The Fireside Poets

The household poets of nineteenth-century America — Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, and Bryant — memorized by a whole nation.

The poets America read aloud

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Showing 120 works from the first 120 entries in this collection.

• England under James II
• The Seeking of the Waterfall
• Requirement
• The Angel of Patience
• Invocation
• Nauhaught, the Deacon
• To -- -- Lines Written after a Summer Day's Excursion
• Indian Civilization
• Stanzas for the Times
• The Rock-Tomb of Bradore
• The Friend's Burial
• The Black Men in the Revolution and War of 1812
• Inscription
• April
• Our State
• Garibaldi
• The Three Bells
• Laus Deo!
• The Old Burying-Ground
• The Call of the Christian
• The Truce of Piscataqua
• The Training
• Hymn. o Holy Father!
• Chalkley Hall
• By their Works
• Seed-Time and Harvest
• The Lumbermen
• The Library
• Divine Compassion
• The Scottish Reformers
• What of the Day?
• A Song, Inscribed to the Fremont Clubs
• Hymn for the Opening of Thomas Starr King's House of Worship
• Rantoul
• My Dream
• In the Evil Days
• L'Envoi
• The Village Blacksmith
• The Goblet of Life
• Maidenhood
• Excelsior
• The Warning
• The Belfry of Bruges
• The Arsenal at Springfield
• Nuremberg
• To a Child
• To the Driving Cloud
• The Day is Done
• To an Old Danish Song-Book
• Walter Von Der Vogelweid
• Drinking Song
• The Old Clock on the Stairs
• The Arrow and the Song
• Dante
• The Fire of Drift-Wood
• The Builders
• Sand of the Desert in an Hour-Glass
• The Open Window
• Gaspar Becerra
• Pegasus in Pound
• The Singers
• Birds of Passage
• Prometheus, or the Poet's Forethought
• Epimetheus, or the Poet's Afterthought
• The Ladder of St. Augustine
• The Warden of the Cinque Ports
• In the Churchyard at Cambridge
• The Emperor's Bird's-Nest
• The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
• Victor Galbraith
• My Lost Youth
• The Ropewalk
• The Golden Mile-Stone
• Catawba Wine
• The Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz
• Sandalphon
• The Children's Hour
• Enceladus
• Something Left Undone
• Tales of a Wayside Inn
• The Bridge of Cloud
• The Bells of Lynn
• Vox Populi
• The Castle-Builder
• The Challenge
• The Hanging of the Crane
• Morituri Salutamus
• Three Friends of Mine
• Chaucer
• Shakespeare
• The Old Bridge at Florence
• Venice
• The Poets
• Boston
• Moods
• Woodstock Park
• The Four Princesses at Wilna
• Wapentake
• Charles Sumner
• Monte Cassino
• Amalfi
• Belisarius
• Songo River
• Keramos
• The Herons of Elmwood
• A Dutch Picture
• Castles in Spain
• The Emperor's Glove
• The Three Kings
• Stay, Stay at Home, my Heart, and Rest
• The White Czar
• From my Arm-Chair
• Jugurtha
• The Iron Pen
• Robert Burns
• Helen of Tyre
• Maiden and Weathercock
• The Windmill
• The Poet and his Songs
• Becalmed

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