"
    • Birth of a Poet
    • Ambition
  • Joseph Rodman Drake
  • Maria Brooks
    • Palace of Gnomes, from "Zophiel"
    • The Storm, from the same
    • Song, from the same
    • The Moon of Flowers
    • Morning
    • Marriage
  • James Gates Percival
    • Liberty to Athens
    • The Sun
    • Consumption
    • To the Eagles
    • Prevalence of Poetry
    • Clouds
    • Morning among the Hills
    • The Deserted Wife
    • The Coral Grove
    • Decline of the Imagination
    • Genius Slumbering
    • Genius Waking
    • New England
    • May
    • To Seneca Lake
    • The Last Days of Autumn
    • The Flight of Time
    • It is great for our Country to Die
    • Extract from "Prometheus"
    • Home
  • Fitz-Greene Halleck
  • John G. C. Brainard
    • Jerusalem
    • Connecticut River
    • Lines on the Death of Mr. Woodward, at Edinburgh
    • On a late Loss
    • Sonnet to the Sea-Serpent
    • The Fall of Niagara
    • On the Death of a Friend
    • Epithalamium
    • To the Dead
    • The Deep
    • Mr. Merry's Lament for "Long Tom"
    • Indian Summer
    • "The dead leaves strew the forest-walk"
    • The Storm of War
    • The Guerilla
    • The Sea-Bird's Song
    • To the Daughter of a Friend
    • Salmon River
  • Samuel Griswold Goodrich
    • Birthright of the Humming-Birds
    • The River
    • The Leaf
    • Lake Superior
    • The Sportive Sylphs
  • Isaac Clason
    • Napoleon, from the seventeenth Canto of Don Juan
    • Jealousy, from the same
    • Early Love, from the same
    • All is Vanity, from the eighteenth canto of Don Juan
  • Lydia Huntley Sigourney
    • The Western Emigrant
    • Niagara
    • Winter
    • Napoleon's Epitaph
    • The Mother of Washington
    • Felicia Hemans
    • The Alpine Flowers
    • Contentment
    • The Widow's Charge at her Daughter's Burial
    • Bernardine du Born
    • Thoughts at the Grave of Sir Walter Scott
    • [[/A Butterfly at a Child's Grave]/]
    • Indian Girl's Burial
    • Barzillai the Gileadite
    • Death of an Infant
    • The Pilgrim Fathers
    • Indian Names
  • George Washington Doane
    • On a very old Wedding-Ring
    • The Voices of Rama
    • That Silent Moon
    • Thermopylae
    • The Waters of Marah
    • "What is that, Mother?"
    • A Cherub
    • Lines by the Lake Side
    • The Christian's Death
  • William B. O. Peabody
    • Hymn of Nature
    • To William
    • Monadnock
    • The Winter-Night
    • Death
    • Autumn Evening
  • Robert C. Sands
    • Poem to "Yamoyden"
    • Dream of the Princess Papantzin
    • Monody on the death of Samuel Patch
    • Evening, from "Yamoyden"
    • Weehawken
    • The Green Isle of Lovers
    • The Dead of 1832
    • Parting
    • Conclusion to "Yamoyden"
    • Nora's Song, from "Yamoyden"
    • Woman, from the same
    • Good-Night
  • Greenville Mellen
    • English Scenery
    • Mount Washington
    • The Bugle
    • On Seeing an Eagle pass near me in Autumn Twilight
    • The True Glory of America
  • George Hill
    • Extract from "The Ruins of Athens"
    • The Mountain Girl
    • The Might of Greece, from "The Ruins of Athens"
    • The Fall of the Oak
    • Sonnets to Liberty, A Young Mother, and Spring
    • Nobility
  • James G. Brooks
    • Greece—1832
    • To the Dying Year
    • To the Autumn Leaf
    • The Last Song
    • Joy and Sorrow
  • Albert B. Greene
    • The Baron's Last Banquet
    • To the Weathercock on our Steeple
    • "Oh, think not that the bosom's light"
  • William Leggett
    • A Sacred Melody
    • Love and Friendship
    • "I trust the frown thy features wear"
    • Life's Guiding Star
    • To Elmira
  • Edward C. Pinkney
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Sumner Lincoln Fairfield
    • Destruction of Pompeii, from "The Last Night of Pompeii"
    • Visions of Romance
    • An Evening Song of Piedmont
  • Rufus Dawes
    • Lancaster
    • Anne Boleyn
    • Sunrise, from Mount Washington
    • Spirit of Beauty
    • Love Unchangeable
    • Extract from "Geraldine"
  • Edmund D. Griffin
    • Lines Written on Leaving Italy
    • Description of Love by Venus
    • Emblems
    • To a Lady
  • J. H. Bright
    • The Vision of Death
    • He Wedded Again
    • "Should Sorrow o'er thy brow"
  • George D. Prentice
    • The Closing Year
    • Lines to a Lady
    • The Dead Mariner
    • Sabbath Evening
    • To a Lady
    • Lines written at my Mother's Grave
  • William Croswell
    • The Synagogue
    • The Clouds
    • The Ordinal
    • Christmas Eve
    • The Death of Stephen
    • The Christmas Offering
  • Walter Colton
    • The Sailor
    • To my Pipe
    • Byron
    • The Last Wreck
    • To Cathara
    • My First Love, and my Last
    • Unrequited Love, and Suicide
    • The Parting
  • Charles Fenno Hoffman
    • Moonlight on the Hudson
    • Thaw-King's Visit to New York
    • Lines written in a Lady's Prayer-Book
    • To a Belle who talked of Giving up the World
    • The Bob-o'Linkum
    • The Forester
    • The Myrtle and Steel
    • Epitaph upon a Dog
    • Anacreontic
    • A Hunter's Matin
    • Love and Politics
    • What is Solitude?
