37 American Poems

Here are 37 distinctively American poems, covering the mid-17th - early 20th Centuries, from Anne Bradstreet to Dorothy Parker's sole PD work.

⁠Contemplations⁠⁠ by Anne Bradstreet⁠

⁠To a LADY on her remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North- Carolina⁠⁠Phillis Wheatley⁠

⁠The Star-Spangled Banner By ⁠⁠Francis Scott Key⁠

Home, Sweet Home By John Howard Payne

The Wild Honeysuckle By Philip Freneau

Thanatopsis By William Cullen Bryant

The Village Blacksmith By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Seed-Time and Harvest By John Greenleaf Whittier

The Snow-Storm By Ralph Waldo Emerson

In Vain By Emily Dickinson

Woodman, Spare that Tree! By George Pope Morris

Spring By Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney

Lenore By Edgar Allan Poe

The Mocking-Bird By Sidney Lanier

The Path that Leads to Home By Edgar A. Guest

March into Virginia, Ending in the first Manassas (July, 1861) By Herman Melville

Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand By Walt Whitman

May By Helen Hunt Jackson

Sweeney Among the Nightingales By T. S. Eliot

A Late Walk By Robert Frost

Sheltered Garden By Hilda Doolittle

Pauline Barrett By Edgar Lee Masters

Springfield Magical By Vachel Lindsay

Five Sonnets By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Manhattan By Lola Ridge

Ships that Pass in the Night By Paul Laurence Dunbar

O Black and Unknown Bards By James Weldon Johnson

The Heart of a Woman By Georgia Douglas Johnson

Translation By Anne Spencer

Queen Anne's Lace By William Carlos Williams

Wild Peaches By Elinor Wylie

Spring Night By Sara Teasdale

Mourn Not the Dead By Ralph Chaplin

Poem XII, from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley By Ezra Pound

Reformers: A Hymn of Hate By Dorothy Parker

Lilacs By Amy Lowell

Tetelestai By Conrad Aiken