The Indian student ; The wild honeysuckle / Philip Freneau
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The star-spangled banner / Francis Scott Key
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The prairies / William Cullen Bryant
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The snow-storm / Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Telling the bees / John Greenleaf Whittier
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The song of Hiawatha from The wooing : At the doorway of his wigwam ; My lost youth / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A dream within a dream ; Annabel Lee ; To Helen ; The raven / Edgar Allan Poe
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Old ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The Indian's retort / Jones Very
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Sic vita ; Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong / Henry David Thoreau
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The battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe
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The martyr / Herman Melville
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Out of the cradle endlessly rocking / Walt Whitman
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CD 2 : Science and poetry / James Russell Lowell
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Frankie and Johnny / Anonymous
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An upper chamber in a darkened house / Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
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A narrow fellow in the grass ; My life closed twice before its close ; I taste a liquor never brewed ; Because I could not stop for death ; I like to see it lap the miles ; The wind begun to rock the grass / Emily Dickinson
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Bury me in a free land / Frances E.W. Harper
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The stirrup-cup / Sydney Lanier
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The new Colossus / Emma Lazarus
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I sometimes think I'd rather crow / Anonymous
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A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices ; Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind / Stephen Crane
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Sympathy / Paul Lawrence Dunbar
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A lesson in a picture / Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
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Miniver Cheevy / Edward Arlington Robinson
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The road not taken ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; The death of the hired man / Robert Frost
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Meeting-House Hill / Amy Lowell
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Chicago ; They all want to play Hamlet / Carl Sandburg
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The flower-fed buffaloes / Vachel Lindsay
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The emperor of ice-cream ; Peter Quince at the clavier / Wallace Stevens
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Wild peaches ; Pretty words / Elinor Wylie
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Hurt hawks / Robinson Jeffers
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Rendezvous / Alan Seeger
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What my lips have kissed, and where, and why / Edna St. Vincent Millay
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De profundis ; Resumee ; General review of the sex situation / Dorothy Parker
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Anyone lived in a pretty how town ; Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond / E.E. Cummings
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American names / Stephen Vincent Benet
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Theme for English B ; Trumpet player : 52nd Street / Langston Hughes
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You bet travel is broadening / Ogden Nash
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September, the first day of school / Howard Nemerov
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How poems are made/A discredited view / Alice Walker.
Notes
Anthologie de la poésie américaine de 1650 à 1950 environ, en 44 poètes et poétesses et 65 poèmes.