    • The Student's Song
    • "Withering—withering—all are withering"
    • Inscription for a Lady's Flora
    • "I do not love thee—by my word I do not!"
    • Trust in thee? Ay, dearest! there's no one but must"
    • "I know thou dost love me—ay! frown as thou wilt"
    • "I knew not how I loved thee—no!"
    • Indian Summer, 1828
    • Town Repinings
    • To a Lady Blushing
    • The Farewell
    • "I will love her no more—'tis a waste of the heart"
    • Boat-Song
    • Morning Hymn
    • The Western Hunter to his Mistress
    • Thy Name
    • Rosalie Clare
    • "Think of me, dearest"
    • "We parted in sadness"
    • The Origin of Mint Juleps
    • Sparkling and Bright
    • "Why seek her heart to understand"
    • "Ask me not why I should love her"
    • "She loves, but 'tis not me she loves"
    • "I know I share thy smiles with many"
    • Language of Flowers
    • To an Autumn Rose
    • "Where dost thou loiter, Spring?"
    • Serenade
    • Lines written in Spring-Time
    • A Portrait
    • Melody
    • Dream
  • Mrs. Seba Smith
    • The Acorn
    • The Drowned Mariner
    • To the Hudson
  • N. P. Willis
  • Edward Sanford
    • Address to Black-Hawk
    • To a Mosquito
  • J. O. Rockwell
    • The Sum of Life
    • To Ann
    • The Lost at Sea
    • The Death-Bed of Beauty
    • To the Ice-Mountain
    • The Prisoner for Debt
    • To a Wave
  • Thomas Ward
    • Musings on Rivers
    • To the Magnolia
    • To an Infant in Heaven
  • John H. Bryant
    • The New England Pilgrim's Funeral
    • A Recollection
    • My Native Village
    • The Indian Summer
    • The Blind Restored to Sight
    • Two Sonnets
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • William Gilmore Simms
    • The Slain Eagle
    • The Brooklet
    • The Shaded Water
    • To the Breeze
    • The Lost Pleiad
    • The Edge of the Swamp
    • Changes of Home
  • George Lunt
    • Autumn Musings
    • Jewish Battle-Song
    • "Pass on, relentless world"
    • Hampton Beach
    • Pilgrim Song
    • The Lyre and Sword
    • Bloody Brook
  • Jonathan Lawrence
    • Thoughts of a Student
    • Sea-Song
    • Look Aloft
    • To May
  • Louisa J. Hall
    • A Scene from "Miriam"
    • Prayer
    • Miriam to Paulus
  • Emma C. Embury
    • Autumn Evening
    • The Old Man's Lament
    • Stanzas on the Death of the Duke of Reichstadt
    • Peace
    • Madame de Stael
    • Ballad
    • Sonnet
  • John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Albert Pike
    • Hymns to the Gods
To Neptune
To Apollo
To Venue
To Diana
To Mercury
To Bacchus
To Somnus
To Ceres
    • To the Planet Jupiter
    • To the Mocking-Bird
    • To Spring
    • Lines Written on the Rocky Mountains
  • Park Benjamin
    • Gold
    • Upon seeing a Portrait of a Lady
    • The Stormy Petrel
    • The Nautilus
    • To one Beloved
    • The Tired Hunter
    • The Departed
    • "I am not old"
    • The Dove's Errand
    • "How cheery are the mariners?"
