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37 American Poems

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Here are 37 distinctively American poems, covering the mid-17th - early 20th Centuries, from Anne Bradstreet to Dorothy Parker's sole PD work. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Genre(s): Poetry, Anthologies

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Author	Source	Reader	Time	Language
Play 01	Contemplations	Anne Bradstreet	Etext	Bellona Times	00:02:50	en
Play 02	To a LADY on her remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North-Carolina	Phillis Wheatley	Etext	Bellona Times	00:02:25	en
Play 03	The Star-Spangled Banner	Francis Scott Key	Etext	Bellona Times	00:02:31	en
Play 04	Home, Sweet Home	John Howard Payne	Etext	Bellona Times	00:01:55	en
Play 05	The Wild Honeysuckle	Philip Freneau	Etext	Bellona Times	00:01:42	en
Play 06	Thanatopsis	William Cullen Bryant	Etext	Bellona Times	00:05:12	en
Play 07	The Village Blacksmith	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Etext	Bellona Times	00:02:28	en
Play 08	Seed-Time and Harvest	John Greenleaf Whittier	Etext	Bellona Times	00:01:56	en
Play 09	The Snow-Storm	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Etext	Bellona Times	00:02:01	en
Play 10	In Vain	Emily Dickinson	Etext	Bellona Times	00:01:50	en
Play 11	Woodman, Spare that Tree!	George Pope Morris	Etext	Bellona Times	00:01:37	en
Play 12	Spring	Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney	Etext	Bellona Times	00:01:31	en
Play 13	Lenore	Edgar Allan Poe	Etext	Bellona Times	00:02:50	en
Play 14	The Mocking-Bird	Sidney Lanier	Etext	Bellona Times	00:01:16	en
Play 15	The Path that Leads to Home	Edgar A. Guest	Etext	Bellona Times	00:02:04	en
Play 16	March into Virginia, Ending in the first Manassas (July, 1861)	Herman Melville	Etext	Bellona Times	00:02:18	en
Play 17	Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand	Walt Whitman	Etext	Bellona Times	00:03:32	en
Play 18	May	Helen Hunt Jackson	Etext	Bellona Times	00:01:13	en
Play 19	Sweeney Among the Nightingales	T. S. Eliot	Etext	Bellona Times	00:02:10	en
Play 20	A Late Walk	Robert Frost	Etext	Bellona Times	00:01:05	en
Play 21	Sheltered Garden	Hilda Doolittle	Etext	Bellona Times	00:02:28	en
Play 22	Pauline Barrett	Edgar Lee Masters	Etext	Bellona Times	00:01:41	en
Play 23	Springfield Magical	Vachel Lindsay	Etext	Bellona Times	00:01:21	en
Play 24	Five Sonnets	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Etext	Bellona Times	00:04:32	en
Play 25	Manhattan	Lola Ridge	Etext	Bellona Times	00:01:37	en
Play 26	Ships that Pass in the Night	Paul Laurence Dunbar	Etext	Bellona Times	00:01:25	en
Play 27	O Black and Unknown Bards	James Weldon Johnson	Etext	Bellona Times	00:03:20	en
Play 28	The Heart of a Woman	Georgia Douglas Johnson	Etext	Bellona Times	00:00:55	en
Play 29	Translation	Anne Spencer	Etext	Bellona Times	00:01:06	en
Play 30	Queen Anne's Lace	William Carlos Williams	Etext	Bellona Times	00:01:16	en
Play 31	Wild Peaches	Elinor Wylie	Etext	Bellona Times	00:03:53	en
Play 32	Spring Night	Sara Teasdale	Etext	Bellona Times	00:01:28	en
Play 33	Mourn Not the Dead	Ralph Chaplin	Etext	Bellona Times	00:00:59	en
Play 34	Poem XII, from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley	Ezra Pound	Etext	Bellona Times	00:01:45	en
Play 35	Reformers: A Hymn of Hate	Dorothy Parker	Etext	Bellona Times	00:04:47	en
Play 36	Lilacs	Amy Lowell	Etext	Bellona Times	00:05:18	en
Play 37	Tetelestai	Conrad Aiken	Etext	Bellona Times	00:08:11	en

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