Poems of American History

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• Randall, James Ryder [1839-1908]:
  • My Maryland, [415];
  • John Pelham, [482].
• Rankin, Jeremiah Eames [1828-1904]:
  • The Word of God to Leyden came, [56];
  • Fairest of Freedom's Daughters, [594].
• Rawnsley, Hardwick Drummond [1850- ]:
  • A Ballad of the Conemaugh Flood, [600].
• Read, Thomas Buchanan [1822-1872]:
  • The Rising, [154];
  • Valley Forge, [207];
  • Blennerhassett's Island, [335];
  • The Attack, [463];
  • Sheridan's Ride, [521];
  • The Eagle and Vulture, [525].
• Realf, Richard [1834-1878]:
  • The Defence of Lawrence, [390].
• Revere, Paul [1735-1818]:
  • Unhappy Boston, [134].
• Rice, Harvey [1800-1891]:
  • Cuba, [608].
• Rice, Wallace de Groot Cecil [1859- ]:
  • The First American Sailors, [34];
  • The Sudbury Fight, [85];
  • The Minute-Men of Northboro', [152];
  • Firstfruits in 1812, [291];
  • Defeat and Victory, [302];
  • The Armstrong at Fayal, [321];
  • Jackson at New Orleans, [325];
  • Blood is Thicker than Water, [380];
  • Dewey and his Men, [617];
  • Battle Song of the Oregon, [624];
  • Wheeler's Brigade at Santiago, [629];
  • Spain's Last Armada, [632];
  • The Destroyer of Destroyers, [635];
  • The Brooklyn at Santiago, [636].
• Rich, Hiram [1832-1905]:
  • Morgan Stanwood, [151].
• Rich, Richard [fl. 1610]:
  • Newes from Virginia, [40].
• Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth [1850- ]:
  • Molly Pitcher, [213].
• Risley, Richard Voorhees [1874-1904]:
  • Dewey in Manila Bay, [620].
• Roberts, Charles George Douglas [1860- ]:
  • Brooklyn Bridge, [593];
  • In Apia Bay, [597];
  • A Ballad of Manila Bay, [618].
• Robinson, Edwin Arlington [1869- ]:
  • The Klondike, [604].
• Roche, James Jeffrey [1847-1908]:
  • Washington, [274];
  • Reuben James, [282];
  • Jack Creamer, [295];
  • The Fight of the Armstrong Privateer, [319];
  • The Constitution's Last Fight, [327];
  • The Men of the Alamo, [355];
  • The Flag, [378];
  • Gettysburg, [492];
  • "Albemarle" Cushing, [535];
  • The Kearsarge, [602];
  • The Gospel of Peace, [607];
  • Panama, [651].
• Rodman, Thomas P.:
  • The Battle of Bennington, [195].
• Rogé, Mrs. Charlotte Fiske Bates [1838- ]:
  • André, [239].
• Rooney, John Jerome [1866- ]:
  • The Men behind the Guns, [637];
  • McIlrath of Malate, [639].
• Root, George Frederick [1820-1895]:
  • The Battle-Cry of Freedom, [500].
• Runyon, Alfred Damon:
  • A Song of Panama, [652].
• Russell, Charles Edward [1860- ]:
  • The Fleet at Santiago, [634].
• Ryan, Abram Joseph [1839-1888]:
  • The Conquered Banner, [547].

