| A Ballad of Virginia by Richard Rich (fl. 1610) |
| Abraham Lincoln by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| Abraham Lincoln by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
| A Child’s Grave by Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) |
| A Child shall Lead them by Henry Mills Alden (1836–1919) |
| A Christmas Carol by Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–1881) |
| A Christmas Hymn by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
| A Consolatory Poem by Nicholas Noyes (1647–1717) |
| A Country Road by Richard Kendall Munkittrick (1853–1911) |
| A Countrywoman of Mine by Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) |
| A Cry to Battle by Jonathan Mitchel Sewall (1748–1808) |
| A Cry unto the Lord to Stay His Hand by Captain Edward Johnson (1599?–1672) |
| Adams and Liberty by Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (1773–1811) |
| A Dancing Girl by Frances Sargent Osgood (1811–1850) |
| A Dead Butterfly by Edgar Fawcett (1847–1904) |
| A Dead Man by John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890) |
| A Death-Bed by James Aldrich (1810–1856) |
| A Dithyrambic on Wine by Thomas Godfrey (1736–1763) |
| A Ditty by Gilbert Peter Knapp (b. 1855) |
| A Dream by Milicent Washburn Shinn (1858–1940) |
| A Dream of Death by Lucy White Jennison (Owen Innsly) (b. 1850) |
| A Dream of the South Winds by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) |
| Adsum by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
| Advice to a Young Lawyer by Joseph Story (1779–1845) |
| A Fable by Revolutionary Songs and Ballads |
| A Fairy Glee by Eugene Field (1850–1895) |
| Afar by Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) |
| A Farewell by Mary Ainge De Vere (Madeline Bridges) |
| Afeard of a Gal by Anonymous |
| A Flute by Edith Matilda Thomas (1854–1925) |
| A Forest Hymn by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| After the Burial by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| After Wings by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836–1919) |
| A Grave in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond by Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897) |
| A Great Name by Park Benjamin (1809–1864) |
| A Health by Edward Coate Pinkney (1802–1828) |
| A Homely Plea for Toleration by Peter Folger (1617?–1690) |
| A King in Egypt by Helen Thayer Hutcheson (1860–1886) |
| A Lament by Arlo Bates (1850–1918) |
| A Lamentation for Old Tenor Currency by Joseph Green (1706–1780) |
| Albatross by Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) |
| A Leaf from Life by Frederick Swartwout Cozzens (1818–1869) |
| Alec. Dunham’s Boat by Charles Henry Webb (1834–1905) |
| Alice by Charles Taber Congdon (1821–1891) |
| Alicia’s Bonnet by Elisabeth Cavazza |
| A Life on the Ocean Wave by Epes Sargent (1813–1880) |
| A Little Brother of the Rich by Edward Sandford Martin (1856–1939) |
| A Little While I Fain Would Linger Yet by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) |
| A Liz-Town Humorist by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
| All Is Each, and Each Is All by William Rounseville Alger (1822–1905) |
| A Lost Graveyard by John James Piatt (1835–1917) |
| A Love-Letter to Her Husband by Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672) |
| A Magdalen of the Dresden Gallery by Augustus Rodney Macdonough (1820–1907) |
| Amanda’s Inventory by Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) |
| A Mariposa Lily by Milicent Washburn Shinn (1858–1940) |
| America by Joel Barlow (1754–1812) |
| America by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| America by Samuel Francis Smith (1808–1895) |
| America by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
| America to Great Britain by Washington Allston (1779–1843) |
| A Mussel Shell by Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) |
| Amyntor by Thomas Godfrey (1736–1763) |
| Anadyomene by Robert Kelley Weeks (1840–1876) |
| A Name in the Sand by Hannah Flagg Gould (1789–1865) |
| Ananké by Francis Saltus Saltus (1849–1889) |
| An Autograph by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| An Autumn Violet by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844–1911) |
| André’s Bequest to Washington by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) |
| Andromeda by James Jeffrey Roche (1847–1908) |
| And Who is She? by John Vance Cheney (1848–1922) |
| An Empty Heart by William Winter (1836–1917) |
| An Epitaph for Braddock by Verse of the French and Indian War |
| An Epitaph for Sara and Roland Cotton by John Cotton (1585–1652) |
| An Essay upon the Microscope by Nathaniel Ames (1708–1764) |
| An Evening Revery by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| A New England Gentleman’s Epitaph by Thomas Dudley (1576–1653) |
| A New England Saint by Benjamin Woodbridge (d. 1710) |
| A New Song by Revolutionary Songs and Ballads |
| An Indian Beauty by John Josselyn (fl. 1630–1675) |
| Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) |
| Anne by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856–1935) |
| Annie in the Graveyard by Caroline Howard Gilman (1794–1888) |
| A Nocturne of Rubinstein by Helen Gray Cone (1859–1934) |
| An Old Castle by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
| An Old Man’s Idyl by Richard Realf (1832–1878) |
| An Old Song Reversed by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
| An Old Thought by Charles Henry Lüders (1858–1891) |
| Antony to Cleopatra by William Haines Lytle (1826–1863) |
| An Untimely Thought by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
| A Painted Fan by Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) |
| A Pair of Eclogues: The Country Meeting by Anonymous |
| A Pair of Eclogues: The Country School by Anonymous |
| Apart by John James Piatt (1835–1917) |
| A Passage by John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890) |
| A Perfect Day by Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841–1928) |
| A Picture by Charles Gamage Eastman (1816–1860) |
| A Pitcher of Mignonette by Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) |
| A Poet of Quality by William Maxwell (1784–1857) |
| Apple Blossoms by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) |
| A Prayer by George Melville Upton (b. 1861) |
| A Proem by Samuel Ward (1814–1884) |
| A Prospect of Death by Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752–1783) |
| A Quarrel with Fortune by Benjamin Coleman (1673–1747) |
| A Quiet House by Mary Ainge De Vere (Madeline Bridges) |
| A Recommendation of New-England by William Morrell (fl. 1625) |
| A Revival Hymn by Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908) |
| A Rose by Helen Gray Cone (1859–1934) |
| A Saint of Yore by John Vance Cheney (1848–1922) |
| A Savage by John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890) |
| A September Violet by Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937) |
| A Serenade by Edward Coate Pinkney (1802–1828) |
| As Glides the Pictured Dream by John Adams (1704–1740) |
| A Shadow Boat by Arlo Bates (1850–1918) |
| Ashby by John Randolph Thompson (1823–1873) |
| Ashes of Roses by Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) |
| As I Came Down from Lebanon by Clinton Scollard (1860–1932) |
| A Sigh by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921) |
| A Simile by Lucy White Jennison (Owen Innsly) (b. 1850) |
| Asleep by Mary Newmarch Prescott (1849–1888) |
| A Soldier’s Grave by John Albee (1833–1915) |
| A Song before Grief by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Alphonsa) (1851–1926) |
| A Song for Lexington by Robert Kelley Weeks (1840–1876) |
| A Song of Days by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) |
| “As the Crow Files” by Helen Gray Cone (1859–1934) |
| A Stolen Soul by George Edgar Montgomery (1855–1898) |
| A Storm at Sea by Roger Wolcott (1679–1767) |
| A Summer Night by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823–1902) |
| A Sunset Fantasie by George Arnold (1834–1865) |
| Atalanta by Maurice Thompson (1844–1901) |
| At Gettysburg by Isaac Rusling Pennypacker (1852–1935) |
| At Gibraltar by George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) |
| A Threnody by George Thomas Lanigan (1845–1886) |
| A Time-Worn Belle by John Trumbull (1750–1831) |
| At Marshfield by William Cleaver Wilkinson (1833–1920) |
| A Triumph of Order by John Hay (1838–1905) |
| At the Fireside by John Davis Long (1838–1915) |
| At the Golden Gate by Walter Learned (1847–1915) |
| At the Hacienda by Bret Harte (1836–1902) |
| At the Party by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844–1911) |
| At the Piano by Anna Katharine Green (1846–1935) |
| At the Press of Laurentius by Elihu Hubbard Smith (1771–1798) |
| At Vespers by Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1843–1887) |
| A Violet by Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (1824–1906) |
| A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863) |
| A War of Kings by Nicholas Scull (1686?–1761?) |
| Away Down in Sunbury by Negro Hymns and Songs: Miscellaneous |
| A Whaling Song by John Osborn (1713–1753) |
