Pierpont's "Airs of Palestine": Baltimore, 1816 Bryant's "Thanatopsis”: North Amer. Review, Sept. 1817; “Poems” (“The Ages,” etc.): Cambridge, 1821 Halleck and Drake's "The Croakers": N. Y. Evening Post, 1819 Mrs. Brooks's "Judith,” etc.: Boston, 1820; “Zophiel”: London, 1833 2 Emerson's “Nature": Boston, 1836; “ Poems”: Boston, 1846 Whittier's "Mogg Megone": Boston, 1836; “Poems”: Philadelphia, 1838 Poe's "Tamerlane," etc.: Boston, 1827; "Al Aaraaf,” etc.: Baltimore, 1829 3 Lowell's "A Year's Life": Boston, 1841; "Poems": Boston, 1844 Mrs. Howe's "Passion Flowers": Boston, 1854 Whitman's "Leaves of Grass": Brooklyn, 1855 Boker's "Calaynos, A Tragedy": Philadelphia, 1848 Taylor's "Ximena": Philadelphia, 1844; “Rhymes of Travel": New York, 1849 Stoddard's "Poems": Boston, 1852; "Songs of Summer": Boston, 1856 FIRST LYRICAL PERIOD (IN THREE DIVISIONS) DIVISION I (PIERPONT, HALLECK, BRYANT, DRAKE, MRS. BROOKS, AND OTHERS) Go, stand on the hill where they lie. The earliest ray of the golden day On that hallowed spot is cast; And the evening sun, as he leaves the world, Looks kindly on that spot last. The Pilgrim spirit has not fled: It walks in noon's broad light; And it watches the bed of the glorious dead, With the holy stars by night. It watches the bed of the brave who have bled, And still guard this ice-bound shore, Till the waves of the bay, where the Mayflower lay, Shall foam and freeze no more. When, at the cool, gray break Of day, from sleep I wake, With my first breathing of the morning air My soul goes up, with joy, To Him who gave my boy, Then comes the sad thought that he is not there! When at the day's calm close, Before we seek repose, I'm with his mother, offering up our prayer, |