Table of Contents
Contents Robert Alexander Spring Phantoms: A Brief Introduction William Blake, 1757–1827 from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Leigh Hunt, 1784–1859 A “Now,” Descriptive of a Hot Day Henry R. Schoolcraft, 1793–1864, and Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, 1800–1842 [trans.] Peeta Kway, The Foam-Woman: An Ottawa Legend Leelinau: A Chippewa Tale Richard H. Horne, 1802–1884 The Old Churchyard Tree: A Prose Poem Ralph W. Emerson, 1803–1882 Woods: A Prose Sonnet Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804–1864 from Sketches from Memory from The American Notebooks Edgar A. Poe, 1809–1849 Shadow—A Parable Harriet Jacobs, 1813–1897 from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Henry David Thoreau, 1817–1862 from The Journal from Walking Walt Whitman, 1819–1892 from Specimen Days Jourdon Anderson, 1825–1907 Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828–1882 The Cup of Water Michael Scott’s Wooing Mary Mapes Dodge, 1831–1905 Our Vegetables Migratory Husbands Ada Clare [Jane McElhenney], 1834–1874 The Slave of the House Celia Thaxter, 1835–1894 from An Island Garden Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844–1911 How Shall Women Dress? Mary P. Thacher [Higginson], 1844–1941 Passenger Pigeons Emma Lazarus, 1849–1887 By the Waters of Babylon: Little Poems in Prose Kate Chopin, 1850–1904 Ripe Figs An Idle Fellow The Story of an Hour The Night Came Slowly Lafacadio Hearn, 1850–1904 The Stranger Spring Phantoms Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850–1894 from Fables Grace King, 1852–1932 The Balcony Mary E. Wilkins [Freeman], 1852–1930 Pastels in Prose Oscar Wilde, 1854–1900 The Artist The Doer of Good The Disciple Olive Schreiner, 1855–1920 from Dreams Fiona Macleod [William Sharp], 1855–1905 from The Silence of Amor Alcée Fortier, 1856–1914 [trans.] The Tortoise The Devil’s Marriage James G. Huneker, 1857–1921 Nuptials Royal Mary Alicia Owen, 1858–1935 [compiler] How the Skunk Became the Terror of All Living Creatures Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1860–1935 An Extinct Angel Deserted Prisons for Animals Edith Wharton, 1862–1937 The Valley of Childish Things, and Other Emblems Florence A. Merriam [Bailey], 1863–1948 from Birds through an Opera Glass Robert W. Chambers, 1865–1933 from The Prophets’ Paradise Bruce Porter, 1865–1953 The Return of Spring Gelett Burgess, 1866–1951 The Adjective Family The Mutual Advice Association The Confessions of a Yellster Ernest Dowson, 1867–1900 from Decorations in Prose Stephen Crane, 1871–1900 The Judgment of the Sage The Seaside Hotel Hop How the Donkey Lifted the Hills J. M. Synge, 1871–1909 from Translations from Petrarch: Sonnets from “Laura in Death” Harrison G. Rhodes, 1871–1929 Sketches Dora Greenwell McChesney, 1871–1912 At Old Italian Casements Max Beerbohm, 1872–1956 A Good Prince Samuel P. Carrick, 1873–1930 A Geological Parable Yone Noguchi, 1875–1947 from The Summer Cloud: Prose Poems Zitkála-Šá (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), 1876–1938 from Impressions of an Indian Childhood Lord Dunsany [Edward Plunkett], 1878–1957 from Time and the Gods Holly Iglesias Biographical Sketches Bibliographic Notes