| A Winter Wish by Robert Hinckley Messinger (1811–1874) |
| A Witch Song by Willis Gaylord Clark (1808–1841) |
| A Woman by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
| A Woman’s Execution by Edward King (1848–1896) |
| A Woman’s Love by John Hay (1838–1905) |
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| Bacchus by Frank Dempster Sherman (1860–1916) |
| Bacon’s Death, Eulogy, and Execration by Anonymous |
| Ballad by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921) |
| Ballad: ‘There was a gay maiden’ by George Henry Boker (1823–1890) |
| Barbara Frietchle by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| Barclay of Ury by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| Bartimeus by Robert Jones Burdette (1844–1914) |
| Battle-Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) |
| Battle of Trenton by Revolutionary Songs and Ballads |
| Bedouin Song by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
| Beer by George Arnold (1834–1865) |
| Before the Gate by William Dean Howells (1837–1920) |
| Behold a Woman! by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
| Bernardine du Born by Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865) |
| Bertha by Anne Whitney (1821–1915) |
| Bessie Brown, M.D. by Samuel Minturn Peck (1854–1938) |
| Bethel by Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne (1823–1884) |
| Betsey and I are Out by Will Carleton (1845–1912) |
| Between the Lights by Maurice Francis Egan (1852–1924) |
| Birds by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
| Blind Louise by George W. Dewey (1818–1896) |
| Blue-Beard’s Closet by Rose Terry Cooke (1827–1892) |
| Boat Song by Negro Hymns and Songs: Miscellaneous |
| Boat Song by John Aylmer Dorgan (1836–1867) |
| “Bois Ton Sang, Beaumanoir!” by Frances Sargent Osgood (1811–1850) |
| Bold Hawthorne by Revolutionary Songs and Ballads |
| Bos’n Hill by John Albee (1833–1915) |
| Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| Bright Sparkles in de Churchyard by Negro Hymns and Songs: Spirituals |
| Bumble-Bee by Henry Augustin Beers (1847–1926) |
| Bunker Hill by Benjamin Franklin Taylor (1819–1887) |
| Bunker’s Hill by Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748–1816) |
| Burns by Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867) |
| But Once by Theodore Winthrop (1828–1861) |
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| Calumny by Frances Sargent Osgood (1811–1850) |
| Carmen Bellicosum by Guy Humphrey McMaster (1829–1887) |
| Casey’s Table d’Hôte by Eugene Field (1850–1895) |
| Cavalry Song by Rossiter Worthington Raymond (1840–1918) |
| Centennial Hymn by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| Charleston Gals by Negro Hymns and Songs: Miscellaneous |
| Charlie’s Story by Kate Upson Clark (1851–1935) |
| Chaucer by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| Chaucer by Lucy White Jennison (Owen Innsly) (b. 1850) |
| Chez Brébant by Francis Alexander Durivage (1814–1881) |
| Choose by Sarah Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood) (1823–1904) |
| Christmas Hymn by John Pierpont (1785–1866) |
| Christmas Night of ’62 by William Gordon McCabe (1841–1920) |
| Christmas Song by Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810–1876) |
| Christmas-Time by Kate Neely Festetits (b. 1837) |
| Chrysaor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| Cinderella by Dora Read Goodale (1866–1953) |
| Clement by William Dean Howells (1837–1920) |
| Cleopatra by William Wetmore Story (1819–1895) |
| Cleopatra by Ramsay Morris (b. 1858) |
| Climbing to Rest by Lucy Larcom (1826–1893) |
| Closing Scene of the First American Tragedy Regularly Produced by William Dunlap (1766–1839) |
| Closing Scene of “The Viking” by Elwyn Alfred Barron (1855–1929) |
| Columbia by Timothy Dwight (1752–1817) |
| Columbus by Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865) |
| Come Back by Henry William Herbert (1807–1858) |
| Common Sense by James Thomas Fields (1817–1881) |
| Communion by David Gray (1836–1888) |
| Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| Constance by William Winter (1836–1917) |
| Contemplations by Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672) |
| Cotton-Field Song by Americus Wellington Bellaw (b. 1842) |
| Counsel by Mary Evelyn Moore Davis (1844–1909) |
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| Daisy by Emily Warren |
| Dandelions by John Albee (1833–1915) |
| Daniel Gray by Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–1881) |
| Dan’s Wife by Kate Tannatt Woods (1838–1910) |
| Darby and Joan by St. John Honeywood (1763–1798) |
| Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| Days of My Youth by St. George Tucker (1752–1827) |
| Death of Altheëtor by Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente) (1794?–1845) |
| Death of an Infant by Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865) |
| Death’s Epitaph by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
| Decoration by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) |
| Democracy by Jonathan Odell (1737–1818) |
| De Profundis by Henry Charles Lea (1825–1909) |
| Derelict by Elisabeth Cavazza |
| Desecration by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
| De Sheepfol’ by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene (1856–1935) |
| Desires by Elizabeth Clementine Kinney (1810–1889) |
| De ’Sperience ob de Reb’rend Quawko Strong by Frederick Henry Pilch (1842–1889) |
| Despondency by Arlo Bates (1850–1918) |
| Dies Iræ by Abraham Coles (1813–1891) |
| Dirge by Charles Gamage Eastman (1816–1860) |
| Dirge by John Vance Cheney (1848–1922) |
| Dirge for a Soldier by George Henry Boker (1823–1890) |
| Dirge for One Who Fell in Battle by Thomas William Parsons (1819–1892) |
| Dirge for the Tenth Muse by John Norton (c. 1651–1716) |
| Disarmed by Laura Redden Searing (Howard Glyndon) (1840–1923) |
| Disenchantment of Death by Madison Cawein (1865–1914) |
| Dixie by Ernest McGaffey (b. 1861) |
| Done For by Rose Terry Cooke (1827–1892) |
| Dorothy by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Alphonsa) (1851–1926) |
| Dorothy Q. by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
| Down! by Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872) |
| Down the Bayou by Mary Ashley Townsend (1836–1901) |
| Dreaming in the Trenches by William Gordon McCabe (1841–1920) |
| Dreams by Ernest McGaffey (b. 1861) |
| Drifting by Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872) |
| Driving Home the Cows by Kate Putnam Osgood (1841–1910) |
| Dutch Lullaby by Eugene Field (1850–1895) |
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| Easter Bridal Song by Alice Cary (1820–1871) |
| Ebb by James Phinney Baxter (1831–1921) |
| Ebb and Flow by George William Curtis (1824–1892) |
| Ebo by Armistead Churchill Gordon (1855–1931) |
| Edith by William Ellery Channing (1818–1901) |
| Egyptian Serenade by George William Curtis (1824–1892) |
| Elegy by Lewis William Mansfield (1816–1898) |
| Elegy on a Shell—the Nautilus by Samuel Latham Mitchill (1764–1831) |
| Elegy on the Death of Thomas Shepard by Urian Oakes (1631–1681) |
| Elsinore by Helen Gray Cone (1859–1934) |
| Enamoured Architect of Airy Rhyme by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
| Endymion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| Enfoldings by Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905) |
| England by Richard Edwin Day (b. 1852) |
| Epigram from Independence by Tobias George Smollett (1721–1771) |
| Epigrams by James Aldrich (1810–1856) |
| Epigrams: Sixty-Eighth Birthday by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| Epigrams: With a Pair of Gloves Lost in a Wager by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| Epilogue to “The Clergyman’s Daughter” by Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (1773–1811) |
| Epithalamium by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1795–1828) |
| Ethiopia Saluting the Colors by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
| Eutaw Springs by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
| Evening by George Washington Doane (1799–1859) |
| Evening by Charles Lotin Hildreth (1856–1896) |
| Evening at the Farm by John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916) |
| Evensong by John Vance Cheney (1848–1922) |
| Eventide by Dora Read Goodale (1866–1953) |
| Every Year by Albert Pike (1809–1891) |
| Eve’s Daughter by Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887) |
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| Faith by Ray Palmer (1808–1887) |
| Fantasia by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921) |
| Farm Fruits by Charles Henry Lüders (1858–1891) |
| Farragut by William Tuckey Meredith (b. 1839) |
| Fate, or God? by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) |
| Father Abbey’s Will by John Seccomb (1708–1792) |
| Fiction by Charles Sprague (1791–1875) |
| Florence Vane by Philip Pendleton Cooke (1816–1850) |
| Flower and Thorn by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
| For an Autograph by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| For an Old Poet by Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) |
