© Columbia University Press
The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry
May, 1995
Cloth, 757 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-08122-1
$39.95
/ £26.95
Introduction
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
Contemplations
Before the Birth of One of her Children
To my Dear and Loving Husband
The Author to Her Book
In Memory of my Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet
On my Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet
Her Follow some Verses upon the Burning of our House
As Wear Pilgrim
Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705)
From the Day of Doom
Edward Taylor (1642? - 1729)
Let by Rain
The Reflexion
Meditation 8 (first series) (“I kenning through astronomy divine”)
Meditation 150 (second series) (“My Blessed Lord, how doth thy beautious spouse”)
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
Huswifery
Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
On the Emigration to America
The Wild Honey Suckle
The Indian Burying Ground
On Mr. Paine’s Rights of Man
To an Author
On Observing a Large Red-Streak Apple
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
On Being Brought from Africa to America
On the Death of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield
Thoughts on the Works of Providence
To S.M., a young African Painter, On Seeing his Works
Joel Barlow (1754-1812)
Advice to a Raven in Russia
Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847)
The Lament of the Captive
Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)
Indian Names
The Stars
To the First Slave Ship
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
To Cole, the Painter, Departing from Europe
A Winter Piece
The Prairies
Thanatopsis
To a Waterfowl
The African Chief
James Gates Percival (1795-1856)
The Coral Grove
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
The New England Boy’s Song about Thanksgiving Day
Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878)
The Morning-Glory
A November Landscape
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Each and All
Sea Shore
Ode (“Though loath to grieve”)
Give all to Love
Thine Eyes Still Shined
Concord Hymn
Brahma
From the River
Days
Elizabeth Oakes-Smith (1806-1893)
Ode to Sappho
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
To my old Schoolmaster
Telling the Bees
Barbara Frietchie
Snow-Bound
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
From The Song of Hiawatha (Introduction)
Mezzo Cammin
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
The Cross of Snow
Seaweed
Afternoon in February
The Arrow and the Song
Paul Revere’s Ride
Lucretia Davidson (1808-1825)
America
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
The Chambered Nautilus
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
To Helen
The City in the Sea
Sonnet-Silence
The Raven
El Dorado
For Annie
Annabel Lee
Frances Sargent Osgood (1811-1850)
Woman
Ellen Learning to Walk
Ah! Woman Still
Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892)
Cnosis
The Pines and the Sea
Jones Very (1817-1862)
The Columbine
I was sick and in Prison
The Lament of the Flowers
Nature
The Sumach Leaves
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Inspiration
I am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied
Light-Winged Smoke, Icarian Bird
Within the Circuit of this Plodding Life
William Ellery Channing (1818-1901)
From a Poet’s Hope
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
To the Dandelion
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
One’s Self I Sing
From Song of Myself
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
As Adam early in the Morning
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night
The Wound-Dresser
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
A Noiseless Patient Spider
Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
The Portent
The March Into Virginia
A Utalitarian View of the Monitor’s Fight
Shiloh
Malvern Hill
The Martyr
The Maldive Shark
The Berg
Art
Alice Cary (1820-1871)
The Sea-Side Cave
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873)
Sonnet (“The starry flower, the flower-like stars that fade”)
Sonnet (“And so, as this great sphere”)
The Question
Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911)
The Slave Auction
Bury Me in a Free Land
The Slave Mother
Henry Timrod (1828-1867)
Charleston
Ode (“Sleep Sweetly in your Humble Graves”)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
“Success is Counted Sweetest”
“A Wounded deer leaps highest”
“I felt a funderal in my brain”
“There’s a certain slant of light”
“I can wade grief”
“Pain has an element of blank”
“A bird came down the walk”
“He fumbles at your spirit”
“I heard a fly buzz when I died”
“I started early, took my dog”
“Because I could not stop for death”
“A narrow fellow in the grass”
“The last night that she lived”
“My life closed twice before its close”
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant”
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
My Lighthouses
Poppies on the Wheat
Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)
Song of the Chattahoochee
A Ballad of Trees and the Master
Clover
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1887)
At Home from Church
A Country Boy in Winter
A Caged Bird
Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
The New Ezekiel
South
Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920)
The Wild Ride
When on the Marge of Evening
Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)
The Hill
Petit, the Poet
The Lost Orchard
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
John Evereldown
Richard Cory
Miniver Cheevy
Mr. Flood’s Party
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
From The Black Riders (In the Desert)
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
Oh Black and Unknown Bards
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
A Negro Love Song
Ere SLeep Comes Down to Sooth the Weary Eyes
Ships that Pass in the Night
Lover’s Lane
The Debt
The Haunted Oak
Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904)
Age in Youth
Pity
Requiescam
Quiet after the Rain of Morning
In the Past
In Ampezzo
The Departure
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
Meeting-House Hill
Music
Chinoiseries
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Storm fear
Mowing
Home Burial
The Wood-Pile
Fire and Ice
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Spring Pools
Design
The Gift Outright
The Silken Tent
“Out, Out-”
The Subverted Flower
Directive
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
The Harbour
Chicago
Languages
Bas-Relief
Cool Tombs
Grass
Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
General William Booth Entern into Heaven
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
The Snow Man
Nomad Exquisite
Of Modern Poetry
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Sunday Morning
Ancedote of A Jar
The Idea of Order at Key West
From Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction (it must be abstract)
To an Old Philosopher in Rome
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Woman Walking
It is a Small Plant
To a Poor Old Woman
The Sadness of the Sea
Spring and all
The Red Wheelbarrow
The Young Housewife
To Ford Madox Ford in Heaven
Mists over the River
From Paterson (The Falls)
Sarah Teasdale (1884-1933)
Open Windows
Over the Roofs
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Sestma: Altaforte
The Virginal
The Return
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
A Pact
In a Station of the Metro
From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1: “The tea-rose tea-grown, etc.”)
