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
230 Out, Out —
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138 Sonnet to Science
138 Sonnet to Science
Edgar Allan Poe
SCIENCE! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
And driven the Hamadryad from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
Hast thous not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?
(1829)
Source:
Becoming America, Wendy Kurant, ed., CC-BY-SA