This wide-ranging 2 disc anthology reflects the changing pre-occupations and visions of Americans from the 16th century to the present day. Here are 65 poems by the leading classic figures in American poetry, including Longfellow, Poe, Dickinson, Whitman, Frost and E. E. Cummings as well as popular anonymous works such as Frankie and Johnny which are an integral part of American consciousness. Track Listing The Author to Her Book Upon a Spider Catching a Fly Navajo Mountain Song The Indian Student The Wild Honeysuckle The Star-Spangled Banner The Prairies The Snow-Storm Whittier, John Greenleaf The Song of Hiawatha from the Wooing: At the Doorway of His Wigwam My Lost Youth A Dream Within a Dream Annabel Lee To Helen The Raven Old Ironsides The Indian's Retort Sic Vita Pray to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong The Battle Hymn of the Republic The Martyr Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Science and Poetry Frankie and Johnny An Upper Chamber in a Darkened House A Narrow Fellow in the Grass My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed Because I Could Not Stop for Death I Like to See It Lap the Miles The Wind Begun to Rock the Grass Bury Me in a Free Land The Stirrup-Cup The New Colossus I Sometimes Think I'd Rather Grow A Newspaper Is a Collection of Half-Injustices Do Not Weep, Maiden, For War Is Kind Sympathy A Lesson in a Picture Miniver Cheevy The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening The Death of the Hired Man Meeting-House Hill Chicago They All Want to Play Hamlet The Flower-Fed Buffaloes The Emperor of Ice-Cream Peter Quince at the Clavier Wild Peaches Pretty Words Hurt Hawks Rendezvous What My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why De Profundis Resumee General Review of the Sex Situation Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond American Names