Classic American Poetry

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This wide-ranging 2 disc anthology reflects the changing pre-occupations and visions of Americans from the 16th century to the present day. Here are 65 poems by the leading classic figures in American poetry, including Longfellow, Poe, Dickinson, Whitman, Frost and E. E. Cummings as well as popular anonymous works such as Frankie and Johnny which are an integral part of American consciousness.

Track Listing

The Author to Her Book
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
Navajo Mountain Song
The Indian Student
The Wild Honeysuckle
The Star-Spangled Banner
The Prairies
The Snow-Storm
Whittier, John Greenleaf
The Song of Hiawatha from the Wooing: At the Doorway of His Wigwam
My Lost Youth
A Dream Within a Dream
Annabel Lee
To Helen
The Raven
Old Ironsides
The Indian's Retort
Sic Vita
Pray to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
The Martyr
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Science and Poetry
Frankie and Johnny
An Upper Chamber in a Darkened House
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
I Like to See It Lap the Miles
The Wind Begun to Rock the Grass
Bury Me in a Free Land
The Stirrup-Cup
The New Colossus
I Sometimes Think I'd Rather Grow
A Newspaper Is a Collection of Half-Injustices
Do Not Weep, Maiden, For War Is Kind
Sympathy
A Lesson in a Picture
Miniver Cheevy
The Road Not Taken
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Death of the Hired Man
Meeting-House Hill
Chicago
They All Want to Play Hamlet
The Flower-Fed Buffaloes
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Peter Quince at the Clavier
Wild Peaches
Pretty Words
Hurt Hawks
Rendezvous
What My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why
De Profundis
Resumee
General Review of the Sex Situation
Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond
American Names