This book includes classic poems by such eminent poets as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sara Teasdale, William Butler Yeats, Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Gertrude Stein and others. Contents: Anne Bradstreet To My Dear and Loving Husband Phillis Wheatley To the Right Honourable WILLIAM, Earl of DARTMOUTH, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North-America, & c. William Cullen Bryant The Planting of the Apple-Tree Thanatopsis Ralph Waldo Emerson Concord Hymn The Snow-storm Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Arrow and the Song The Builders The Children’s Hour The Day Is Done The Landlord’s Tale. Paul Revere’s Ride Edgar Allan Poe Alone Annabel Lee The Conqueror Worm The Raven To Helen Abraham Lincoln My Childhood’s Home I See Again Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Old Ironsides Herman Melville Misgivings Walt Whitman I Hear America Singing I Sit and Look Out Miracles A Noiseless Patient Spider О Captain! My Captain! From Song of My self When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer Frances E. W. Harper Bury Me in a Free Land Songs for the People Emily Dickinson ‘Because I could not stop for Death’ ‘Death sets a thing significant’ ‘Hope is the thing with feathers’ ‘I died for beauty’ ‘If I can stop one heart from breaking’ ‘I’m nobody! Who are you?’ ‘Mv life closed twice before its close’ ‘Success is couated sweetest’ ‘There is no frigate like a book’ ‘This is my letter to the world’ Ella Wheeler Wilcox Solitude Ernest Lawrence Thayer Casey at the Bat Edwin Arlington Robinson Miniver Cheevy Mr. Flood’s Party Richard Cory Stephen Crane I saw a man pursuing the horizon’ War Is Kind James Weldon Johnson Sence You Went Away Paul Laurence Dunbar The Lesson Sympathy We Wear the Mask Gertrude Stein Susie Asado Vachel Lindsay Abraham Lincoln. Walks at Midnight Euclid The Leaden-Eyed Claude McKay After the Winter If We Must Die The Tropics in New York Countee Cullen For Paul Laurence Dunbar Incident Amy Lowell Venetian Glass Song The Swans Prime James Oppenheim Hebrews Elizabeth Barrett Browning Juliet Of Nations A Musical Instrument Emma Lazarus The Crowing Of The Red Cock Youth And Death Age And Death Louisa May Alcott Fairy Song My Kingdom Transfiguration Lullaby Ellis Parker Butler Good — Better — Best The Whale A Lost Angel The Ballade Of The Automobile Hugh Henry Brackenridge From A poem on divine revelation Matthew Arnold To A Friend Shakespeare The Last Word William Butler Yeats Brown Penny The Chambermaid’s First Song A Song From ‘The Player Queen’ September 1913 Leda And The Swan A Prayer For Old Age William Blake A Poison Tree The Garden Of Love The Fly Laughing song Sara Teasdale Wisdom Peace A Cry After Love Alone I Am Not Yours On A March Day The Mystery William Barnes The Broken Heart The Young that Died in Beauty The Woodlands