AMERICAN POETRYTHE NINETEENTH

CENTURY

T H E L I B R A R Y O F A M E R I C A

Contents

PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832)On the Great Western Canal of the State of New York 1

JOEL BARLOW (1754-1812)Advice to a Raven in Russia 4

MANOAH BODMAN (1765-1850)from An Oration on Death 7

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1767-1848)To the Sun Dial 9To Sally 9

JAMES KIRKE PAULDING (1778-1860)from The Backwoodsman 12

CLEMENT MOORE (1779-1863)A Visit from St Nicholas 16

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY (1779-1843)Defence of Fort McHenry 18

WASHINGTON ALLSTON (1779-1843)On a Falling Group in the Last Judgement of Michael Angelo

in the Cappella Sistina 20On the Group of the Three Angels Before the Tent of

Abraham by Raffaelle in the Vatican 20On Rembrant Occasioned by His Picture of Jacob s Dream 21On the Luxembourg Gallery 21America to Great Britain 22Coleridge 23Art 23Rubens 24

JOHN PIERPONT (1785-1866)The Fugitive Slave s Apostrophe to the North Star 25

SAMUEL WOODWORTH (1785-1842)The Bucket 28

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RICHARD HENRY DANA (1787-1879)The Dying Raven 29The Pleasure Boat 32

RICHARD HENRY WILDE (1789 -1847)The Lament of the Captive 36To the Mocking Bird 36from Hespena 37

7FITZ GREENE HALLECK (1790-1867)On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake 41Marco Bozzans 42from Connecticut 45

JOHN HOWARD PAYNE (1791-1852)Home Sweet Home1 48

LYDIA HUNTLEY SlGOURNEY (1791-1865)Indian Names 49

JOHNNEAL (1793-1876)from The Battle of Niagara 51

CARLOS WILCOX (1794-1827)from The Age of Benevolence 53

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)Thanatopsis 56To a Waterfowl 58Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood 59Green River 60Summer Wind 62Autumn Woods 63To an American Painter Departing for Europe 65To the Fringed Gentian 65The Prairies 66The Painted Cup 69

MARIA GOWEN BROOKS (1794*-1845)from Zophiel or the Bride of Seven Canto the Third Palace of

the Gnomes 71Composed at the Request of a Lady and Descriptive of Her

Feelings 73JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE (1795-1820)

The Mocking Bird 75The National Painting 77The American Flag 78Bronx 80

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JAMES GATES PERCTVAL (1795-1856)The Coral Grove 82

GEORGE MOSES HORTON (i798>-i883>)On Liberty and Slavery 83On Heanng of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the

Poet s Freedom 84

SAMUEL HENRY DICKSON (1798 -1872)Song—Written at the North 86

A BRONSON ALCOTT (1799-18Sonnet XIV Not Wordsworth s genius Pestalozzi s love 87

THOMAS COLE (1801-1848)A Painter 88Lines Suggested by Hearing Music on the Boston Common at

Night 88from The Voyage of Life Part 2nd 90The Dial 92Lago Maggiore 93

EDWARD COOTE PINKNEY (1802-1828)Italy 94The Voyager s Song 95Serenade 97The Widow s Song 98

GEORGE POPE MORRIS (1802-1864)The Oak 99

LYDIA MARIA CHILD (1802-1880)The New England Boy s Song About Thanksgiving Day 100

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)To Rhea 102Uriel 104Hamatreya 105The Rhodora 107 r

The Humble Bee 108The Snow Storm 109from Woodnotes II noFable 115Ode Inscnbed to W H Channing 116Astra;a 119Give All to Love 120

CONTENTS

Merlin I 122Merlin II 124Bacchus 125Merops 127Saadi 127Xenophanes 132Blight 133Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument

134Brahma 135Mottoes from the Essays

Nature (1836) 136Compensation 136Circles 137Experience 137Nature (1844) 138

Who knows this or that 138Maia 138

SARAH H E L E N W H I T M A N (1803-1878)

To 139

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864)

I left my low and humble home 140

NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS (1806-1867)

