YALE BOOK OF
AMERICAN VERSE

THOMAS

BY

LOUNSBURY

NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON: HENRY FROWDE
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

MCMXIII

COPYRIGHT, 1912

BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Published October, 1912

First printing regular paper 1000 copies

Second printing regular paper, November, 1912, 1000 copies
First printing Bible paper 250 copies

Second printing Bible paper, October, 1912, 250 copies
Third printing Bible paper, November, 1912, 500 copies

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COPYRIGHT NOTICE

All rights on poems in this work are reserved by the
holders of the copyright. The publishers and others named in
the subjoined list are the proprietors, either in their own right
or as agents for the authors, of the books and poems of which
the authorship and titles are given respectively, and of which
the ownership is thus specifically noted and is hereby acknowl-
edged.

1912.

Publishers of THE YALE BOOK OF AMERICAN Verse.

MESSRS. D. APPLETON & Co., New York-W. C. Bryant: The
Battle-Field, The Conqueror's Grave, The Crowded Street, The
Death of the Flowers, A Forest Hymn, The Future Life,
June, "Oh Mother of a Mighty Race," The Past, Planting of
the Apple-Tree, The Snow-Shower, Song of Marion's Men,
Thanatopsis, To a Waterfowl; Fitz-Greene Halleck: Alnwick
Castle, Burns, Connecticut, Marco Bozzaris, On the Death
of Joseph Rodman Drake, Red Jacket.

WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER, JR.-William Allen Butler: The
Incognita of Raphael, Nothing to Wear.

MRS. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS-George William Curtis: Egyp-
tian Serenade, O Listen to the Sounding Sea, Spring Song.
MESSRS. DUFFIELD & COMPANY, New York-Edgar Allan Poe:
Annabel Lee, The Bells, The Conqueror Worm, The Haunted
Palace, The Raven, To Helen, To One in Paradise. (The
Stedman-Woodberry text is herein used through the courtesy
of Messrs. Duffield & Company, holders of the copyright.)
MESSRS. FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, New York-John
Williamson Palmer: The Fight at San Jacinto, Stonewall
Jackson's Way.

MESSRS. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, Boston-Thomas Bailey
Aldrich: Baby Bell, In an Atelier, Nocturne, On an Intaglio
Head of Minerva, On Lynn Terrace, Palabras Cariñosas,

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Song from the Persian; Phoebe Cary: Alas!, Nearer Home; Ralph Waldo Emerson: Browning, Brahma, Concord Hymn, Days, Fable, Heri, Cras, Hodie, The Humble Bee, Poet, The Problem, Rhodora, Sacrifice, Shakespeare, To Eva; William Lloyd Garrison: Freedom for the Mind; Richard Watson Gilder: Ah, Be Not False, The Heroic Age, Noël, Reform, The River Inn, Songs, A Woman's Thought; Francis Bret Harte: Chiquita, Dow's Flat, "Jim," Plain Language from Truthful James, The Society upon the Stanislaus, What the Engines Said; John Hay: Hymn of the Knights Templars, Jim Bludso, Mystery of Gilgal; Oliver Wendell Holmes: Ballad of the Oysterman, Chambered Nautilus, The Deacon's Masterpiece, The Dilemma, The Last Leaf, Lexington, The Music Grinders, My Aunt, On Lending a PunchBowl, The Parting Word, Philosopher to His Love, “Qui Vive," The Star and the Water-Lily, To the Portrait of a Lady, Under the Washington Elm, Cambridge, The Voice of the Loyal North, The Voiceless; Julia Ward Howe: Battle-Hymn of the Republic, Our Orders, The Summons; Lucy Larcom: Hannah Binding Shoes; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Cumberland, The Day is Done, Endymion, Excelsior, Footsteps of Angels, Maidenhood, My Lost Youth, Nuremberg, The Psalm of Life, Resignation, Seaweed, Skeleton in Armor, Song of the Silent Land, The Village Blacksmith, Warden of the Cinque Ports; James Russell Lowell: Auf Wiedersehen, The Courtin', Credidimus Jovem Regnare, Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865, Palinode, The Petition, The Present Crisis, Song"O Moonlight Deep and Tender," Telepathy, The Washers of the Shroud, What Mr. Robinson Thinks, Without and Within; William Vaughn Moody: Gloucester Moors, Ode in Time of Hesitation; Thomas William Parsons: Her Epitaph, Mary Booth, Obituary, On a Bust of Dante, Paradisi Gloria, Saint Peray; John Godfrey Saxe: Bereavement, Early Rising, Orpheus and Eurydice, Polyphemus and Ulysses;