(2: “These fought in any way”)
Canto I (“And then went down to the ship”)
Canto XLV (“With Usura”)
“H.D.” (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)
Pear Tree
Oread
At Ithaca
The Shrine
Helen
At Baia
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)
To the Stone-Cutters
Night
Shine, Perishing Republic
Hurt Hawks
Rock and Hawk
But I am Growing Old and Indolent
Elinor Wylie (1887-1928)
Wild Peaches
Let no Chantable Hope
Malediction Upon Myself
Castilian
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
The Fish
Poetry
Marriage
The Steeple-Jack
In Distrust of Merits
When I Buy Pictures
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
Bells for John Ehiteside’s Daughter
Piazza Piece
Blue Girls
Janet Waking
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Gerontion
The Waste Land
Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)
Dear Uncle Stranger
Hatteras Calling
Solitaire
Claude McKay (1890-1948)
The Lynching
If We Must Die
Harlem Shadows
Archibald MacLeish (1892-1983)
Ars Poetica
You, Andrew Marvell
Edna St.Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Renascence
From: Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree (1:”So she came back into his house again”)
The Buck in the Snow
From: Fatal Interview (36: “Hearing a word, and not a word among them”)
Ragged Island
Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)
From: Testimony
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
Reapers
November Cotton Flower
e.e.cummings (1894-1962)
“you shall above all things be glad and young”
“anyone lived in a pretty how town”
“i sing of Okaf glad and big”
“my father moved through dooms of love”
Louise Bogan (1897-1970)
Winter Swan
Men Loved Wholly beyond Wisdom
M., Singing
Melvin Beanearus Tolson (1898-1966)
African China
Dark Symphony
Hart Crane (1899-1932)
Repose of Rivers
Voyages
From: The Bridge (To Brooklyn Bridge)
To Emily Dickinson
Ther Broken Tower
Leonie Adams (1899-1988)
Lght at Equinox
April Mortallity
Allen Tate (1899-1979)
Ode to the Confederate Dead
Mr. Pope
Yvor Winters (1900-1968)
Summer Noon: 1941
The Slow Pacific Swell
Laura Riding Jackson (1901-1991)
Prisms
Helen’s Burning
All Things
he World and I
Nothing so Far
Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981)
To a Dark Girl
Heritage
Hatred
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
The Weary Blues
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Jazzonia
Cross
Po’ Boy Blues
Esthete in Harlem
As I grew Older
Theme for English B
Arna Bontemps (1902-1973)
A Black Man Talks Reaping
Nocturne of the Wharves
Blight
God Give to Men
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
Heritage
From the Dark Tower
Timed Lover
Lous Zukofsky (1904-1978)
“A”-11 (“River that must turn full after I stop dying”)
Richard Eberhart (1904-)
For a Lamb
Ther Fury of Aerial Bombardment
A Loon Call
Stanley Kunitz (1905-)
The Science of the Night
The Snakes of September
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
Bearded Oaks
Blow, West Wind
Evenig Hawk
Heart of Autumn
Amazing Grace in the BAck Country
What Voice at Moth-Hour
Vermont Ballad: Change of Season
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
Cuttings (“Sticks-in-a-drowse droop over sugary loam”)
Cuttings (Later) (“This urge, wrestle, resurrection of dry sticks”)
Root Cellar
Orchids
Big Wind
My Papa’s Waltz
Elegy for Jane
The Far Field
Charles Olson (1910-1970)
From: The Maximus Poems, Book III (Poem 143: The Festival Apect)
Josephine Miles (1911-1985)
Belief
Conception
Album
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
Seascape
A Cold Spring
The Map
Little Exercise
In the Waiting Room
The Armadillo
Questions of Travel
Muriel Rukeyser (1912-1980)
Iris
Then I Saw What the Calling Was
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
Night, Death, Mississippi
A Road in Kentucky
Those Winter Sundays