January 1 1829 141Unseen Spirits 142The Lady in the White Dress Whom I Helped Into

the Omnibus 143

WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS (1806-1870)

The Lost Pleiad 145By the Swanannoa 147 •,

H E N R Y WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)

The Spirit of Poetry 148A Psalm of Life 149Hymn to the Night 151The Wreck of the Hesperus 152The Village Blacksmith 154Mezzo Cammin 156The Day Is Done 156Seaweed 158Couplet February 24 1847 159

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Fragment D e c e m b e r 18 1847 *59The Fire of Drift W o o d 160from Evangeline 161T h e Jewish Cemetery at N e w p o r t 162from The Song of Hiawatha

from XXII Hiawatha s Departure 164My Lost Youth 167The Children s Hour 169from Tales of a Wayside Inn

The Landlord s Tale Paul Revere s Ride 171Snow Flakes 174D vina Commed a 175Behsanus 178Chaucer 179Choruses from Keramos 180Venice 182The Cross of Snow 182The Tide Rises the Tide Falls 183The Bells of San Bias 183

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892)

Ichabod1 186Astrasa 187The Haschish 188The Barefoot Boy 190Skipper Ireson s Ride 193My Playmate 195Barbara Fnetchie 197What the Birds Said 200Snow Bound 201

from Among the Hills Prelude 221Burning Drift Wood 225

EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)

To Science 229from Al Aaraaf 229

Alone 231To Helen 231Israfel 232The City in the Sea 233The Haunted Palace 235Silence 236The Conqueror Worm 237

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Dream Land 238The Raven 239Ulalume—A Ballad 244The Bells 247Eldorado 250Annabel Lee 251

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865)

My Childhood Home I See Again 253

OLIVER WENDELL H O L M E S (1809-1894)

Old Ironsides 257The Chambered Nautilus 258The Deacon s Masterpiece or the Wonderful

One Hoss Shay 259Nearing the Snow Line 263

THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS (1809-1858)

Avalon 264Apollo 271

FANNY KEMBLE (1809-1893)

To the Wissahiccon 272

MARGARET FULLER (1810-1850)

Sistrum 273Flaxman 273

E D M U N D HAMILTON SEARS (1810-1876)

It came upon the midnight clear 274

CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH (1813-1892)

Correspondences 276Enosis 277The Cataract Isle 278In the Palais Royal Garden 280The Spint of the Age 281An Old Cat s Confessions 282 y

Music 284Bird Language 286from Seven Wonders of the World

The Printing Press 287The Locomotive 288The Photograph 288

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C H A R L E S T I M O T H Y B R O O K S (1813-1883)

Our Island H o m e 289

J O N E S V E R Y (1813-1880)

Trfe N e w Birth 290The Morning Watch 290The Garden 291The Song 291The Latter Rain 292The Dead 292Autumn Leaves 293The Cottage 293The Wild Rose of Plymouth 294

E P E S S A R G E N T (1813-1880)

The Planet Jupiter 295The Sea Breeze at Matanzas 295

D A N I E L D E C A T U R E M M E T T (1815-1904)

Dixie s Land 296

P H I L I P P E N D L E T O N C O O K E (1816-1850)

Florence Vane 298

J O S I A H D C A N N I N G (1816-1892)

The Indian Gone1 300

H E N R Y D A V I D T H O R E A U (1817-1862)

They who prepare my evening meal below 302O n fields oer wh ch the eaper s hand has passd 302

Fog 302Dong sounds the brass in the east 303

Rumors from an /Eolian Harp 303My life has been the poem I would have writ 304I am a parcel of vain strivings tied 304Light winged Smoke Icanan bird 305

Music 306

CORNELIUS MATHEWS (1817-1889)from Poems on Man in His Various Aspects Under the

American Republic The Masses 307WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1818-1901)

The Harbor 308Hymn of the Earth 308

WILLIAM WETMORE STORY (1819-1895)Cleopatra 310

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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819-1891)from A Fable for Critics 315from The Vision of Sir Launfal Prelude to Part the First 316Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration July 21 1865

