Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 323
Poetry 324
The Arsenal at Springfield 324
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport 325
My Lost Youth 326
Divine Commedia [sonnets] 327
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls 328
The Cross of Snow 328
Oliver Wendell Holmes 329
Poetry 330
The Deacon’s Masterpiece or, the Wonderful “One Hoss Shay” 330
James Russell Lowell 332
A Fable for Critics [selections] 333
The Bigelow Papers, First Series 341
No. 1, A Letter 341
The Bigelow Papers, Second Series 344
The Countin’ 344
Herman Melville 346
Letter to Hawthorne 348
Hawthorne and His Moses 349
White-Jacket 357
[Surgeon Cuticle] 357
Story 366
Battleby the Scrivener 366
The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles 383
Sketch First 384
Sketch Second 386
Sketch Third 388
Poetry 390
The Portent 390
Malvern Hill 391
Sheridan at Cedar Creek 391
Shiloh (a Requiem) 391
The Maldive Shark 392
The Age of Antonines 392
In a Bye-Canal 392
Monody 393
Walt Whitman 393
Leaves of Grass 396
Preface 396
Poetry 403
Song of Myself [selection] 403
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 417
A Noiseless Patient Spider 420
Cavalry Crossing a Ford 420
Bivouac on a Mountain Side 420
Pioneers! O Pioneers! 421
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d 422
Years of the Modern 427
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors 427
Passage to India 428
The Mystic Trumpeter 432
To a Locomotive in Winter 434
Emily Dickinson 435
Poetry 435
Success is counted sweetest 437
To fight aloud, is very brave 437
These are the days 437
These are the days 437
I taste a liquor 437
There’s a certain slant of light 438
The soul selects her own society 438
The Day came slow 438
I’ll tell you how the sun rose 438
Some keep the Sabbath 438
What soft, cherubic creatures 439
Much Madness is divinest Sense 439
This is my letter to the World 439
To hear an oriole sing 439
I like to see it lap the miles 439
Because I could not stop for Death 439
A Death blow is a Life blow to Some 440
A narrow Fellow in the Grass 440
I never saw a Moor 440
The Sky is low 440
There is no frigate 440
There came a Wind 441
Letters 441
To Abiah Root 441
To Mr. William Austin Dickinson 442
To Mrs. J. G. Holland 443
To Mr. T.W. Higginson (April 25, 1862) 444
To Mr. T.W. Higginson (June 7, 1862) 444
To Mr. T.W. Higginson (July, 1862) 445