37 American Poems

Here are 37 distinctively American poems, covering the mid-17th - early 20th Centuries, from Anne Bradstreet to Dorothy Parker's sole PD work. ⁠Contemplations⁠⁠ by Anne Bradstreet⁠ ⁠To a LADY on her remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North- Carolina⁠⁠Phillis Wheatley⁠ ⁠The Star-Spangled Banner By ⁠⁠Francis Scott Key⁠ Home, Sweet Home By John Howard Payne The Wild Honeysuckle By Philip Freneau Thanatopsis By William Cullen Bryant The Village Blacksmith By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Seed-Time and Harvest By John Greenleaf Whittier The Snow-Storm By Ralph Waldo Emerson In Vain By Emily Dickinson Woodman, Spare that Tree! By George Pope Morris Spring By Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney Lenore By Edgar Allan Poe The Mocking-Bird By Sidney Lanier The Path that Leads to Home By Edgar A. Guest March into Virginia, Ending in the first Manassas (July, 1861) By Herman Melville Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand By Walt Whitman May By Helen Hunt Jackson Sweeney Among the Nightingales By T. S. Eliot A Late Walk By Robert Frost Sheltered Garden By Hilda Doolittle Pauline Barrett By Edgar Lee Masters Springfield Magical By Vachel Lindsay Five Sonnets By Edna St. Vincent Millay Manhattan By Lola Ridge Ships that Pass in the Night By Paul Laurence Dunbar O Black and Unknown Bards By James Weldon Johnson The Heart of a Woman By Georgia Douglas Johnson Translation By Anne Spencer Queen Anne's Lace By William Carlos Williams Wild Peaches By Elinor Wylie Spring Night By Sara Teasdale Mourn Not the Dead By Ralph Chaplin Poem XII, from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley By Ezra Pound Reformers: A Hymn of Hate By Dorothy Parker Lilacs By Amy Lowell Tetelestai By Conrad Aiken