. The poets and poetry in America, to the middle of the nineteenth century. 510 The Armies of the Eve.— Otway Curry 540 Ben Bolt.— Thomas Dunn English 541 Poor Tom.—Matthew C. Field 541 To my Shadow.—Matthew C. Field 541 Lake Erie.—Ephraim 542 The Backwoodsman.—Ephraim 542 On a Friend.—John M. Harney 542 The Bird of the Bastile.—B. B. Thatcher 543 The Arched Stream.— W. E. Channing 543 The Birth of Thunder.— W. J. Snelling 544 To my Wife.—Lindley 545 Faded Hours.—John Rudolph Sutermeister 545 Give me the Old.—Anonymous 546 The Sleeping Wife.— Tlwmas Mackellar 54
. The poets and poetry in America, to the middle of the nineteenth century. 510 The Armies of the Eve.— Otway Curry 540 Ben Bolt.— Thomas Dunn English 541 Poor Tom.—Matthew C. Field 541 To my Shadow.—Matthew C. Field 541 Lake Erie.—Ephraim 542 The Backwoodsman.—Ephraim 542 On a Friend.—John M. Harney 542 The Bird of the Bastile.—B. B. Thatcher 543 The Arched Stream.— W. E. Channing 543 The Birth of Thunder.— W. J. Snelling 544 To my Wife.—Lindley 545 Faded Hours.—John Rudolph Sutermeister 545 Give me the Old.—Anonymous 546 The Sleeping Wife.— Tlwmas Mackellar 546 The Hymns my Mother sung.— Thomas Mackellar 546 The Love that lasts.—George B. Cheever 547 Speak gently.—David Bales 547 The Silent Girl.—Samuel Gilman ; ....547 My Native Land.— Theodore S. Fay 648 From a Father to his Children.— Clement C. Moore 549 The Star-Spangled Banner.—Francis S. Key 5-19 Hail, Columbia [—Joseph Hopkinson 550 POETS AND POETRY OF AMERICA. %ntxoMtt\on. FROM THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS TO THE HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. The earliest specimens of poetry which Ihave presented in the body of this work arefrom the writings of Philip Freneau, one ofthose worthies who with both lyre and swordaided in the achievement of the independenceof the United States. Before his time butlittle poetry was written in this country, al-though from the landing of the pilgrims atPlymouth there was at no period a lack of can-didates for the poetic laurel. Many of theearly colonists were men of erudition, deeplyversed in scholastic theology, and familiarwith the best ancient literature; but theypossessed neither the taste, the fancy, northe feeling of the poet, and their elaboratemetrical compositions are forgotten by allsave the antiquary, and by him are regardedas among the least valuable of the relics ofthe first era of civilization in America. It is unreasonable to compare the quaint andgrotesque absurdities of Folger, Mat
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