Collation: 12mo, pp. 100. False Title. Title as above. Verso,
Copyright, 1842, and printer's imprint. Contents, p. v.
To the Reader, p. vii:

The poems which compose this little volume have been written within
the last five or six years—some of them merely as parts of a longer
one planned by the author, which may possibly be finished hereafter.
In the meantime he has been tempted to publish them in this form by
the reception which another collection of his verses has already met
with among his countrymen.
NEW YORK, July, 1842.

Sub-title, The Fountain. | Text, pp. 11-96. | Notes, pp. 97-100.

The following poems appear in this edition for the first time: The Fountain, The Winds, The Green Mountain Boys, The Death of Schiller, A Presentiment, The Future Life, The Old Man's Counsel, The Child's Funeral, A Serenade, To the Memory of William Leggett, An Evening Revery, The Painted Cup, A Dream, The Antiquity of Freedom.

1844.

Outside Cover Title: The Home Library. | Poetical Series, No. 1. | The White Footed Deer | and other Poems. | By William Cullen Bryant. | New York: | I. S. Platt, 111, Fulton Street. Press of the Home Library, 1844.

Collation: 16mo, pp. vi-24. Notes, p. 1.

This little volume has yellow paper covers, with title as above. The back cover contains an advertisement of the Home Library, edited by Evert A. Duyckinck, in which the statement is made that the poetical series will commence with The White Footed Deer.

False Title, The White Footed Deer and Other Poems. Title, p. iv, The White Footed Deer & Other Poems, by William Cullen Bryant. Copyright on verso, dated 1844, with printers' and stereotyper's names. S. W. Benedict & Co., 128, Fulton St.

All the following trifles in verse except one have been written since the last collection of the author's poems was published. NEW YORK, March, 1844.

Notes, p. 1.

P. 5.

During the stay of Long's expedition at Engineer Cantonment, three specimens of a variety of the common deer were brought in, having all the feet white near the hoofs, and extending to those on the hind feet from a little above the spurious hoofs, etc.

At noon the Hebrew bowed the knee and worshipped. Evening and morn and at noon will I pray and cry aloud, and he shall hear my voice.

1847.

Poems by William Cullen Bryant | with Illustrations by E. Leutze. Engraved by American Artists. | Philadelphia: | Carey and Hart, | 1847. |

Collation: Royal 8vo, pp. 378.

Frontispiece, Greek Amazon. Sub-title, Poems by William Cullen Bryant, with vignette portrait, Philadelphia, Carey & Hart. Title as above. Copyright on verso, 1847.

To the Reader, p. 3:

Perhaps it would have been well if the author had followed his original intention, which was to leave out of this volume, as unworthy of republication, several of the poems which made a part of his previous collections. He asks leave to plead the judgment of a literary friend, whose opinion in such matters he highly values, as his apology for having retained them. With the exception of the first and longest poem in the collection, The Ages, they are all arranged according to the order of time in which they were written, as far as it can be ascertained. NEW YORK, 1846.

Contents, pp. 5-9. List of illustrations, pp. 11-16.

Portrait of

Bryant, preceding text. Text, pp. 17-361. Notes, false title, p. 363. Notes, pp. 365-378.

This edition was reprinted complete in one volume without illustrations. Philadelphia, Carey & Hart, 1849.

1854.

Poems | by | William Cullen Bryant. | Collected and arranged by the Author. | In Two Volumes. | Vol. I. | New York, | D. Appleton and Company, | 346 and 348, Broadway. | London: 16 Little Britain. | MDCCCLIV.

Collation: 12mo, 2 vols. Vol. I, pp. x-296. Vol. II, pp. vi286. Title as above. Copyright on verso, 1854.

To the Reader. (Prefixed to the Edition of 1846.) P. 3: Advertisement, p. 5.

The present edition has been carefully revised by the author, and some faults of diction and versification corrected. A few poems not in the previous editions have been added.

Contents of Vol. I, pp. 7-10.

1-286. Notes, pp. 287-296.

Vol. II. Title as above.

NEW YORK, August, 1854. Sub-title, Poems. Text, pp.

Contents, pp. 3-6. Sub-title, Poems.

Text, pp. 1-268. Notes, 269-286.

This edition was reprinted in 1855, 1856, 1857, 1859, 1860, 1862, 1864, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1869, 1870.