| Forbearance by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| For Charlie’s Sake by John Williamson Palmer (1825–1906) |
| For Divine Strength by Samuel Johnson (1822–1882) |
| Forerunners by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| For Ronald in his Grave by Charles Goodrich Whiting (1842–1922) |
| For Saynte Valentyne, his Daye by Frank Dempster Sherman (1860–1916) |
| Free America by Joseph Warren (1741–1775) |
| Friendship after Love by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) |
| From “A Poet’s Hope” by William Ellery Channing (1818–1901) |
| From “Arizonian” by Joaquin (Cincinnatus Hiner) Miller (1837–1913) |
| From “Hiawatha” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| From “Keenan’s Charge” by George Parsons Lathrop (1851–1898) |
| From “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
| From “Snow-Bound” by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| From “The Anarchiad” by “The Hartford Wits” |
| From “The Courtship of Miles Standish” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| From The Dance to Death by Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) |
| From “The Echo” by “The Hartford Wits” |
| From “The North Shore Watch” by George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) |
| From “The Political Green-House” by “The Hartford Wits” |
| From the “Song of Myself”: And Still I Mount and Mount by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
| From the “Song of Myself”: In All, Myself by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
| From the “Song of Myself”: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
| From the “Song of Myself”: The Large Hearts of Heroes by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
| From The Vision of Nimrod by Charles de Kay (1848–1935) |
| From “The Vision of Sir Launfal” by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| From “Woodnotes” by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
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| Garfield by Henry Bernard Carpenter (1840–1890) |
| Geronimo by Ernest McGaffey (b. 1861) |
| God Keep You by Mary Ainge De Vere (Madeline Bridges) |
| God Save the Nation by Theodore Tilton (1835–1907) |
| Good Night by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793–1860) |
| Good-Night by Mary (Clemmer) (Ames) Hudson (1839–1884) |
| Grant—Dying by Thomas Chalmers Harbaugh (1849–1924) |
| Graves by Francis Saltus Saltus (1849–1889) |
| Griggsby’s Station by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
| Grizzly by Bret Harte (1836–1902) |
| Guido’s Aurora by Thomas William Parsons (1819–1892) |
| Guild’s Signal by Bret Harte (1836–1902) |
| Gulf-Stream by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge) (1835–1905) |
| Gulf-Weed by Cornelius George Fenner (1822–1847) |
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| Habeas Corpus by Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) |
| Hail Columbia by Joseph Hopkinson (1770–1842) |
| Hans Breitmann’s Barty by Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903) |
| Hawthorne by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| Hearing the News in Idaho by Charles Henry Phelps (1853–1933) |
| Heaven, O Lord, I Cannot Lose by Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) |
| Hebe by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| Heliotrope by Harry Thurston Peck (1856–1914) |
| He May Go—If He Can by Frances Sargent Osgood (1811–1850) |
| Her Last Verses by Frances Sargent Osgood (1811–1850) |
| Hilda by John Vance Cheney (1848–1922) |
| Hilda’s Little Hood by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (1848–1895) |
| His Battles o’er Again by David Humphreys (1752–1818) |
| His Mother’s Joy by John White Chadwick (1840–1904) |
| His Share and Mine by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836–1919) |
| “Hoc Erat in Votis” by George Washington Doane (1799–1859) |
| Home, Sweet Home! by John Howard Payne (1791–1852) |
| Hopefully Waiting by Anson Davies Fitz Randolph (1820–1896) |
| How He Saved St. Michael’s by Mary Anna Phinney Stansbury (b. 1842) |
| Hugh Latimer by Henry Augustin Beers (1847–1926) |
| Hymn to the Stars by Oliver William Bourne Peabody (1799–1848) |
| Hymn Written During a Voyage by Mather Byles (1707–1788) |
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| Ichabod! by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| “I Count my Time by Times that I meet Thee” by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
| Ideals by David Atwood Wasson (1823–1887) |
| Identity by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
| If Death be Final by Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813–1892) |
| If I should Die To-night by Arabella (Belle) Eugenie Smith (1844–1916) |
| Immortality by Washington Allston (1779–1843) |
| Implora Pace by Charles Lotin Hildreth (1856–1896) |
| In a Copy of Omar Khayyám by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| In Arabia by James Berry Bensel (1856–1886) |
| In dat Great Gittin’-Up Mornin’ by Negro Hymns and Songs: Spirituals |
| In de Mornin’ by Negro Hymns and Songs: Spirituals |
| Independence Day by Royall Tyler (1757–1826) |
| Indian Pipe by Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) |
| In Exitu by James Gates Percival (1795–1856) |
| In Explanation by Walter Learned (1847–1915) |
| In Harbor by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) |
| In Praise of Laurelled Women by John Blair Linn (1777–1804) |
| In Praise of Master Stone by John Cotton (1585–1652) |
| In Praise of Mistress Bradstreet by Nathaniel Ward (1578–1652) |
| In Praise of the Renowned Cotton Mather by Benjamin Tompson (1642–1714) |
| In Rama by George Alfred Townsend (1841–1914) |
| In Saint Joseph’s by Thomas William Parsons (1819–1892) |
| In School-Days by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| Inscription on a Soldiers’ Monument by Joseph Anderson (1836–1916) |
| Inscriptions by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
| In Sorrow’s Hour by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856–1935) |
| In State by Forceythe Willson (1837–1867) |
| Interludes from “Bitter-Sweet” by Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–1881) |
| Interpretation by Richard Realf (1832–1878) |
| In the Battle by Lucretia Gray Noble (1836–1927) |
| In the Dark by Frances Louisa Bushnell |
| In the Dark by Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937) |
| In the Fields by Roger Wolcott (1679–1767) |
| In the Old Churchyard at Fredericksburg by Frederick Wadsworth Loring (1848–1871) |
| In the Prison Pen by Herman Melville (1819–1891) |
| In the Slant o’ the Sun by Amelia Walstien Carpenter (b. 1840) |
| In the Tunnel by Bret Harte (1836–1902) |
| In the Twilight by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| In Time to Come by Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) |
| In Tropic Rains by John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890) |
| Israfel by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) |
| It is not Death to Die by George Washington Bethune (1805–1862) |
| It Snows by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1788–1879) |
| I Would not Live Alway by William Augustus Muhlenberg (1796–1877) |
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| Jacqueline by William Haines Lytle (1826–1863) |
| Jeannie Marsh by George Pope Morris (1802–1864) |
| Jerry an’ Me by Hiram Rich (b. 1831) |
| John Pelham by James Ryder Randall (1839–1908) |
| Joy, Shipmate, Joy! by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
| Jugurtha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| June by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
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| Kit Carson’s Ride by Joaquin (Cincinnatus Hiner) Miller (1837–1913) |
| Knee-Deep in June by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
| Knight Falstaff by Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920) |
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| Lady Wentworth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| Lady Yeardley’s Guest by Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897) |
| La Grisette by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
| Lament of a Mocking-Bird, by Frances Anne Kemble (1809–1893) |
| Largess by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1815–1891) |
| Latent by Kate Putnam Osgood (1841–1910) |
| Laurence by Rossiter Johnson (1840–1931) |
| Lay dis Body Down by Negro Hymns and Songs: Spirituals |
| Leaves at my Window by John James Piatt (1835–1917) |
| Les Morts Vont Vite by Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) |
| Let Us Alone by Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872) |
| Let Us Be Happy As Long As We Can by Joseph Stansbury (1750–1809) |
| Liberty by John Hay (1838–1905) |
| Liberty for All by William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879) |
| Liberty Tree by Thomas Paine (1737–1809) |
| Life’s Answer by Milicent Washburn Shinn (1858–1940) |