318

JULIA WARD HOWE (1819-1910)My Last Dance 330Battle Hymn of the Republic 331

JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (1819-1881)from The Marble Prophecy 333

THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH (1819-1902)Ben Bolt 340

WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)from Leaves of Grass (1855)

(Song of Myself) 342(The Sleepers) 403(I Sing the Body Electric) 414(There Was a Child Went Forth) 421

from Leaves of Grass (i860)Chants Democratic and Native American 5 423

from Leaves of Grass (1891-92)from Children of Adam

From Pent Up Aching Rivers 427I Heard You Solemn Sweet Pipes of the Organ 429As Adam Early in the Morning 429

from CalamusI Saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing 430

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 430from Sea Drift

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 437As I Ebb d with the Ocean of Life 443

from Memones of President LincolnWhen Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom d 446

from Whispers of Heavenly DeathA Noiseless Patient Spider 455

HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891)Song from MarAi 457

The ribs and terrors in the whale 457The Portent 458

; Misgivings 458

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The Conflict of Convictions 459Shiloh A Requiem 462Malvern Hill 462The House top A Night Piece 463

The Coming Storm 464Formerly a Slave 465

America 465from Clarel A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land

The Hostel 467The Reclu 47Via Crucis 473

The Tuft of Kelp 475The Maldive Shark 475The Berg 475After the Pleasure Party 477The Ravaged Villa 481Art 482Shelley s Vision 482In a Bye Canal 483Pontoosuce 484Billy in the Darbies 487

HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL (1820-1872)The Battle Summers 488

ALICE CARY (1820-1871)Autumn 492The West Country 493

JOHN HENRY HOPKINS JR. (1820-1891)Three Kings of Orient 494

FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN (1821-1873)from Sonnets First Series (

VII Dank fens of cedar hemlock branches gray 496VIII As when down some broad River dropping

we 496X An upper chamber in a darkened house 497XXII The morning comes not slow with reddening

gold 497from Sonnets Second Series

VII His heart was in his garden but his brain 498XVI Under the mountain as when first I knew 498

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from Sonnets Third SeriesV How well do I recall that walk in state 499

The Cricket 499

MARIA WHITE LOWELL (1821̂ 1853)Rouen Place de la Pucelle 504

JAMES MONROE WHITFIELD (1822-1871)America 505

THOMAS BUCHANAN READ (1822-1872)Sheridan s Ride 510

GEORGE HENRY BOKER (1823-1890)from Sonnets A Sequence on Profane Love

The leaden eyelids of wan twilight close 512As stands a statue on its pedestal 512My darling s features painted by the light 513

Oh1 craven craven1 while my brothers fall 513

JAMES MATHEWES LEGARE (1823-1859)To a Lily 514

GEORGE BOYERVASHON (1824-1878)from Vincent Oge 515

CHARLES GODFREY LELAND (1824-1903)Ballad 519Breitmann in Pans 520

PHOEBE CARY (1824-1871)The Day Is Done 523

Jacob 524 J

When Lovely Woman 525Advice Gratis to Certain Women 525

BAYARD TAYLOR (1825-1878)from The Echo Club

Night the Second All or Nothing 527Night the Eighth Camerados 528

FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER (1825-1911)Bible Defence of Slavery 529The Slave Auction 530

STEPHEN FOSTER (1826-1864)' Old Folks at Home 531 -|

My Old Kentucky Home Good Night1 532

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ROBERT LOWRY (1826-1899)

Beautiful River 533

ROSE TERRY COOKE (1827-1892)

Blue Beard s Closet 535Arachne 536

FRANCIS MILES FINCH (1827-1907)

The Blue and the Gray 538

JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE (1827-1867)

Mou it Shasta 540A Cherokee Love Song 542

JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE (1827-1916)

Circumstance 544The Old Lobsterman 544

HENRY TIMROD (1828-1867)

Dreams 548Ethnogenesis 549The Cotton Boll 552

PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE (1830-1886)

