Poems of American History

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Page 651. "Silent upon a peak in Darien." From Keats's sonnet, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer."

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INDEX OF AUTHORS

• Aldrich, Thomas Bailey [1836-1907]:
  • Fredericksburg, [449];
  • By the Potomac, [449];
  • The Bells at Midnight, [588];
  • An Ode on the Unveiling of the Shaw Memorial, [603];
  • Unguarded Gates, [659].
• Alexander, S. J.:
  • To San Francisco, [657].
• Alston, Joseph Blynth:
  • "Stack Arms," [545].
• André, John [1751-1780]:
  • The Cow-Chace, [233].
• Andrews, Charlton:
  • Our Modest Doughboys, [671].
• Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman:
  • A Call to Arms, [668].
• Arnold, Edwin [1832-1904]:
  • Darien, [651].
• Austin, Alfred [1835-1913]:
  • Britannia to Columbia, [654].

• Babcock, William Henry [1849- ]:
  • Bennington, [196].
• Bailey, Lansing C.:
  • Eight Volunteers, [626].
• Ballard, C. R.:
  • The Pacific Railway, [579].
• Bangs, Edward [fl. 1775]:
  • The Yankee's Return from Camp, [159].
• Banker, William, Jr.:
  • The Battle of Queenstown, [292].
• Barlow, Joel [1754-1812]:
  • The First American Congress, [273];
  • On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis, [341].
• Bates, Charlotte Fiske. See Rogé.
• Beers, Mrs. Ethelinda [1827-1879]:
  • The Picket-Guard, [433].
• Bell, Maurice:
  • The Alabama, [527].
• Bell, Walker Meriwether:
  • Jefferson Davis, [545].
• Benjamin, Park [1809-1864]:
  • To Arms, [363].
• Benton, Joel [1832- ]:
  • Grover Cleveland, [658].
• Block, Louis James [1851- ]:
  • The Final Struggle, [11].
• Boker, George Henry [1823-1890]:
  • Upon the Hill before Centreville, [420];
  • Dirge for a Soldier, [442];
  • The Crossing at Fredericksburg, [446];
  • Zagonyi, [453];
  • On Board the Cumberland, [464];
  • The Cruise of the Monitor, [467];
  • The Ballad of New Orleans, [472];
  • The Varuna, [474];
  • Hooker's Across, [483];
  • Before Vicksburg, [499];
  • The Black Regiment, [500];
  • The Battle of Lookout Mountain, [505].
• Botwood, Edward [c 1730-1759]:
  • Hot Stuff, [121].
• Bouvé, Thomas Tracy [1875- ]:
  • The Shannon and the Chesapeake, [300].
• Bowen, John Eliot [1858-1890]:
  • The Man who rode to Conemaugh, [599].
• Boyle, Mrs. Virginia Fraser:
  • Tennessee, [603].
• Bradford, William [c 1590-1657]:
  • New England's Growth, [69].
• Brainard, John Gardiner Calkins [1796-1828]:
  • On the Death of Commodore Oliver H. Perry, [347].
• Bridges, Robert [1844- ]:
  • To the United States of America, [666].
• Bridges, Robert [1858- ]:
  • A Toast to Our Native Land, [649].
• Brooks, Charles Timothy [1813-1883]:
  • A Plea for Flood Ireson, [284].
• Brooks, Francis [1867-1898]:
  • Down the Little Big Horn, [580].
• Brown, Irene Fowler:
  • The Rear Guard, [562].
• Brownell, Henry Howard [1820-1872]:
  • The Battle of Charlestown, [395];
  • The Old Cove, [401];
  • Sumter, [408];
  • The Eagle of Corinth, [458];
  • The River Fight, [468];
  • Bury Them, [508];
  • The Bay Fight, [530].
• Bruce, Wallace [1844- ]:
  • Parson Allen's Ride, [194].
• Bruns, John Dickson:
  • The Foe at the Gates, [516].
• Bryant, William Cullen [1794-1878]:
  • The Green Mountain Boys, [157];
  • Seventy-Six, [191];
  • Song of Marion's Men, [248];
  • "Oh Mother of a Mighty Race," [268];
  • Our Country's Call, [410];
  • Abraham Lincoln, [540];
  • Centennial Hymn, [574].
• Burnet, Dana [1888- ]:
  • Marching Song, [671].
• Burr, Amelia Josephine [1878- ]:
  • Pershing at the Tomb of Lafayette, [667].
• Burroughs, Alethea S.:
  • Savannah, [514].
• Burton, Richard [1859- ]:
  • The Old Santa Fé Trail, [346].
• Butterworth, Hezekiah [1837-1905]:
  • The Thanksgiving for America, [15];
  • The Legend of Waukulla, [19];
  • The Fountain of Youth, [21];
  • Verazzano, [25];
  • Ortiz, [26];
  • Five Kernels of Corn, [62];
  • The Thanksgiving in Boston Harbor, [67];
  • Roger Williams, [72];
  • Whitman's Ride for Oregon, [342];
  • The Death of Jefferson, [349];
  • Garfield's Ride at Chickamauga, [503];
  • The Church of the Revolution, [570].
• Byers, Samuel Hawkins Marshall [1838- ]:
  • With Corse at Allatoona, [511];
  • Sherman's March to the Sea, [512].
• Bynner, Witter [1881- ]:
  • Republic to Republic, [666].
• Byron, George Gordon Noel [1788-1824]:
  • Washington, [276].

• Calvert, George Henry [1803-1889]:
  • Bunker Hill, [162].
• Campbell, William W. [1806-1881]:
  • With Cortez in Mexico, [24].
• Carleton, William [1845-1912]:
  • The Prize of the Margaretta, [155];
  • Across the Delaware, [188];
  • The Little Black-Eyed Rebel, [209];
  • Cuba to Columbia, [608];
  • The Victory-Wreck, [627].
• Carryl, Guy Wetmore [1873-1904]:
  • When the Great Gray Ships come in, [640].
• Cary, Phœbe [1824-1871]:
  • Ready, [461];
  • Peace, [548];
  • Thaddeus Stevens, [560].
• Cawein, Madison [1865-1914]:
  • Mosby at Hamilton, [482];
  • Ku-Klux, [562];
  • "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin," [620].
• Chadwick, John White [1840-1904]:
  • Mugford's Victory, [174];
  • Full Cycle, [640].
• Chambers, Robert William [1865- ]:
  • The "Grey Horse Troop," [585].
• Cheney, John Vance [1848-1922]:
  • San Francisco, [657].
• Clarke, Ednah Proctor. See Hayes.
• Clarke, Joseph Ignatius Constantine [1846- ]:
  • The Fighting Race, [611].
• Cloud, Virginia Woodward [187 - ]:
  • The Ballad of Sweet P, [186].
• Coates, Mrs. Florence Earle [1850- ]:
  • By the Conemaugh, [599];
  • Buffalo, [649].
• Conkling, Grace Hazard [1878- ]:
  • Victory Bells, [673].
• Cooke, Edmund Vance [1866- ]:
  • "Off Manilly," [618].
• Cooke, Mrs. Rose Terry [1827-1892]:
  • The Death of Goody Nurse, [90].
• Cornwall, H. S.:
  • Jefferson D., [401].
• Cornwallis, Kinahan [1835- ]:
  • The Battle of Murfreesboro, [459].
• Cox, Eleanor Rogers [ - ]:
  • The Return, [676].
• Coxe, Arthur Cleveland [1818-1896]:
  • America, [2].
• Cranch, Christopher Pearse [1813-1892]:
  • After the Centennial, [578].
• Crawford, Francis Marion [1854-1909]:
  • New National Hymn, [596].
• Crosby, Ernest Howard [1856-1906]: "Rebels," [643].
• Cullen, Cornelius C.:
  • Battle of Somerset, [454].

• Dandridge, Mrs. Danske [1864- ]:
  • On the Eve of War, [612].
• De Kay, Charles [1848- ]:
  • The Draft Riot, [496].
• Dobson, Austin [1840-1921]:
  • "When there is Peace," [678].
• Dorr, Henry R.:
  • Comrades, [629].
• Drake, Joseph Rodman [1795-1820]:
  • The American Flag, [192];
  • To the Defenders of New Orleans, [326].
• Drayton, Michael [1563-1631]:
  • To the Virginian Voyage, [42].
• Duer, Caroline King [1865- ]:
  • An International Episode, [598].
• Duganne, Augustine Joseph Hickey [1823-1884]:
  • Bethel, [417].
• Dwight, Timothy [1752-1817]:
  • The Assault on the Fortress, [70];
  • Columbia, [180];
  • To the Federal Convention, [270].

• Eastman, Barrett [1869- ]:
  • How we burned the Philadelphia, [281].
• Eastman, Sophie E.:
  • A Spool of Thread, [402].
• Elam, William C.:
  • The Mecklenburg Declaration, [156].
• Ellsworth, Erastus Wolcott [1822- ]:
  • The Mayflower, [59].
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo [1803-1882]:
  • Concord Hymn, [351];
  • Boston Hymn, [478].
• English, Thomas Dunn [1819-1902]:
  • The Fall of Maubila, [27];
  • The Burning of Jamestown, [44];
  • The Sack of Deerfield, [102];
  • Assunpink and Princeton, [188];
  • Arnold at Stillwater, [200];
  • The Battle of Monmouth, [211];
  • Betty Zane, [216];
  • The Battle of the Cowpens, [252];
  • The Battle of New Orleans, [323];
  • Battle of the King's Mill, [370];
  • The Charge by the Ford, [438].

• Farrar, John Chipman [ - ]:
  • Brest Left Behind, [674].
• Fessenden, Thomas Green [1771-1837]:
  • Ye Sons of Columbia, [278].
• Fields, Mrs. Annie Adams [1834- ]:
  • Cedar Mountain, [441].
• Finch, Francis Miles [1827-1907]:
  • Nathan Hale, [186];
  • The Blue and the Gray, [563].
• Flash, Henry Lynden [1835- ]:
  • Zollicoffer, [454];
  • Stonewall Jackson, [486];
  • The Gallant Fifty-One, [606].
• Foster, Jeanne Robert:
  • The "William P. Frye," [662].
• Franklin, Benjamin [1706-1790]:
  • The Downfall of Piracy, [48];
  • The Mother Country, [142].
• Freneau, Philip [1752-1832]:
  • Columbus to Ferdinand, [9];
  • Columbus in Chains, [17];
  • Emancipation from British Dependence, [176];
  • On the Death of Captain Nicholas Biddle, [220];
  • The Bonhomme Richard and Serapis, [225];
  • Barney's Invitation, [226];
  • Song on Captain Barney's Victory, [227];
  • Sir Henry Clinton's Invitation to the Refugees, [229];
  • The Royal Adventurer, [241];
  • Eutaw Springs, [255];
  • An Ancient Prophecy, [258];
  • On the Departure of the British from Charleston, [260];
  • On the British King's Speech, [261];
  • Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, on his Way to his Residence in Virginia, [263];
  • On the Death of Benjamin Franklin, [275];
  • On the Capture of the Guerrière, [290];
  • The Battle of Stonington, [309];
  • On the British Invasion, [312];
  • The Battle of Lake Champlain, [312];
  • On the Emigration to America, [331].
• Frost, Thomas:
  • The Death of Colman, [50];
  • The Guns in the Grass, [361].