| Lines on the Death of His Son Charles by Daniel Webster (1782–1852) |
| Lines Spoken by a Boy of Seven Years by David Everett (1770–1813) |
| Lines to a Lady by George Denison Prentice (1802–1870) |
| Listening to Music by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
| Little Giffen by Francis Orrery Ticknor (1822–1874) |
| Little People by Charles de Kay (1848–1935) |
| Lohengrin by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge) (1835–1905) |
| Lord Dunmore’s Petition to the Legislature of Virginia by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
| Loss by James Herbert Morse (1841–1923) |
| Love’s Autumn by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) |
| Love’s Young Dream by George Augustus Baker (1849–1906) |
| Lovewell’s Fight by Anonymous |
| Lyon by Henry Peterson (1818–1891) |
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| Magdalen by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921) |
| Mankind’s Highest by William Roscoe Thayer (Paul Hermes) (1859–1923) |
| “Many Things Thou hast Given me, Dear Heart” by Alice Wellington Rollins (1847–1897) |
| Many Thousand Go by Negro Hymns and Songs: Miscellaneous |
| Marching Through Georgia by Henry Clay Work (1832–1884) |
| Marco Bozzaris by Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867) |
| Marguerite by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| Mariette by Dora Read Goodale (1866–1953) |
| Marion Moore by James Gowdy Clark (1830–1897) |
| Martha by Julia C. R. Dorr (1825–1913) |
| Massa’s in de Cold Ground by Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864) |
| Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| Maurice de Guérin by Maurice Francis Egan (1852–1924) |
| May in Kingston by Henry Abbey (1842–1911) |
| Mazurka by Samuel Ward (1814–1884) |
| Memories by John Esten Cooke (1830–1886) |
| Memory by Charles Henry Lüders (1858–1891) |
| Mercedes by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823–1902) |
| Merlin by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| M’Fingal’s Dole by John Trumbull (1750–1831) |
| Midsummer Night by John Henry Boner (1845–1903) |
| Milking-Time by William Wallace Harney (1831–1912) |
| Milton’s Prayer of Patience by Elizabeth (Lloyd) Howell (1811–1896) |
| Miserrimus by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
| Mist by Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) |
| Mithridates by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| Monterey by Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806–1884) |
| Mors Triumphalis by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
| Moscow by Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) |
| Mother Margary by George Shepard Burleigh (1821–1903) |
| Mount Shasta by Joaquin (Cincinnatus Hiner) Miller (1837–1913) |
| Moustache by Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920) |
| Mr. Hosea Biglow to the Editor of the Atlantic Monthly by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| Mr. Merry’s Lament for “Long Tom” by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1795–1828) |
| Music by Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860) |
| Music by Edith Matilda Thomas (1854–1925) |
| Music in Camp by John Randolph Thompson (1823–1873) |
| Music in the Night by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921) |
| Music of the Night by John Neal (1793–1876) |
| My Beads by Abram Joseph Ryan (1838–1886) |
| My Bird by Emily Chubbuck Judson (Fanny Forrester) (1817–1854) |
| My Child by John Pierpont (1785–1866) |
| My Father’s Child by Gertrude Bloede (Stuart Sterne) (1845–1905) |
| My Landlady’s Nose by Alexander Wilson (1766–1813) |
| My Little Girl by Samuel Minturn Peck (1854–1938) |
| My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| “My Love for Thee doth March like Armèd Men” by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
| My Maryland by James Ryder Randall (1839–1908) |
| My Native Land by John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890) |
| My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night by Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864) |
| My Other Me by Grace Denio Litchfield (1849–1944) |
| My Queen by William Winter (1836–1917) |
| My Walk to Church by Horatio Nelson Powers (1826–1890) |
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| Nature by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| Near the Lake by George Pope Morris (1802–1864) |
| Nebuchadnezzar by Irwin Russell (1853–1879) |
| Nelly by Irwin Russell (1853–1879) |
| Nelly Bly by Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864) |
| New England by James Gates Percival (1795–1856) |
| Night and Day by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) |
| Night in New York by George Parsons Lathrop (1851–1898) |
| Noblesse Oblige by Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937) |
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| O Birds that Flit by Ocean’s Rim by Edward King (1848–1896) |
| O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
| October by Benjamin Franklin Taylor (1819–1887) |
| Ode: ‘I am the spirit of the morning sea’ by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
| Odin Dethroned by William Leighton (1833–1911) |
| O’er de Crossin’ by Negro Hymns and Songs: Spirituals |
| Of Abigail, His Wife by Cotton Mather (1663–1728) |
| Of Dr. Byles’s Cat by Joseph Green (1706–1780) |
| Of John Winthrop. Esq. by Captain Edward Johnson (1599?–1672) |
| Of Love and Beauty by John Adams (1704–1740) |
| Of Meeting a Godly Knave in Maryland by Ebenezer Cook (c. 1667–c. 1732) |
| Of the Fair Susan by Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752–1783) |
| Of the Four Ages of Man by Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672) |
| Of the Heavenly Bodies by Roger Williams (1604?–1683) |
| Of the Reverend Mr. Higginson by Captain Edward Johnson (1599?–1672) |
| Of Thine Own Country Sing by William Ross Wallace (1819–1881) |
| Old by Ralph Hoyt (1806–1878) |
| Old and Young by Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813–1892) |
| Old Folks at Home by Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864) |
| Old Grimes by Albert Gorton Greene (1802–1868) |
| Old Ireland by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
| Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
| Olivia by Edward Pollock (1823–1858) |
| Omar Khayyám by Frank Dempster Sherman (1860–1916) |
| On a Bust of Dante by Thomas William Parsons (1819–1892) |
| On a Great Poet’s Obscurity by Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937) |
| On a Lady, Singing by Anonymous |
| On an Intaglio Head of Minerva by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
| On a Patient Killed by a Cancer Quack by Lemuel Hopkins (1750–1801) |
| On a Portrait of Servetus by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
| On a Travelling Speculator by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
| On Barney’s Victory over the Ship “General Monk” by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
| On General Ethan Allen by Lemuel Hopkins (1750–1801) |
| On Imagination by Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784) |
| On Lending a Punch-Bowl by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
| On Life by David Humphreys (1752–1818) |
| On Listening to a Cricket by Andrews Norton (1786–1853) |
| On Recrossing the Rocky Mountains in Winter after Many Years by John Charles Frémont (1813–1890) |
| On Snow-flakes Melting on His Lady’s Breast by William Martin Johnson (1771?–1797) |
| On the Campagna by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823–1902) |
| On the Capture of the “Guerriere” by Anonymous |
| On the Death of C. E., an Infant of Twelve Months by Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784) |
| On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake by Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867) |
| On the Defeat of a Great Man by William Wilberforce Lord (1819–1907) |
| On the Fly-Leaf of a Book of Old Plays by Walter Learned (1847–1915) |
| On the Hundredth Anniversary of the French Revolution by George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) |
| On the Late S. T. Coleridge by Washington Allston (1779–1843) |
| On the Life-Mask of Abraham Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
| On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America by George Berkeley (1685–1753) |
| On the Ruins of a Country Inn by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
| On the Shore by Robert Kelley Weeks (1840–1876) |
| On the Trapping of a Mouse that Lived in a Lady’s Escritoire by Clarence Clough Buel (1850–1933) |
| On the Women Fortifying Boston Neck by Benjamin Tompson (1642–1714) |
| Opening Scene of “Prince Deukalion” by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
| Opportunity by Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887) |
| O Soft Spring Airs! by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921) |
| Our Dead by Arlo Bates (1850–1918) |
| Our First Century by George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) |
| Our Orders by Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) |
