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All Things Are Current Found 219
My Life Has Been the Poem 220
Any Fool Can Make a Rule 220
I Am Bound, I Am Bound 220
The Poet's Delay 220
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
from The Earth Spirit 221
AMERICAN INDIAN POEMS: 1826-1859
Chant to the Fire-fly 221
From the South: I 222
From the South: II 222
SONGS, HYMNS, CAROLS, AND PARLOR POEMS: 1826-1859
The Lament of the Captive (Richard H. Wilde, 1819) 223
A Visit from St. Nicholas (Clement Moore, I8z3) 223
The Old Oaken Bucket (Samuel Woodworth, I8z6) 225
Mary Had a Little Lamb (Sarah Josepha Hale, 1830) 225
America (Samuel Francis Smith, 1831) 226
Woodman, Spare That Tree (George Pope Morris, 1837) 227
Nearer My God to Thee (Sarah F. Adams, 1841) 228
Old Dan Tucker (Daniel Decatur Emmett, 1841) 229
The Blue Tail Fly (Daniel Decatur Emmett?, 1846) 230
Oh, Susanna! (Stephen Foster, 1848) 231
Camptown Races (Stephen Foster, 1850) 232
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
(Edmund Hamilton Sears, 1850) 233
The E-ri-e (Anonymous, c.I850) 234
Turkey in the Straw (Anonymous, 1851) 234
Listen to the Mocking Bird (Septimes Winner, 1855) 235
Jingle Bells (John Pierpont, 1857) 236
The Yellow Rose of Texas (Anonymous, 1858) 237
Sweet Betsey from Pike (John A. Stone, 1858) 237
Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus (George DufEeld, Jr., 1858) 239
IV - THE CIVIL WAR ERA: 1860-1870
WALT WHITMAN
One's-self I sing 243
To the States 243
The Ship Starting 243
Song of Myself (1891-1892 ed.) 243
In Paths Untrodden 291
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-oak Growing 291
On the Beach at Night 292