Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) -- From The Tenth Muse -- The Prologue -- Of the Four Ages of Man -- A Dialogue Between Old England and New -- Concerning Their Present Troubles, Anno, 1642 -- The Vanity of All Worldly Things -- From Several Poems -- Before the Birth of One of Her Children -- To My Dear and Loving Husband -- A Letter to Her Husband -- The Author to Her Book -- In Reference to Her Children -- Contemplations -- In Memory of Elizabeth Bradstreet -- On Simon Bradstreet -- From the Andover Manuscript -- Meditation: May 13, 1657 -- Upon My Dear and Loving Husband -- Upon the Burning of Our House -- As Weary Pilgrim -- Edward Taylor (1642?-1729) -- From Gods Determinations touching his Elect -- The Preface -- Gods Selecting Love in the Decree -- The Frowardness of the Elect in the Work of Conversion -- Christs Reply -- First Satans Assault against those that first Came up to Mercys terms -- An Extasy of Joy let in by this Reply returnd in Admiration -- The Joy of Church Fellowship rightly attended -- Occasional Poems -- Upon a Spider Catching a Fly -- Upon a Wasp Child with Cold -- Huswifery -- Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children -- From Preparatory Meditations, First Series -- Prologue -- The Experience -- The Return -- [6] Another Meditation at the same time -- 8. Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the Living Bread -- 10. Meditation. Joh. 6.55. My Blood is Drinke indeed -- 16. Meditation. Lu. 7.16. A Greate Prophet is risen up -- 21. Meditation. Phil. 2.9. God hath Highly Exalted Him -- 23. Meditation. Cant. 4.8. My Spouse -- 29. Meditation. Joh. 20.17. My Father, and your Father, to my God, and your God -- 32. Meditation. 1 Cor. 3.22. Whether Paul or Apollos, or Cephas -- 39. Meditation. from 1 Joh. 2.1. If any man sin, we have an Advocate -- From Preparatory Meditations, Second Series.

4. Meditation. Gal. 4.24. Which things are an Allegorie -- 7. Meditation. Ps. 105.17. He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold etc. -- 14. Meditation. Col. 2.3. In whom are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom, and Knowledge -- Meditation 44. Joh. 1.14. The word was made Flesh -- 56. Meditation. Joh. 15.24. Had I not done amongst them the works, that none other man hath done, etc. -- 77. Meditation. Zech. 9.11. The Pit wherein is no water -- 95. Meditation. Joh. 14.2. I go to prepare a place for you -- 142. Meditation. Can. 6.9. My Dove is One the onely One of her mother the Choice One of her that bare her etc -- Timothy Dwight (1752-1817) -- From The Conquest of Canaan, Book VI -- From The Triumph of Infidelity -- The Gathering -- From Greenfield Hill -- Part I: "The Prospect" -- Part II: "The Flourishing Village" -- Part IV: "The Destruction of the Pequods" -- Philip Freneau (1752-1832) -- From The Poems of Philip Freneau -- Ode to Fancy -- The Vemal Ague -- The Vision of the Night -- The Beauties of Santa Cruz -- George the Third's Soliloquy -- From "The British Prison Ship," Canto III ("The Hessian Doctor") -- To the Memory of the Brave Americans -- A Picture of the Times -- The Deserted Farm-House -- From The Miscellaneous Works -- The Wild Honey Suckle -- The Indian Burying Ground -- To an Author -- From Poems Written between the Years 1768 & 1794 -- The Vanity of Existence -- The Hurricane -- Elegiac Lines on the Death of a Fiddler -- The Dish of Tea -- Ode -- From A Collection of Poems on American Affairs -- Lines Addressed to Mr. Jefferson -- On the Uniformity and Perfection of Nature -- On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature -- On the Religion of Nature -- Stanzas to a Caty-Did -- From The Fredonian -- A Fragment of Bion -- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) -- Poems -- The Yellow Violet.

Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood -- To a Waterfowl -- 'I Cannot Forget with What Fervid Devotion' -- Thanatopsis -- A Winter Piece -- Hymn to Death -- 'Oh, Fairest of the Rural Maids' -- Monument Mountain -- Mutation -- A Forest Hymn -- To a Mosquito -- The Death of the Flowers -- The Journey of Life -- The Hurricane -- To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe -- Hymn of the City -- The Prairies -- The Old Man's Counsel -- The Painted Cup -- The Antiquity of Freedom -- 'Oh Mother of a Mighty Race' -- The Twenty-seventh of March -- Robert of Lincoln -- The Poet -- The Path -- Appendix -- Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705) -- 'God's Controversy with New-England' -- Ebenezer Cook (c. 1670-c. 1732) -- The Sot-Weed Factor -- Joel Barlow (1754-1812) -- The Hasty Pudding -- Index of Poets and Titles -- Index of First Lines.