Texts so far...

• Arthur, T. S. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and Temperance Tales. [texts not yet available online, except "The Bottle" from Temperance Tales]



• Beecher, Henry Ward. Seven Lectures to Young Men (1846) [text not yet available online]



• Beecher, Lyman. Six Sermons on... Intemperance [text not yet available online]



• Dickinson, Emily.
• "I taste a liquor never brewed" (FP 207)
• "She hideth her the last" (FP 564)
• "Least bee that brew a honey's weight" (OMC 94)
• "Tho' I get home how late - how late" (FP 199)
• "Proud of my broken heart since thou did'st break it" (FP 1760)
• "The nearest dream recedes unrealized" (FP 304)
• "We - bee and I - live by the quaffing" (FP 244)
• "One of the ones that Midas touched" (FP 1488)
• "Had I known that the first was the last" (FP 1753)
• "The rose did caper on her cheek" (FP 200)
• "A drunkard cannot meet a cork" (FP 1630)
• "We should not mind so small a flower" (FP 82)
• "Have you got a brook in your little heart" (FP 94)
• "I can wade grief" (FP 312)
• "It tossed and tossed" (FP 746)
• "The ditch is dear to the drunken man" (FP 1679)
• "Winter is good - his hoar delights" (FP 1374)
• "Hope is a strange invention" (FP 1424)


• Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The Poet."



• Fowler, O. S. Temperance... [text not yet available online]



• Gough, John B. An Autobiography (1845) [text not yet available online]



• Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "A Rill from the Town Pump."



• Lincoln, Abraham. "An Address... Delivered Before the Springfield Washington."



• Melville, Herman. "Paradise of Bachelors."



• Poe, Edgar Allen. "The Black Cat."



• Sigourney, L. H. "Intemperance," Water-Drops, and "The Wife of the Intemperate"



• Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "The Drunkard Reclaimed." [text not yet available online]