Middle Passage
Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966)
The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me
William Stafford (1914-1993)
Traveling through the Dark
The Rescued Year
At the Bomb Testing Site
John Berryman (1914-1972)
From: Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
From: The Dream Songs (1. “Huffy Henry hid the day”)
(4. “Filling her compact and delicious body’)
(5. “Henry sats in de bar & was odd”)
(14. “Life, friends, is boring”)
Henry’s Fate
Randall Jarell (1914-1965)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
The Knight, Death, and the Devil
The Woman at the Washington Zoo
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
Mr. Edwards and the Spider
Grandparents
Man and Wife
Skunk Hour
For the Union Dead
History
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- )
Negro Hero
Notes from the Childhood and the Girlhood
Jessie Mitchell’s Mother
Of Robert Frost
Langston Hughes
Robert Duncan (1919-1988)
Often I Am Permitted to Return to Meadow
Passage over Water
Howard Nemerov (1920-1991)
Blue Suburban
The Western Approaches
The War in the Air
Amy Clampitt (1920-1994)
A Baroque Sunburst
Mona Van Duyn (1921- )
Moose in the Morning. Northern Maine
Richard Wilbur (1921- )
A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra
Still, Citizen Sparrow
Love Calls Us to the Things of this World
Mind
James Dickey (1923- )
The Heaven of Animals
The Dusk of Horses
Cherrylog Road
Anthony Hecht (1923- )
Jason
The Gardens of the Villa D’Este
Galway Kinnell (1927- )
The Bear
After Making Love We Hear footsteps
James Wright (1927-1980)
Sparrwos in a Hillside Drift
Milkweed
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
Lying in a Hammock at Wiliam Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
Beginning
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
Music Swims Back to Me
The Truth the Dead Know
The Starry Night
Wanting to Die
Peter Davison (1928- )
Cross Cut
Philip Levine (1928- )
Animals Are Passing From Our Lives
Angel Butcher
Later Still
Bell Isle, 1949
Snow
Belief
John Hollander (1929- )
The Great Bear
Morning in the Islands
The Mad Potter
Robert Pack (1929- )
The Trasher in the Willow by the Lake
Proton Decay
Adrienne Rich (1929- )
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
In the Evening
Diving into the Wreck
Power
Integrity
Tattered Kaddish
Gary Snyder (1930- )
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
Axel Handles
The Snow on Saddle Mountain
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Morning Song
Dadd
Fever 103”
Anel
Anne Stevenson (1933- )
The Spirit Is Too Blunt an Instrument
In the Orchard
Imamu Amiri Baraka (1934 - )
Return of the Native
Legacy
Mark Strand (1934- )
The Kite
The Garden
Shooting Whales
N.Scoot Momaday (1934-1992)
Carners of the Dream Whell
Winter Holding odf the Coast of North America
Audre Lorde (1935- )
The Night-blooming Jasmine
Mary Oliver (1935- )
Some Questios You Might Ask
When Death Comes
Charles Wright (1935- )
Virgo Descending
Snow
Stone Canyon Nocturne
Sitting at Night on the Front Porch
Porstriat of the Artist with La Po
California Spring
Nancy Williard (1936- )
Angels in Winter
Charles Simic (1838- )
Fork
Against Whatever It is That’s Encroaching
Ancient Autumn
Clouds Gathering
Robert Pinsky (1940- )
First Early Mornings Together
Serpent Knowledge
The Questions
Shirt
Erica Jong (1941- )
The Buddha in the Womb
Robert Hass (1941- )
Meditation at Lagunitas
Simon J. Ortiz (1941- )
The Creation: According to Coyote
The Serenity in Stones
Dave Smith (1942- )
The Roundhouse Voices
August, on the Rented Farm
Marilyn Hacker (1942- )
Rondeau after a Transatlantic Telephone Call
James Tate (1942- )
The Lost Pilot
Louise Glueck (1943- )
The Pond
The School Children
Messengers
Mount Ararat
The Wild Iris
Acknowledgments
Index of Authors
Index of Titles and First Lines