American Poetry

• Bingham, Caleb. The Columbian orator : containing a variety of original and selected pieces, together with rules, calculated to improve youth and others in the ornamental and useful art of eloquence. Boston: J. H. A. Frost, 1832, c1810. [Everett's "Paper. A Poem," pp. 46-48; Everett's "Lines Spoken at a School-Exhibtion, by a Little Boy Seven Years Old," pp. 57-58; Young's "On the Day of Judgement," pp. 217-18; Everett's "General Description of America. Extract from a Poem Spoken at Dartmouth College, on Commencement Day, 1795," pp. 237-39; Everett's "The Last Day. Extract from a Manuscript Poem," 254-57.]
• Cyr, Ellen M. (-1920). Cyr's fifth reader=2E. Boston : Ginn & Company, 1899.
• --. Cyr's fourth reader. Boston: Ginn & Company, ca. 1899.
• Edwards, Richard (1822-1908). Analytical fourth reader: containing practical directions for reading, a thorough method of thought-analysis, a critical phonic analysis of English words, and a large number of new and valuable selections in reading. New York: Taintor Brothers, Merrill & Co.; Chicago: Geo. Sherwood & Co., ca. 1867.
• Goodrich, Samuel Griswold (1793-1860). The third reader: for the use of schools. Louisville, Ky.: Morton & Griswold, ca. 1839.
• Holmes, George Frederick (1820-1897). The Southern pictorial third reader: for schools and families. New York: Richardson & Co., ca. 1866.
• McGuffey, William Holmes (1800-1873). McGuffey's fifth eclectic reader. New York: American Book Co., ca. 1879.
• --. McGuffey's new fifth eclectic reader: selected and original exercises for schools. Cincinnati: Sargent, Wilson & Hinkle; New York: Clark & Maynard, ca. 1857.
• --. McGuffey's new sixth eclectic reader: exercises in rhetorical reading, with introductory rules and examples. Cincinnati: Sargent, Wilson & Hinkle; New York: Clark & Maynard, ca. 1857.
• --. McGuffey's new fourth eclectic reader: instructive lessons for the young. Cincinnati: Wilson, Hinkle & Co.; Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger; New Orleans: Stevens & Seymour; New York: Clark & Maynard, ca. 1866.
• --. McGuffey's sixth eclectic reader. Cincinnati: Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., ca. 1879.
• Murray, Lindley (1745-1826). The English reader, or Pieces in prose and poetry: selected from the best writers: designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect, to improve their language and sentiments, and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue : with a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading. Utica: Hastings & Tracy, 1827.
• Osgood, Lucius. Osgood's progressive fifth reader : embracing a system of instruction in the principles of elocution, and selections for reading and speaking from the best English and American authors: designed for the use of academies and the highest classes in public and private schools. Pittsburgh: A.H. English & Co., ca. 1858.
• Pierpont, John (1785-1866). The American first class book, or, Exercises in reading and recitation: selected principally from modern authors of Great Britain and America, and designed for the use of the highest class in public and private schools. Boston: Charles Bowen, 1836, ca. 1835.
• --. Introduction to the national reader: a selection of easy lessons: designed to fill the same place in the common schools of the United States, that is held by Murray's introduction, and the compilations of Guy, Mylius, and Pinnock, in those of Great Britain. New York: George F. Cooledge, ca. 1835.
• Pinneo, Timothy Stone (1804-1893). The Hemans reader for female schools: containing extracts in prose and poetry selected from the writings of more than one hundred and thirty different authors. New York: Clark, Austin, & Smith; Cincinnati : W.B. Smith & Co., ca. 1847.
• Pollard, Rebecca Smith (1831-1917). Pollard's synthetic third reader. Chicago: Western Publishing House, 1892, ca. 1890.
• Richardson, Charles Francis (1851-1913). A primer of American literature. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891, ca. 1883.
• Sigourney, Lydia Howard (1791-1865). The girl's reading-book: in prose and poetry, for schools. New York : J. Orville Taylor, 1838, ca. 1837.
• Weld, Allen Hayden (1812-1882). Parsing book : containing rules of syntax, and models for analyzing and transposing : together with selections of prose and poetry from writers of standard authority. Portland, Me.: Sanborn & Carter, 1847.

