"By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world."

AMERICAN POETRY

WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO

POE, LONGFELLOW, LOWELL,

AND WHITTIER

EDITED BY

MARGARET SPRAGUE CARHART, A.M.

TEACHER OF ENGLISH IN PASADENA HIGH SCHOOL

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1922

All rights reserved

HARVARD
COLLEGE
LIBRARY

COPYRIGHT, 1917,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1917.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co. - Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

TIMOTHY DWIGHT:

Love to the Church

SAMUEL WOODWORTH:

The Old Oaken Bucket

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT:

Thanatopsis

The Yellow Violet

To a Waterfowl

Green River

The West Wind

"I Broke the Spell that Held Me Long"