| Our Own by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) |
| O Vast Rondure! by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
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| Palabras Cariñosas by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
| Paolo and Francesca by George Henry Boker (1823–1890) |
| Paradisi Gloria by Thomas William Parsons (1819–1892) |
| Passing by Alice Williams Brotherton (1848–1930) |
| Paula’s Epitaph by Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920) |
| Peach-Blossom by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
| Pepita by Frank Dempster Sherman (1860–1916) |
| Perpetuity by Clinton Scollard (1860–1932) |
| Persia by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
| Pessim by Coates Kinney (1826–1904) |
| “Picciola” by Robert Henry Newell (1836–1901) |
| Plain Language from Truthful James by Bret Harte (1836–1902) |
| Plato by Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801–1889) |
| Poe by William Winter (1836–1917) |
| Poe’s Cottage at Fordham by John Henry Boner (1845–1903) |
| Poetry by Edwin Markham (1852–1940) |
| Politics at the Log-Rolling by John Alfred Macon (b. 1851) |
| Poor Little Joe by David Law Proudfit (1842–1897) |
| Popular Songs and Ballads of the Civil War: Northern I: All Quiet Along the Potomac by Ethelinda Elliott Beers (Ethel Lynn) (1827–1879) |
| Popular Songs and Ballads of the Civil War: Northern II: When Johnny Comes Marching Home by Charles Carroll Sawyer (b. 1833) |
| Popular Songs and Ballads of the Civil War: Northern II: When Johnny Comes Marching Home by Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (1829–1892) |
| Popular Songs and Ballads of the Civil War: Northern I: The Battle Cry of Freedom by George Frederick Root (1820–1895) |
| Popular Songs and Ballads of the Civil War: Northern I: The Fancy Shot by Charles Dawson Shanly (1811–1875) |
| Popular Songs and Ballads of the Civil War: Northern I: Three Hundred Thousand More by James Sloan Gibbons (1810–1892) |
| Popular Songs and Ballads of the Civil War: Northern I: Union Army Chorus by Anonymous |
| Popular Songs and Ballads of the Civil War: Southern: “Call All” by Anonymous |
| Popular Songs and Ballads of the Civil War: Southern: Dixie by Albert Pike (1809–1891) |
| Popular Songs and Ballads of the Civil War: Southern: Rebels by Anonymous |
| Popular Songs and Ballads of the Civil War: Southern: The Bonnie Blue Flag by Harry Macarthy (1834–1888) |
| Popular Songs and Ballads of the Civil War: Southern: “The Brigade Must Not Know, Sir!” by John Williamson Palmer (1825–1906) |
| Post-Meridian by Wendell Phillips Garrison (1840–1907) |
| Prairie Summer by Amanda Theodocia Jones (1835–1914) |
| Praxiteles and Phryne by William Wetmore Story (1819–1895) |
| Prayer by Benjamin Allen (1789–1829) |
| Prescience by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
| Private Devotion by Phoebe (Hinsdale) Brown (1783–1861) |
| Prologue to a Comedy by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
| Providence and the Pilgrim by William Bradford (1590–1657) |
| Pussy Willow by Annie Douglas (Green) Robinson (1842–1913) |
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| Quatrain by James Benjamin Kenyon (1858–1924) |
| Quatrains by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
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| Rain in Summer by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| Rare Moments by Charles Henry Phelps (1853–1933) |
| Receipt to Make a Magazine by William Biglow (1773–1844) |
| Recognition by John White Chadwick (1840–1904) |
| Reconciliation by Caroline Atherton Mason (1823–1890) |
| Red Jacket by Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867) |
| Religion Westward Bent by George Herbert (1593–1633) |
| Requiem by George Lunt (1803–1885) |
| Requiescat by James Benjamin Kenyon (1858–1924) |
| Rest by John Sullivan Dwight (1813–1893) |
| Réveille by Michael O’Connor (1837–1862) |
| Riding Down by Nora Perry (1831–1896) |
| Rivals by Virginia Peyton Fauntleroy |
| Robert of Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| Robinson Crusoe by Charles Edward Carryl (1841–1920) |
| Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep by Emma Hart Willard (1787–1870) |
| Roll-Call by Nathaniel Graham Shepherd (1835–1869) |
| Roll, Jordan, Roll by Negro Hymns and Songs: Spirituals |
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| Sacrilege by Thomas Stephens Collier (1842–1893) |
| Sambo’s Right to be Kilt by Charles Graham Halpine (1829–1868) |
| Samuel Hoar by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1831–1917) |
| Saturninus by Katherine Eleanor Conway (1853–1927) |
| Savannah Firemen’s Song by Negro Hymns and Songs: Miscellaneous |
| Scenes from “Evangeline” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| Scenes from “Pendragon” by William Young (1847–1920) |
| Schumann’s Sonata in A Minor by Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) |
| Sea-Weeds by Annie Chambers Ketchum (1824–1904) |
| Segovia and Madrid by Rose Terry Cooke (1827–1892) |
| Shadow-Evidence by Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905) |
| Shakespeare by Henry Ames Blood (1836–1900) |
| She Came and Went by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| Sheridan at Cedar Creek by Herman Melville (1819–1891) |
| Sheridan’s Ride by Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872) |
| She was a Beauty by Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) |
| Sidney Godolphin by Clinton Scollard (1860–1932) |
| “Since Cleopatra Died” by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) |
| Sir Humphrey Gilbert by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| Sir Marmaduke’s Musings by Theodore Tilton (1835–1907) |
| Siva, Destroyer by George Perry (1828–1888) |
| Six Hobnails by Nathaniel Ward (1578–1652) |
| Skipper Ireson’s Ride by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| Sleep by Julia C. R. Dorr (1825–1913) |
| Sleep by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
| Sleighing Song by Anonymous |
| Slumber Song by Elisabeth Cavazza |
| Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) |
| Some Day of Days by Nora Perry (1831–1896) |
| Sometime by May Riley Smith (1842?–1927) |
| Song: ‘A bird in my bower’ by Francis Howard Williams (1844–1922) |
| Song: ‘Boy, shut to the door, and bid trouble begone’ by William Cliffton (1772–1799) |
| Song: ‘Dear eyes, forbear to weep’ by Kate M. Bishop |
| Song in March by William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) |
| Song of Braddock’s Men by Verse of the French and Indian War |
| Song of Egla by Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente) (1794?–1845) |
| Song of Eros, in “Agathon” by George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) |
| Song of the Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) |
| Song of the Elfin Steersman by George Hill (1796–1871) |
| Song of the North Wind by James Benjamin Kenyon (1858–1924) |
| Song of the Seeds by Florence Smith (1845–1871) |
| Song: ‘O touch me not, unless thy soul’ by Ella Dietz Clymer (b. 1856?) |
| Song: ‘Slipping, drifting with the tide’ by Mary Newmarch Prescott (1849–1888) |
| Songs of the Puritans by The Bay Psalm Book |
| Song: ‘’Tis said that absence conquers love!’ by Frederick William Thomas (1806–1866) |
| Song: ‘We sail toward evening’s lonely star’ by Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) |
| Song: ‘Who has robbed the ocean cave’ by John Shaw (1778–1809) |
| Song: ‘Your heart is a music-box’ by Frances Sargent Osgood (1811–1850) |
| Sonnet by James Gates Percival (1795–1856) |
| Sonnet: ‘Men change,—that heaven above not more’ by William Ellery Channing (1818–1901) |
| Sonnets of Character by Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) |
| ’Späcially Jim by Bessie Morgan |
| Spinning by Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) |
| Spirit that Form’d this Scene by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
| Spring in Winter by Charlotte Fiske Bates (1838–1916) |
| Spring Song by George William Curtis (1824–1892) |
| Stanzas by Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813–1892) |
| Stanzas from “Fryeburg” by Henry Bernard Carpenter (1840–1890) |
| Stanzas: ‘My life is like the summer rose’ by Richard Henry Wilde (1789–1847) |
| Star Dust by Charles Henry Lüders (1858–1891) |
| “Star of my Dying-Time” by Katherine Eleanor Conway (1853–1927) |
| Stars Begin to Fall by Negro Hymns and Songs: Spirituals |
| Starting from Paumanok by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
| Stonewall Jackson by Henry Lynden Flash (1835–1914) |
| Stonewall Jackson’s Way by John Williamson Palmer (1825–1906) |
| Storm—The King by Francis Miles Finch (1827–1907) |
| St. Theodule by Starr Hoyt Nichols (1834–1909) |
| Sub Rosa by George Lunt (1803–1885) |
| Summer Love by William Henry Venable (1836–1920) |
| Summer Night by Milicent Washburn Shinn (1858–1940) |
| Sunlight and Starlight by Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (1824–1906) |
| Sweet Impatience by George Arnold (1834–1865) |
| Swing Low, Sweet Chariot by Negro Hymns and Songs: Spirituals |
