Poems of American History

by Unknown

INTRODUCTION

The poetry relating to American history falls naturally into two classes: that written, so to speak, from the inside, on the spot, and that written from the outside, long afterwards. Of the first class, "The Star-Spangled Banner" is the most famous example, as well as perhaps the best. Even at this distant day, reading it with a knowledge of the circumstances which produced it, it has a power of touching the heart and gripping the imagination which goes far toward proving the genuineness of its art. Of the second class, "Paul Revere's Ride" is probably the most widely known, though Mr. Longfellow's own "Ballad of the French Fleet" is a better poem.

It is evident that, in compiling an anthology such as this, different standards must be used in judging these two classes. The first, aside from any quality as poetry which it may have, is of value because of its historical or political interest, because it is an expression and an interpretation of the hour which gave it birth. With it, poetic merit is not the first consideration, which is, perhaps, as well. Yet, however slight their merit as poetry may be, many of the early ballads possess an admirable energy, directness, and aptness of phrase, and there is about them a childlike simplicity impossible of reproduction in this sophisticated age—as where Stephen Tilden, in his epitaph on Braddock, requests the great commanders who have preceded that unfortunate soldier to the grave to

"Edge close and give him room."

With the retrospective ballad, on the other hand, poetic merit is a sine qua non. It has little value historically, however accurate its facts. It differs from the contemporary ballad in the same way that the "New Canterbury Tales" differ from Froissart; or as the "Idylls of the King" differ from "Le Morte Arthur." It is less authentic, less convincing, less vital. It may have atmosphere, but there is no infallible way of telling whether the atmosphere is right. Unless it is something more, then, than mere metrical history, the modern ballad has little claim to consideration.

These are the two principles which the present compiler has had constantly in mind. Yet the second principle has been violated more than once, since, in a collection such as this, one must cut one's coat according to the cloth; or, rather, one must make sure that one is decently covered, though the covering may here and there be somewhat inferior in quality. So it has been necessary, in order to keep the thread of history unbroken, to admit some strands anything but silken; and if the choice has sometimes been of ills, rather than of goods, the compiler can only hope that he chose wisely.

The most difficult and trying portion of his task has been, not to get his material together, but to compress it into reasonable limits. Especially in the colonial period was the temptation great to include more early American verse. Peter Folger's "A Looking-Glass for the Times," Benjamin Tompson's "New England's Crisis," Michael Wigglesworth's "God's Controversy with New England," the "Sot-Weed Factor," and many others, which it is recalling an old sorrow to name here, were excluded only after long and bitter debate. No doubt other exclusions will be noticed by nearly every reader of the volume—and it may interest him to know that the material gathered together would have made four such books as this.

The thread of narrative upon which the poems have been strung together has been made as slight as possible, just strong enough to carry the reader understandingly from one poem to the next. The notes, too, have been limited to the explanation of such allusions as are not likely to be found in the ordinary works of reference, with here and there an account of the circumstances which caused the lines to be written, or an indication of source, where the source is unusual. Every available source has been drawn upon—the works of all the better known and many of the minor American and English poets, anthologies, newspaper collections, magazines, collections of Americana and especially of broadsides—in a word, American and English poetry generally.

In this connection, the compiler wishes to make grateful acknowledgment of the assistance he has received on every hand, especially from Mr. Herbert Putnam and Miss Margaret McGuffey, of the Library of Congress; Mr. N. D. C. Hodges, librarian of the Cincinnati, Ohio, Public Library; Mr. C. B. Galbreath, librarian of the Ohio State Library; Mr. Charles F. Lummis, librarian of the Los Angeles, California, Public Library; Dr. Edward Everett Hale, Mr. William Henry Venable, Mr. Isaac R. Pennypacker, Mr. Arthur Guiterman, and Mr. Wallace Rice. He might add that it is a matter of deep personal gratification to him that in no instance has any author refused to permit the use of his work in this collection. On the contrary, many of them have been most helpful in suggestions.

A special effort has been made to secure accuracy of text,—no light task, especially with the early ballads. Where the text varied, as was often the case, that has been followed which seemed to have the greater authority, except that obvious misprints have been corrected. In this, the compiler has had the coöperation of The Riverside Press, and has had frequent occasion to admire the care and knowledge of the corrector and his assistants.

