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Poetry Primary Source Set

 

Walt Whitman's Buterfly  

1760-1770:

A Voice of Her Own

1890- 1900:

"Autumn," poem by Helen Keller

Slave Ship

1770-1780:

An ode for the 4th of July 1788

1900-1910:

Jessamine poems

Negro Soldier

The Dying Poet

James W. Foley : North Dakota poet.

Poem for Mrs. Catt from "Girls of the Inside Room"

Walt Whitman (Image)

Henry W. Longfellow

1800- 1810:

Gen. Washington with some remarks
on Jeffersonian Policy

1910-1920:

Typed transcript of a poem, Little Pete of 83,
written by Frank Dayton

Alfred Noyes, English poet

William Butler Yeats (Image)

Ballads of Gold Mountain, Vol. 1: From Gold
Mountain ballads collection

Ballads of Gold Mountain, Vol. 2: From Gold
Mountain ballads collection

1810-1820:

To the generous patrons of the Argus

Dunbar

1920-1930:

Golden Gate Poetry Club Collection of
Poetry
: From Gold Mountain ballads collection

Miss Harriet Monroe, editor of Poetry Magazine

1840- 1850:

"The Village Blacksmith," poem by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Patapsco and other poems by Charles Soran

Poem written by Abiah Marchant

1930-1940:

My November guest.

Carl Sandburg : America's most distinctive poet.

A Hillside Thaw

The Runaway

1850- 1860:

The Cottage

Walt Whitman Collection

Colored cavalier

1940-1950:

Okie Ballads collected by Charles L. Todd
and Robert Sonkin

Drafts of Langston Hughes's poem "Ballad of Booker T."

An Uncollected Sonnet by John Keats

1860-1870:

The stars and stripes. Poetry
by Francis De Haes Janvier, Esq.

The Blackbird Poem
by Alexander Graham Bell

Letter from John C. Baxter to Abraham Lincoln

An Inaugural Poem

Letter from Uriah W. Oblinger to
Mattie V. Thomas

1960-1970:

"Dedication" by Robert Frost

1870-1880:

Poetry of motion by S. B. Whitney.

Phillis Wheatley

Unknown Year:

The pirates and their friend. Georgetown

The California Daddy

1880- 1890:

Phillis Wheatley (Image)

Phillis Wheatley. The Life and
Work of a Colored Poetess

Illinois vs. August Spies et al.
trial evidence book. People's Exhibit 37

"O Captain, My Captain" by Walt Whitman

The Cry of the Seminole

Henry W. Longfellow

 

 

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