Adams, Léonie; Addonizio, Kim; Ag=FCeros, Jack; Ai, ; Aiken, Conrad; Akhmatova, Anna; Alcosser, Sandra; Alegr=EDa, Claribel; Alexander, Elizabeth; Alexie, Sherman; Ali, Agha Shahid; Amichai, Yehuda; Ammons, A. R.; Anderson, Catherine; Angel, Ralph; Angelou, Maya; Apollinaire, Guillaume; Arnold, Matthew; Ashbery, John; Atwood, Margaret; Auden, W. H.; Baca, Jimmy Santiago; Baraka, Amiri; Barrax, Gerald; Baudelaire, Charles; Beatty, Paul; Becker, Robin; Beckman, Joshua; Bell, Marvin; Belloc, Hilaire; Benét, Stephen Vincent; Benedikt, Michael; Bernstein, Charles; Berrigan, Ted; Berry, Wendell; Berryman, John; Bialosky, Jill; Bidart, Frank; Bishop, Elizabeth; Blackhawk, Terry; Blake, William; Bly, Robert; Bogan, Louise; Boland, Eavan; Booth, Philip; Bottoms, David; Bowers, Edgar; Bradstreet, Anne; Brautigan, Richard; Brisby, Stewart; Brodsky, Joseph; Brooke, Rupert; Brooks, Gwendolyn; Brown, Sterling A.; Browning, Elizabeth Barrett; Browning, Robert; Burns, Ralph; Burns, Robert; Byer, Kathryn Stripling; Campion, Thomas; Campo, Rafael; Canaday, John; Carroll, Lewis; Carruth, Hayden; Cassells, Cyrus; Catullus, Gaius Valerius; Cavafy, C. P.; Cedering, Siv; Celan, Paul; Cervantes, Lorna Dee; Chin, Marilyn; Chung, Frances; Ciardi, John; Cisneros, Sandra; Clampitt, Amy; Clarke, Cheryl; Cleary, Brian P.; Clifton, Lucille; Clover, Joshua; Cohen, Nan; Coleman, Wanda; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Collins, Billy; Collins, Martha; Cooley, Nicole; Cooper, Jane; Corso, Gregory; Cortez, Jayne; Cowper, William; Crane, Hart; Creeley, Robert; Crumpacker, Caroline; Cruz, Victor Hernandez; Cullen, Countee; Cummings, E. E.; Cunningham, James Vincent; D., H.; Dalton, Roque; Davies, Kevin; Davis, Frank Marshall; de Unamuno, Miguel; DeFoe, Mark; Deming, Alison Hawthorne; Dent, Tory; Deppe, Theodore; Derricotte, Toi; Desnos, Robert; di Pasquale, Emanuel; Di Piero, W. S.; Dickey, James; Dickinson, Emily; Diop, David; Dobler, Patricia; Dobyns, Stephen; Donne, John; Doris, Stacy; Doty, Mark; Dove, Rita; Doyle, Ben; Dubie, Norman; Duhamel, Denise; Dumas, Henry; Dunbar, Paul Laurence; Duncan, Robert; Eady, Cornelius; Eberhart, Richard; Eliot, T. S.; Eluard, Paul; Emanuel, James; Emanuel, Lynn; Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Eshleman, Clayton; Espada, Mart=EDn; Evans, Mari; Feldman, Irving; Feldman, Ruth; Ferlinghetti, Lawrence; Ferry, David; Field, Edward; Forbes, Calvin; Forché, Carolyn; Franzen, Cola; Frost, Robert; Fulton, Alice; Funkhouser, Erica; Gallagher, Tess; Galvin, James; Gander, Forrest; Getty, Sarah; Gilbert, Sandra M.; Ginsberg, Allen; Giovanni, Nikki; Glazner, Greg; Gl=FCck, Louise; Goetsch, Douglas; Goodman, Paul; Graham, Jorie; Graves, Robert; Guest, Barbara; Guest, Edgar; Guillén, Jorge; Gunn, Thom; Hacker, Marilyn; Hadas, Rachel; Haines, John; Hall, Donald; Hamilton, Saskia; Hardy, Thomas; Harjo, Joy; Harper, Michael S.; Harrison, Tony; Hass, Robert; Hayden, Robert; Hayes, Terrance; Heaney, Seamus; Hecht, Anthony; Hejinian, Lyn; Hemphill, Essex; Herbert, George; Herbert, Zbigniew; Hern=E1ndez, Miguel; Herrick, Robert; Herschberger, Ruth; Hikmet, Nazim; Hinton, David; Hirsch, Edward; Hoagland, Tony; Hoffman, Daniel; Hollander, John; Homer, ; Hongo, Garrett; Hopkins, Gerard Manley; Horace, ; Housman, A. E.; Howard, Richard; Howe, Susan; Hudgins, Andrew; Hughes, Langston; Hughes, Ted; Hugo, Richard; Hull, Lynda; Jacobsen, Josephine; Jarman, Mark; Jarrell, Randall; Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne; Jeffers, Robinson; Johnson, James Weldon; Jones, Hettie; Jonson, Ben; Jordan, Judy; Jordan, June; Joseph, Lawrence; Justice, Donald; Kasdorf, Julia; Kaufman, Bob; Keats, John; Kees, Weldon; Kelly, Brigit