37 American Poems
Episode description
Here are 37 distinctively American poems, covering the mid-17th - early 20th Centuries, from Anne Bradstreet to Dorothy Parker's sole PD work.
Contemplations by Anne Bradstreet
To a LADY on her remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North- CarolinaPhillis Wheatley
The Star-Spangled Banner By Francis Scott Key
Home, Sweet Home By John Howard Payne
The Wild Honeysuckle By Philip Freneau
Thanatopsis By William Cullen Bryant
The Village Blacksmith By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Seed-Time and Harvest By John Greenleaf Whittier
The Snow-Storm By Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Vain By Emily Dickinson
Woodman, Spare that Tree! By George Pope Morris
Spring By Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney
Lenore By Edgar Allan Poe
The Mocking-Bird By Sidney Lanier
The Path that Leads to Home By Edgar A. Guest
March into Virginia, Ending in the first Manassas (July, 1861) By Herman Melville
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand By Walt Whitman
May By Helen Hunt Jackson
Sweeney Among the Nightingales By T. S. Eliot
A Late Walk By Robert Frost
Sheltered Garden By Hilda Doolittle
Pauline Barrett By Edgar Lee Masters
Springfield Magical By Vachel Lindsay
Five Sonnets By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Manhattan By Lola Ridge
Ships that Pass in the Night By Paul Laurence Dunbar
O Black and Unknown Bards By James Weldon Johnson
The Heart of a Woman By Georgia Douglas Johnson
Translation By Anne Spencer
Queen Anne's Lace By William Carlos Williams
Wild Peaches By Elinor Wylie
Spring Night By Sara Teasdale
Mourn Not the Dead By Ralph Chaplin
Poem XII, from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley By Ezra Pound
Reformers: A Hymn of Hate By Dorothy Parker
Lilacs By Amy Lowell
Tetelestai By Conrad Aiken