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A description of new england

The general history of virginia, book III

A character of the province of maryland

Of plymouth plantation

Journal selections

Samuel Sewall

Sarah Kemble Knight

History of the dividing line

Progress of the mines

London diary selections

John Woolman

Letters from an american farmer

Travels

The courteous pagan shall condemne

One step twix't me and death

What habacuck once spake, mine eyes

Mans restlesse soule hath restlesse eyes and ears

They see gods wonders that are call'd

Truth is a native, naked be beauty; but

Boast not proud english

The prologue

The author to her book

Contemplations

As weary pilgrim now at rest

The vanity of all worldly things

In memory of my dear grandchild

To my dear and loving husband

A letter to her husband

The day of doom

Edward Taylor

The ebb and flow

Huswifery

Upon a spider catching a fly

The sot weed factor

Bacon's epitaph made by his man

On the death of G:B

Of John bunyans life & c

A few lines to fill up a vacant page

The poem

And the bitter storm augments

Nathaniel Ward

On a sea storm nigh the coast

Sweetly my dearest i left thee sleep

Upon the decrease of mris. anne griffin

The bloudy tenent

To the town of providence

In praise of eloquence

Wonders of the invisible world

Magnalia christi americana

Political fables

Manuductio ad ministerium

Sarah pierrepont

Sinners in the hand of an angry god

Personal narrative

Narrative of surprising conversions

Images or shadows of divine things

The autobiography of benjamin franklin

Dogood paper no. 7

Speech of polly baker

The way to wealth

Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one

The ephemera

Common sence

American crisis

Rights of man

Age of reason

Declaration of independence

Notes on virginia

A picture of the times

To the americans of the united states

The power of fancy

The house of night

The wild honey suckle

Indian burying ground

To the lost louisa

On a honey bee

To a caty-did

On the religion of nature

On the uniformity and perfection of nature

Progress of dulness

The hasty pudding

Advice to a raven in russia

Modern chivalry

Charles Brown

A journey from patapsco to annapolis

Anacreontic

Mather Byles

Dreams

A dithyrambic on wine

A night piece

To benjamin franklin

An hymn to the evening

On imagination

The battle of the kegs

Yankee doodle

A tour on the prairies

Alhambra

Tales of a traveller

The sketch book

A history of new york

The deerslayer

The last of the mohicans

The pathfinder

The pioneers

The prairie

Notions of the americans

The american democrat

Thanatopsis

The yellow violet

Inscription for the entrance to a wood

To a waterfowl

Summer wind

A forest hymn

Oh fairest of the rural maids

To cole, the painter, departing for europe

To the fringed gentian

Nature

The american scholar

Self reliance

The poet

New england reformers

Montaigne

Illusions

Grace

The rhodora

Each and all

The snow storm

Concord hymn

The humble bee

The problem

Fable

Uriel

Give all to love

Hamatreya

Ode, incribed to w. h. channing

Bacchus

Merlin

Brahma

Days

Two rivers

The adirondacs

Terminus

Civil disobedience

Walden

Wild apples

Great god, i ask thee for no meaner pelf

Light winged smoke, icarian bird

Conscience is instinct bred in the house

Woof of the sun, ethereal gauze

The atlantides

I am a parcel of vain strivings tied

Epitaph on the world

I was made erect and lone

A winter and spring scene

King pest

Ligeia

The man that was used up

The fall of the house of usher

The man of the crowd

The purloined letter

The imp of perverse

The system of dr. tarr and professor fether

Hawthorne's twice told tales

A dream within a dream

Sonnet to science

Romance

To helen

Israfel

The city in the sea

To one in paradise

Dream land

The raven

Ulalume

Eldorado

Annabel lee

The hollow of the three hills

My kinsman, major molineux

My. higginbotham's catastrophe

Mrs. bullfrog

Young goodman brown

The wedding knell

The artist of the beautiful

Ethan brand

The old manse

Our old home

Bartleby

Cock a doodle doo

The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids

Benito cereno

Hawthorne and his mosses

Battle pieces and aspects of war

John marr and other sailors

The horse swap

The big bear of arkansas

Some adventures of captain simon suggs

Rare ripe garden seed

Contempt of court-almost

Trapping a sheriff

Blown up with soda

A psalm of life

Hymn to the night

The skeleton in armor

The arsenal at springfield

Nuremberg

The bridge

The evening star

Prelude to evangeline

Seaweed

King witlaf's drinking horn

The fire of driftwood

In the churchyard at cambridge

The jewish cemetery at newport

My lost youth

Divina commedia

Tales of wayside inn

Chaucer

Keramos

the tide rises, the tide falls

Jugurtha

The cross of snow

Massachusetts to virginia

Proem

Ichabod

Maud muller

Skipper ireson's ride

Telling the bees

My playmate

The double headed snake of newbury

Snow bound

Prelude to among the hills

The dead feast of the kol-folk

Ballad of the oysterman

My aunt

The last leaf

The moral bully

The chambered nautilus

The deacon's masterpiece

Latter day warnings

At the pantomime

At the unitarian festival

At the saturday club

Elsie venner

Remembered music

A fable for critics

The biglow papers

Fitz adam's story

After the burial

What rabbi jehosha said

A winter evening hymn to my fire

Unde the old elm

Tempora mutantur

Eleanor makes macaroons

The function of the poet

The cricket

Under the locust blossoms

Sonnets: first series

Thar's more in the man than thar is in the land

The symphony

Song of the chattahoochee

The harlequin of dreams

The marches of glynn

Marsh song at sunset

A ballad of trees and the master