• Safford, William Harrison [1821-1903]:
  • The Battle of Muskingum, [337].
• St. John, Peter:
  • The Descent on Middlesex, [242].
• Sargent, Epes [1813-1880]:
  • The Death of Warren, [166].
• Sawyer, Charles Carroll [1833- ]:
  • When this Cruel War is Over, [677].
• Saxe, John Godfrey [1816-1887]:
  • How Cyrus laid the Cable, [565].
• Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von [1759-1805]:
  • Steer, Bold Mariner, On, [12].
• Scollard, Clinton [1860- ]:
  • The First Thanksgiving, [68];
  • King Philip's Last Stand, [88];
  • The Eve of Bunker Hill, [161];
  • Montgomery at Quebec, [171];
  • The Boasting of Sir Peter Parker, [181];
  • Saint Leger, [199];
  • Wayne at Stony Point, [230];
  • The Battle of Plattsburg Bay, [313];
  • The Valor of Ben Milam, [354];
  • The Daughter of the Regiment, [462];
  • Riding with Kilpatrick, [488];
  • The Men of the Maine, [609];
  • The Men of the Merrimac, [626];
  • Deeds of Valor at Santiago, [630];
  • Private Blair of the Regulars, [631];
  • The Ballad of Paco Town, [644];
  • The Deed of Lieutenant Miles, [644];
  • Ad Patriam, [660];
  • The First Three, [669];
  • The Unreturning, [674].
• Seeger, Alan [1888-1916]:
  • Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers fallen for France, [664].
• Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell [1748-1808]:
  • War and Washington, [170];
  • On Independence, [179].
• Shadwell, Bertrand:
  • Cervera, [638];
  • Aguinaldo, [645].
• Shanly, Charles Dawson [1811-1875]:
  • Civil War, [432].
• Sherwood, Mrs. Katherine Margaret Brownlee [1841- ]:
  • Molly Pitcher, [213];
  • Albert Sidney Johnston, [456];
  • Thomas at Chickamauga, [502];
  • Ulric Dahlgren, [517].
• Siegrist, Mary:
  • The League of Nations, [677].
• Sigourney, Mrs. Lydia Huntley [1791-1865]:
  • Columbus, [9];
  • California, [346];
  • Indian Names, [587].
• Sill, Edward Rowland [1841-1887]:
  • The Dead President, [538].
• Simmons, James Wright:
  • Sumter's Band, [250].
• Simms, William Gilmore [1806-1870]:
  • The Swamp Fox, [247];
  • The Battle of Eutaw, [254].
• Smith, Dexter:
  • Our National Banner, [578].
• Smith, Lewis Worthington [1866- ]:
  • News from Yorktown, [257].
• Smith, Marion Couthouy:
  • The Star, [674];
  • King of the Belgians, [676].
• Smith, Samuel Francis [1808-1895]:
  • America, [ii.]
• Southey, Robert [1774-1843]:
  • The Bower of Peace, [318].
• Spofford, Mrs. Harriet Prescott [1835-1921]:
  • How we became a Nation, [138];
  • Can't, [519].
• Stansbury, Joseph [1750-1809]:
  • A New Song, [240];
  • The Lords of the Main, [241].
• Stansbury, Mary Anna Phinney:
  • The Surprise at Ticonderoga, [157].
• Stedman, Edmund Clarence [1833-1908]:
  • Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call, [54];
  • Salem, [89];
  • Aaron Burr's Wooing, [231];
  • How Old Brown took Harper's Ferry, [393];
  • Sumter, [404];
  • Wanted—A Man, [435];
  • Kearny at Seven Pines, [437];
  • Treason's Last Device, [480];
  • Gettysburg, [489];
  • Abraham Lincoln, [538];
  • Israel Freyer's Bid for Gold, [567];
  • Custer, [583];
  • Liberty Enlightening the World, [595];
  • Cuba, [607];
  • Hymn of the West, [653].
• Steendam, Jacob [c 1640-c 1690]:
  • The Praise of New Netherland, [52];
  • The Complaint of New Amsterdam, [53].
• Stevenson, Burton Egbert [1872- ]:
  • Henry Hudson's Quest, [50];
  • The Peace Message, [60].
• Stevenson, James:
  • The Gallant Fighting "Joe," [436].
• Stoddard, Richard Henry [1825-1903]:
  • Men of the North and West, [409];
  • Colonel Ellsworth, [416];
  • The Little Drummer, [451];
  • Twilight on Sumter, [509];
  • Abraham Lincoln, [540].
• Street, Alfred Billings [1811-1882]:
  • The Settler, [329].
• Swett, Herbert B.:
  • The Gathering, [629].

• Taylor, Bayard [1825-1878]:
  • Through Baltimore, [414];
  • Lincoln at Gettysburg, [497];
  • The National Ode, [575].
• Taylor, Joseph Russell [1868- ]:
  • Breath on the Oat, [641].
• Taylor, Tom [1817-1880]:
  • Abraham Lincoln, [543].
• Tennyson, Alfred [1809-1892]:
  • England and America in 1782, [262].
• Terry, Uriah:
  • The Wyoming Massacre, [217].
• Thackeray, William Makepeace [1811-1863]:
  • Pocahontas, [38].
• Thomas, Edith Matilda [1854- ]:
  • Ponce de Leon, [22];
  • A Christopher of the Shenandoah, [520];
  • To Spain—A Last Word, [612].
• Thompson, James Maurice [1844-1901]:
  • The Ballad of Chickamauga, [501].
• Thompson, John Randolph [1823-1873]:
  • On to Richmond, [426];
  • The Burial of Latané, [437];
  • Lee to the Rear, [518];
  • Obsequies of Stuart, [519].
• Thompson, Will Henry [1848- ]:
  • The High Tide at Gettysburg, [491].
• Ticknor, Francis Orrery [1822-1874]:
  • The Virginians of the Valley, [417];
  • A Battle Ballad, [424];
  • "Our Left," [441];
  • Albert Sidney Johnston, [457];
  • Little Giffen, [460].
• Tilden, Stephen [1686-1766]:
  • The British Lyon roused, [111];
  • Braddock's Fate, [112].
• Tilton, Theodore [1835-1907]:
  • The Great Bell Roland, [408].
• Timrod, Henry [1829-1867]:
  • A Cry to Arms, [411];
  • Charleston, [507];
  • Carolina, [515].
• Titherington, Richard Handfield [1861- ]:
  • Faithful unto Death, [650].
• Tompson, Benjamin [1753-1814]:
  • On a Fortification at Boston begun by Women, [85].
• Trowbridge, John Townsend [1827-1916]:
  • Columbus at the Convent, [10].
• Tylee, Edward Sydney:
  • Outward Bound, [650].
• Tyler, Royall [1757-1826]:
  • Independence Day, [179].

