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Specimens of American poetry

with critical and biographical notices

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VOL. I.
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VOL. II.
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VOL. III.
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RICHARD H. DANA
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JAMES GATES PERCIVAL.
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WILLIAM E. GALLAUDET
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EDWARD EVERETT.
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JOHN EVERETT
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THOMAS O. FOLSOM
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JONATHAN M. SCOTT
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GEORGE BANCROFT
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JOHN RUDOLPH SUTERMEISTER
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MARY A. BROOKS.
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EDWARD COATE PINKNEY
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JOHN NEAL
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JOSEPH HAZARD
  
THE FASHIONABLE RAKE.
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NATHANIEL H. CARTER
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MOSES Y. SCOTT
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HENRY WARE, JR.
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JOHN E. HALL
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CARLOS WILCOX
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SAMUEL B. BEACH
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WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
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SAMUEL WEBBER
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LEVI FRISBIE
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MRS LITTLE
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FITZ-GREENE HALLECK
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JOSEPH HUTTON
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CHARLES SPRAGUE
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JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD.
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ROBERT WALN
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RUFUS DAWES
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RICHARD PENN SMITH
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NORMAN PINNEY.
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SUMNER LINCOLN FAIRFIELD.
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JAMES NACK
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WILLIAM LEGGETT
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HANNAH F. GOULD
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H. W. LONGFELLOW
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GEORGE D. PRENTICE
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CHARLES WEST THOMSON
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MICAH P. FLINT
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JAMES A. JONES
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NATHANIEL P. WILLIS
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JAMES WILLIAM MILLER
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JAMES G. BROOKS
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FREDERIC S. HILL
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OLIVER C. WYMAN
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W. G. CROSBY
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ASA M. BOLLES
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HENRY J. FINN
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EMMA C. EMBURY
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HENRY WHITING
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GEORGE W. PATTEN
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WILLIS G. CLARK
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ROBERT MORRIS
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EBENEZER BAILEY
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GRENVILLE MELLEN
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CHARLES J. LOCKE
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FREDERIC MELLEN
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WILLIAM B. O. PEABODY
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T. W. STONE.
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I. M'LELLAN
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J. B. VAN SCHAICK
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JOHN W. WHITMAN
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JOSEPH H. NICHOLS
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JAMES O. ROCKWELL
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MILTON WARD.
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GEORGE LUNT
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MARY E. BROOKS
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GEORGE P. MORRIS
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G. WALLINGFORD CLARKE
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WILLIAM CROSWELL.
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JAMES HALL
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A. M. WELLS.
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R. H. WILDE
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SAMUEL BARTLETT PARRIS
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WILLIAM CUTTER
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CHARLES C. BEAMAN
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LOUISA P. SMITH
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J. G. WHITTIER
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F. S. ECKHARD

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SONNET VINDICATORY.

Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room;
And Hermits are contented with their cells;
And Students with their pensive citadels;
Maids at the wheel, the Weaver at his loom,
Sit blithe and happy; Bees that soar for bloom,
High as the highest peak of Furness Fells,
Will murmur by the hour in fox-glove bells.
In truth the prison unto which we doom
Ourselves, no prison is; and hence to me,
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In sundry moods, 't was pastime to be bound
Within the sonnet's scanty plot of ground;
Pleased if some souls (for such there needs must be)
Who 've felt the weight of too much liberty,
Should find short solace there, as I have found.
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