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Milton 1659
Keats 1660
Nature 1660
The Cross of Snow 1661
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls 1661
John Greenleaf Whittier 1662
Massachusetts to Virginia 1663
Proem 1666
Ichabod 1667
Maud Muller 1669
Skipper Ireson’s Ride 1672
Telling the Bees 1675
Snow-Bound 1677
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1696
Old Ironsides 1697
My Aunt 1698
The Last Leaf 1699
The Chambered Nautilus 1701
The Deacon’s Masterpiece 1702
James Russell Lowell 1705
To the Dandelion 1706
From The Biglow Papers, Frist Series 1708
From a Fable for Critics 1714
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman 1723
Sonnets—First Series
VII “Dank fens of cedar, hemlock branches gray” 1724
X “An upper chamber in the darkened house” 1725
XIX “Yet vain, perhaps, the fruits our care applaud” 1725
Sonnets—Second Series
I “That boy, the farmer said, with hazel wand” 1726
VI “No! cover not the fault. The wise revere” 1726
XVIII “And change with hurried hand has swept these scenes” 1726
XXII “Put off thy bark from shore, though near the night” 1727
Sonnets—Third Series
VIII “As one turned round on some high mountain top” 1727
X “Sometimes I walk where the deep dips” 1728