October 557On the Occurrence of a Spell of Arctic Weather in

May 1858 557

HELEN H U N T JACKSON (1830-1885)

My Lighthouses 558Crossed Threads 559September 560

EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)

Success is counted sweetest 561Our lives are Swiss 561Bnng me the sunset in a cup 562A Wounded Deer—leaps highest 562

Faith is a fine invention 563I taste a liquor never brewed 563Safe in their Alabaster Chambers 564Wild Nights—Wild Nights' 564

Hope is the thing with feathers 564There s a certain Slant of light 565A single Screw of Flesh 565I felt a Funeral in my Brain 566

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A Clock stopped 567I m Nobody1 Who are you* 568I reason Earth is short 568The Soul selects her own Society 568The Soul s Supenor instants 569I cannot dance upon my Toes 569A Bird came down the Walk 570I know that He exists 571After great pain a formal feeling comes 571I dreaded that first Robin so 572A precious—mouldering pleasure—j tis 573A Visitor in Marl 574The Wind—tapped like a tired Man 574This is my letter to the World 575I died for Beauty—but was scarce 575I heard a Fly buzz—when I died 576It was not Death for I stood up 576I started Early—Took my Dog 577I like to see it lap the Miles 578What care the Dead for Chanticleer 578Our journey had advanced 579The Tint I cannot take—is best 580The Brain—is wider than the Sky 581 *I cannot live with You 581I dwell in Possibility 583Essential Oils—are wrung 583They say that Time assuages 584The Sun kept setting—setting—still 584Because I could not stop for Death 584My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun 585On a Columnar Self 586A Light exists in Spring 587The Only News I know 587Split the Lark—and you 11 find the Music 588There is a Zone whose even Years 588Further in Summer than the Birds 589At Half past Three a single Bird 589Tell all the Truth but tell it slant 590Great Streets of silence led away 590My Tnumph lasted till the Drums 590There is no Frigate like a Book 591

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A R o u t e of Evanescence 591

One of the ones that Midas touched 591The Moon upon her fluent Route 592As imperceptibly as Grief 593The Clock strikes one that just struck two 593There came a Wind like a Bugle 593In Winter in my Room 594A P i t ^ b u t Heaven over it 595By a departing light 596I took one Draught of Life 596My lite closed twice before its close 596That it w 11 neve come again 597This docile one inter 597Twas here my summer paused 597

Experiment escorts us last 598Too happy Time dissolves itself 598The earth has many keys 598

BENJAMIN PAUL B L O O D (1832-1919)

Late 599

ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN (1832-1911)

Rock Me to Sleep 601

H E N R Y CLAY W O R K (1832-1884)

Marching Through Georgia 603

E D M U N D CLARENCE STEDMAN (1833-1908)

Prelude to An Am an Anth I gy 605

J O H N JAMES PIATT (1835-1917)

To the Statue on the Capitol 606My Shadow s Stature 606Taking the Night Train 607

AUGUSTA C O O P E R BRISTOL (1835-1910)

Night 608

A D A H ISAACS M E N K E N (^s^ - i ses )

Judith 610

MARK TWAIN (1835-1910)

Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots Dec d 613

PHILLIPS BROOKS (1835-1893)

O Little Town of Bethlehem 614

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BRETHARTE (1836-1902)

Plain Language from Truthful James 615What the Bullet Sang 617Chicago 618

SARAH MORGAN PIATT (1836-1919)

Giving Back the Flower 619

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS (1837-1920)

The Empty House 621In Earliest Spring 622November 623

FORCEYTHE WlLLSON (1837-1867)In State 624

JOAQUIN MILLER (1837-1913)

In Pere La Chaise 629At Our Golden Gate 630Columbus 631

ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN (1838-1886)

Lines 633

WILLIAM REED HUNTINGTON (1838-1909)

The Cold Meteorite 635Lowlands 635

JOHN HAY (1838-1905)

Jim Bludso Of the Prairie Belle 636

HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918)

Buddha and Brahma 638

JAMES RYDER RANDALL (1839-1908)

Maryland 645

CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON (1840-1894)

