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The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics

by Frederic Lawrence Knowles

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  1. 1Dedication — Preface
  2. 2Book First — American Songs and Lyrics
  3. 3Song
  4. 4“My Life Is Like the Summer Rose”
  5. 5“O Fairest of the Rural Maids!”
  6. 6The Bucket
  7. 7Annabel Lee
  8. 8A Health
  9. 9A Serenade
  10. 10The City in the Sea
  11. 11To the Past
  12. 12Israfel
  13. 13Unseen Spirits
  14. 14The Haunted Palace
  15. 15To a Waterfowl
  16. 16To Helen
  17. 17Sparkling and Bright
  18. 18To One in Paradise
  19. 19On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake
  20. 20The Valley of Unrest
  21. 21To the Fringed Gentian
  22. 22The Crowded Street
  23. 23The Raven
  24. 24The Battle-field
  25. 25The Sleeper
  26. 26Book Second — Nature
  27. 27Hebe
  28. 28The Day Is Done
  29. 29Ichabod
  30. 30Sir Humphrey Gilbert
  31. 31Concord Hymn
  32. 32To America
  33. 33Old Ironsides
  34. 34To England
  35. 35The Wreck of the Hesperus
  36. 36Bedouin Song
  37. 37Skipper Ireson’s Ride
  38. 38The Village Blacksmith
  39. 39The Last Leaf
  40. 40The Old Kentucky Home
  41. 41The Black Regiment
  42. 42Carolina
  43. 43Dirge for a Soldier
  44. 44Battle-hymn of the Republic
  45. 45Farragut
  46. 46My Maryland
  47. 47After All
  48. 48The Song of the Camp
  49. 49In the Hospital
  50. 50Under the Violets
  51. 51Days
  52. 52Song
  53. 53Aladdin
  54. 54The Flight of Youth
  55. 55My Playmate
  56. 56The Fire of Driftwood
  57. 57A Death-bed
  58. 58Telling the Bees
  59. 59Katie
  60. 60My Love
  61. 61She Came and Went
  62. 62Her Epitaph
  63. 63Apart
  64. 64The Discoverer
  65. 65At Last
  66. 66“Thalatta”
  67. 67Gondolieds
  68. 68In the Twilight
  69. 69The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
  70. 70The Fall of the Leaf
  71. 71The Rhodora
  72. 72Nature
  73. 73My Strawberry
  74. 74The Humble-bee
  75. 75The Summer Rain
  76. 76To the Dandelion
  77. 77The Chambered Nautilus
  78. 78Thought
  79. 79Stanzas
  80. 80Coronation
  81. 81On a Bust of Dante
  82. 82Pan in Wall Street
  83. 83Auspex
  84. 84Birds
  85. 85Toujours Amour
  86. 86A Sigh
  87. 87No More
  88. 88To a Young Girl Dying
  89. 89The Port of Ships
  90. 90Paradisi Gloria
  91. 91Ballad
  92. 92Book Third — The Fool’s Prayer
  93. 93On the Life-mask of Abraham Lincoln
  94. 94Song
  95. 95To a Dead Woman
  96. 96Destiny
  97. 97The Kings
  98. 98Triumph
  99. 99Evening Song
  100. 100“The Woods That Bring the Sunset Near”
  101. 101At Night
  102. 102“Still in Thy Love I Trust”
  103. 103The Future
  104. 104Prescience
  105. 105In August
  106. 106That Day You Came
  107. 107Negro Lullaby
  108. 108A Woman’s Thought
  109. 109The Flight
  110. 110Childhood
  111. 111Little Boy Blue
  112. 112Strong as Death
  113. 113The White Jessamine
  114. 114The House of Death
  115. 115A Tropical Morning at Sea
  116. 116Memory
  117. 117A Mood
  118. 118The Way to Arcady
  119. 119Eve’s Daughter
  120. 120On an Intaglio Head of Minerva
  121. 121Hunting-song
  122. 122Parting
  123. 123When the Sultan Goes to Ispahan
  124. 124Night
  125. 125He Made the Stars Also
  126. 126The Sour Winds
  127. 127The Return
  128. 128Bereaved
  129. 129The Chariot
  130. 130Indian Summer
  131. 131Confided
  132. 132In Absence
  133. 133Song of the Chattahoochee
  134. 134The Sea’s Voice
  135. 135At Gibraltar
  136. 136Jerry an’ Me
  137. 137The Gravedigger
  138. 138The Absence of Little Wesley
  139. 139Be Thou a Bird, My Soul
  140. 140Opportunity
  141. 141Dutch Lullaby
  142. 142The Maryland Yellow-throat
  143. 143The Silence of Love
  144. 144The Secret
  145. 145The Whip-poor-will
  146. 146Fertility
  147. 147The Veery
  148. 148The Eavesdropper
  149. 149Sesostris

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