B. E. S.

Chillicothe, Ohio, July 23, 1908.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I
THE COLONIAL PERIOD
America, Arthur Cleveland Coxe	[2]
CHAPTER I
The Discovery of America
The Story of Vinland, Sidney Lanier	[3]
The Norsemen, John Greenleaf Whittier	[4]
The Skeleton in Armor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[6]
Prophecy, Luigi Pulci	[7]
The Inspiration, James Montgomery	[8]
Columbus, Lydia Huntley Sigourney	[9]
Columbus to Ferdinand, Philip Freneau	[9]
Columbus at the Convent, John T. Trowbridge	[10]
The Final Struggle, Louis James Block	[11]
Steer, Bold Mariner, On, Friedrich von Schiller	[12]
The Triumph, Sidney Lanier	[12]
Columbus, Joaquin Miller	[14]
The Thanksgiving for America, Hezekiah Butterworth	[15]
Columbus in Chains, Philip Freneau	[17]
Columbus Dying, Edna Dean Proctor	[18]
Columbus, Edward Everett Hale	[18]
Columbus and the Mayflower, Lord Houghton	[18]
CHAPTER II
In the Wake of Columbus
The First Voyage of John Cabot, Unknown	[19]
The Legend of Waukulla, Hezekiah Butterworth	[19]
The Fountain of Youth, Hezekiah Butterworth	[21]
Ponce de Leon, Edith M. Thomas	[22]
Balboa, Nora Perry	[23]
With Cortez in Mexico, W. W. Campbell	[24]
The Lust of Gold, James Montgomery	[24]
Verazzano, Hezekiah Butterworth	[25]
Ortiz, Hezekiah Butterworth	[26]
The Fall of Maubila, Thomas Dunn English	[27]
Quivíra, Arthur Guiterman	[31]
Norembega, John Greenleaf Whittier	[32]
Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[34]
The First American Sailors, Wallace Rice	[34]
CHAPTER III
The Settlement of Virginia
The Mystery of Cro-a-tàn, Margaret Junkin Preston	[36]
John Smith's Approach to Jamestown, James Barron Hope	[38]
Pocahontas, William Makepeace Thackeray	[38]
Pocahontas, George Pope Morris	[39]
Bermudas, Andrew Marvell	[39]
Newes from Virginia, Richard Rich	[40]
To the Virginian Voyage, Michael Drayton	[42]
The Marriage of Pocahontas, Mrs. M. M. Webster	[43]
The Last Meeting of Pocahontas and the Great Captain, Margaret Junkin Preston	[43]
The Burning of Jamestown, Thomas Dunn English	[44]
Bacon's Epitaph, Unknown	[45]
Ode to Jamestown, James Kirke Paulding	[46]
The Downfall of Piracy, Benjamin Franklin	[48]
From Potomac to Merrimac, Edward Everett Hale	[49]
CHAPTER IV
The Dutch at New Amsterdam
Henry Hudson's Quest, Burton Egbert Stevenson	[50]
The Death of Colman, Thomas Frost	[50]
Adrian Block's Song, Edward Everett Hale	[51]
The Praise of New Netherland, Jacob Steendam	[52]
The Complaint of New Amsterdam, Jacob Steendam	[53]
Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call, Edmund Clarence Stedman	[54]
CHAPTER V
The Settlement of New England
The Word of God to Leyden came, Jeremiah Eames Rankin	[56]
Song of the Pilgrims, Thomas Cogswell Upham	[57]
Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, Felicia Hemans	[57]
The First Proclamation of Miles Standish, Margaret Junkin Preston	[58]
The Mayflower, Erastus Wolcott Ellsworth	[59]
The Peace Message, Burton Egbert Stevenson	[60]
The First Thanksgiving Day, Margaret Junkin Preston	[60]
The War-Token, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[61]
Five Kernels of Corn, Hezekiah Butterworth	[62]
The Expedition to Wessagusset, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[63]
New England's Annoyances, Unknown	[65]
The Pilgrim Fathers, William Wordsworth	[66]
The Pilgrim Fathers, John Pierpont	[66]
The Thanksgiving in Boston Harbor, Hezekiah Butterworth	[67]
The First Thanksgiving, Clinton Scollard	[68]
New England's Growth, William Bradford	[69]
The Assault on the Fortress, Timothy Dwight	[70]
Death Song, Alonzo Lewis	[70]
Our Country, Julia Ward Howe	[71]
CHAPTER VI
Religious Persecutions in New England
Prologue, from "John Endicott," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[71]
Roger Williams, Hezekiah Butterworth	[72]
God makes a Path, Roger Williams	[72]
Canonicus and Roger Williams, Unknown	[73]
Anne Hutchinson's Exile, Edward Everett Hale	[73]
John Underhill, John Greenleaf Whittier	[74]
The Proclamation, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[76]
Cassandra Southwick, John Greenleaf Whittier	[77]
The King's Missive, John Greenleaf Whittier	[80]
CHAPTER VII
King Philip's War and the Witchcraft Delusion
The Lamentable Ballad of the Bloody Brook, Edward Everett Hale	[82]
The Great Swamp Fight, Caroline Hazard	[83]
On a Fortification at Boston begun by Women, Benjamin Tompson	[85]
The Sudbury Fight, Wallace Rice	[85]
King Philip's Last Stand, Clinton Scollard	[88]
Prologue, from "Giles Corey of the Salem Farms," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[88]
Salem, Edmund Clarence Stedman	[89]
The Death of Goody Nurse, Rose Terry Cooke	[90]
A Salem Witch, Ednah Proctor Clarke	[91]
The Trial, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[92]
Giles Corey, Unknown	[96]
Mistress Hale of Beverly, Lucy Larcom	[97]
CHAPTER VIII
The Struggle for the Continent
St. John, John Greenleaf Whittier	[99]
The Battle of La Prairie, William Douw Schuyler-Lighthall	[101]
The Sack of Deerfield, Thomas Dunn English	[102]
Pentucket, John Greenleaf Whittier	[105]
Lovewell's Fight, Unknown	[106]
Lovewell's Fight, Unknown	[108]
The Battle of Lovell's Pond, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[109]
Louisburg, Unknown	[110]
A Ballad of the French Fleet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[110]
The British Lyon roused, Stephen Tilden	[111]
The Song of Braddock's Men, Unknown	[112]
Braddock's Fate, Stephen Tilden	[112]
Ned Braddock, John Williamson Palmer	[114]
Ode to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, Unknown	[114]
The Embarkation, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[115]
On the Defeat at Ticonderoga or Carilong, Unknown	[117]
On the Late Successful Expedition against Louisbourg, Francis Hopkinson	[118]
Fort Duquesne, Florus B. Plimpton	[119]
Hot stuff, Edward Botwood	[121]
How Stands the Glass around, James Wolfe	[121]
Brave Wolfe, Unknown	[122]
The Death of Wolfe, Unknown	[123]
The Captive's Hymn, Edna Dean Proctor	[123]
A Prophecy, Arthur Lee	[125]
PART II
THE REVOLUTION
Flawless his Heart, James Russell Lowell	[128]
CHAPTER I
The Coming of Discontent
The Virginia Song, Unknown	[129]
The World turned Upside Down, Unknown	[130]
A Song, Unknown	[130]
The Liberty Pole, Unknown	[131]
The British Grenadier, Unknown	[132]
Crispus Attucks, John Boyle O'Reilly	[132]
Unhappy Boston, Paul Revere	[134]
Alamance, Seymour W. Whiting	[135]
A New Song called the Gaspee, Unknown	[135]
A Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party, Oliver Wendell Holmes	[136]
A New Song, Unknown	[137]
How we became a Nation, Harriet Prescott Spofford	[138]
A Proclamation, Unknown	[138]