An edition of the above collection of poems was published in one 36mo volume, September, 1854.

A reprint of the Carey & Hart illustrated edition of 1847 was made in this year with the imprint of D. Appleton and Company on the titlepage.

Poems by William Cullen Bryant. | Collected and arranged by the Author. | Illustrated with seventy-one engravings. From drawings by eminent artists. | New York: | D. Appleton and Company, 346-348, Broadway.

Collation: Sm. 4to, pp. xvi-344. Title as above. Copy

right on verso, 1854. Contents, pp. v-ix. List of illustrations, x-xii. To the Reader, prefixed to the edition.

of 1846, p. xiii.

Advertisement, prefixed to the edition Sub-title, Poems, p. xv. Text, 1-332. Sub-title, Notes, p. 333. Notes, pp. 335-344.

of 1854, p. xiv.

This edition was printed in England, by R. Clay, Bread Street Hill. The following poems appear in this edition for the first time: The Unknown Way, Oh Mother of a Mighty Race, The Land of Dreams, The Burial of Love, The May Sun Sheds an Amber Light, The Voice of Autumn, The Conqueror's Grave, The Snow-shower,* A Rain-Dream,* Robert of Lincoln.*

1864.

Thirty Poems. | William Cullen Bryant. | New York: | D. Appleton and Company, | 443 and 445 Broadway. | London : 16 Little Britain. | MDCCCLXIV.

Collation: 12mo, pp. 222. Title as above. Copyright on verso, 1863. Pp. 3-4.

To the Reader:

The author has attempted no other classification of the poems in this volume than that of allowing them to follow each other according to the order of time in which they were written. It has seemed to him that this arrangement is as satisfactory as any other, since, at different periods of life, an author's style and habits of thought may be supposed to undergo very considerable modifications. One poem forms an exception to this order of succession, and should have appeared in an earlier collection. Three others have already appeared in an illustrated edition of the author's poems.

Contents, pp. 5-6. Sub-title,
Sub-title, Notes, p. 211.

NEW YORK, December, 1863. Poems, p. 7. Text, pp. 9-210. Notes, pp. 213–222.

The following poems appear in this edition for the first time: The Planting of the Apple-Tree, The Twenty-seventh of March, An Invitation to the Country, Song for New Year's Eve, The Wind and Stream, The Lost Bird-from the Spanish of Carolina Coronado, The Night Journey of a River, The Life that Is, Song, "These Prairies Glow with Flowers," A Sick

*The last three poems do not appear in the American edition of this date.

Bed, The Song of the Sower, The New and the Old, The Cloud on the Way, The Tides, Italy, A Day-Dream, The Ruins of Italica-from the Spanish of Rioja, Waiting by the Gate, Not Yet, Our Country's Call, The Constellations, The Third of November, 1861, The Mother's Hymn, Sella, The Fifth Book of Homer's Odyssey-translated, The Little People of the Snow, The Poet.

1871.

Poems by William Cullen Bryant. | Collected and arranged by the Author. | New York: | D. Appleton and Company, 549 and 551 Broadway. | London: 16 Little Britain. |

1871.

Collation: 12mo, pp. 390. Frontispiece, portrait of Bryant.

Title as above. Copyright on verso, 1871. To the
Reader, p. iii, New York, June, 1871. Contents, pp. v-ix.
Text, pp. 11-375. Notes, pp. 376-390.

This is known as the "Red-line" Edition, and has been frequently reprinted.

1876.

Poetical Works | of | William Cullen Bryant. | Collected and arranged by the Author. | Illustrated by one hundred engravings. From drawings by Birket Foster, Harry Fenn, Alfred Fredericks, and others. | New York: | D. Appleton and Company, 549 and 551 Broadway.

Collation: Sq. 8vo, pp. x-501.

Frontispiece, portrait of
Bryant. Title as above. Copyright on verso, 1876.
To the Reader, p. iii, dated New York, August, 1876.
Contents, pp. v-x. Sub-title, Poems. Text, pp. 3-486.
Notes, 487-501.

The illustrations in this edition are the same as those used in the
English edition of 1854, with the addition of a new illustration to
Thanatopsis, p. 21.

The following poems appear in this edition for the first time: October, 1866, The Order of Nature, Tree - Burial, A Legend of the Delawares, A Lifetime.