The Chambered Nautilus
Contentment
The Deacon's Masterpiece


THOMAS BUCHANAN READ
Storm on the St. Bernard
Drifting


WALT WHITMAN
O Captain! My Captain!
Pioneers! O Pioneers!


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SELECTIONS OF AMERICAN POETRY


INTRODUCTION

If we define poetry as the heart of man expressed in beautiful language,
we shall not say that we have no national poetry. True, America has
produced no Shakespeare and no Milton, but we have an inheritance in all
English literature; and many poets in America have followed in the