The Blasted Herb, Mesech Weare	[139]
Epigram, Unknown	[140]
The Daughter's Rebellion, Francis Hopkinson	[140]
On the Snake depicted at the Head of Some American Newspapers, Unknown	[140]
Free America, Joseph Warren	[140]
Liberty Tree, Thomas Paine	[141]
The Mother Country, Benjamin Franklin	[142]
Pennsylvania Song, Unknown	[142]
Maryland Resolves, Unknown	[142]
Massachusetts Song of Liberty, Mercy Warren	[143]
Epigram, Unknown	[144]
To the Boston Women, Unknown	[144]
Prophecy, Gulian Verplanck	[144]
CHAPTER II
The Bursting of the Storm
Paul Revere's Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[144]
What's in a Name, Helen F. More	[146]
Lexington, Sidney Lanier	[146]
Lexington, Oliver Wendell Holmes	[147]
New England's Chevy Chase, Edward Everett Hale	[148]
The King's Own Regulars, Unknown	[150]
Morgan Stanwood, Hiram Rich	[151]
The Minute-Men of Northboro, Wallace Rice	[152]
Lexington, John Greenleaf Whittier	[153]
The Rising, Thomas Buchanan Read	[154]
The Prize of the Margaretta, Will Carleton	[155]
The Mecklenburg Declaration, William C. Elam	[156]
A Song, Unknown	[157]
CHAPTER III
The Colonists take the Offensive
The Green Mountain Boys, William Cullen Bryant	[157]
The Surprise at Ticonderoga, Mary A. P. Stansbury	[157]
The Yankee's Return from Camp, Edward Bangs	[159]
Tom Gage's Proclamation, Unknown	[160]
The Eve of Bunker Hill, Clinton Scollard	[161]
Warren's Address to the American Soldiers, John Pierpont	[161]
The Ballad of Bunker Hill, Edward Everett Hale	[162]
Bunker Hill, George H. Calvert	[162]
Grandmother's Story of Bunker-Hill Battle, Oliver Wendell Holmes	[163]
The Death of Warren, Epes Sargent	[166]
The Battle of Bunker Hill, Unknown	[167]
The New-Come Chief, James Russell Lowell	[168]
The Trip to Cambridge, Unknown	[169]
War and Washington, Jonathan Mitchell Sewall	[170]
The Bombardment of Bristol, Unknown	[171]
Montgomery at Quebec, Clinton Scollard	[171]
A Song, Unknown	[172]
A Poem containing Some Remarks on the Present War, Unknown	[173]
Mugford's Victory, John White Chadwick	[174]
Off from Boston, Unknown	[176]
CHAPTER IV
Independence
Emancipation from British Dependence, Philip Freneau	[176]
Rodney's Ride, Unknown	[177]
American Independence, Francis Hopkinson	[178]
The Fourth of July, John Pierpont	[179]
Independence Day, Royall Tyler	[179]
On Independence, Jonathan Mitchell Sewall	[179]
The American Patriot's Prayer, Unknown	[180]
Columbia, Timothy Dwight	[180]
CHAPTER V
The First Campaign
The Boasting of Sir Peter Parker, Clinton Scollard	[181]
A New War Song by Sir Peter Parker, Unknown	[182]
The Maryland Battalion, John Williamson Palmer	[183]
Haarlem Heights, Arthur Guiterman	[183]
Nathan Hale, Unknown	[185]
Nathan Hale, Francis Miles Finch	[186]
The Ballad of Sweet P, Virginia Woodward Cloud	[186]
Across the Delaware, Will Carleton	[188]
The Battle of Trenton, Unknown	[188]
Trenton and Princeton, Unknown	[188]
Assunpink and Princeton, Thomas Dunn English	[189]
Seventy-Six, William Cullen Bryant	[191]
Betsy's Battle Flag, Minna Irving	[191]
The American Flag, Joseph Rodman Drake	[192]
CHAPTER VI
"The Fate of Sir Jack Brag"
The Rifleman's Song at Bennington, Unknown	[193]
The Marching Song of Stark's Men, Edward Everett Hale	[193]
Parson Allen's Ride, Wallace Bruce	[194]
The Battle of Bennington, Thomas P. Rodman	[195]
Bennington, W. H. Babcock	[196]
The Battle of Oriskany, Charles D. Helmer	[198]
Saint Leger, Clinton Scollard	[199]
The Progress of Sir Jack Brag, Unknown	[200]
Arnold at Stillwater, Thomas Dunn English	[200]
The Fate of John Burgoyne, Unknown	[202]
Saratoga's Song, Unknown	[202]
CHAPTER VII
The Second Stage
Lord North's Recantation, Unknown	[204]
A New Ballad, Unknown	[205]
General Howe's Letter, Unknown	[205]
Carmen Bellicosum, Guy Humphreys McMaster	[206]
Valley Forge, Thomas Buchanan Read	[207]
British Valor displayed; or, The Battle of the Kegs, Francis Hopkinson	[208]
The Little Black-Eyed Rebel, Will Carleton	[209]
The Battle of Monmouth, Unknown	[210]
The Battle of Monmouth, Thomas Dunn English	[211]
Molly Pitcher, Kate Brownlee Sherwood	[213]
Molly Pitcher, Laura E. Richards	[213]
Yankee Doodle's Expedition to Rhode Island, Unknown	[214]
Running the Blockade, Nora Perry	[215]
Betty Zane, Thomas Dunn English	[216]
The Wyoming Massacre, Uriah Terry	[217]
CHAPTER VIII
The War on the Water
The Cruise of the Fair American, Unknown	[219]
On the Death of Captain Nicholas Biddle, Philip Freneau	[220]
The Yankee Privateer, Arthur Hale	[221]
Paul Jones, Unknown	[222]
The Yankee Man-of-War, Unknown	[223]
Paul Jones—A New Song, Unknown	[224]
Paul Jones, Unknown	[224]
The Bonhomme Richard and Serapis, Philip Freneau	[225]
Barney's Invitation, Philip Freneau	[226]
Song on Captain Barney's Victory, Philip Freneau	[227]
The South Carolina, Unknown	[228]
CHAPTER IX
New York and the "Neutral Ground"
Sir Henry Clinton's Invitation to the Refugees, Philip Freneau	[229]
The Storm of Stony Point, Arthur Guiterman	[230]
Wayne at Stony Point, Clinton Scollard	[230]
Aaron Burr's Wooing, Edmund Clarence Stedman	[231]
The Modern Jonas, Unknown	[232]
Caldwell of Springfield, Bret Harte	[232]
The Cow-Chace, John André	[233]
Brave Paulding and the Spy, Unknown	[237]
Arnold the Vile Traitor, Unknown	[238]
Epigram, Unknown	[238]
André's Request to Washington, Nathaniel Parker Willis	[238]
André, Charlotte Fiske Bates	[239]
Sergeant Champe, Unknown	[239]
A New Song, Joseph Stansbury	[240]
The Lords of the Main, Joseph Stansbury	[241]
The Royal Adventurer, Philip Freneau	[241]
The Descent on Middlesex, Peter St. John	[242]
CHAPTER X
The War in the South
Hymns of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[245]
About Savannah, Unknown	[245]
A Song about Charleston, Unknown	[246]
The Swamp Fox, William Gilmore Simms	[247]
Song of Marion's Men, William Cullen Bryant	[248]
Macdonald's Raid, Paul Hamilton Hayne	[248]
Sumter's Band, J. W. Simmons	[250]
The Battle of King's Mountain, Unknown	[251]
The Battle of the Cowpens, Thomas Dunn English	[252]
The Battle of Eutaw, William Gilmore Simms	[254]
Eutaw Springs, Philip Freneau	[255]
The Dance, Unknown	[256]
Cornwallis's Surrender, Unknown	[256]
The Surrender of Cornwallis, Unknown	[257]
News From Yorktown, Lewis Worthington Smith	[257]
An Ancient Prophecy, Philip Freneau	[258]
CHAPTER XI
Peace
On Sir Henry Clinton's Recall, Unknown	[259]
On the Departure of the British from Charleston, Philip Freneau	[260]
On the British King's Speech, Philip Freneau	[261]
England and America in 1782, Alfred Tennyson	[262]
On Disbanding the Army, David Humphreys	[262]
Evacuation of New York by the British, Unknown	[262]
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, on his Way to his Residence in Virginia, Philip Freneau	[263]
