7 Author Introduction-Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
13 From Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Volume 3
14 Author Introduction-Thomas Harriot (1560-1621)
15 A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
20 Letter to his Father and Mother
25 A Modell of Christian Charitie
29 An Epitaph on My Dear and Ever-Honored Mother, Mrs. Dorothy Dudley, Who Decea
30 Preface to The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America
35 Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666
40 Author Introduction-Francis Pastorius (ca. 1651-1720)
47 Letter of Thomas Brattle, F. R. S.,
49 Prologue
51 Upon Wedlock and Death of Children
52 Upon a Spider Catching A Fly
53 Huswifery
55 On Sarah Pierrepont
61 To the Univeristy of Cambridge, in New England
62 Letter to Rev. Samson Occom
63 To His Excellency General Washington
64 Author Introduction-Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755)
65 From Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge
68 Author Introduction-John Adams (1735–1826) & Abigail Adams (1744–1818)
71 From Declaration of Independence Draft By Thomas Jefferson in progress– needs
76 From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Part II
84 Author Introduction-Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)
85 On the Equality of the Sexes
86 Author Introduction-Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840)
87 From The Coquette
91 The Wild Honey Suckle
93 Author Introduction-Tecumseh (1768–1813)
94 Speech of Tecumseh to Governor Harrison
98 Author Introduction-William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
99 To A Waterfowl
103 Author Introduction-Jane Schoolcraft (1800–1842)
108 “Georgia Theatrics”
109 The Dance, A Personal Adventure of the Author
114 Excerpts from Nature
115 The Rhodora
128 Wakefield
138 Sonnet to Science
145 The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
154 Indian Names
155 To a Shred of Linen
162 Author Introduction-Alice Cary (1820-1871)
168 Author Introduction-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
174 Author Introduction-Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
186 To the Garden the World (ca.1891-1892)
187 Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City (ca.1891-1892)
191 Author Introduction-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
210 The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865)
211 A True Story (1876)
214 Editha
216 Author Introduction: Henry James (1843 – 1916)
222 At the ‘Cadian Ball
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91 The Wild Honey Suckle
91 The Wild Honey Suckle
Philip Freneau
Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,
Hid in this silent, dull retreat,
Untouched thy honied blossoms blow,
Unseen thy little branches greet:
No roving foot shall crush thee here,
No busy hand provoke a tear.
By Nature’s self in white arrayed,
She bade thee shun the vulgar eye,
And planted here the guardian shade,
And sent soft waters murmuring by;
Thus quietly thy summer goes,
Thy days declining to repose.
Smit with those charms, that must decay,
I grieve to see your future doom;
They died—nor were those flowers more gay,
The flowers that did in Eden bloom;
Unpitying frosts, and Autumn’s power
Shall leave no vestige of this flower.