America's Literature

From The general history of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith -- from The history of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford -- from The bloody tenet yet more bloody; A letter to the town of Providence / Roger Williams -- Puritan poetry -- Before the birth of cone of her children; To my dear and loving husband; The flesh and the spirit; Verses upon the burning of our house, July 10th, 1666 / Anne Bradstreet -- Preface to God's determinations touching his elect; Prologue to God's determinations touching his elect; Huswifery; Mediation six; Meditation thirty-eight; Meditation fifty-six / Edward Taylor -- from Magnalia Christi Americana; A general introduction; Galeacius secundus: life of William Bradford / William Byrd -- from The history of the dividing line; The Dismal Swamp and North Carolina / William Byrd -- Personal narrative; Notes on the mind; Nature / Jonathan Edwards -- The way to wealth; from The autobiography; Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one; The ephemera / Benjamin Franklin -- from The journal of John Woolman / John Woolman -- from Letters from an American farmer; What is an American? / Michel-Guillaume Jean De Crèvecceur -- from Common sense; Thoughts on the present state of American affairs; from The age of reason / Thomas Paine -- The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America; Letter to John Adams / Thomas Jefferson -- The power of fancy; To the memory of the brave Americans; The wild honey suckle; The Indian burying ground; To a caty-did / Philip Freneau -- Introductory essay -- Rip Van Winkle; The stout gentleman; Legend of the Arabian astrologer; from A tour of the prairies / Washington Irving -- from The last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper -- Thanatopsis; Inscription for the entrance to a wood; To a waterfowl; The yellow violet; A forest hymn; The death of the flowers; June; The evening wind; Hymn of the city; Song of Marion;s men; To the fringed gentian; The prairies; The battle-field; Death of Lincoln; The floor of years; from The right of workmen to strike / William Cullen Bryant -- from Nature; The American scholar; Self-reliance; Politics; from War; Education; Good-bye; Concord hymn; The rhodora; Each and all; Compensation; The snow-storm; Unity; Fable; Merlin; The world-soul; Hamatreya; Mithridates; Days; Brahma; Two rivers; Voluntaries III; Terminus; Music / Ralph Waldo Emerson.

[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) The canal boat; [The minister's black veil](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455342W) [Dr. Heidegger's experiment](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455515W) [Rappaccini's daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W) Earth's holocaust; Ethan Brand / Nathaniel Hawthorne --

A psalm of life; The wreck of the Hesperus; The skeleton in armor; Walter Von Der Vogelweid; Evangeline; The secret of the sea; My lost youth; from The song of Hiawatha; Christmas bells; Divina commedia; The challenge; Shakespeare; Milton; Nature; The tide rises, the tide falls; The cross of snow / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- To William Lloyd Garrison; Ichabod; The Kansas emigrants; Skipper Ireson's ride; Snow-bound; The brewing of Soma / John Greenleaf Whittier --

The fall of the House of Usher; [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W) [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W); [Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) Sonnet, to science; to Helen; Israfel; The city in the sea; The Sleeper; To one in paradise; Hymn; The conqueror worm; Dream-land; The raven; Ulalume, a ballad; The bells; Annabel Lee; from Poe's review of Twice-told tales; The philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe --

from The autocrat of the breakfast-table / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- from Walden / Henry David Thoreau --

from A Fable for critics; from the Biglow papers: first series; The courtin;; Ode recited at the Harvard commemoration / James Russell Lowell --from Typee; from White-Jacket; from Moby -Dick; from Pierre; The portent; Misgivings; Shiloh; The house-top; Southern cross / Herman Melville -- from Song of myself; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry; Out of the cradle endlessly rocking; Out of the rolling ocean the crowd; Beat! Beat! Drums!; When I heard the learn'd astronomer; Give me the splendid silent sun; To a certain civilian; Bivouac on a mountain side; Cavalry crossing a ford; An army corps on the march; The wound-dresser; Reconciliation; O captain! My captain!; when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd; Passage to India; Darest thou now o soul; Prayer of Columbus; To a locomotive in winter; A noiseless patient spider; With husky-haughty lips, o sea!; from Specimen days / Walt Whitman -- Introductory essay -- Letter to the world; I taste a liquor never brewed; Success is counted sweetest; I asked no other thing; The soul selects her own society; I'm nobody!; I like to see it lap the miles; A thought went up my mind to-day; The brain is wider than the sky; What soft, cherubic creatures; A route of evanescence; I started early; A narrow fellow in the grass; She sweeps with many-colored brooms; Some keep the Sabbath going to church; I;ll tell you how the sun rose; To make a prairie; If you were coming; I died for beauty; I've seen a dying eye; I never saw a moor; The last night that she lived; The morning after death; Because I could not stop for death; This quiet dust; To hear an oriole sing; I got so I could hear his name; THe lightning is a yellow fork; Again his voice is at the door; Tell all the truth but tell it slant / Emily Dickinson. The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County; from Roughing it; The story of the old ram; from Life on the Mississippi; The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain -- Muck-a-Muck; THe luck of roaring camp; Colonel Starbottle for the plantiff; Plain language from Truthful James / Bret Harte -- from The rise of Silas Lapham; from Criticism and fiction / William Dean Howells -- from the Education of Henry Adams / henry Adams -- The stirrup-cup; Song of the Chattahoochee; The marshes of Glynn; A ballad of trees and the master / Sidney Lanier -- The lesson of the master; The art of fiction / Henry James -- The open boat; from The black riders; War is kind / Stephen Crane -- Introductory essay -- George Crabbe; Credo; Richard Cory; Miniver Cheevy; The man against the sky; Mr. Flood's party; from Tristram / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The second choice / Theodore Dreiser -- The tuft of flowers; The death of the hired man; Mending wall; The code; The road not taken; Fire and ice; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening; Not to keep; A minor bird; There are roughly zones l; a leaf treader; Bursting rapture / Robert Frost -- Neighbor Rosicky / Willa Cather -- Chicago; Happiness; Buttons; Cool tombs; Four precludes on playthings of the wind; Accomplished facts; from The people, yes / Carl Sandburg -- from Main Street / Sinclair Lewis -- The hairy ape / Eugene O'Neill --

The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock; The hollow men; Burnt Norton / T.S. Eliot --

[Wash](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16245840W) Stockholm address / William Faulkner --

In another country; A clean, well-lightened place / Ernest Hemingway --

Death the proud brother / Thomas Wolfe.