    • Lines spoken by a Blind Boy
    • The Elysian Isle
    • Sonnets
A Great Name
Indolence
Sport
M. I.
To My Sister
To ——
To ——
To a Lady with a Bouquet
New York Harbor, on a Calm Day
A Monument to Walter Scott
Twilight
Spring
The Stars
Written while Departing for Italy
Domestic Love
  • Willis Gaylord Clark
    • A Lament
    • Memory
    • Song of May
    • Death of the First-Born
    • Summer
    • The Early Dead
    • The Signs of God
    • Euthanasia
    • An Invitation
    • The Burial-Place at Laurel-Hill, near Philadelphia
    • A Contrast
    • The Faded One
    • A Remembrance
  • William D. Gallagher
    • To the West
    • August
    • Spring Verses
    • May
    • Our Early Days
    • The Labourer
    • The Mothers of the West
  • James Freeman Clarke
    • Hymn and Prayer
    • The Poet
    • Jacob's Well
    • The Violet
    • To a Bunch of Flowers
  • Elizabeth F. Ellet
  • James Aldrich
    • Morn at Sea
    • A Death-bed
    • My Mother's Grave
    • A Spring-Day Walk
    • To One far Away
    • Beatrice
    • "Underneath this marble cold"
    • The Dreaming Girl
  • Anna Peyre Dinnies
    • Wedded Love
    • To a White Chrysanthemum
    • Thoughts in Autumn
    • The Wife
    • "I could not hush that constant theme"
    • The Heart
    • Happiness
  • Edgar A. Poe
  • Isaac McLellan, Jr.
    • New England's Dead
    • The Death of Napoleon
    • The Notes of the Birds
    • Lines suggested by a Picture by Washington Allston
    • The Passion for Life
    • June
  • Jones Very
    • To the Painted Columbine
    • Lines to a Withered Leaf, seen on a Poet's Table
    • The Heart
    • Sonnets
To the Canary Bird
"Thy beauty fades, and with it too my love"
The Wind-Flower
Enoch
Morning
Night
The Spirit-Land
The Trees of Life
The Ark
Nature
The Tree
The Son
The Robin
The Rail-Road
The Latter Rain
  • Alfred B. Street
    • The Gray Forest-Eagle
    • Fowling
    • A Forest Walk
    • Winter
    • The Settler
    • An American Forest in Spring
    • The Lost Hunter
  • William H. Burleigh
    • Elegiac Stanzas
    • "Let there be light!"
    • June
    • Spring
    • Requiem
    • Stanzas written on visiting my Birth-place
    • To H. A. B.
    • To ——
    • "Believe not the slander, my dearest Katrine!"
    • Sonnets
The Brook
The Times
Solitude
Rain
The Pilgrim Fathers
  • William Jewett Pabodie
    • "Go forth into the fields"
    • To the Autumn Forest
    • Lines on the Death of a Friend
    • Our Country
    • "I hear thy voice, O Spring!
    • "I stood beside the grave of him"
  • Louis Legrand Noble
    • The Cripple-Boy
    • Love and Beauty
    • A Little Green Isle
  • C. P. Cranch
    • The Music of the Spheres
    • The Blind Seer
    • The Hours
    • "Thought is deeper than all speech"
    • My Thoughts
    • Beauty
    • On hearing triumphant Music
  • Henry Theodore Tuckerman
    • Mary
    • The Ringlet
    • To an Elm
    • Tri-Mountain
    • Love and Fame
    • Greenough's Washington
  • Epes Sargent
    • Records of a Summer-Voyage to Cuba
The Departure
The Gale
Morning after the Gale
To a Land-Bird
A Thought of the Past
Tropical Weather
A Calm
A Wish
A Tropical Night
The Planet Jupiter
To Egeira
Cuba
    • The Days that are Past
    • The Martyr of the Arena
    • Summer in the Heart
    • The Fugitive from Love
    • The Night-Storm at Sea
  • Lucy Hooper
    • Oseola
    • The Daughter of Herodias
    • "Time, Faith, Energy"
    • "Give me armour of proof"
    • Lines suggested by a scene in "Master Humphrey's Clock"
  • Arthur Cleveland Coxe
    • Manhood
    • Old Churches
    • The Heart's Song
    • The Chimes of England
    • March
  • James Russell Lowell
    • Rosaline
    • The Beggar
    • "Lift up the curtains of thine eyes"
    • Sonnets
Anne
The Way of Life
To a Friend
The Poet
Green Mountains
The Dead
Love
Caroline
  • Amelia B. Welty
    • The Presence of God
    • To the Memory of a Friend
    • To a Sea-Shell
    • My Sisters
    • "I know that thy spirit"
  • Lucretia and Margaret Davidson
    • A Prophecy
    • To Mrs. Townsend
    • "I would fly from the city"
    • To my Mother
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