The American Soldier's Hymn, Unknown	[264]
Thanksgiving Hymn, Unknown	[264]
Land of the Wilful Gospel, Sidney Lanier	[265]
PART III
THE PERIOD OF GROWTH
"Oh Mother of a Mighty Race," William Cullen Bryant	[268]
CHAPTER I
The New Nation
A Radical Song of 1786, St. John Honeywood	[269]
The Federal Convention, Unknown	[269]
To the Federal Convention, Timothy Dwight	[270]
The New Roof, Francis Hopkinson	[270]
Convention Song, Unknown	[271]
The Federal Constitution, William Milns	[272]
The First American Congress, Joel Barlow	[273]
Washington, James Jeffrey Roche	[274]
The Vow of Washington, John Greenleaf Whittier	[274]
On the Death of Benjamin Franklin, Philip Freneau	[275]
George Washington, John Hall Ingham	[275]
Washington, Lord Byron	[276]
Adams and Liberty, Robert Treat Paine	[276]
Hail Columbia, Joseph Hopkinson	[277]
Ye Sons of Columbia, Thomas Green Fessenden	[278]
Truxton's Victory, Unknown	[279]
The Constellation and the Insurgente, Unknown	[280]
Washington's Monument, Unknown	[280]
How we burned the Philadelphia, Barrett Eastman	[281]
Reuben James, James Jeffrey Roche	[282]
Skipper Ireson's Ride, John Greenleaf Whittier	[283]
A Plea for Flood Ireson, Charles Timothy Brooks	[284]
CHAPTER II
The Second War with England
The Times, Unknown	[285]
Reparation or War, Unknown	[286]
Terrapin War, Unknown	[286]
Farewell, Peace, Unknown	[287]
Come, ye Lads, who wish to shine, Unknown	[287]
Hull's Surrender, Unknown	[287]
The Constitution and the Guerrière, Unknown	[288]
Halifax Station, Unknown	[289]
On the Capture of the Guerrière, Philip Freneau	[290]
Firstfruits in 1812, Wallace Rice	[291]
The Battle of Queenstown, William Banker, Jr.	[292]
The Wasp's Frolic, Unknown	[293]
The United States and Macedonian, Unknown	[293]
The United States and Macedonian, Unknown	[294]
Jack Creamer, James Jeffrey Roche	[295]
Yankee Thunders, Unknown	[296]
The General Armstrong, Unknown	[296]
Capture of Little York, Unknown	[298]
The Death of General Pike, Laughton Osborn	[299]
Old Fort Meigs, Unknown	[300]
The Shannon and the Chesapeake, Thomas Tracy Bouvé	[300]
Chesapeake and Shannon, Unknown	[301]
Defeat and Victory, Wallace Rice	[302]
Enterprise and Boxer, Unknown	[302]
Perry's Victory, Unknown	[303]
The Battle of Erie, Unknown	[303]
Perry's Victory—A Song, Unknown	[305]
The Fall of Tecumseh, Unknown	[305]
The Legend of Walbach Tower, George Houghton	[306]
The Battle of Valparaiso, Unknown	[307]
The Battle of Bridgewater, Unknown	[308]
The Hero of Bridgewater, Charles L. S. Jones	[309]
The Battle of Stonington, Philip Freneau	[309]
The Ocean-Fight, Unknown	[310]
The Lost War-Sloop, Edna Dean Proctor	[311]
On the British Invasion, Philip Freneau	[312]
The Battle of Lake Champlain, Philip Freneau	[312]
The Battle of Plattsburg Bay, Clinton Scollard	[313]
The Battle of Plattsburg, Unknown	[314]
The Battle of Baltimore, Unknown	[315]
Fort McHenry, Unknown	[316]
The Star-Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key	[317]
Ye Parliament of England, Unknown	[318]
The Bower of Peace, Robert Southey	[318]
Reid at Fayal, John Williamson Palmer	[319]
The Fight of the Armstrong Privateer, James Jeffrey Roche	[319]
The Armstrong at Fayal, Wallace Rice	[321]
Fort Bowyer, Charles L. S. Jones	[323]
The Battle of New Orleans, Thomas Dunn English	[323]
Jackson at New Orleans, Wallace Rice	[325]
To the Defenders of New Orleans, Joseph Rodman Drake	[326]
The Hunters of Kentucky, Unknown	[326]
The Constitution's Last Fight, James Jeffrey Roche	[327]
Sea and Land Victories, Unknown	[328]
Ode to Peace, Unknown	[329]
CHAPTER III
The West
The Settler, Alfred B. Street	[329]
The Mothers of the West, William Davis Gallagher	[330]
On the Emigration to America, Philip Freneau	[331]
John Filson, William Henry Venable	[331]
Sainclaire's Defeat, Unknown	[332]
Johnny Appleseed, William Henry Venable	[334]
The Founders of Ohio, William Henry Venable	[335]
Blennerhassett's Island, Thomas Buchanan Read	[335]
The Battle of Muskingum, William Harrison Safford	[337]
To Aaron Burr, under Trial for High Treason, Sarah Wentworth Morton	[338]
The Battle of Tippecanoe, Unknown	[339]
The Tomb of the Brave, Joseph Hutton	[339]
Sa-cá-ga-we-a, Edna Dean Proctor	[340]
On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis, Joel Barlow	[341]
Whitman's Ride for Oregon, Hezekiah Butterworth	[342]
Discovery of San Francisco Bay, Richard Edward White	[343]
John Charles Frémont, Charles F. Lummis	[345]
"The Days of 'Forty-Nine," Unknown	[345]
The Old Santa Fé Trail, Richard Burton	[346]
California, Lydia Huntley Sigourney	[346]
CHAPTER IV
Through Five Administrations
Theodosia Burr, John Williamson Palmer	[346]
On the Death of Commodore Oliver H. Perry, John G. C. Brainard	[347]
On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake, Fitz-Greene Halleck	[348]
On Laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, John Pierpont	[348]
La Fayette, Dolly Madison	[349]
The Death of Jefferson, Hezekiah Butterworth	[349]
Old Ironsides, Oliver Wendell Holmes	[351]
Concord Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson	[351]
The Wreck of the Hesperus, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[351]
Old Tippecanoe, Unknown	[353]
The Death of Harrison, Nathaniel Parker Willis	[353]
CHAPTER V
The War with Mexico
The Valor of Ben Milam, Clinton Scollard	[354]
Ben Milam, William H. Wharton	[355]
The Men of the Alamo, James Jeffrey Roche	[355]
The Defence of the Alamo, Joaquin Miller	[357]
The Fight at San Jacinto, John Williamson Palmer	[357]
Song of Texas, William Henry Cuyler Hosmer	[358]
Texas, John Greenleaf Whittier	[358]
Mr. Hosea Biglow speaks, James Russell Lowell	[360]
The Guns in the Grass, Thomas Frost	[361]
Rio Bravo—A Mexican Lament, Charles Fenno Hoffman	[362]
To Arms, Park Benjamin	[363]
Monterey, Charles Fenno Hoffman	[363]
Victor Galbraith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[364]
Buena Vista, Albert Pike	[364]
The Angels of Buena Vista, John Greenleaf Whittier	[366]
The Bivouac of the Dead, Theodore O'Hara	[368]
What Mr. Robinson thinks, James Russell Lowell	[369]
Battle of the King's Mill, Thomas Dunn English	[370]
The Siege of Chapultepec, William Haines Lytle	[371]
Illumination for Victories in Mexico, Grace Greenwood	[371]
The Crisis, John Greenleaf Whittier	[372]
The Volunteers, William Haines Lytle	[374]
CHAPTER VI
Fourteen Years of Peace
The Ship Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Francis Lieber	[374]
The War Ship of Peace, Samuel Lover	[375]
On the Defeat of Henry Clay, William Wilberforce Lord	[376]
On the Death of M. D'Ossoli and his Wife, Margaret Fuller, Walter Savage Landor	[376]
The Last Appendix to "Yankee Doodle," Unknown	[376]