• Upham, Thomas Cogswell [1799-1872]:
  • Song of the Pilgrims, [57].

• Van Dyke, Henry [1852- ]:
  • Mare Liberum, [664].
• Venable, William Henry [1836-1918]:
  • John Filson, [331];
  • Johnny Appleseed, [334];
  • The Founders of Ohio, [335];
  • El Emplazado, [613];
  • Battle Cry, [614];
  • National Song, [659].
• Verplanck, Gulian Crommelin [1786-1870]:
  • Prophecy, [144].

• Walker, E. M.:
  • To America, on Her First Sons Fallen in the Great War, [670].
• Ward, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps [1844-1911]:
  • A Message, [440];
  • Conemaugh, [601].
• Warfield, Mrs. Catherine Anne [1816-1877]:
  • Manassas, [423];
  • Beauregard, [457].
• Warren, Joseph [1741-1775]:
  • Free America, [140].
• Warren, Mrs. Mercy [1728-1814]:
  • Massachusetts—Song of Liberty, [143].
• Wattles, Willard [ - ]:
  • The Family of Nations, [677].
• Weare, Mesech [1713-1786]:
  • The Blasted Herb, [139].
• Webster, Mrs. M. M.:
  • The Marriage of Pocahontas, [43].
• Wharton, William H.:
  • Ben Milam, [355].
• White, Richard Edward [1843- ]:
  • The Discovery of San Francisco Bay, [343].
• Whiting, Seymour W.:
  • Alamance, [135].
• Whitman, Walt [1819-1892]:
  • Ethiopia Saluting the Colors, [514];
  • O Captain! My Captain, [537].
• Whitney, Mrs. Adeline Dutton Train [1824-1903]:
  • Peace, [547].
• Whittaker, Frederick [1838- ]:
  • Custer's Last Charge, [582].
• Whittier, John Greenleaf [1807-1892]:
  • The Norsemen, [4];
  • Norembega, [32];
  • John Underhill, [74];
  • Cassandra Southwick, [77];
  • The King's Missive, [80];
  • St. John, [99];
  • Pentucket, [105];
  • Lexington, [153];
  • The Vow of Washington, [274];
  • Skipper Ireson's Ride, [283];
  • Texas, [358];
  • The Angels of Buena Vista, [366];
  • The Crisis, [372];
  • To William Lloyd Garrison, [385];
  • Clerical Oppressors, [385];
  • Ichabod, [388];
  • The Kansas Emigrants, [389];
  • Burial of Barber, [389];
  • Le Marais du Cygne, [392];
  • Brown of Ossawatomie, [396];
  • Barbara Frietchie, [444];
  • The Battle Autumn of 1862, [460];
  • At Port Royal, [461];
  • To John C. Frémont, [477];
  • Astræa at the Capitol, [478];
  • The Proclamation, [480];
  • Laus Deo, [481];
  • To the Thirty-Ninth Congress, [559];
  • The Cable Hymn, [565];
  • Chicago, [568];
  • Centennial Hymn, [573];
  • On the Big Horn, [585];
  • The Bartholdi Statue, [595].
• Williams, Roger [1604?-1683]:
  • God makes a Path, [72].
• Willis, Nathaniel Parker [1806-1867]:
  • André's Request to Washington, [238];
  • The Death of Harrison, [353].
• Willson, [Byron] Forceythe [1837-1867]:
  • Boy Brittan, [455].
• Wilson, Robert Burns [1850- ]:
  • Battle Song, [613];
  • "Cut the Cables," [622].
• Wolfe, James [1726-1759]:
  • How stands the Glass around, [121].
• Wood, Alfred D.:
  • The Fight at Dajo, [645].
• Woodberry, George Edward [1855- ]:
  • Our First Century, [572];
  • Essex Regiment March, [628];
  • The Islands of the Sea, [641];
  • O Land Beloved, [660];
  • Sonnets written in the Fall of 1914, [661].
• Woolson, Constance Fenimore [1840-1894]:
  • Kentucky Belle, [494].
• Wordsworth, William [1770-1850]:
  • The Pilgrim Fathers, [66].
• Work, Henry Clay [1832-1884]:
  • Marching through Georgia, [513];
  • The Year of Jubilee, [522].

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

• A blush as of roses, [392].
• A boy drove into the city, his wagon loaded down, [209].
• A cheer and salute for the Admiral, and here's to the Captain bold, [637].
• A cliff-locked port and a bluff sea wall, [319].
• A cloud possessed the hollow field, [491].
• A cycle was closed and rounded, [196].
• A flash of light across the night, [517].
• A fleet with flags arrayed, [110].
• A gallant foeman in the fight, [524].
• A grand attempt some Amazonian Dames, [85].
• A granite cliff on either shore, [593].
• A handful came to Seicheprey, [672].
• A hundred thousand Northmen, [419].
• A midnight cry appalls the gloom, [334].
• A moonless night—a friendly one, [498].
• A pillar of fire by night, [513].
• A score of years had come and gone, [74].
• A song unto Liberty's brave Buccaneer, [222].
• A story of Ponce de Leon, [21].
• A summer Sunday morning, [424].
• A transient city, marvellously fair, [649].
• A voice went over the waters, [608].
• A Yankee ship and a Yankee crew, [327].
• Abraham Lincoln, the Dear President, [539].
• Across the Stony Mountains, o'er the desert's drouth and sand, [372].
• After the eyes that looked, the lips that spake, [497].
• After the war—I hear men ask—what then, [678].
• Again Columbia's stripes, unfurl'd, [302].
• Again the summer-fevered skies, [503].
• Ah, you mistake me, comrades, to think that my heart is steel, [200].
• All alone on the hillside, [585].
• All day long the guns at the forts, [475].
• All day the great guns barked and roared, [213].
• All hail! Unfurl the Stripes and Stars, [403].
• All night upon the guarded hill, [390].
• "All quiet along the Potomac," they say, [433].
• All summer long the people knelt, [590].
• Aloft upon an old basaltic crag, [379].
• Along a river-side, I know not where, [450].
• America! dear brother land, [614].
• America, my own, [659].
• America! thou fractious nation, [138].
• An American frigate from Baltimore came, [224].
• "An empire to be lost or won," [342].
• An eye with the piercing eagle's fire, [560].
• "And now," said the Governor, gazing abroad on the piled-up store, [60].
• And they have thrust our shattered dead away in foreign graves, [612].
• Are these the honors they reserve for me, [17].
• "Are you ready, O Virginia," [627].
• Arms reversed and banners craped, [511].
• Arnold! the name as heretofore, [238].
• As billows upon billows roll, [524].
• As hang two mighty thunderclouds, [361].
• As men who fight for home and child and wife, [198].
• As near beauteous Boston lying, [137].
• As to kidnap the Congress has long been my aim, [205].
• As vonce I valked by a dismal svamp, [401].
• At anchor in Hampton Roads we lay, [464].
• At Eutaw Springs the valiant died, [255].
• At length 'tis done, the glorious conflict's done, [118].
• At the door of his hut sat Massasoit, [60].
• Avast, honest Jack! now, before you get mellow, [303].
• Awake! arise, ye men of might, [363].
• Awake! awake! my gallant friends, [339].
• Awake, ye nations, slumbering supine, [661].
• Ay! drop the treacherous mask! throw by, [476].
• Ay, it is fitting on this holiday, [664].
• Ay, let it rest! And give us peace, [607].
• Ay, shout and rave, thou cruel sea, [380].
• Ay, tear her tattered ensign down, [351].
• Aye, lads, aye, we fought 'em, [618].

• Back from the trebly crimsoned field, [435].
• Be then your counsels, as your subject, great, [270].
• Bear him, comrades, to his grave, [389].
• Before our eyes a pageant rolled, [578].
• Before the living bronze Saint-Gaudens made, [646].
• Behind him lay the gray Azores, [14].
• Behold her Seven Hills loom white, [658].
• Behold, we have gathered together our battleships, near and afar, [620].
• Beneath our consecrated elm, [168].
• Beneath the blistering tropical sun, [629].
• Beside that tent and under guard, [586].
• Beside the lone river, [581].
• Blackened and bleeding, helpless, panting, prone, [569].
• Bob Anderson, my beau, Bob, when we were first aquent, [403].
• Born, nurtured, wedded, prized, within the pale, [349].
• Boy Brittan—only a lad—a fair-haired boy—sixteen, [455].
• Bright on the banners of lily and rose, [574].
• Bring cypress, rosemary and rue, [658].
• Bring the good old bugle, boys, we'll sing another song, [513].
• Britannia's gallant streamers, [296].
• Britons grown big with pride, [173].
• Brothers in blood! They who this wrong began, [666].
• Bury the Dragon's Teeth, [508].
• By Cavité on the bay, [619].
• By Chickamauga's crooked stream the martial trumpets blew, [501].
• By the beard of the Prophet the Bashaw swore, [281].
• By the flow of the inland river, [563].
• By the rude bridge that arched the flood, [351].