Includes index.

Pt. 1. Poets of America: Anne Bradstreet -- Philip Freneau -- Richard Henry Dana -- Fitz-Greene Halleck -- William Cullen Bryant -- Joseph Rodman Drake -- Edward Coate Pinkney -- George Pope Morris -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nathaniel Parker Willis -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Jones Very -- John Godfrey Saxe -- Henry David Thoreau -- James T. Fields -- James Russell Lowell -- Walt Whitman -- Herman Melville -- Thomas Buchanan Read -- George Henry Boker -- Bayard Taylor -- Richard Henry Stoddard -- John Townsend Trowbridge -- Henry Timrod -- Paul Hamilton Hayne -- Emily Dickinson -- Edmund Clarence Stedman -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- John Hay -- Bret Harte -- Joaquin Miller -- Edward Rowland Sill -- Sidney Lanier -- James Whitcomb Riley -- Eugene Field -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Ben King -- Bliss Carman -- George Santayana -- Richard Hovey -- William Vaughn Moody -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Stephen Crane -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Amy Lowell -- Robert Frost -- Carl Sandburg -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Sara Teasdale -- Ezra Pound -- William Rose Benet -- H. D. -- Marianne Moore -- John Crowe Ransom -- T. S. Eliot -- Conrad Aiken -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Archibald MacLeish -- Dorothy Parker -- e. e. cummings -- Stephen Vincent Benet -- Ogden Nash -- Theodore Roethke -- John Updike.

Pt. 2. Poems and Songs of America: Patriotism and courage -- America's heartbeat: Home and sentiment -- Humor and parodies -- Nature: Land and sea -- Religious and spiritual -- Native American poetry -- Miscellaneous.

A collection of more than six hundred poems, from the work of Anne Bradstreet in the seventeenth century to Robert Frost of the twentieth century.