Produced by Pat Castevans and David Widger SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN POETRY By Various Authors With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier Edited by Margaret Sprague Carhart CONTENTS: Introduction ANNE BRADSTREET Contemplation MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH The Day of Doom PHILLIP FRENEAU The Wild Honeysuckle To a Honey Bee The Indian Burying Ground Eutaw Springs FRANCIS HOPKINSON The Battle of the Kegs JOSEPH HOPKINSON Hail Columbia ANONYMOUS The Ballad of Nathan Hale A Fable TIMOTHY DWIGHT Love to the Church SAMUEL WOODWORTH The Old Oaken Bucket WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Thanatopsis The Yellow Violet To a Waterfowl Green River The West Wind "I Broke the Spell that Held Me Long" A Forest Hymn The Death of the Flowers The Gladness of Nature To the Fringed Gentian Song of Marion's Men The Crowded Street The Snow Shower Robert of Lincoln The Poet Abraham Lincoln FRANCIS SCOTT KEY The Star Spangled Banner JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE The American Flag The Culprit Fay FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Marco Bozzaris On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake JOHN HOWARD PAYNE Home Sweet Home EDGAR ALLAN POE To Helen Israfel Lenore The Coliseum The Haunted Palace To One in Paradise Eulalie A Song The Raven To Helen Annabel Lee The Bells Eldorado HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Hymn to the Night A Psalm of Life The Skeleton in Armor The Wreck of the Hesperus The Village Blacksmith It is not Always May Excelsior The Rainy Day The Arrow and the Song The Day is Done Walter Von Vogelweide The Builders Santa Filomena The Discoverer of the North Cape Sandalphon Tales of a Wayside Inn The Landlord's Tale The Sicilian's Tale The Theologian's Tale JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Proem The Frost Spirit Songs of Labor Dedication Songs of Labor The Lumberman Barclay of Ury All's Well Raphael Seed-Time and Harvest The Prophecy of Samuel Sewall Skipper Ireson's Ride The Double-headed Snake of Newbury Maud Muller Burns The Hero The Eternal Goodness The Pipes at Lucknow Cobbler Keezar's Vision The Mayflowers