THE

POETS OF AMERICA:

ILLUSTRATED

BY ONE OF HER PAINTERS.

· The world is full of Poetry. - Its words

Are few, but deep and solemn; and they break
Fresh from the fount of feeling." - Percival.

EDITED BY JOHN - 'KEESE.

Fifth Edition.

V. 2,

BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL COLMAN.

No. 30 CORNHILL.

DAU

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTUST, LENOX AVD
TILDEN FOL" Jiis.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1841,

BY JOHN KEESE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern Dis.

trict of New York.

TO THE

PAXNTERS OF OUR COUNTRX,

THIS VOLUME,

ILLUSTRATED BY THE GENIUS OF ONE OF

THEIR NUMBER,

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.

CONTENTS.

Page

Fall of Babylon . . . . LORENZO L. DAPONGE 13

A Serenade . . . . EDWARD C. PINKNEY 20

To the Painted Columbine . . . JONES VERY 21

Death of the Duke of Reichstadt Emma C. EMBURY 23

Night . . . . . . JONES VERY 26

To an Old Man . . . . PHILIP FRENEAU 27

De Profundis . . . . WILLIAM CROSWELL 31

Summer Midnight . JAMES W. EASTBURN 32

The Village Blacksmith . HENRY W. LONGFELLOW 35

The Robin . . . . . . JONES VERY 38

The Sylph of Autumn . . WASHINGTON ALLSTON 39

The Old North Burial Ground . . WILLIAM B. TAPPAN 43

To a Sister . . . . EDWARD EVERETT 47

Mental Beauty . . . . JAMES G. PERCIVAL 50

The Moss Supplicateth for the Poet . RICHARD H. Dana 53

To the Ursa Major . . . HENRY WARE, JR. 58

The Brothers . . . . CHARLES SPRAGUE 65

Sonnet . . . . . . JAMES R. LOWELL 67

Spring . . . . . . GEORGE HILL 68

To Miss M * * * * . . . FRANCES S. OSGOOD 69

Love Unchangeable . . . . Rufus DAWES 72

The Fountain . . . . William C. Bryant 74

Marius seated on the Ruins of Carthage Mrs. M. L. CHILD 79

Sonnet-October . . . . WILLIAM C. BRYANT 97

Sonnet . . . . . WILLIAM H. BURLEIGH 156