Favorite American PoemsThis carefully compiled large print edition.offers a broad cross-section of beloved American verse, ranging from the earliest works in the genre by Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley to the 20th-century poetry of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. Selections include "The Children's Hour" and "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe; Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"; Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death" and "Success is counted sweetest"; "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," by Robert Frost; Carl Sandburg's "Chicago" and "Fog"; and many more — including works by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Stephen Crane, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and many others. |
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Contents
Anne Bradstreet | 1 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | 7 |
John Greenleaf Whittier | 22 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | 35 |
Emily Dickinson | 56 |
Emma Lazarus | 62 |
Edgar Lee Masters | 69 |
James Weldon Johnson | 76 |
Carl Sandburg | 88 |
Vachel Lindsay | 92 |
Disillusionment of Ten OClock | 99 |
Ezra Pound | 105 |
Claude McKay | 119 |
Edna St Vincent Millay | 121 |
82 | 125 |
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