Pegeen; Kennedy, X. J.; Kenyon, Jane; Kinnell, Galway; Kipling, Rudyard; Kizer, Carolyn; Knight, Etheridge; Koch, Kenneth; Komunyakaa, Yusef; Kumin, Maxine; Kunitz, Stanley; Larkin, Philip; Laux, Dorianne; Lawrence, D.H.; Lear, Edward; Lee, Dennis; Lee, Li-Young; Lehman, David; Levertov, Denise; Levi, Jan Heller; Levine, Philip; Levis, Larry; Linett, Deena; Liu, Timothy; Logan, John; Logue, Christopher; Lorca, Federico Garc=EDa; Lorde, Audre; Lowell, Amy; Lowell, Robert; Loy, Mina; Lux, Thomas; Mac Low, Jackson; Mackey, Nathaniel; MacLeish, Archibald; MacNeice, Louis; Madhubuti, Haki; Mahon, Derek; Major, Clarence; Mandelstam, Osip; Manning, Maurice; Mariani, Paul; Markham, Edwin; Mart=EDnez, Demetria; Marvell, Andrew; Masters, Edgar Lee; Matthews, William; Mayer, Bernadette; McCallum, Shara; McClatchy, J. D.; McCombs, Davis; McDonald, Walt; McGinley, Phyllis; McHugh, Heather; McKay, Claude; McPherson, Sandra; Melville, Herman; Meredith, William; Merriam, Eve; Merrill, James; Merwin, W. S.; Miles, Josephine; Millay, Edna St. Vincent; Miller, E. Ethelbert; Milosz, Czeslaw; Milton, John; Molino, Anthony; Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley; Montale, Eugenio; Moore, Marianne; Mora, Pat; Moss, Thylias; Mueller, Lisel; Mullen, Harryette; Murray, Les; Muske, Carol; Nash, Ogden; Nelson, Marilyn; Nemerov, Howard; Neruda, Pablo; Niedecker, Lorine; Nims, John Frederick; Noyes, Alfred; Nye, Naomi Shihab; O'Gorman, Ned; O'Hara, Frank; Olds, Sharon; Oliver, Mary; Olson, Charles; Ondaatje, Michael; Orten, Jir=ED; Ostriker, Alicia Suskin; Ovid, ; Owen, Wilfred; Pacheco, José Emilio; Padgett, Ron; Palmer, Michael; Parker, Dorothy; Pastan, Linda; Patchen, Kenneth; Patterson, G. E.; Pelizzon, V. Penelope; Perdomo, Willie; Pessoa, Fernando; Phillips, Carl; Piercy, Marge; Pietri, Pedro; Pinsky, Robert; Plath, Sylvia; Plumly, Stanley; Poe, Edgar Allan; Ponsot, Marie; Pound, Ezra; Pratt, Minnie Bruce; Prelutsky, Jack; Pursifull, Carmen M.; Quasimodo, Salvatore; Ríos, Alberto; Rankine, Claudia; Ransom, John Crowe; Ras, Barbara; Rector, Liam; Reed, Ishmael; Reznikoff, Charles; Rich, Adrienne; Richman, Jan; Rilke, Rainer Maria; Rivard, David; Robinson, Edwin Arlington; Rodr=EDguez, Luis J.; Roethke, Theodore; Rogers, Pattiann; Rohrer, Matthew; Roripaugh, Lee Ann; Rosenberg, Isaac; Ruefle, Mary; Rukeyser, Muriel; Ryan, Kay; Sanchez, Sonia; Sandburg, Carl; Santos, Sherod; Sappho, ; Sarton, May; Schelling, Andrew; Schorb, E. M.; Schwartz, Lloyd; Sexton, Anne; Shakespeare, William; Shange, Ntozake; Shapiro, Karl; Shaughnessy, Brenda; Shelley, Percy Bysshe; Sikelianos, Eleni; Silverstein, Shel; Simic, Charles; Simon, Maurya; Simpson, Louis; Smart, Christopher; Smith, Charlie; Smith, Patricia; Smith, R. T.; Smith, Stevie; Snodgrass, W. D.; Snow, Edward; Snyder, Gary; Soto, Gary; St. John, David; St. John, Primus; Stafford, William; Stanford, Frank; Stein, Gertrude; Stern, Gerald; Stevens, Wallace; Stewart, Susan; Strand, Mark; Suk, Julie; Swensen, Cole; Swenson, May; Sze, Arthur; Szymborska, Wislawa; Tardos, Anne; Tate, Allen; Tate, James; Teasdale, Sara; Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Thomas, Dylan; Thoreau, Henry David; Toomer, Jean; Traherne, Thomas; Trethewey, Natasha; Twichell, Chase; Updike, John; Valéry, Paul; Vallejo, C=E9sar; Van Duyn, Mona; Vazirani, Reetika; Viorst, Judith; Wagoner, David; Wakoski, Diane; Walcott, Derek; Waldner, Liz; Walker, Alice; Warren, Robert Penn; Warren, Rosanna; Weaver, Afaa M.; Welle, John P.; Wheatley, Phillis; Whitman, Walt; Whittier, John Greenleaf; Wilbur, Richard; Williams, C. K.; Williams, William Carlos; Wilner, Eleanor; Winters, Yvor; Wood, Susan; Wordsworth, William; Wright, C. D.; Wright, Charles; Wright, James; Wright, Jay; Wunderlich, Mark; Wyatt, Thomas; Yeats, W. B.; Yenser, Stephen; Young, Al; Young, David; Young, Dean; Zagajewski, Adam.