| Syrinx by Edith Matilda Thomas (1854–1925) |
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| Tacking Ship Off Shore by Walter Mitchell (1826–1908) |
| Tarpeia by Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920) |
| Taxation of America by Revolutionary Songs and Ballads |
| Telling the Bees by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| Terminus by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| Terpsichore in the Flat Creek Quarters by John Alfred Macon (b. 1851) |
| Thalatta! Thalatta! by Joseph Brownlee Brown (1824–1888) |
| Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| The Actor by Clinton Scollard (1860–1932) |
| The Aged Stranger by Bret Harte (1836–1902) |
| The Alarming Progress of Luxury in New England by Benjamin Tompson (1642–1714) |
| The American Flag by Joseph Rodman Drake (1795–1820) |
| The American Hero by Nathaniel Niles (1741–1828) |
| The Antiquity of Freedom by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| The Ascent of the Saint by Benjamin Coleman (1673–1747) |
| The Autumn Evening by William Bourne Oliver Peabody (1799–1847) |
| The Ballad of Nathan Hale by Revolutionary Songs and Ballads |
| The Ballad of the Colors by Thomas Dunn English (1819–1902) |
| The Ballad of the French Fleet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| The Baltimore Bird by Alexander Wilson (1766–1813) |
| The Band in the Pines by John Esten Cooke (1830–1886) |
| The Banjo by Irwin Russell (1853–1879) |
| The Banner of the Jew by Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) |
| The Barefoot Boy by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| The Baron’s Last Banquet by Albert Gorton Greene (1802–1868) |
| The Battle-Field by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| The Battle of the Kegs by Francis Hopkinson (1737–1791) |
| The Bells of Lynn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| The Bergamot by William Wallace Harney (1831–1912) |
| The Bibliomaniac’s Prayer by Eugene Field (1850–1895) |
| The Birch-Tree by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat by Francis Hopkinson (1737–1791) |
| The Bivouac of the Dead by Theodore O’Hara (1820–1867) |
| The Black Regiment by George Henry Boker (1823–1890) |
| The Blue and the Gray by Francis Miles Finch (1827–1907) |
| The Bluebird by Maurice Thompson (1844–1901) |
| The Bobolink by Thomas Hill (1818–1891) |
| The Bobolinks by Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813–1892) |
| The Bookstall by Clinton Scollard (1860–1932) |
| The Bookworm by Royall Tyler (1757–1826) |
| The Brave Old Ship, the Orient by Robert Traill Spence Lowell (1816–1891) |
| The Briefless Barrister by John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887) |
| The Brown Thrush by William Davis Gallagher (1808–1894) |
| The Bucket by Samuel Woodworth (1784–1842) |
| The Bugle by Grenville Mellen (1799–1841) |
| The Burden of the Desert by William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) |
| The Burning of Fairfield by Timothy Dwight (1752–1817) |
| The Captain’s Feather by Samuel Minturn Peck (1854–1938) |
| The Celestial Passion by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
| The Centoaph by James Thomson McKay (1843–1890) |
| The Challenge by Fitz-James O’Brien (1828–1862) |
| The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
| The Changeling by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| The Chanting Cherubs—a Group by Greenough by Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879) |
| The Child in the Street by John James Piatt (1835–1917) |
| The Children by Charles Monroe Dickinson (1842–1924) |
| The Chimes of England by Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1818–1896) |
| The Chimney Nest by Mary Barker Carter Dodge |
| The Church Universal by Samuel Longfellow (1819–1892) |
| The City in the Sea by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) |
| The City of God by Samuel Johnson (1822–1882) |
| The Closing Scene by Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872) |
| The Clouds by William Croswell (1804–1851) |
| The Cocoa-Tree by Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) |
| The Colossi by Thomas Gold Appleton (1812–1884) |
| The Combat of Lars and Per by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
| The Coming of the Spring by Nora Perry (1831–1896) |
| The Commonwealth by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| The Congress by Revolutionary Songs and Ballads |
| The Conquered Banner by Abram Joseph Ryan (1838–1886) |
| The Contented Man by John Adams (1704–1740) |
| The Coral Grove by James Gates Percival (1795–1856) |
| The Cotton Boll by Henry Timrod (1828–1867) |
| The Council Scene in “Metamora” by John Augustus Stone (1801–1834) |
| The Country Lovers by Thomas Green Fessenden (1771–1837) |
| The Country Parson by Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson (1737–1801) |
| The Courtin’ by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| The Cowboy by John Antrobus (1831–1907) |
| The Cranes of Ibycus by Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) |
| The Crossed Swords by Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham (1793–1870) |
| The Cross of Gold by David Gray (1836–1888) |
| The Crowing of the Red Cock by Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) |
| The Crown by Ray Palmer (1808–1887) |
| The Culprit Fay by Joseph Rodman Drake (1795–1820) |
| The Cumberland by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| The Curse of the Competent; or, The Lay of the Last Genius by Henry James Finn (1787–1840) |
| The Dance by Revolutionary Songs and Ballads |
| The Danza by Arlo Bates (1850–1918) |
| The Daughter of Mendoza by Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (1798–1859) |
| The Day of Doom by Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705) |
| The Days of Grogram Grandames by William Irving (1766–1821) |
| The Dead by Jones Very (1813–1880) |
| The Dead Doll by Margaret Thomson Janvier (Margaret Vandegrift) (1845–1913) |
| The Dead Moon by Danske Dandridge (1858–1914) |
| The Dead Solomon by John Aylmer Dorgan (1836–1867) |
| The Death of Children by John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) |
| The Death of Jack Cade by Robert Taylor Conrad (1810–1858) |
| The Death of Memnon by Henry Guy Carleton (1856–1910) |
| The Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| The Death of the White Heron by Maurice Thompson (1844–1901) |
| The Death of Winter by Robert Burns Wilson (1850–1916) |
| The Death of Wolfe by Verse of the French and Indian War |
| The Deaths of Evanthe and Arsaces by Thomas Godfrey (1736–1763) |
| The Demon-Lover by James Abraham Hillhouse (1789–1841) |
| The Divan by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
| The Draught by Charles Henry Lüders (1858–1891) |
| The Dream by Levi Frisbie (1783–1822) |
| The Drowned Mariner by Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806–1893) |
| The Dunce’s Refuge by John Trumbull (1750–1831) |
| The Dying Archangel by Edgar Fawcett (1847–1904) |
| The Eagle’s Fall by Charles Goodrich Whiting (1842–1922) |
| The Eclipse of Faith by Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801–1889) |
| The Elf Child by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
| “Thee, loved one, do the Rocks and Woodlands Sing” by Theodore Parker (1810–1860) |
| The Exile at Rest by John Pierpont (1785–1866) |
| The Family Blood by Aaron Cleveland (1744–1815) |
| The Family Meeting by Charles Sprague (1791–1875) |
| The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother to her Daughters sold into Southern Bondage by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| The Fate of John Burgoyne by Revolutionary Songs and Ballads |
| The First American Comedy Regularly Produced by Royall Tyler (1757–1826) |
| The First Christmas in New England by Hezekiah Butterworth (1839–1905) |
| The First Cricket by William Dean Howells (1837–1920) |
| The First Snow-Fall by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| The First Step by Andrew Bice Saxton (1856–1936) |
| The Fisher’s Boy by Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) |
| The Flight from the Convent by Theodore Tilton (1835–1907) |
| The Flight of the War-Eagle by Obadiah Cyrus Auringer (1849–1937) |
| The Flight of Youth by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
| The Flower-Seller by William Young (1847–1920) |
| The Flown Soul by George Parsons Lathrop (1851–1898) |
| The Fool’s Prayer by Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887) |
| The Fugitive Slave’s Apostrophe to the North Star by John Pierpont (1785–1866) |
| The Garden at Bemerton by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856–1935) |
| The Gift of Poetry by Nathaniel Ward (1578–1652) |
| The Grave of Rose by John James Piatt (1835–1917) |
| The Gray Swan by Alice Cary (1820–1871) |
| The Guest by Harriet McEwen Kimball (1834–1917) |
| The Harvest-Call by William H. Burleigh (1812–1871) |
| The Hasty Pudding by Joel Barlow (1754–1812) |
| The Heart’s Song by Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1818–1896) |
| The Hero of the Commune by Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897) |