Daniel Webster, Oliver Wendell Holmes	[377]
The Flag, James Jeffrey Roche	[378]
Kane, Fitz-James O'Brien	[379]
Herndon, S. Weir Mitchell	[380]
Blood is Thicker than Water, Wallace Rice	[380]
Baron Renfrew's Ball, Charles Graham Halpine	[382]
PART IV
THE CIVIL WAR
Battle-Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe	[384]
CHAPTER I
The Slavery Question
To William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier	[385]
Clerical Oppressors, John Greenleaf Whittier	[385]
The Debate in the Sennit, James Russell Lowell	[386]
Ichabod, John Greenleaf Whittier	[388]
The Kidnapping of Sims, John Pierpont	[388]
The Kansas Emigrants, John Greenleaf Whittier	[389]
Burial of Barber, John Greenleaf Whittier	[389]
The Defence of Lawrence, Richard Realf	[390]
The Fight over the Body of Keitt, Unknown	[391]
Le Marais du Cygne, John Greenleaf Whittier	[392]
How Old Brown took Harper's Ferry, Edmund Clarence Stedman	[393]
The Battle of Charlestown, Henry Howard Brownell	[395]
Brown of Ossawatomie, John Greenleaf Whittier	[396]
Glory Hallelujah! or John Brown's Body, Charles Sprague Hall	[397]
John Brown, Edna Dean Proctor	[397]
John Brown: a Paradox, Louise Imogen Guiney	[397]
Lecompton's Black Brigade, Charles Graham Halpine	[398]
Lincoln, the Man of the People, Edwin Markham	[399]
Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline, Oliver Wendell Holmes	[400]
Jefferson D., H. S. Cornwell	[401]
The Old Cove, Henry Howard Brownell	[401]
A Spool of Thread, Sophie E. Eastman	[402]
God save Our President, Francis DeHaes Janvier	[403]
CHAPTER II
The Gauntlet
Bob Anderson, my Beau, Unknown	[403]
On Fort Sumter, Unknown	[403]
Sumter, Edmund Clarence Stedman	[404]
The Battle of Morris' Island, Unknown	[404]
Sumter—A Ballad of 1861, Unknown	[405]
The Fight at Sumter, Unknown	[407]
Sumter, Henry Howard Brownell	[408]
The Great Bell Roland, Theodore Tilton	[408]
Men of the North and West, Richard Henry Stoddard	[409]
Out and Fight, Charles Godfrey Leland	[409]
No More Words, Franklin Lushington	[410]
Our Country's Call, William Cullen Bryant	[410]
Dixie, Albert Pike	[411]
A Cry to Arms, Henry Timrod	[411]
"We Conquer or Die," James Pierpont	[412]
"Call All," Unknown	[412]
The Bonnie Blue Flag, Annie Chambers Ketchum	[413]
I give my Soldier Boy a Blade, Unknown	[413]
CHAPTER III
The North gets its Lesson
The Nineteenth of April, Lucy Larcom	[414]
Through Baltimore, Bayard Taylor	[414]
My Maryland, James Ryder Randall	[415]
Ellsworth, Unknown	[416]
Colonel Ellsworth, Richard Henry Stoddard	[416]
On the Death of "Jackson," Unknown	[417]
The Virginians of the Valley, Francis Orrery Ticknor	[417]
Bethel, A. J. H. Duganne	[417]
Dirge, Thomas William Parsons	[419]
Wait for the Wagon, Unknown	[419]
Upon the Hill before Centreville, George Henry Boker	[420]
Manassas, Catherine M. Warfield	[423]
A Battle Ballad, Francis Orrery Ticknor	[424]
The Run from Manassas Junction, Unknown	[425]
On to Richmond, John R. Thompson	[426]
Cast Down, but not Destroyed, Unknown	[427]
Shop and Freedom, Unknown	[428]
The C. S. A. Commissioners, Unknown	[428]
Death of the Lincoln Despotism, Unknown	[429]
Jonathan to John, James Russell Lowell	[430]
A New Song to an Old Tune, Unknown	[432]
CHAPTER IV
The Grand Army of the Potomac
Civil War, Charles Dawson Shanly	[432]
The Picket-Guard, Ethel Lynn Beers	[433]
Tardy George, Unknown	[433]
How McClellan took Manassas, Unknown	[434]
Wanted—A Man, Edmund Clarence Stedman	[435]
The Gallant Fighting "Joe," James Stevenson	[436]
Kearny at Seven Pines, Edmund Clarence Stedman	[437]
The Burial of Latané, John R. Thompson	[437]
The Charge by the Ford, Thomas Dunn English	[438]
Dirge for Ashby, Margaret Junkin Preston	[439]
Malvern Hill, Herman Melville	[439]
A Message, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps	[440]
Three Hundred Thousand More, James Sloan Gibbons	[440]
Cedar Mountain, Annie Fields	[441]
"Our Left," Francis Orrery Ticknor	[441]
Dirge for a Soldier, George Henry Boker	[442]
The Reveille, Bret Harte	[442]
Beyond the Potomac, Paul Hamilton Hayne	[443]
Barbara Frietchie, John Greenleaf Whittier	[444]
Marthy Virginia's Hand, George Parsons Lathrop	[445]
The Victor of Antietam, Herman Melville	[445]
The Crossing at Fredericksburg, George Henry Boker	[446]
At Fredericksburg, John Boyle O'Reilly	[447]
Fredericksburg, Thomas Bailey Aldrich	[449]
By the Potomac, Thomas Bailey Aldrich	[449]
The Washers of the Shroud, James Russell Lowell	[450]
CHAPTER V
The War in the West
The Little Drummer, Richard Henry Stoddard	[451]
The Death of Lyon, Henry Peterson	[453]
Zagonyi, George Henry Boker	[453]
Battle of Somerset, Cornelius C. Cullen	[454]
Zollicoffer, Henry Lynden Flash	[454]
Boy Brittan, Forceythe Willson	[455]
Albert Sidney Johnston, Kate Brownlee Sherwood	[456]
Albert Sidney Johnston, Francis Orrery Ticknor	[457]
Beauregard, Mrs. C. A. Warfield	[457]
The Eagle of Corinth, Henry Howard Brownell	[458]
The Battle of Murfreesboro, Kinahan Cornwallis	[459]
Little Giffen, Francis Orrery Ticknor	[460]
The Battle Autumn of 1862, John Greenleaf Whittier	[460]
CHAPTER VI
The Coast and the River
At Port Royal, John Greenleaf Whittier	[461]
Ready, Phœbe Cary	[461]
The Daughter of the Regiment, Clinton Scollard	[462]
The Turtle, Unknown	[462]
The Attack, Thomas Buchanan Read	[463]
The Cumberland, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[464]
On Board the Cumberland, George Henry Boker	[464]
The Cumberland, Herman Melville	[466]
How the Cumberland went down, S. Weir Mitchell	[466]
The Cruise of the Monitor, George Henry Boker	[467]
The Sinking of the Merrimack, Lucy Larcom	[468]
The River Fight, Henry Howard Brownell	[468]
The Ballad of New Orleans, George Henry Boker	[472]
The Varuna, George Henry Boker	[474]
The Surrender of New Orleans, Marion Manville	[475]
Mumford, Ina M. Porter	[476]
Butler's Proclamation, Paul Hamilton Hayne	[476]
CHAPTER VII
Emancipation
To John C. Frémont, John Greenleaf Whittier	[477]
Astræa at the Capitol, John Greenleaf Whittier	[478]
Boston Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson	[478]
The Proclamation, John Greenleaf Whittier	[480]
Treason's Last Device, Edmund Clarence Stedman	[480]
Laus Deo, John Greenleaf Whittier	[481]
CHAPTER VIII
The "Grand Army's" Second Campaign
Mosby at Hamilton, Madison Cawein	[482]
John Pelham, James Ryder Randall	[482]
Hooker's Across, George Henry Boker	[483]
Stonewall Jackson's Way, John Williamson Palmer	[483]
Keenan's Charge, George Parsons Lathrop	[484]
"The Brigade must not know, Sir," Unknown	[485]
Stonewall Jackson, Henry Lynden Flash	[486]
The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson, Sidney Lanier	[486]
Under the Shade of the Trees, Margaret Junkin Preston	[486]
The Ballad of Ishmael Day, Unknown	[487]
Riding with Kilpatrick, Clinton Scollard	[488]
Gettysburg, Edmund Clarence Stedman	[489]
The High Tide at Gettysburg, Will Henry Thompson	[491]
Gettysburg, James Jeffrey Roche	[492]
The Battle-Field, Lloyd Mifflin	[492]
John Burns of Gettysburg, Bret Harte	[493]
Kentucky Belle, Constance Fenimore Woolson	[494]
The Draft Riot, Charles de Kay	[496]
Lincoln at Gettysburg, Bayard Taylor	[497]
CHAPTER IX
With Grant on the Mississippi
Running the Batteries, Herman Melville	[498]
Before Vicksburg, George Henry Boker	[499]
Vicksburg, Paul Hamilton Hayne	[499]
The Battle-Cry of Freedom, George Frederick Root	[500]
The Black Regiment, George Henry Boker	[500]
The Ballad of Chickamauga, Maurice Thompson	[501]
Thomas at Chickamauga, Kate Brownlee Sherwood	[502]
Garfield's Ride at Chickamauga, Hezekiah Butterworth	[503]
The Battle of Lookout Mountain, George Henry Boker	[505]
The Battle in the Clouds, William Dean Howells	[506]
Charleston, Henry Timrod	[507]
The Battle of Charleston Harbor, Paul Hamilton Hayne	[507]
Bury Them, Henry Howard Brownell	[508]
Twilight on Sumter, Richard Henry Stoddard	[509]
CHAPTER X
The Final Struggle
Put it Through, Edward Everett Hale	[509]
Logan at Peach Tree Creek, Hamlin Garland	[510]
A Dirge for McPherson, Herman Melville	[511]
With Corse at Allatoona, Samuel H. M. Byers	[511]
Allatoona, Unknown	[512]
Sherman's March to the Sea, Samuel H. M. Byers	[512]
The Song of Sherman's Army, Charles Graham Halpine	[513]
Marching through Georgia, Henry Clay Work	[513]
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors, Walt Whitman	[514]
Sherman's in Savannah, Oliver Wendell Holmes	[514]
Savannah, Alethea S. Burroughs	[514]
Carolina, Henry Timrod	[515]
Charleston, Paul Hamilton Hayne	[515]
Romance, William Ernest Henley	[516]
The Foe at the Gates, John Dickson Bruns	[516]
Ulric Dahlgren, Kate Brownlee Sherwood	[517]
Lee to the Rear, John Randolph Thompson	[518]
Can't, Harriet Prescott Spofford	[519]
Obsequies of Stuart, John Randolph Thompson	[519]
A Christopher of the Shenandoah, Edith M. Thomas	[520]
Sheridan at Cedar Creek, Herman Melville	[521]
Sheridan's Ride, Thomas Buchanan Read	[521]
The Year of Jubilee, Henry Clay Work	[522]
Virginia Capta, Margaret Junkin Preston	[523]
The Fall of Richmond, Herman Melville	[523]
The Surrender at Appomattox, Herman Melville	[524]
Lee's Parole, Marion Manville	[524]
Robert E. Lee, Julia Ward Howe	[524]
CHAPTER XI
Winslow and Farragut
The Eagle and Vulture, Thomas Buchanan Read	[525]
Kearsarge and Alabama, Unknown	[526]
Kearsarge, S. Weir Mitchell	[526]
The Alabama, Maurice Bell	[527]
Craven, Henry Newbolt	[527]
Farragut, William Tuckey Meredith	[528]
Through Fire in Mobile Bay, Unknown	[529]
The Bay Fight, Henry Howard Brownell	[530]
"Albemarle" Cushing, James Jeffrey Roche	[535]
At the Cannon's Mouth, Herman Melville	[537]
CHAPTER XII
The Martyr President
Lincoln, S. Weir Mitchell	[537]
O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman	[537]
The Dead President, Edward Rowland Sill	[538]
Abraham Lincoln, Edmund Clarence Stedman	[538]
Pardon, Julia Ward Howe	[539]
The Dear President, John James Piatt	[539]
Abraham Lincoln, William Cullen Bryant	[540]
Abraham Lincoln, Richard Henry Stoddard	[540]
Parricide, Julia Ward Howe	[542]
Abraham Lincoln, Tom Taylor	[543]
CHAPTER XIII
Peace
"Stack Arms," Joseph Blynth Alston	[545]
Jefferson Davis, Walker Meriwether Bell	[545]
In the Land where we were Dreaming, Daniel B. Lucas	[546]
Acceptation, Margaret Junkin Preston	[547]
The Conquered Banner, Abram J. Ryan	[547]
Peace, Adeline D. T. Whitney	[547]
Peace, Phœbe Cary	[548]
A Second Review of the Grand Army, Bret Harte	[548]
When Johnny comes marching Home, Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore	[549]
Driving Home the Cows, Kate Putnam Osgood	[550]
Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration, James Russell Lowell	[550]
PART V
THE PERIOD OF EXPANSION
The Eagle's Song, Richard Mansfield	[558]
CHAPTER I
Reconstruction and After
To the Thirty-Ninth Congress, John Greenleaf Whittier	[559]
"Mr. Johnson's Policy of Reconstruction," Charles Graham Halpine	[559]
Thaddeus Stevens, Phœbe Cary	[560]
South Carolina to the States of the North, Paul Hamilton Hayne	[561]
Ku-Klux, Madison Cawein	[562]
The Rear Guard, Irene Fowler Brown	[562]
The Blue and the Gray, Francis Miles Finch	[563]
The Stricken South to the North, Paul Hamilton Hayne	[564]
How Cyrus laid the Cable, John Godfrey Saxe	[565]
The Cable Hymn, John Greenleaf Whittier	[565]
An Arctic Vision, Bret Harte	[566]
Alaska, Joaquin Miller	[567]
Israel Freyer's Bid for Gold, Edmund Clarence Stedman	[567]
Chicago, John Greenleaf Whittier	[568]
Chicago, Bret Harte	[569]
Chicago, John Boyle O'Reilly	[569]
Boston, John Boyle O'Reilly	[570]
The Church of the Revolution, Hezekiah Butterworth	[570]
After the Fire, Oliver Wendell Holmes	[571]
The Ride of Collins Graves, John Boyle O'Reilly	[571]
CHAPTER II
The Year of a Hundred Years
Our First Century, George Edward Woodberry	[572]
Centennial Hymn, John Greenleaf Whittier	[573]
The Centennial Meditation of Columbia, Sidney Lanier	[573]
Centennial Hymn, William Cullen Bryant	[574]
Welcome to the Nations, Oliver Wendell Holmes	[574]
The National Ode, Bayard Taylor	[575]
Our National Banner, Dexter Smith	[578]
After the Centennial, Christopher Pearse Cranch	[578]
CHAPTER III
The Conquest of the Plains
The Pacific Railway, C. R. Ballard	[579]
After the Comanches, Unknown	[579]
Down the Little Big Horn, Francis Brooks	[580]
Little Big Horn, Ernest McGaffey	[581]
Custer's Last Charge, Frederick Whittaker	[582]
Custer, Edmund Clarence Stedman	[583]
The Revenge of Rain-in-the-Face, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[583]
Miles Keogh's Horse, John Hay	[584]
On the Big Horn, John Greenleaf Whittier	[585]
The "Grey Horse Troop," Robert W. Chambers	[585]
Geronimo, Ernest McGaffey	[586]
The Last Reservation, Walter Learned	[586]
Indian Names, Lydia Huntley Sigourney	[587]
CHAPTER IV
The Second Assassination
Rejoice, Joaquin Miller	[587]
The Bells at Midnight, Thomas Bailey Aldrich	[588]
J. A. G., Julia Ward Howe	[589]
Midnight—September 19, 1881, John Boyle O'Reilly	[589]
At the President's Grave, Richard Watson Gilder	[590]
On the Death of President Garfield, Oliver Wendell Holmes	[590]
President Garfield, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[591]
Yorktown Centennial Lyric, Paul Hamilton Hayne	[592]
The Brooklyn Bridge, Edna Dean Proctor	[593]
Brooklyn Bridge, Charles George Douglas Roberts	[593]
Charleston, Richard Watson Gilder	[594]
Mayflower, John Boyle O'Reilly	[594]
Fairest of Freedom's Daughters, Jeremiah Eames Rankin	[594]
Liberty Enlightening the World, Edmund Clarence Stedman	[595]
The Bartholdi Statue, John Greenleaf Whittier	[595]
Additional Verses to Hail Columbia, Oliver Wendell Holmes	[596]
New National Hymn, Francis Marion Crawford	[596]
In Apia Bay, Charles George Douglas Roberts	[597]
An International Episode, Caroline T. Duer	[598]
By the Conemaugh, Florence Earle Coates	[599]
The Man who rode to Conemaugh, John Eliot Bowen	[599]
A Ballad of the Conemaugh Flood, Hardwick Drummond Rawnsley	[600]
Conemaugh, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward	[601]
"The White City," Richard Watson Gilder	[602]
The Kearsarge, James Jeffrey Roche	[602]
Tennessee, Virginia Fraser Boyle	[603]
An Ode on the Unveiling of the Shaw Memorial, Thomas Bailey Aldrich	[603]
The Klondike, Edwin Arlington Robinson	[604]
CHAPTER V
The War with Spain
Apostrophe to the Island of Cuba, James Gates Percival	[606]
The Gallant Fifty-One, Henry Lynden Flash	[606]
Cuba, Edmund Clarence Stedman	[607]
The Gospel of Peace, James Jeffrey Roche	[607]
Cuba, Harvey Rice	[608]
Cuba to Columbia, Will Carleton	[608]
Cuba Libre, Joaquin Miller	[609]
The Parting of the Ways, Joseph B. Gilder	[609]
The Men of the Maine, Clinton Scollard	[609]
The Word of the Lord from Havana, Richard Hovey	[610]
Half-Mast, Lloyd Mifflin	[611]
The Fighting Race, Joseph I. C. Clarke	[611]
On the Eve of War, Danske Dandridge	[612]
To Spain—A Last Word, Edith M. Thomas	[612]
The Martyrs of the Maine, Rupert Hughes	[612]
El Emplazado, William Henry Venable	[613]
Battle Song, Robert Burns Wilson	[613]
Greeting from England, Unknown	[614]
Battle Cry, William Henry Venable	[614]
Just One Signal, Unknown	[614]
Dewey at Manila, Robert Underwood Johnson	[615]
Dewey and his Men, Wallace Rice	[617]
"Off Manilly," Edmund Vance Cooke	[618]
Manila Bay, Arthur Hale	[618]
A Ballad of Manila Bay, Charles George Douglas Roberts	[618]
The Battle of Manila, Richard Hovey	[619]
Dewey in Manila Bay, R. V. Risley	[620]
"Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin," Madison Cawein	[620]
The Spirit of the Maine, Tudor Jenks	[621]
The Dragon of the Seas, Thomas Nelson Page	[621]
The Sailing of the Fleet, Unknown	[622]
"Cut the Cables," Robert Burns Wilson	[622]
The Race of the Oregon, John James Meehan	[624]
Battle-Song of the Oregon, Wallace Rice	[624]
Strike the Blow, Unknown	[625]
Eight Volunteers, Lansing C. Bailey	[626]
The Men of the Merrimac, Clinton Scollard	[626]
The Victory-Wreck, Will Carleton	[627]
Hobson and his Men, Robert Loveman	[627]
The Call to the Colors, Arthur Guiterman	[627]
Essex Regiment March, George Edward Woodberry	[628]
The Gathering, Herbert B. Swett	[629]
Comrades, Henry R. Dorr	[629]
Wheeler's Brigade at Santiago, Wallace Rice	[629]
Deeds of Valor at Santiago, Clinton Scollard	[630]
The Charge at Santiago, William Hamilton Hayne	[630]
Private Blair of the Regulars, Clinton Scollard	[631]
Wheeler at Santiago, James Lindsay Gordon	[631]
Spain's Last Armada, Wallace Rice	[632]
Santiago, Thomas A. Janvier	[633]
The Fleet at Santiago, Charles E. Russell	[634]
The Destroyer of Destroyers, Wallace Rice	[635]
The Brooklyn at Santiago, Wallace Rice	[636]
The Rush of the Oregon, Arthur Guiterman	[637]
The Men behind the Guns, John Jerome Rooney	[637]
Cervera, Bertrand Shadwell	[638]
McIlrath of Malate, John Jerome Rooney	[639]
When the Great Gray Ships come in, Guy Wetmore Carryl	[640]
Full Cycle, John White Chadwick	[640]
Breath on the Oat, Joseph Russell Taylor	[641]
The Islands of the Sea, George Edward Woodberry	[641]
Ballade of Expansion, Hilda Johnson	[642]
"Rebels," Ernest Crosby	[643]
On a Soldier fallen in the Philippines, William Vaughn Moody	[643]
The Ballad of Paco Town, Clinton Scollard	[644]
The Deed of Lieutenant Miles, Clinton Scollard	[644]
Aguinaldo, Bertrand Shadwell	[645]
The Fight at Dajo, Alfred E. Wood	[645]
An Ode in Time of Hesitation, William Vaughn Moody	[646]
CHAPTER VI
The New Century
A Toast to Our Native Land, Robert Bridges	[649]
Buffalo, Florence Earle Coates	[649]
McKinley, Unknown	[649]
Faithful unto Death, Richard Handfield Titherington	[650]
The Comfort of the Trees, Richard Watson Gilder	[650]
Outward Bound, Edward Sydney Tylee	[650]
Panama, James Jeffrey Roche	[651]
Darien, Edwin Arnold	[651]
Panama, Amanda T. Jones	[652]
A Song of Panama, Alfred Damon Runyon	[652]
Hymn of the West, Edmund Clarence Stedman	[653]
Britannia to Columbia, Alfred Austin	[654]
Those Rebel Flags, John H. Jewett	[654]
The Song of the Flags, S. Weir Mitchell	[655]
Arizona, Sharlot M. Hall	[655]
San Francisco, Joaquin Miller	[657]
San Francisco, John Vance Cheney	[657]
To San Francisco, S. J. Alexander	[657]
Resurge San Francisco, Joaquin Miller	[658]
Grover Cleveland, Joel Benton	[658]
Unguarded Gates, Thomas Bailey Aldrich	[659]
National Song, William Henry Venable	[659]
Ad Patriam, Clinton Scollard	[660]
O Land Beloved, George Edward Woodberry	[660]
The Republic, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[660]
CHAPTER VII
The World War
Sonnets written in the Fall of 1914, George Edward Woodberry	[661]
Abraham Lincoln walks at Midnight, Vachel Lindsay	[661]
The "William P. Frye," Jeanne Robert Foster	[662]
The White Ships and the Red, Joyce Kilmer	[663]
Mare Liberum, Henry van Dyke	[664]
Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers fallen for France, Alan Seeger	[664]
Republic to Republic, Witter Bynner	[666]
To the United States of America, Robert Bridges	[666]
The Captive Ships at Manila, Dorothy Paul	[666]
The Road to France, Daniel Henderson	[667]
Pershing at the Tomb of Lafayette, Amelia Josephine Burr	[667]
Your Lad, and my Lad, Randall Parrish	[668]
A Call to Arms, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews	[668]
The First Three, Clinton Scollard	[669]
To America, on her First Sons fallen in the Great War, E. M. Walker	[670]
Rouge Bouquet, Joyce Kilmer	[670]
Marching Song, Dana Burnet	[671]
Our Modest Doughboys, Charlton Andrews	[671]
Seicheprey	[672]
A Ballad of Redhead's Day, Richard Butler Glaenzer	[672]
Victory Bells, Grace Hazard Conkling	[673]
Epicedium, J. Corson Miller	[673]
The Dead, David Morton	[674]
The Unreturning, Clinton Scollard	[674]
The Star, Marion Couthouy Smith	[674]
Brest left behind, John Chipman Farrar	[674]
To the Returning Brave, Robert Underwood Johnson	[675]
The Return, Eleanor Rogers Cox	[676]
King of the Belgians, Marion Couthouy Smith	[676]
The Family of Nations, Willard Wattles	[677]
The League of Nations, Mary Siegrist	[677]
Beyond Wars, David Morton	[678]
"When there is Peace," Austin Dobson	[678]
After the War, Richard Le Gallienne	[678]
NOTES	[681]
INDEX OF AUTHORS	[699]
INDEX OF FIRST LINES	[705]
INDEX OF TITLES	[713]

