The New-York Book of Poetry
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- THE
- OF POETRY.
- ADVERTISEMENT.
- LIST OF WRITERS.
- CONTENTS.
- POEMS.
- THOUGHTS OF A STUDENT.
- THE SETTLER.
- THE WORST.
- MOONLIGHT ON THE HUDSON.
- ANACREONTIC.
- ADDRESS TO BLACK HAWK.
- LINES ON A SKULL DUG UP BY THE PLOUGH.
- SONG.
- MORNING MUSINGS AMONG THE HILLS.
- SONG.
- THE DEAD OF 1832.
- TO A LADY
- ADDRESS TO A MUSQUITO.
- INCONSTANCY.
- THE CALLICOON IN AUTUMN.
- THE WESTERN HUNTER TO HIS MISTRESS.
- A POET'S EPISTLE.
- WEEHAWKEN.
- LINES WRITTEN ON A BANK NOTE.
- THE DELAWARE WATER-GAP.
- SONG OF THE HERMIT TROUT.
- TO MAY.
- TO THE WHIP-POOR-WILL
- CHANSONETTE.
- THE CLOUDS.
- THE ISLE OF REST.
- INDIAN SUMMER—1828.
- GREECE—1832.
- IMPROMPTU TO A LADY BLUSHING.
- A ROMAN CHARIOT RACE.
- LINES FOR MUSIC.
- WHITE LAKE. [L]
- SONG OF SPRING-TIME.
- THE SHIPWRECK OF CAMOENS.
- LOVE AND FAITH; A BALLAD.
- THE LAST SONG.
- TO MY WIFE.
- LAMENT.
- "AFFECTION WINS AFFECTION."
- FEATS OF DEATH.
- THE BRIDE'S FAREWELL.
- REFLECTIONS.
- LINES.
- THE GUARDIAN ANGEL.
- WHAT IS SOLITUDE?
- THE BRAVE.
- MORNING.
- LAKE GEORGE.
- LINES WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM.
- THE FADED ONE.
- PROEM TO YAMOYDEN.
- THE INDIAN.
- MIDNIGHT THOUGHTS.
- LINES WRITTEN ON THE COVER OF A PRAYER BOOK.
- ODE TO JAMESTOWN.
- LOOK ALOFT.
- FRAGMENT.
- BYRON.
- JOY AND SORROW.
- TO THE EVENING STAR.
- THE FALLS OF THE PASSAIC.
- DRINK AND AWAY.
- THE HUDSON.
- TRENTON FALLS, NEAR UTICA.
- THE DUMB MINSTREL.
- THE GREEN ISLE OF LOVERS.
- THAT SILENT MOON.
- TO A CIGAR.
- HOPE.
- THE LAKE OF CAYOSTÊA.
- THE AMERICAN FLAG.
- MORNING HYMN.
- BRONX.
- THE STORM-KING.
- SONG—ROSALIE CLARE.
- TO A PACKET SHIP.
- MOONLIGHT.
- SONG.
- LÜTZOW'S WILD CHASE.
- STANZAS.
- LINES.
- FADED HOURS.
- THE WIFE'S SONG.
- LAMENT.
- LINES
- THE SEPULCHRE OF DAVID.
- WOMAN.
- RHYME AND REASON.
- AH NO! AH NO!
- A HEALTH.
- A HYMN.
- REMINISCENCES.
- ELEGIAC LINES.
- A SONG OF MAY.
- ON READING VIRGIL.
- THE LAST PRAYER OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS.
- THE RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PEOPLE.
- THE HUSBAND TO HIS WIFE, ON HER BIRTH-DAY.
- VERSES
- LIFE'S GUIDING STAR.
- DESPONDENCY.
- TO A GOLDFINCH.
- THE MIDNIGHT BALL.
- THE DESERTED BRIDE.
- THOUGHTS AT THE GRAVE OF A DEPARTED FRIEND.
- SONG.
- ANACREONTIC.
- MELODY.
- MY NATIVE LAND.
- HE CAME TOO LATE!
- VERSES,
- EPITAPH UPON A DOG.
- LINES FOR MUSIC.
- STANZAS.
- JOSHUA COMMANDING THE SUN AND MOON TO STAND STILL.
- SONG.
- WEST POINT.
- THANKSGIVING
- BALLAD.
- FORGETFULNESS.
- ON SHIP-BOARD.
- TO THEMIRA.
- EVENING.
- THOUGHTS ON PARTING.
- THE FALLS OF NIAGARA.
- CANZONET.
- THE PENNSYLVANIAN IMMIGRANT.
- LAKE GEORGE.—1829.
- CROSSING THE ALLEGHANIES.
- THE CLOUDS.
- THE TORNADO.
- TO A LADY.
- SPRING IS COMING.
- FROM A FATHER TO HIS CHILDREN,
- THE MITCHELLA.
- A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS.
- ON SEEING A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADY
- THE GIFTS OF PROVIDENCE.
- FROM A HUSBAND TO HIS WIFE.
- PROPHETIC.
- LINES
- THE MAGIC DRAUGHT.
- IMPROMPTU.
- APPEAL
- LINES
- THE SON OF SORROW.
- PORTRAITURE.
- THE FAREWELL.
- SONNET TO MYRA.
- TO CORDELIA.
- SONG.—WHEN OTHER FRIENDS ARE ROUND THEE
- DEATH OF THE FIRST-BORN.
- ELEGY ON THE EXILE AND DEATH OF OVID.
- NAPOLEON.
- THE BUTTERFLY.
- FRAGMENT.
- LOVE'S REMEMBRANCER.
- TO THE DYING YEAR.
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