| The Higher Good by Theodore Parker (1810–1860) |
| The Hour of Peaceful Rest by William Bingham Tappan (1794–1849) |
| The House of Death by Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) |
| The Humble-Bee by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| The Hymn of Force by William Roscoe Thayer (Paul Hermes) (1859–1923) |
| The Indian Burying-Ground by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
| The Key-Note by Mary Emily Bradley (1835–1898) |
| The King by Charles Lotin Hildreth (1856–1896) |
| The Land of Dreams by Samuel Eleazer Mann (1853–1918) |
| The Last Cæsar by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
| The Last Furrow by Edwin Markham (1852–1940) |
| The Last Gentian by Thomas William Parsons (1819–1892) |
| The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
| The Last Tempest by Mather Byles (1707–1788) |
| The Lay of Dan’l Drew by Charles Henry Webb (1834–1905) |
| The Lesson of Life by Roger Wolcott (1679–1767) |
| The Letter of Marque by Caroline Frances Orne (1818–1905) |
| The Library by Frank Dempster Sherman (1860–1916) |
| The Light’ood Fire by John Henry Boner (1845–1903) |
| The Lip and the Heart by John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) |
| The Little Beach-Bird by Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879) |
| The Little Knight in Green by Katharine Lee Bates (1859–1929) |
| The Little Orator by Thaddeus Mason Harris (1768–1842) |
| The Living Temple by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
| The Loon by Alfred Billings Street (1811–1881) |
| The Lost Battle by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Alphonsa) (1851–1926) |
| The Lost Pleiad by William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) |
| The Love-Knot by Nora Perry (1831–1896) |
| The Lover’s Song by Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887) |
| The Maid of St. Helena by Charles Henry Phelps (1853–1933) |
| The Majority by Tracy Robinson (1833–1915) |
| The Marshes of Glynn by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) |
| The Mates by Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente) (1794?–1845) |
| The Mayflower by Erastus Wolcott Ellsworth (1822–1902) |
| The May Sun Sheds an Amber Light by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| The Meeting by Edgar Fawcett (1847–1904) |
| The Memory of the Heart by Daniel Webster (1782–1852) |
| The Mint Julep by Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806–1884) |
| The Mocking Bird by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) |
| The Moorings by William Wallace Harney (1831–1912) |
| The Morning-Glory by Maria (White) Lowell (1821–1853) |
| The Morning Street by John James Piatt (1835–1917) |
| The Moss Supplicateth for the Poet by Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879) |
| The Mountebanks by Charles Henry Lüders (1858–1891) |
| The Mower in Ohio by John James Piatt (1835–1917) |
| The Much-Loved Child by Aquila Rose (1695–1723) |
| The New Castalia by William Hayes Ward (1835–1916) |
| The New England Preachers by Anonymous |
| The New Wife and the Old by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| The New Year by Maybury Fleming (b. 1853) |
| Then shall I Triumph by Charles de Kay (1848–1935) |
| Theocritus by Annie Adams Fields (1834–1915) |
| Theocritus by Maurice Francis Egan (1852–1924) |
| The Old Abbeys by Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1818–1896) |
| The Old Beau by Edgar Fawcett (1847–1904) |
| The Old Man and Jim by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
| The Old Man’s Carousal by James Kirke Paulding (1778–1860) |
| The Old Piano by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831–1919) |
| The Old Ship of Zion by John Alfred Macon (b. 1851) |
| The Old Story by Mary Emily Bradley (1835–1898) |
| The Old Story by Mary Newmarch Prescott (1849–1888) |
| The O’Lincoln Family by Wilson Flagg (1805–1884) |
| The Organ by Francis Hopkinson (1737–1791) |
| The Other World by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) |
| The Parson’s Psalm by Joseph Green (1706–1780) |
| The Parting Glass by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
| The Past by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| The Patriot by Thomas Godfrey (1736–1763) |
| The Phœbe-Bird by George Parsons Lathrop (1851–1898) |
| The Pilgrims by John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890) |
| The Pious Editor’s Creed by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| The Planting of the Apple-Tree by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| The Poet by Cornelius Mathews (1817–1889) |
| The Poet by Joel Benton (1832–1911) |
| The Portrait by Sarah Helen Power Whitman (1803–1878) |
| The Prairie Plover by William Osborn Stoddard (1835–1925) |
| The Present Age by Revolutionary Songs and Ballads |
| The Prince’s Vision by James Ralph (d. 1762) |
| The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| The Problem by Charlotte Fiske Bates (1838–1916) |
| The Progress of Sir Jack Brag by Revolutionary Songs and Ballads |
| The Quaker Widow by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
| The Quiet Pilgrim by Edith Matilda Thomas (1854–1925) |
| The Ragged Regiment by Alice Williams Brotherton (1848–1930) |
| The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) |
| There is a Land Immortal by Thomas MacKellar (1812–1899) |
| There’ll Come a Day by Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897) |
| The Republic by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| The Revellers by William Davis Gallagher (1808–1894) |
| The Revenge of Hamish by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) |
| The Rhodora by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| The River-God by Charles Henry Lüders (1858–1891) |
| The Roman Father by John Howard Payne (1791–1852) |
| The Sandpiper by Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) |
| The Sea Mark by Captain John Smith (1580–1631) |
| The Sentinel Year by William Osborn Stoddard (1835–1925) |
| The Shadow by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
| The Shadow by Minot Judson Savage (1841–1918) |
| The Silent by Jones Very (1813–1880) |
| The Singer of One Song by Henry Augustin Beers (1847–1926) |
| The Skater by Orth Harper Stein (1862–1901) |
| The Skaters by Fitz-James O’Brien (1828–1862) |
| The Skeleton in Armor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| The Sky Is a Drinking-Cup by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
| The Smooth Divine by Timothy Dwight (1752–1817) |
| The Snowbird by Dora Read Goodale (1866–1953) |
| The Snow-storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| The Society upon the Stanislaus by Bret Harte (1836–1902) |
| The Song of the Camp by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
| The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
| The Soul’s Defiance by Lavinia Stoddard (1787–1820) |
| The Sparrow by Robert Dinsmoor (1757–1836) |
| The Spectre-Horse by Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879) |
| The Sphinx by Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872) |
| The Sphinx of Ice by Edgar Fawcett (1847–1904) |
| The Stab by William Wallace Harney (1831–1912) |
| The Stars by Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905) |
| The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key (1779–1843) |
| The Stirrup-Cup by John Hay (1838–1905) |
| The Stone Fleet by Herman Melville (1819–1891) |
| The Strong Heroic Line by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
| The Sunshine of Thine Eyes by George Parsons Lathrop (1851–1898) |
| The Tax on Old Bachelors by Seba Smith (1792–1868) |
| The Teaching of the Grave by Mather Byles (1707–1788) |
| The Telegrams by Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) |
| The Thousand and Thirty-Seven by Charles Graham Halpine (1829–1868) |
| The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| The Trial of the Dead by Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865) |
| The Triumph of Hector by William Munford (1775–1825) |
| The Tryst by Charles Henry Lüders (1858–1891) |
| The Tunes Dan Harrison Used to Play by William Henry Venable (1836–1920) |
| The Two Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| The Two Friends by Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903) |
| The Two Mariners by Florus Beardsley Plimpton (1830–1886) |
| The Two Mothers by Epiphanius Wilson (1845–1916) |
| The Two Mysteries by Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905) |
| The Unfinished Prayer by Anonymous |
| The Vagabonds by John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916) |
| The Valley by Edwin Markham (1852–1940) |
| The V-a-s-e by James Jeffrey Roche (1847–1908) |
| The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| The Violin by Adoniram Judson Sage (1836–1902) |
| The Virginians of the Valley by Francis Orrery Ticknor (1822–1874) |
| The Voice of the Grass by Sarah Roberts (1812–1869) |
| The Voice of the Pine by Charles Timothy Brooks (1813–1883) |
| The Volunteer by Elbridge Jefferson Cutler (1831–1870) |
