Poems from the colonial period, the Revolution, the period of growth, the Civil War, and the period of expansion by poets such as Longfellow, Schiller, Thackeray, Emerson, Melville, Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, Walt Whitman, Julia Ward Howe, Paul Revere, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, and many others. Index of authors, first lines, and titles.