The Flonda Beach 648

EDWARD ROWLAND SILL (1841-1887)

Opportunity 650California Winter 650

CHARLES EDWARD CARRYL (1841-1920)

A Nautical Ballad 652

SIDNEY LANIER (1842-1881)

from Hymns of the MarshesMarsh Song—At Sunset 654

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T h e Marshes o f Glynn 654Song of the Cha t t ahoochee 658F r o m the Flats 659The Mocking Bird 660from Street Cries To Richard Wagner 661The Raven Days 663

AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914*)Alone 664Elegy 664Lead 664The Passing Show 665To the Bartholdi Statue 668

RICHARD WATSON GILDER (1844-1909)The Sonnet 669On the Bay 669

GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE (1844-1925)Creole Slave Songs

Belle Layotte 670The English muskets went bim1 bim1 671

The Dirge of St Malo 671

JOHN BANISTERTABB (1845-1909)Evolution 672Milton 672Whisper 672The Shadow 672A Winter Twilight 673 (Echo 673The Mid Day Moon 673

EMMA LAZARUS (1849-1887)Echoes 674The New Colossus 674Venus of the Louvre 675Long Island Sound 675In Exile 6761492 677

SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909)At Home from Church 678A Caged Bird 679

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JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY (1849-1916)

When the Frost Is on the Punkin 681Litde Orphant Annie 682

EUGENE FIELD (1850-1895)

Dutch Lullaby 685

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX (1850 -1919)

The Engine 687Nothing New 687

ROSE HARTWICK THORPE (1850-1939)

Curfew Must Not Ring To Night 689

ALBERY ALLSON WHITMAN (1851 -1901)

from Twasinta s Seminoles or Rape of Florida 693The Lute of Afnc s Tribe 694

EDWIN MARKHAM (1852-1940)

The Man with the Hoe 696

ERNEST FENOLLOSA (1853-1908)

from East and Westfrom The Separated East 698

Fuji at Sunrise 701

JAMES A BLAND (1854-1911)

Oh Dem Golden Slippers1 702

LiZETTE WOODWORTH REESE (1856-1935)Love Weeping Laid This Song 703One Night 703April in Town 704A Lyric on the Lyric 704

KATHARINE LEE BATES (1859-1929)

America the Beautiful 706

CLINTON SCOLLARD (1860-1932)

A Bit of Marble 708

HAMLIN GARLAND (1860-1940)

Indian Summer 709On the Mississippi 709

HARRIET MONROE (1860-1936)

ToWS M With a copy of Shelley 710 t

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LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY (1861-1920)At a Symphony 711Fog 711Strikers m Hyde Park 712In the Reading Room of the British Museum 712

EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937)Chartres 713Two Backgrounds 714An Autumn Sunset 715

JOHN JAY CHAPMAN (1862-1933)Bismarck 717

GEORGE SANTAYANA (1863-1952)Sonnet III O world thou choosest not the better part' 720On a P ece of Tapestry 720Cape Cod 721On an Unfinished Statue 721

STUART MERRILL (1863-1915)Ballade of the Chinese Lover 724Ballade of the Outcasts 725

ERNEST LAWRENCE THAYER (1863-1940)Casey at the Bat 726

RICHARD HOVEY (1864-1900)Evening on the Potomac 729The Mocking Bird 730Accident in Art 731

MADISON CAWEIN (1865-1914)Rome 732On Reading the Life of Haroun Er Reshid 732Echo 732Mnemosyne 732Caverns 733Dead Cities 733

GELETT BURGESS (1866-1951)The Purple Cow 735The Purple Cow Suite 735

WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY (1869 -1910)An Ode in Time of Hesitation 736Harmonics 742

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EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)

The Torrent 743Boston 743The Children of the Night 744John Evereldown 745Luke Havergal 746Ballade of Broken Flutes 747The House on the Hill 748Richard Cory 749The Pity of the Leaves 750Reuben Bright 750

