Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)
from Autobiography
from Poor Richard's Almanack
Thomas Paine(1737-1809)
Downfall of Despotism
Philip Freneau(1752-1832)
To the Memory of the Brave Americans
The Wild Honey Suckle
Washington Irving(1783-1859)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
James Fenimore Cooper(1789-1851)
The Last of the Mohicans-Chapter XII
William Cullen Bryant(1794-1878)
To a Waterfowl
Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849)
To Helen
Alone
William Wilson
from "The Philosophy of Composition"
Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)
from Nature
The Rhodora
Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864)
Young Goodman Brown
The Scarlet Letter-Chapter II,Chpater XIX
Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)
form"Resistance to Civil Government"
Walden-Chapter II
Walt Whitman(1819-1892)
form "Song of Myself"
I Hear America Singing
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Blloom'd
form"Democratic Vistas"
Herman Melville(1819-1891)
Moby Dick-Chapter CXXXV
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882)
An April Day
Footsteps of Angels
Hiawathw-V.Hiawatha's Fasting
John Greenleaf Whittier(1807-1892)
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