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Table of contents
THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT | 7
Prom The Bay Psalm Book (3 versions of Psalm 23) . . . . . 8
From A Narratlve of the Captivity and Restoration of
Mrs. Mary Rowlandson . . ] . . . . I . . . . 10
Anne Bradstreet:
The Prologue 13
The Author to Her Book . . . . . . . 14
To My Dear and Lovlng Husband . . . 15
Before the Birth of One of Her Children 15
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth 16
Michael Higglesworth: From The Day of Doom 17
Phillis Wheatley: On Being Brought from Africa to America 19
St. Jean de Crövecoeur: From Letters from az American
Farmer . , . . ] \ . 20
Edward Taylor: From Preparatory Meditations (Prologue;
Meditation Fifty-Six) . 24
From God's Determination Touching His Elect (The
Preface) . . • i 25
Huswifery (Housewifery). 26
Jonathan Edwards: From Freedoa of the Will 28
Thomas Paine: From Common Sense (Thoughts on the Present
State of America) ' 34
Benjamin Franklin: The Way to Wealth 45
Joel Barlow: From Advice to the Privlleged Orders
(Introduction) . . \ TT . . . . . . TT . 53 *
Philip Freneau:
On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western
Country . 57
Ode . 58
The Deserted Farmhouse . 59
From The Beauties of Santa Cruz 60
The Wild Honey Suckle 63
The Indian Burying Ground. 63
Royall Tyler: From The Contrait (Prologue) • • • 65
Tohomas Jefferson: From Notes on the State of
Virginia (On Slavery in America) . . . . 67
William Cullen Bryant:
Thanatopsis 69
To a Waterfowl. 71
The Yellow Violet 72
Washington Irvings The Devil and Tom Walker t 73
Ralph Waldo Emerson:.Self-Reliance , 83
Nature . . V. ,. . . .-. . . . • . 103
Concord Hymn . , , 134
The Rhodora . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . 135
Each and All. . . . 135
Fable. . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Days . . . | . . . 137
Brahma . . ., 137
The Poet . . 138
Henry David Thoreau: I am a Parcel of Vain Strivings
Tied , . . . , 139
The Inward Morning . 139 Great God, I Ask Thee for No Meaner Pelf. , . . 140 Resistance to Civil Government ("On Civil Disobedience") , 142
Edgar Allan Poe: William Wilson . 161
The Cask of Amontillado. . . 177
The Imp of the Perverse 182
Annabel Lee. . . . ; . . . . 187
To Helen ^ . 188
The City in the Sea
Dream-land . 190
The Raven. '. 19i
The Beils. . i93
A Dream Within a Dream 196
A Dream . . . . 196
Sonnet - to Science. . ., . 197
The Conqueror Worm i97
The Haunted Palace .198
Ulalume ., . . . « •• . 200 Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Review i . 202
. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Gentle Boy 208
Young Goodman Brown . 232
My Kinsman, Major Molyneux . . é.„ . . . 243
Herman Melville: Bartleby . . 259
The Portent. 289
Misgivings . . j . . . . . . , . . . 289
The March into Virginia . . . . . . , . , . . . . 290
James Russell Lowell: From A Fable for Cyitics
(Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe-Longfellow) . . . . . 291

Walt Whitmans One's Self I Sing ¦ 295
I Hear America Singing . . . . 295
From Song of Myself (1, 2, 6, 7, 13; 21, 22,
24, 31 , ?4, 46, 48, 49, 51 , 52) . . . 296
I Sing the Body Electric . . . 309
A Song for Occupations . . 315
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 321
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd . . . 326 To a Common Prostitute •••• 333
To a Locomotive in Winter 333
Good-Bye, My Fancyi * . . 334
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
From The Song of Hiawatha 336
A Psalm of Life 352
The Village Blacksmith 353
The Slave in the Dismal Swamp. 354
Tha Quadroon Girl . • 355
My Lost Youth 356
Paul Revere's Ride . . 359,
John Greenleaf Whittier:
Proem ••.•••• • .« •• 362
Telling the Bees 363
Massechusetts to Virginia. . . . . . . 364
Sidney Lanier: Evening Song . 365
Raven Days . . . . . . . . . • . . . .368
The Marshes of Glynn 369
Harriet Beecher Stowes From Oldtown Folks (The
Village-do-Nothing). . . . . . . • 372
Mark Twain: The Notorius Jumping Frog of Calaveras
County . 381
Paul Laurence Dunbars Accountability • . 386
We Wear the Mask 386
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet: The Horse-Swap 388
Hamlin Gerlands ünder the Lion's Paw. 395
Mary E. Wilkins Freemanns A New England Nun 407
Emily Dickinson (numbers from the T.H. Johnson- . edition)
4 9 I never lost as much but twice . 418
67 Success is counted sweetest. 418
214 I taste a liquor never brewed - 418
254 "Hope" is the thing with feathers 419
303 The Soul selects her own Society - 419
304 The Day came slow - till Five o'clock. . . . .419
335 'Tis not that Dying hurts us so 420
341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes - .420
347 When Night is almost done 420
4 35 Much Madness is divinest Sense - . . . f . . . 421
44 9 i died for Beauty - . 421
465 I herad a Fly buzz - when I died - 421
536 The Heart seeks PI ea su te - first -, . , 422
628 They called me' to the Window ! . ! 422
640 I cannot livewith You ' 420
657 I dweil in Possibility - ' 4 24
686 They say that "Time assuages" - , 424
1073 Experimënt to me . , .' , 424
1270 Is Heaven a Physician?. 424
1617 To try to speak, and "miss the way 425
Ambrose Bierce: The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. . , 426
Bret Harte: The Outcasts of Poker Flat . .434
Stephen Crâne: The Bride Cornes to Yellow Sky# .443
In the desert . . 452
God fashioned ' 452
Should the wide world roll away ) . . . ' * * [ ) * 453 ' I saw a man pursuing the horizon . . . . . . 453
A man said to the Universe 453
The wayfarer ; . . , 453
A man saw a bail of gold 453
Do not weep, malden for war is kind. . . . 454
There was a man with a tongue of wood 454
A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices . '454 A man adrift on a slim spar ! 455
Henry James: The Real Thing 456-477

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