• Bibb, Eloise PoemsBush, Olivia Ward DriftwoodFordham, Mary Weston Magnolia Leaves: PoemsHeard (Henderson), Josephine D. Morning GloriesJohnson, Maggie Pogue Virginia DreamsMenken, Adah Isaacs InfeliciaPlato, Ann EssaysRay, H. Cordelia PoemsSmith, Effie Waller Rhymes from the CumberlandSmith, Effie Waller Songs of the Months Thompson, Clara Ann Songs From the WaysideThompson, Priscilla Jane Ethiope LaysThompson, Priscilla Jane Gleanings of Quiet HoursTucker, Mary E. Loew's Bridge A Broadway IdleTucker, Mary E. PoemsWheatley, Phillis. Poems

• Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection;
• African-American Sheet Music 1850-1920

• Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888) Ralph Waldo Emerson: an estimate of his character and genius: in prose and verse; Sonnets and canzonets
• Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907) Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Bates, Katharine Lee (1859-1929) Retinue and other poems
• Ben=E9t, Stephen Vincent ) Young adventure: a book of poems
• Bibb, Eloise A. (Eloise Alberta) (1878-1927) Poems
• Brainard, John G. C. (John Gardiner Calkins) (1796-1828) Poems of John Brainard
• Braithwaite, William Stanley (1878-1962) , ed. Anthology of magazine verse for 1920 and year book of American poetry; House of falling leaves with other poems; Lyrics of life and love
• Branch, Anna Hempstead (1875-1937) Rose of the wind and other poems; Shoes that danced and other poems
• Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878) Poems; Selections from the American poets
• Carleton, Will (1845-1912) Farm ballads; Farm festivals
• Carman, Bliss (1861-1929) April airs: a book of New England lyrics; Ballads and lyrics; Earth deities and other rhythmic masques; Echoes from Vagabondia; Last songs from Vagabondia; Later Poems; More songs from Vagabondia; Ode on the coronation of King Edward; Rough rider and other poems; Songs from Vagabondia; Songs of the sea children
• Cawein, Madison Julius (1865-1914) Ode read August 15 (1907, at the dedication of the monument erected at Gloucester, Massachusetts, in commemoration of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony in the year sixteen hundred and twenty-three; Cup of comus: fact and fancy; Giant and the star: little annals in rhyme; Kentucky poems; Minions of the moon; Nature-notes and impressions: in prose and verse; New poems; Poems; Republic: a little book of homespun verse; Vale of tempe: poems; Voice on the wind and other poems; Weeds by the wall: verses
• Chapman, John Jay (1862-1933) Ode on the sailing of our troops for France; Sausage from Bologna: a comedy in four acts; Songs and poems
• Cranch, Christopher Pearse (1813-1892) Ariel and Caliban
• Crapsey, Adelaide (1878-1914) Verse
• Dandridge, Raymond Garfield () Poet and other poems
• Davidson, Lucretia Maria (1808-1825) Poetical remains of the late Lucretia Maria Davidson
• De Forest, John William (1826-1906) Downing legends: stories in rhyme; Poems: Medley and Palestina
• Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) Poems (Series 2); Poems (Series 3); Poems (Series 1)
• H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) Sea garden
• Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906) Lyrics of Lowly Life; Lyrics of sunshine and shadow; When Malindy sings
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson; Poems
• Fletcher, John Gould (1886-1950) Breakers and granite; Dominant City (1911-1912; Japanese prints
• Fordham, Mary Weston () Magnolia leaves
• Fortune, Timothy Thomas (1856-1928) Dreams of life: miscellaneous poems
• Freneau, Philip Morin (1752-1832) Poems relating to the American Revolution
• Fuller, Harvey Austin (1834-) Trimsharp's account of himself: a sketch of his life, together with a brief history of the education of the blind, and their achievements, to which is added a collection of poems composed by himself
• Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909) Book of music
• Gould, Hannah Flagg (1789-1865) Poems. Volume I; Poems. Volume II; Poems. Volume III
• Greenwood, Grace (1823-1904) Poems
