Erin's daughter 114
Two Old Women 115
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878) 116
Thanatopsis 117
To a waterfowl 119
Sonnet - To an American Painter departing for Europe 120
The Prairies 121
The death of lincoln 123
WILLIAM APESS (1798-1839) 124
A son of the forest 126
Chapter I 126
Chapter III 130
An Indian's looking-glass for the white man 135
JANE JOHNSTON SCHOOLCRAFT (1800-1842) 140
Sweet Willy 141
To the pine tree 142
Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior 143
Moowis, the Indian Coquette 144
The little spirit, or boy-man 145
LYDIA MARIA CHILD (1802-1880) 147
The Quadroons 149
Letters from New-York 157
Letter XIV [Burying ground of the poor] 157
Letter XX [Birds] 161
Letter XXXIV [Women's rights] 166
Letter XXXVI [Barnum's American Musuem] 171
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) 178
Nature 181
The American Scholar 210
The divinity school address 223
Self-reliance 236
The poet 254
Experience 269
John Brown 285
Thoreau 287
Each and all 300
The snow-storm 301
Bacchus 302
Merlin 303
Brahma 306
Letter to Walt Whitman (July 21, 1855) 307