The United States in poetry. A brief anthology

Native American poetry
Woman’s divorce dance song 
Formula to secure love 
Songs of war 
Lullaby 
A new dream (Wuski-a baw-tan)
The England primer

Anne Bradstreet 

To my dear and loving husband
A letter to her husband absent upon public employment
In memory of my dear grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet
On my dear grandchild Simon Bradstreet 
The prologue

Phillis Weathley

An hymn to the evening
On being brought from Africa to America 
An hymn to the morning
On virtue 

Phiplip Freneau

The wild honey suckle 
The Indian burying ground
On a honey bee 
On the universality and other attributes of the god of nature
Retirement 
A political Litany 

William Cullen Bryant 

To a waterwolf
Oh the fairest of the rural maids 
The poet 
To Cole, the painter, departing for Europe

Edgar Allan Poe

To Helen 
Annabel Lee
Sonnet-to science 
The bells 
The haunted palace 
The raven 
Eldorado

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hymn to the night 
The arrow and the song
Daybreak 
A psalm of life 
The galley of count Arnaldos
Chaucer

Emily Dickinson 

49
67
214
258
288
324
328
435
441
449
632
712
1078
1732
1755
Again his voice is at the door

Walt Whitman 

From inscriptions 
One’s-self I sing 
To a historian 
I hear America singing
Song of myself
1,6, 32, 52
From I heard the learn’d astronomer
From drum traps
Come up form the fields, father
Cavalry crossing a ford 
Reconciliation 
From memories of President Lincoln
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d
O captain! My captain!
From autumn Rivulets
There was a child went forth 
Form whispers for heavenly death
A noiseless patient spider
From good-bye my fancy 
My 71st year
Good- bye my fancy

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Richard Coy
Luke Havergal
Zola 
Cliff Klingenhagen

Robert Frost 

The road not taken 
Fire and ice stopping by woods on a snowing evening 
Te gift outright
Desert places 
Design
After apple-picking
Acquainted with the night

Carls Sandburg

Grass 
Happiness
Fog 
Cool tombs 
Aprons of silence 
Chicago 

William Carlos Williams

Spring and all
Flowers by the sea 
The Yachts 
The red wheelbarrow
This is just to say 
The great figure

Ezra pound 

Portrait d’une femme
A pact 
In a station of the metro 
Epitaphs
The cantons (I)
The rest 
The garden 

Thomas Stearns Eliot

The hippopotamus 
The hollow men
Journey of the magi
Gerontion 
Preludes 

Amy Lowell 

Peace 
Lilacs 
Stupidity 
A Fairy tale
Dreams
To john Keats 
Leisure 

E.E. Cummings 

(The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls)
(It is so long since my hearth has been with yours)
(Little Joe Gould has lost his teeth and doesn’t know where)
(You shall above all things be glad and young)
(A salesman is an it that stinks excuse)
(Plato told)
L (a)
(Burt) 
(Buffalo Bill’s defunct)

Robert Lowell

To speak of woe that is in marriage 
Ezra Pound 
Robert Frost 
T.S. Elliot
The picture 

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Sea rose
Heat 
Pear tree
Orchard 
Song 
Stars wheel in purple

Gwendolyn Brooks

The preacher: ruminates behind the sermon
Kitchenette building
The sonnet- ballad 
Mentors 

Anne Sexton

Unknown girl in the maternity ward 
Lullaby 
The starry night 
Wanting to die 
The truth the dead know 
Snow white and the seven dwarfs 
Her kind 

Adrienne Rich

Ideal landscape
I dream I’m the death of Orpheus
A clock in the square 
At a Bach concert

Sylvia Plath

Lady Lazarus
Poppies in October
Daddy 
Ariel 
Two views of the cadaver room 

Allen Ginsberg

A Supermarket in California
Howl 
Kaddish

Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)

Beautiful black women 
For Hettie
A poem for speculative hipsters
Legacy 
Poem for half-white college students

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