PAGE PREFACE xvii EMILY DICKINSON (1830–1886) Chartless 4 Indian Summer 4 Suspense 5 The Railway Train 6 A Cemetery 6 Beclouded 7 THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH (1836–1907) Memory 8 “Enamored Architect of Airy Rhyme” 9 Two Quatrains: Maple Leaves 9 Pessimist and Optimist 10 JOHN HAY (1838–1905) Jim Bludso 11 Banty Tim 13 BRET HARTE (1839–1902) “Jim” 16 Plain Language from Truthful James 19 JOAQUIN MILLER (1841–1913) By the Pacific Ocean 23 Crossing the Plains 24 From “Byron” 25 EDWARD ROWLAND SILL (1841–1887) Solitude 26 Dare You? 26 SIDNEY LANIER (1842–1881) Song of the Chattahoochee 29 Night and Day 31 From “The Marshes of Glynn” 32 CHARLES EDWARD CARRYL (1842–1920) The Plaint of the Camel 34 Robinson Crusoe’s Story 35 JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY (1849–1916) “When the Frost is on the Punkin” 39 A Parting Guest 41 EUGENE FIELD (1850–1895) Our Two Opinions 43 Little Boy Blue 44 Seein’ Things 45 EDWIN MARKHAM (1852– ) Outwitted 48 The Man with the Hoe 49 Preparedness 51 Lincoln, The Man of the People 51