• Hall, Louisa J. (Louisa Jane) (1802-1892) Miriam: a dramatic poem
• Halleck, Fitz-Greene (1790-1867) Alnwick Castle, with other poem
• Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (1825-1911) Atlanta offering: poems
• Hay, John (1838-1905) Complete poetical works of John Hay
• Henderson, Elliot Blaine () Dis, dat an' tutter: poems; Soliloquy of Satan and other poems
• Hovey, Richard (1864-1900) To the end of the trail
• Humphreys, David (1752-1818) Anarchiad: a New England poem (1786-1787
• Jefferson, Wilson (b. 1879) Verses
• Johnson, Fenton (1888-1958) Little dreaming; Visions of the dusk
• Johnson, James Weldon 1871-1938) Fifty years & other poems
• Johnson, Maggie Pogue () Virginia dreams
• Kilmer, Joyce (1886-1918) Main street and other poems
• Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881) Poem outlines; Poems of Sidney Lanier
• Larcom, Lucy (1824-1893) At the beautiful gate and other songs of faith; Childhood songs; Idyl of work
• Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887) Admetus and other poems; Poems of Emma Lazarus. Vol. I, narrative, lyric and dramatic; Poems of Emma Lazarus. Vol. 2, Jewish poems: translations
• Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931) General William Booth enters into heaven and other poems; Congo and other poems; Chinese nightingale and other poems
• Lodge, George Cabot (1873-1909) Poems (1899-1902; Song of the wave
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) Courtship of Miles Standish: and other poems; Song of Hiawatha
• Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891) Vision of Sir Launfal
• Masters, Edgar Lee (1868-1950) Blood of the prophets; Book of verses; Songs & sonnets
• May, Caroline, (b. ca. 1820) American Female Poets
• McGirt, James E. (James Ephraim) ()Avenging the Maine, a drunken A.B=2E, and other poems; For your sweet sake: poems
• Menken, Adah Isaacs (1835-1868) Infelicia
• Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950) Renascence and other poems; Second April
• Miller, Joaquin (1837-1913) Light: a narrative poem
• Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir) (1829-1914) Comfort of the hills: and other poems; Complete poems of S. Weir Mitchell; Wager and other poems
• Monroe, Harriet (1860-1936) Passing show: five modern plays in verse
• Moody, William Vaughn (1869-1910) Poems
• Moorer, Lizelia Augusta Jenkins () Prejudice unveiled: and other poems
• Moulton, Louise Chandler (1835-1908) Poems and sonnets of Louise Chandler Moulton
• Percival, James Gates (1795-1856) Poems
• Pierpont, John (1785-1866) Airs of Palestine: a poem; Anti-slavery poems of John Pierpont
• Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) Complete poems of Edgar Allan Poe
• Read, Thomas Buchanan (1822-1872) House by the sea: a poem; New pastoral
• Reese, Lizette Woodworth (1856-1935) Handful of lavender; Wayside lute; Wild cherry
• Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916) His pa's romance
• Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935) Children of the night: a book of poems; Three taverns: a book of poems; Town down the river: a book of poems
• Ryan, Abram Joseph (1836-1886) Poems: patriotic, religious, miscellaneous
• Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967) Cornhuskers
• Savage, Philip Henry (1868-1899) Poems of Philip Henry Savage
• Scollard, Clinton (1860-1932) Ballads: patriotic & romantic; Lyrics of the dawn; Lyric bough; Pro patria: verses chiefly patriotic
• Sherman, Frank Dempster (1860-1916) Southern flight
• Scollard, Clinton (1860-1932.) Ballads of valor and victory being stories in song from the annals of America; Voices and visions
• Seeger, Alan (1888-1916) Poems
• Service, Robert W. (Robert William) (1874-1958) Ballads of a Cheechako; Spell of the Yukon and other verses
• Sherman, Frank Dempster (1860-1916) Lyrics of joy
• Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard) (1791-1865) Illustrated poems; Select poems
• Sill, Edward Rowland (1841-1887) Hermione and other poems
• Tabb, John B. (John Banister) (1845-1909) Lyrics
• Taylor, Emily (1795-1872), ed. Pierpont, John (1785-1866), ed. Lays for the sabbath: a collection of religious poetry
• Teasdale, Sara (1884-1933) Flame and shadow; Rivers to the sea; Sonnets to Duse and other poems
• Thompson, Priscilla Jane () Ethiope lays; Gleanings of quiet hours
• Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend) (1827-1916) Home idyl and other poems
• Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine (b. 1838) Loew's Bridge: a Broadway idyl; Poems
• Very, Jones () Essays and poems
• Viereck, George Sylvester (1884-1962) Songs of armageddon and other poems; Candle and the flame: poems; Nineveh and other poems
• Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784) Poems on various subjects, religious and moral
• White, Charles Frederick (b. 1876) Plea of the negro soldier and a hundred other poems
• Whitman, Albery Allson (1851-1901) Idyl of the South; Not a man, and yet a man; Rape of Florida
• Whittier, John Greanleaf (1807-1892) Anti-slavery poems: songs of labor and reform; Legends of New England (1831): a facsimile reproduction; John Greenleaf Whittier, a sketch of his life
• Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1850-1919) Custer and other poems; Poems of power

Also, a hyperbibliography of American verse by poets who began publishing before 1921.

• Pamela Alexander. Navigable Waterways
• Karen Alkalay-Gut. Mechitza
• Wendy Battin. In the Solar Wind
• James Bertolino. Making Space for Our Living, Precinct Kali & The Gertrude Spicer Story
• Henry Braun. The Vergil Woods
• Debra Bruce. Pure Daughter, Sudden Hunger
• James Cervantes. The Headlong Future
• Paul Colinet. Selected Prose Poems. Trans. Rochelle Ratner.
• Martha Collins. The Arrangement of Space
• William Dubie. Closing The Moviehouse
• Denise Duhamel. Smile!, The Woman With Two Vaginas
• Mary Fell. The Persistence of Memory
• Helen Frost. Skin of a Fish, Bones of a Bird
• Daniela Gioseffi. Eggs in the Lake, Word Wounds and Water Flowers
• William Greenway. Where We've Been
• Charles O. Hartman. The Pigfoot Rebellion
• Halvard Johnson. Dance of the Red Swan, Eclipse, Transparencies & Projections, Winter Journey
• Jascha Kessler. After the Armies Have Passed, In Memory of the Future, Whatever Love Declares
• Leonard Kress. The Centralia Mine Fire
• Philip Levine. Ashes, On the Edge, Sweet Will, A Walk with Tom Jefferson
• Dan Masterson. On Earth as It Is, Those Who Trespass
• William Matthews. Rising and Falling
• John Morgan. The Arctic Herd
• Colin Morton. In Transit, The Merzbook: Kurt Schwitters Poems, This Won't Last Forever
• Philip Paradis. From Gobbler's Knob, Tornado Alley
• Robert Peters. Breughel's Pig, Bronchial Tangle, Heart System, Connections: in the English Lake District, Haydon: An Artist's Life, Holy Cow: Parable Poems, Love Poems for Robert Mitchum, Ludwig of Bavaria, The Sow's Head & Other Poems, What Dillinger Meant to Me
• Robert Pinsky. History of My Heart
• Rochelle Ratner. Mysteries, Pirate's Song
• Benjamin Saltman. Deck
• Lloyd Schwartz. These People
• Barry Seiler. Retaining Wall
• David Slavitt. Dozens, Equinox, The Walls of Thebes
• David Starkey. Koan Americana
• Robert Sward. 4 Incarnations, Kissing the Dancer, Uncle Dog and Other Poems
• Ingrid Wendt. Moving the House, Singing the Mozart Requiem
• Al Zolynas. The New Physics, Under Ideal Conditions

• Allen, William Francis (1830-1889), Charles Pickard Ware (1840-1921), and Lucy McKim Garrison (1842-1877). Slave Songs of the United States. New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867.
• Hayne, Paul Hamilton (1830-1886). Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne. Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1882.
• Horton, George Moses (1797-1883). Life of George M. Horton. The Colored Bard of North Carolina, from "The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, the Colored Bard of North Carolina, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, written by himself." Hillsborough: Heartt, 1845.
• The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, the Colored Bard of North Carolina, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, written by himself. Hillsborough: Heartt, 1845.
• Kent, Charles William (1860-1917), ed. Southern Poems. Selected, Arranged and Edited with Biographical Notes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913.
• Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881). Poems of Sidney Lanier, Edited by His Wife. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884.
• Ransom, John Crowe (1888-1974). Poems About God. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1919.
• Timrod, Henry (1828-1867). The Poems of Henry Timrod. New York: Hale & Son, c1872.

• Sprague, Horace. Gloversville, or, The model village : a poem, with an appendix, containing a succinct history of the same : also, biographical sketches of prominent persons and notices of influential families whose history is connected with its foundation and progress. W. H. Case, Gloversville, N.Y, 1858.

• . The Vision of Sir Launfal; The Cathedral; Favorite Poems (Modern Classics, 1876)
• . The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1852)
• Adams, John Quincy. Poems of Religion and Society
• Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. XXXVI Lyrics and XII Sonnets
• --. Later Lyrics: Selected from Mercedes, The Sisters' tragedy, Wyndham Towers and Unguarded Gates
• --. Cloth of Gold and Other Poems
• --. Unguarded Gates and Other Poems
• Allston, Washington. The Sylphs of the Seasons, with Other Poems
• Arthur, T. S. Our Little Harry, and Other Poems and Stories
• Barlow, Joel. The Columbiad: A Poem
• Bates, Katharine Lee. Yellow Clover: A Book of Remembrance
• Benjamin, Park. A Poem on the Meditation of Nature
• --. Poetry: A Satire
• Botta, Anne C. Lynch. The Rhode-Island Book: Selections in Prose and Verse, From the Writings of Rhode-Island Citizens
• Braithwaite, William Stanley, and Henry Thomas Schnittkind, ed. Representative American Poetry (1916)
• Brooks, Charles Timothy. Aquidneck: A Poem
• Brooks, Maria Gowen. Zophiel: A Poem (1825 edition)
• Brownell, Henry Howard. War-Lyrics and Other Poems
• Bryant, William Cullen. The Family Library of Poetry and Song
• Carleton, Will. City Ballads
• --. Poems (1871 edition)
• --. Rhymes of Our Planet
• --. Songs of Two Centuries
• --. Young Folks' Centennial Rhymes
• Cary, Alice, and Phoebe Cary. The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary
• --. Early and Late Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary
• Cary, Alice. Ballads, Lyrics, and Hymns
• Cary, Phoebe. Poems and Parodies
• . --. The Poems of Phoebe Carey
• --. Eliot: A PoemWilliam Ellery Channing
• Cooke, Rose Terry. Poems (1861 edition)
• Coolidge, Susan. Verses
• Dana, Richard Henry. Poems and Prose Writings
• Eliot, George. The Legend of Jubal, and Other Poems (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Company, 1874)
• --. The Spanish Gypsy: A Poem (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868)
• Field, Eugene. Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse
• --. Lullaby Land: Songs of Childhood
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• Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within: or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems
• Gilder, Richard Watson. The Great Remembrance and Other Poems
• --. Lyrics and other poems
• --. The New Day: A Poem in Songs and Sonnets
• --. Two Worlds, and Other Poems
• Grayson, William J. Selected Poems by William J. Grayson, ed. Mrs. William H. Armstrong
• Halleck, Fitz-Greene. The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck (1848 edition)
• Harte, Bret. Poems and Stories (selected and edited for schools, 1912), ed. Charles Swain Thomas
• --. East and West: Poems
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• Hay, John. Poems
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• Hayne, Paul Hamilton. Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne
• Hoffman, Charles Fenno. The Poems of Charles Fenno Hoffman
• --. The Vigil of Faith, and Other Poems
• Holland, J. G. Garnered Sheaves: The Complete Poetical Works of J. G. Holland
• --. Bitter-Sweet: A Poem
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• Holland, J. G., ed. Illustrated Library of Favorite Song,
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Poems (1853 edition)
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• --. Grandmother's Story, and Other Poems
• --. The Iron Gate, and Other Poems
• Hood, Thomas. Poems (New York: Kiggins and Kellogg, 1855)
• Hosmer, William H. C. Themes of Song: A Poem
• Hovey, Richard. Dartmouth Lyrics
• --. Seaward: An Elegy on the Death of Thomas William Parsons
• Howells, William Dean. The Daughter of the Storage, and Other Things in Prose and Verse
• --. Poems (1873 edition)
• Davidson, Margaret Miller. Biography and Poetical Remains of the Late Margaret Miller Davidson
• Jackson, Helen Hunt. Between Whiles
• --. A Calendar of Sonnets
• --. Sonnets and Lyrics
• --. Verses (1888)
• Larcom, Lucy. Poems
• Lathrop, George Parsons, ed. A Masque of Poets: Including Guy Vernon, a Novelette in Verse
• Leland, Charles Godfrey. Hans Breitmann's Party, With Other Ballads
• --. The Music-Lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems
• --. Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land
• Lodge, George Cabot. Herakles
• --. The Soul's Inheritance, and Other Poems
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Golden Legend
• --. The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems
• --. Voices of the Night, Ballads and Other Poems
• --. Twenty Poems from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• --. Aftermath
• --. The Building of the Ship, and Other pPoems
• --. In the Harbor: Ultima Thule
• --. Keramos, and Other Poems
• --. Hyperion: A Romance
• Lowell, James Russell. Poems of James Russell Lowell
• --. Last Poems of James Russell Lowell
• --. Under the Old Elm, and Other Poems
• --. The Vision of Sir Launfal, And Other Poems Annotated by Francis Lane (1900)
• Markham, Edwin. Lincoln and Other Poems
• Masters, Edgar Lee. Toward the Gulf
• Meek, Alexander Beaufort. Songs and Poems of the South
• Miller, Joaquin. The Complete Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller (1897 edition)
• --. The Danites, and Other Choice Selections from the Writings of Joaquin Miller, "The Poet of the Sierras"
• --. Shadows of Shasta
• --. Songs of the Sierras
• --. Songs of the Soul
• --. Songs of Summer Lands
• Mitchell, S. Weir. The Collected Poems of S. Weir Mitchell (1896)
• --. The Cup of Youth, and Other Poems
• --. A Masque and Other Poems
• --. A Psalm of Deaths and Other Poems
• Newell, Robert Henry. Versatilities
• Osgood, Frances Sargent Locke. Poems
• Percival, James Gates. Poem Delivered Before the Connecticut Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, September 13, 1825
• Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Poetic Studies
• Piatt, John James. Idyls and Lyrics of the Ohio Valley
• --. Landmarks: The Lost Farm and Other Poems
• --. Poems of House and Home
• Piatt, Sarah M. B. That New World, and Other Poems
• Randall, James Ryder. Maryland, My Maryland, and Other Poems
• Read, Thomas Buchanan. Poems (1855 edition)
• Riley, James Whitcomb. Riley Child Verse
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• --. "The Old Swimmin'-Hole" and 'leven More Poems
• --. Poems Here at Home
• --. Rhymes of Childhood
• --. Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers
• Saxe, John Godfrey. The Masquerade, and Other Poems
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• --. The Proud Miss MacBride: A Legend of Gotham
• Scollard, Clinton. Hills of Song
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• --. Songs of Sunrise Lands
• Sherman, Frank Dempster. Lyrics for a Lute
• Sigourney, Lydia Howard. Poems
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• --. Pocahontas, and Other Poems
• --. The Weeping Willow
• Sill, Edward Rowland. The Poetical Works of Edward Rowland Sill
• --. Poems (1889)
• --. Poems (1893)
• Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince. The Sinless Child, and Other Poems
• Stedman, Edmund Clarence. The Blameless Prince, and Other Poems
• --. Poems Now First Collected
• Stoddard, Elizabeth. Poems
• Stoddard, Richard Henry. The Poems of Richard Henry Stoddard
• --. The Lion's Cub, with Other Verse
• Story, William Wetmore. He and She: or, A Poet's Portfolio
• --. Nature and Art: A Poem
• Taylor, Bayard. A Book of Romances, Lyrics, and Songs
• --. Lars: A Pastoral of Norway
• --. The Picture of St. John
• --. The Poet's Journal
• --. Poems of the Orient
• Thaxter, Celia. Idyls and Pastorals er
• --. Poems for Children
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• --. Poems (1860)
• Trowbridge, J. T. The Lost Earl, With Other Poems and Tales in Verse
• Whittier, John Greenleaf. Poems (1850)
• --. Poems (1893)
• --. The Early Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
• --. Songs of Three Centuries
• --. At Sundown
• --. Ballads of New England
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• --. Mabel Martin: A Harvest Idyl
• --. The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and Other Poems
• --. Snow-Bound; The Tent on the Beach; Favorite Poems
• --. Songs of Labor, and Other Poems (1851)
• --. Songs of Labor, and Other Poems (1856)
• --. The Tent on the Beach, and Other Poems
• Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. How Salvator Won and Other Recitations
• --. Poems of Pleasure
• Willis, Nathaniel Parker. Melanie and Other Poems
• --. The Poetical Works of N. P. Willis
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