| The Waiting Chords by Stephen Henry Thayer (1839–1919) |
| The Waking of the Sun by Nathaniel Ames (1708–1764) |
| The Warden of the Cinque Ports by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| The War of the Dryads by Henry Ames Blood (1836–1900) |
| The Wasp by Francis Hopkinson (1737–1791) |
| The Watch-Fire by Titus Munson Coan (1836–1921) |
| The Watch of Boon Island by Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) |
| The Way by William Steele Shurtleff (1830–1896) |
| The Way of the World by John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887) |
| The Way to Arcady by Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) |
| The Wedding on the Creek by John Alfred Macon (b. 1851) |
| The Wedding Veil by Elizabeth Hussey Whittier (1815–1864) |
| The Widowed Heart by Albert Pike (1809–1891) |
| The Wife by William Livingston (1723–1790) |
| The Wild Honeysuckle by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
| The Wild Ride by Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920) |
| The Willis by David Law Proudfit (1842–1897) |
| The Winged Worshippers by Charles Sprague (1791–1875) |
| The Wish by Thomas Godfrey (1736–1763) |
| The Witch in the Glass by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836–1919) |
| The Witch of York by George Washington Wright Houghton (1850–1891) |
| The Wood-Sprite by Roger Riordan (1848–1904) |
| The Wraith of Odin by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| The Yankee Man-of-War by Anonymous |
| The Year of Jubilee by Henry Clay Work (1832–1884) |
| Thoreau’s Flute by Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) |
| Time, Tireless Tramp by Clifford Anderson Lanier (1844–1908) |
| ’Tis But a Little Faded Flower by Ellen Clementine Howarth (1827–1899) |
| To Aaron Burr, under Trial for High Treason by Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (1759–1846) |
| To a Comrade by Harrison Smith Morris (1856–1948) |
| To a Doubter by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton (1849–1937) |
| To a Honey Bee by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
| To a Lily by James Matthews Legaré (1823–1859) |
| To America by George Henry Boker (1823–1890) |
| To an Italian Beggar-Boy by Elizabeth Clementine Kinney (1810–1889) |
| To an Oriole by Edgar Fawcett (1847–1904) |
| To a Spider by Samuel Low (b. 1765) |
| To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| To David Friedrich Strauss by Epes Sargent (1813–1880) |
| To-day by Milicent Washburn Shinn (1858–1940) |
| To Elsie by Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham (1793–1870) |
| To England by George Henry Boker (1823–1890) |
| To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) |
| To His Companion at Sea by Aquila Rose (1695–1723) |
| To His Wife by Joseph Stansbury (1750–1809) |
| To May by Nathaniel Evans (1742–1767) |
| “To me Thou Cam’st” by Theodore Parker (1810–1860) |
| To-morrow by William Ellery Channing (1818–1901) |
| To Night by Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) |
| To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) |
| To Sally by John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) |
| To Seneca Lake by James Gates Percival (1795–1856) |
| To Sleep by William Cliffton (1772–1799) |
| To Sleep by Maybury Fleming (b. 1853) |
| To the Dandelion by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| To the Daughter of an Old Sweetheart by George Denison Prentice (1802–1870) |
| To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| To the Gods by Anonymous |
| To the Heirs of the Pilgrims by Benjamin Church (1734–1778) |
| To the Man-of-War Bird by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
| To the Mocking-Bird by Richard Henry Wilde (1789–1847) |
| To the Mocking-Bird by Albert Pike (1809–1891) |
| To the Moon by Margaretta V. Faugeres (1771–1801) |
| To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth by Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784) |
| To the Shade of Washington by Richard Alsop (1761–1815) |
| To the Virginian Voyage.html">Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| To Time by Susanna Rowson (1762–1824) |
| Tourguénieff by William Morton Payne (1858–1919) |
| Tradition of Conquest by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836–1919) |
| Transfigured by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836–1919) |
| Transition by Stephen Decatur Smith, Jr. (b. 1861) |
| Trust and Submission by Andrews Norton (1786–1853) |
| Tuloom by Erastus Wolcott Ellsworth (1822–1902) |
| Twenty Bold Mariners by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Alphonsa) (1851–1926) |
| Twilight at Sea by Amelia B. Welby (1819–1852) |
| Two Pictures by Annie Douglas (Green) Robinson (1842–1913) |
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| Uhland by William Allen Butler (1825–1902) |
| Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) |
| Ulf in Ireland by Charles de Kay (1848–1935) |
| Under the Blue by Francis Fisher Browne (1843–1913) |
| Under the Palms by Frederick K. Crosby (1845–1874) |
| Under the Snow by Robert Collyer (1823–1912) |
| Unreturning by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823–1902) |
| Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) |
| Upon a Purple Cap by George Alsop (b. 1638) |
| Upon a Winter Morning by Maybury Fleming (b. 1853) |
| Upon Mrs. Anne Bradstreet Her Poems by John Rogers (1630–1684) |
| Upon Seeing a Funeral in the Street by Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1862–1935) |
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| Vanity of Vanities by Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705) |
| Vanquished by Francis Fisher Browne (1843–1913) |
| Venice by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| Venus of the Louvre by Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) |
| Via Sacra by Charles Anderson Dana (1819–1897) |
| Vicksburg by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) |
| Virginia Creepers by Armistead Churchill Gordon (1855–1931) |
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| Waikiki by Rollin Mallory Doggett (1831–1901) |
| Waiting by John Burroughs (1837–1921) |
| Waiting by Charles Henry Crandall (1858–1923) |
| Waiting for the Bugle by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) |
| Wandering Along a Waste by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
| War and Washington by Jonathan Mitchel Sewall (1748–1808) |
| Warren’s Address to the American Soldiers by John Pierpont (1785–1866) |
| Watching by Emily Chubbuck Judson (Fanny Forrester) (1817–1854) |
| We Lay us Down to Sleep by Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) |
| Western Australia by John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890) |
| We Walked among the Whispering Pines by John Henry Boner (1845–1903) |
| What a Witch and a Thief Made by William Douglas O’Connor (1832–1889) |
| What have I Done? by Lillien Blanche Fearing (1863–1901) |
| What Is Happiness? by Joseph Brown Ladd (1764–1786) |
| What Mr. Robinson Thinks by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| What my Lover Said by Homer Greene (1853–1940) |
| What Sees the Owl? by Elizabeth Sears Bates Gerberding |
| When Did We Meet? by Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) |
| When I am Dead by Ella Dietz Clymer (b. 1856?) |
| When the Cows Come Home by Agnes E. Mitchell |
| When the Frost is on the Punkin by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
| When the Grass shall Cover Me by Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841–1928) |
| Whispers of Heavenly Death by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
| White Azaleas by Harriet McEwen Kimball (1834–1917) |
| Why Should we Care? by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836–1919) |
| Why the Robin’s Breast was Red by James Ryder Randall (1839–1908) |
| Why Thus Longing? by Harriet Winslow Sewall (1819–1889) |
| Wild Coreopsis by Clinton Scollard (1860–1932) |
| Will by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) |
| William Shakespeare by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
| Winter Days by Henry Abbey (1842–1911) |
| Winter Starlight by Frank Dempster Sherman (1860–1916) |
| Winter Woods by George Cooper (1840–1927) |
| With a Decanter of Madeira by Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) |
| With a Nantucket Shell by Charles Henry Webb (1834–1905) |
| With a Rose from Conway Castle by Julia C. R. Dorr (1825–1913) |
| Woman’s Trifling Needs by Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814) |
| Woodbines in October by Charlotte Fiske Bates (1838–1916) |
| Woodman, Spare that Tree! by George Pope Morris (1802–1864) |
| Written in Athens by Joaquin (Cincinnatus Hiner) Miller (1837–1913) |
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| Yankee Doodle by Revolutionary Songs and Ballads |
| Yankee Doodle’s Expedition to Rhode Island by Revolutionary Songs and Ballads |
| Yawcob Strauss by Charles Follen Adams (1842–1918) |
| Yourself by Jones Very (1813–1880) |
| Youth and Age by Richard Dabney (1787?–1825) |
| Youth, Day, Old Age and Night by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |