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Contents PREFACE ~ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ~ii ANNE BRADSTREET (1612-1672) 3 From The Tenth Muse "The Prologue" 14 "Of the Four Ages of Man" 16 "A Dialogue Between Old England and New" 29 "The Vanity of All Worldly Things" 38 From Several Poems "Before the Birth of One of Her Children" 40 "To My Dear and Loving Husband" 41 "A Letter to Her Husband" 42 "The Author to Her Book" 42 "In Reference to Her Children" 43 "Contemplations" 46 "In Memory of Elizabeth Bradstreet" 55 "On Simon Bradstreet" 55 From the Andover Manuscript "Meditation: May 13, 1657" 56 '~Upon My Dear and Loving Husband" 57 "Upon the Burning of Our House" 59 "As Weary Pilgrim" 60 EDWARD TAYLOR (1642?-1729) 62 From Gods Determinations touching his Elect "The Preface" 72 v vi Contents "Gods Selecting Love in the Decree" 74 "The Frowardness of the Elect in the Work of Conversion" 76 "Christs Reply" 77 "First Satans Assault against those that first Came up to Mercys terms" 78 "An Extasy of Joy let in by this Reply retumd in Admiration" 80 "The Joy of Church Fellowship rightly attended" 84 Occasional Poems "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly" 85 "Upon a Wasp Child with Cold" 87 "Huswifery" 88 "Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children" 89 From Preparatory Meditations, First Series "Prologue" 90 "The Experience" 91 "The Return" 92 "[6] Another Meditation at the same time" 94 "8. Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the Living Bread" 95 "10. Meditation. Joh. 6.55. My Blood is Drinke indeed" 96 "16. Meditation. Lu. 7.16. A Greate Prophet is risen up" 98 "21. Meditation. Phil. 2.9. God hath Highly Exalted Him" 99 "23. Meditation. Cant. 4.8. My Spouse" 101 "29. Meditation. Joh. 20.17. My Father, and your Father, to my God, and your God" 102 "32. Meditation. 1 Cor. 3.22. Whether Paul or Apollos, or Cephas" 104 "39. Meditation. from 1 Joh. 2.1. If any man sin, we have an Advocate" 105 From Preparatory Meditations, Second Series "4. Meditation. Gal. 4.24. Which things are an Allegorie" 107 "7. Meditation. Ps. 105.17. He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold etc." 108 [3.239.162.98] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 09:13 GMT) Contents vii "14. Meditation. Col. 2.3. In whom are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom, and Knowledge" 110 "Meditation 44. Joh. 1.14. The word was made Flesh" 111 "56. Meditation. Joh. 15.24. Had I not done amongst them the works, that none other man hath done, etc." 113 "77. Meditation. Zech. 9.11. The Pit wherein is no water" 116 "95. Meditation. Joh. 14.2. I go to prepare a place for you" 117 "142. Meditation. Can. 6.9. My Dove is One the onely One of her mother the Choice One of her that bare her etc." 119 TIMOTHY DWIGHT (1752-1817) 121 From The Conquest of Canaan, Book VI 132 From The Triumph of Infidelity "The Gathering" 137 From Greenfield Hill Part I: "The Prospect" 139 Part II: "The Flourishing Village" 155 Part IV: "The Destruction of the Pequods" 177 PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832) 190 From The Poems of Philip Freneau "Ode to Fancy" 201 "The Vemal Ague" 202 "The Vision of the Night" 203 "The Beauties of Santa Cruz" 206 "George the Third's Soliloquy" 221 From "The British Prison Ship," Canto III ("The Hessian Doctor") 224 "T0 the Memory of the Brave Americans" 226 "A Picture of the Times" 227 "The Deserted Farm-House" 229 From The Miscellaneous Works "The Wild Honey Suckle" 231 "The Indian Burying Ground" 232 viii Contents "To an Author" 233 FromPoems Written between the Years 1768 & 1794 "The Vanity of Existence" 235 "The Hurricane" 236 "Elegiac Lines on the Death of a Fiddler" 237 "The Dish of Tea" 240 "Ode" 241 From A Collection of Poems on American Affairs "Lines Addressed to Mr. Jefferson" 243 "On the Uniformity and Perfection of Nature" 247 "On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature" 247 "On the Religion of Nature" 249 "Stanzas to a Caty-Did" 250 From The Fredonian "A Fragment of Bion" 252 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878) 254 Poems "The Yellow Violet" 266 "Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood" 267 "To a Waterfowl" 268 " 'I Cannot Forget with What Fervid Devotion' " 269 "Thanatopsis" 271 "A Winter Piece" 273 "Hymn to Death" 277 " 'Oh, Fairest of the Rural Maids' " 282 "Monument Mountain" 283 "Mutation" 287 "A Forest Hymn" 287...