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PART I
THE COLONIAL PERIOD

AMERICA

Oh, who has not heard of the Northmen of yore,
How flew, like the sea-bird, their sails from the shore;
How westward they stayed not till, breasting the brine,
They hailed Narragansett, the land of the vine?

Then the war-songs of Rollo, his pennon and glaive,
Were heard as they danced by the moon-lighted wave,
And their golden-haired wives bore them sons of the soil,
While raged with the redskins their feud and turmoil.

And who has not seen, mid the summer's gay crowd,
That old pillared tower of their fortalice proud,
How it stands solid proof of the sea chieftains' reign
Ere came with Columbus those galleys of Spain?

'Twas a claim for their kindred: an earnest of sway,—
By the stout-hearted Cabot made good in its day,—
Of the Cross of St. George on the Chesapeake's tide,
Where lovely Virginia arose like a bride.

Came the pilgrims with Winthrop; and, saint of the West,
Came Robert of Jamestown, the brave and the blest;
Came Smith, the bold rover, and Rolfe—with his ring,
To wed sweet Matoäka, child of a king.

Undaunted they came, every peril to dare,
Of tribes fiercer far than the wolf in his lair;
Of the wild irksome woods, where in ambush they lay;
Of their terror by night and their arrow by day.

And so where our capes cleave the ice of the poles,
Where groves of the orange scent sea-coast and shoals,
Where the froward Atlantic uplifts its last crest,
Where the sun, when he sets, seeks the East from the West.

The clime that from ocean to ocean expands,
The fields to the snow-drifts that stretch from the sands,
The wilds they have conquered of mountain and plain,
Those pilgrims have made them fair Freedom's domain.

And the bread of dependence if proudly they spurned,
'Twas the soul of their fathers that kindled and burned,
'Twas the blood of the Saxon within them that ran;
They held—to be free is the birthright of man.

So oft the old lion, majestic of mane,
Sees cubs of his cave breaking loose from his reign;
Unmeet to be his if they braved not his eye,
He gave them the spirit his own to defy.

Arthur Cleveland Coxe.

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POEMS OF AMERICAN HISTORY