Table of Contents
Contents Preface Acknowledgments Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) The Prologue Of the Four Ages of Man A Dialogue Between Old England and New; Concerning Their Present Troubles, Anno, 1642 The Vanity of All Worldly Things Before the Birth of One of Her Children To My Dear and Loving Husband A Letter to Her Husband The Author to Her Book In Reference to Her Children Contemplations On Simon Bradstreet Meditation: May 13, 1657 Upon My Dear and Loving Husband Upon the Burning of Our House As Weary Pilgrim Edward Taylor (1642?-1729) The Preface Gods Selecting Love in the Decree The Frowardness of the Elect in the Work of Conversion Christs Reply First Satans Assault against those that first Came up to Mercys terms An Extasy of Joy let in by this Reply returnd in Admiration The Joy of Church Fellowship rightly attended Upon a Spider Catching a Fly Upon a Wasp Child with Cold Huswifery Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children Prologue The Experience The Return [6] Another Meditation at the same time 8. Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the Living Bread 10. Meditation. Joh. 6.55. My Blood is Drinke indeed 16. Meditation. Lu. 7.16. A Greate Prophet is risen up 21. Meditation. Phil. 2.9. God hath Highly Exalted Him 23. Meditation. Cant. 4.8. My Spouse 29. Meditation. Joh. 20.17. My Father, and your Father, to my God, and your God 32. Meditation. 1 Cor. 3.22. Whether Paul or Apollos, or Cephas 39. Meditation. from 1 Joh. 2.1. If any man sin, we have an Advocate 4. Meditation. Gal. 4.24. Which things are an Allegorie 7. Meditation. Ps. 105.17. He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold etc. 14. Meditation. Col. 2.3. In whom are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom, and Knowledge Meditation 44. Joh. 1.14. The word was made Flesh 56. Meditation. Joh. 15.24. Had I not done amongst them the works, that none other man hath done, etc. 77. Meditation. Zech. 9.11. The Pit wherein is no water 95. Meditation. Joh. 14.2. I go to prepare a place for you 142. Meditation. Can. 6.9. My Dove is One the onely One of her mother the Choice One of her that bare her etc Timothy Dwight (1752-1817) From The Conquest of Canaan, Book VI The Gathering Part I: "The Prospect" Part II: "The Flourishing Village" Part IV: "The Destruction of the Pequods" Philip Freneau (1752-1832) Ode to Fancy The Vemal Ague The Vision of the Night The Beauties of Santa Cruz George the Third's Soliloquy From "The British Prison Ship," Canto III ("The Hessian Doctor") To the Memory of the Brave Americans A Picture of the Times The Deserted Farm-House The Wild Honey Suckle The Indian Burying Ground To an Author The Vanity of Existence The Hurricane Elegiac Lines on the Death of a Fiddler The Dish of Tea Ode Lines Addressed to Mr. Jefferson On the Uniformity and Perfection of Nature On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature On the Religion of Nature Stanzas to a Caty-Did A Fragment of Bion William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) The Yellow Violet Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood To a Waterfowl 'I Cannot Forget with What Fervid Devotion' Thanatopsis A Winter Piece Hymn to Death 'Oh, Fairest of the Rural Maids' Monument Mountain A Forest Hymn To a Mosquito The Death of the Flowers The Hurricane Hymn of the City The Prairies The Old Man's Counsel The Painted Cup The Antiquity of Freedom 'Oh Mother of a Mighty Race' The Twenty-seventh of March Robert of Lincoln The Poet The Path Appendix Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705) 'God's Controversy with New-England' Ebenezer Cook (c. 1670-c. 1732) The Sot-Weed Factor Joel Barlow (1754-1812) The Hasty Pudding Index of Poets and Titles Index of First Lines