The master and the slave go hand in hand 751George Crabbe 751

STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)

from The Black Riders and Other LinesI Black riders came from the sea 752III In the desert 752XXIV I saw a man pursuing the horizon 752XXVI There was set before me a mighty hill 753XXVII A youth in apparel that glittered 753LVI A man feared that he might find an assassin 753LXVTI God lay dead in Heaven 754

from War Is KindDo not weep maiden for war is kind 754The wayfarer 755A man said to the universe 755

Little birds of the night 756There is a grey thing that lives in the tree tops 756

P A U L LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906)

Accountability 757Song of Summer 758We Wear the Mask 759Compensation 759When Malindy Sings 759Signs of the Times 762

ALEXANDER L POSEY (1873-1908)

Song of the Oktahutchee 764Midsummer 765Autumn 765

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GEORGE CABOT LODGE (1873-1909)Tuckanuck I I am content to live the patient day 766Fall 766On an ^Eohan Harp 767Lower New York 768

TRUMBULL STICKNEY (1874-1904)In Ampezzo 769Mnemosyne 771Ende V Now in the palace gardens warm with age 772On Some Shells Found Inland 774

Be still The Hanging Gardens were a d earn 774Lakeward 775At Sa nte Ma guente 778from Sonnets from Greece

Sunium 780Mt Lykaion 780Near Helikon 781Eleusis 781'-

Six O Clock 782from Dramatic Fragments

Sir say no more 782I hear a river thro the valley wander 782

19TH CENTURY VERSIONS OF AMERICAN INDIAN POETRYThe Song of the Lenape Warriors Going Against the Enemy

(Delaware) 783Song for Medicine Hunting—Rarely for the Metai (Ojibwa)

784The Loon Upon the Lake (Ojibwa) 787Chant to the Fire Fly (Ojibwa) 787Songs and Chants (Southern Paiute) 788from Sacred Songs of the Konkau

Red Cloud s Song 792The Acorn Song 792Ki u nad dis si s Song 792

Hunter s Song (Hitchiti) 793The Song of the Stars (Passamaquoddy) 793from The Walam Olum or Red Score of the Lenape

(Delaware) 794from The Mountain Chant (Navajo)

Twelfth Song of the Thunder 800Sixth Song of the Holy Young Men 801

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Chinook Songs 801Pawnee War Song 803The Thanksgivings (Iroquois) 804from The Hardening of the World and the First Settlement of

Men (Zuni) 805from The Generation of the Seeds or the Origin of Corn

(Zuni) 806Ghost Dance Songs of the Paiute 806Songs of the Kwakiutl Indians

Love Song 808Warsong of the Kwakiutl 809

The Mocking Bird s Song (Tigua) 809The Wizard s Chant (Passamaquoddy) 810from The Night Chant (Navajo)

Prayer of First Dancers 811from The Hako (Pawnee)

from Mother Corn Assumes Leadership 814Song to the Trees and Streams 815Song of the Promise of the Buffalo 815

from History Myth of the Coming of the A shiwi as Narratedby Kiaklo (Zuni) 816

FOLK SONGS AND SPIRITUALS

The Cowboy s Lament 819Deep River 821Dere s No Hidin Place Down Dere 821Down in the Valley 822Ev ry Time I Feel the Spint 823Ezekiel Saw de Wheel 823Frankie and Albert 824Free at Last 827Got a Home in That Rock 828He Never Said a Mumblin Word 829A Home on the Range 831I Know Moon Rise 832Jesse James 833Jim Crack Corn or the Blue Tail Fly 834John Brown s Body 835John Henry 836Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jerico 839Let My People Go 839Lonesome Valley 842

CONTENTS XXVU

Michael Row the Boat Ashore 843My Lord What a Morning 845Oh My Darling Clementine 846One More River 846Red River Valley 847Shenandoah 848Simple Gifts 849Steal Away 849Swing Low Sweet Chariot 850What Yo Gwin t Do When de Lamp Bu n Down' 851Whoopee Ti Yi Yo Git Along Little Dogies 852Working on the Railway 853

Biographical Notes 857

Note on the Texts 974

Notes 978

Index of Titles and First Lines 1015

Index of Poets 1040