Poems of American History - Unknown

Vain Britons, boast no longer with proud indignity, [170].
Victorious knights without reproach or fear, [675].

Warden at ocean's gate, [595].
Was there ever message sweeter, [440].
Wave, wave your glorious battle-flags, brave soldiers of the North, [489].
We are coming, Cuba,—coming; our starry banner shines, [629].
We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more, [440].
We are the troop that ne'er will stoop, [142].
We could not pause, while yet the noontide air, [519].
We cross the prairie as of old, [389].
We do accept thee, heavenly Peace, [547].
We follow where the Swamp Fox guides, [247].
We have an old mother that peevish is grown, [142].
We have sent him seeds of the melon's core, [562].
We lay in the Trenches we'd dug in the Ground, [162].
We loved the wild clamor of battle, [655].
We mustered at midnight, in darkness we formed, [417].
We sailed to and fro in Erie's broad lake, [303].
We were not many, we who stood, [363].
We were ordered to Samoa from the coast of Panama, [598].
Weak-winged is song, [550].
Wearied arm and broken sword, [38].
"Well, General Grant, have you heard the news," [524].
Well worthy to be magnified are they, [66].
Well, yes, I've lived in Texas since the spring of '61, [402].
Were there no crowns on earth, [538].
What are the thoughts that are stirring his breast, [486].
What are you waiting for, George, I pray, [433].
What distant thunders rend the skies, [220].
What heavy-hoofed coursers the wilderness roam, [305].
What heroes from the woodland sprung, [191].
What is that a-billowing there, [291].
What is the voice I hear, [654].
What mean these peals from every tower, [523].
What! shall the sudden blade, [583].
What! soar'd the old eagle to die at the sun, [353].
What time the Lord drew back the sea, [652].
What time the noble Lovewell came, [108].
When a certain great King, whose initial is G., [258].
When arms and numbers both have failed, [645].
When brave Van Rensselaer cross'd the stream, [292].
When Britain, with envy and malice inflamed, [298].
When British troops first landed here, [256].
When Carolina's hope grew pale, [250].
When Congress sent great Washington, [169].
When darkness prevail'd and aloud on the air, [339].
When fair Columbia was a child, [140].
When Faction, in league with the treacherous Gaul, [241].
When first I saw our banner wave, [478].
When Freedom, fair Freedom, her banner display'd, [279].
When Freedom from her mountain height, [192].
When George the King would punish folk, [138].
When Jack the King's commander, [202].
When Johnny comes marching home again, [549].
When life hath run its largest round, [377].
When North first began, [204].
When Pershing's men go marching into Picardy, marching, marching into Picardy, [671].
When ruthful time the South's memorial places, [564].
When shall the Island Queen of Ocean lay, [318].
When tempest winnowed grain from bran, [445].
When the British fleet lay, [215].
When the dying flame of day, [245].
When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, [399].
When the vengeance wakes, when the battle breaks, [613].
When the war-cry of Liberty rang through the land, [166].
"When there is Peace, our land no more," [678].
When you speak of the dauntless deeds, [644].
Where may the wearied eye repose, [276].
Where murdered Mumford lies, [476].
Where nowadays the Battery lies, [54].
Where shall we seek for a hero, and where shall we find a story, [132].
Where the dews and the rains of heaven have their fountain, [506].
Where the remote Bermudas ride, [39].
Where the short-legged Esquimaux, [566].
Where the wild wave, from ocean proudly swelling, [323].
Whereas the rebels hereabout, [160].
While far along the eastern sky, [571].
While Sherman stood beneath the hottest fire, [499].
Whilst in peaceful quarters lying, [210].
Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient hardly human, [514].
Who cries that the days of daring are those that are faded far, [630].
Who has not heard of the dauntless Varuna, [474].
Who is this ye say is slain, [416].
Who now dare longer trust thy mother hand, [657].
Who with the soldiers was stanch danger-sharer, [462].
Whoop! the Doodles have broken loose, [412].
"Who've ye got there?"—"Only a dying brother," [485].
Why come ye hither, stranger, [193].
Why do I sleep amid the snows, [72].
Wide o'er the valley the pennons are fluttering, [371].
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, [659].
Will you hear of a bloody battle, [48].
Winds that sweep the southern mountains, [512].
With drooping sail and pennant, [663].
With half the Western world at stake, [328].
With restless step of discontent, [23].
With sharpened pen and wit, one tunes his lays, [52].
With shot and shell, like a loosened hell, [630].
With that pathetic impudence of youth, [677].
Women are timid, cower and shrink, [216].

Yankee Doodle sent to Town, [376].
Yankee Doodle went to war, [425].
Ye brave Columbian bands! a long farewell, [262].
Ye brave sons of Freedom, come join in the chorus, [285].
Ye Columbians so bold, attend while I sing, [2].
Ye elms that wave on Malvern Hill, [439].
Ye gentlemen and ladies fair, [326].
Ye jolly Yankee gentlemen, who live at home in ease, [428].
Ye jovial throng, come join the song, [337].
Ye parliament of England, [318].
Ye say they all have passed away, [587].
Ye sons of Columbia, unite in the cause, [278].
Ye sons of Columbia, who bravely have fought, [276].
Ye sons of Massachusetts, all who love that honored name, [85].
Ye sons of Sedition, how comes it to pass, [140].
Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again, [500].
Yes, yes, my boy, there's no mistake, [639].
Yet had his sun not risen; from his lips, [11].
You are looking now on old Tom Moore, [345].
You brave heroic minds, [42].
You dare to say with perjured lips, [664].
You know that day at Peach Tree Creek, [510].
You know there goes a tale, [232].
You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier, [543].
You that crossed the ocean old, [22].
Your threats how vain, Corregidor, [618].
You're a traitor convicted, you know very well, [401].

Zounds! how the price went flashing through, [567].

INDEX OF TITLES

Aaron Burr's Wooing, E. C. Stedman, [231].
About Savannah, Unknown, [245].
Abraham Lincoln, W. C. Bryant, [540].
Abraham Lincoln, E. C. Stedman, [538].
Abraham Lincoln, R. H. Stoddard, [540].
Abraham Lincoln, Tom Taylor, [543].
Abraham Lincoln walks at Midnight, Vachel Lindsay, [661].
Acceptation, M. J. Preston, [547].
Across the Delaware, Will Carleton, [188].
Ad Patriam, Clinton Scollard, [660].
Adams and Liberty, R. T. Paine, [276].
Additional Verses to Hail Columbia, O. W. Holmes, [596].
Adrian Block's Song, E. E. Hale, [51].
After the Centennial, C. P. Cranch, [578].
After the Comanches, Unknown, [579].
After the Fire, O. W. Holmes, [571].
After the War, Richard Le Gallienne, [678].
Aguinaldo, Bertrand Shadwell, [645].
Alabama, The, Maurice Bell, [527].
Alamance, S. W. Whiting, [135].
Alaska, Joaquin Miller, [567].
"Albemarle" Cushing, J. J. Roche, [535].
Albert Sidney Johnston, K. B. Sherwood, [456].
Albert Sidney Johnston, F. O. Ticknor, [457].
Allatoona, Unknown, [512].
America, A. C. Cox, [2].
America, S. F. Smith, ii.
American Flag, The, J. R. Drake, [192].
American Independence, Francis Hopkinson, [178].
American Patriot's Prayer, The, Unknown, [180].
American Soldier's Hymn, The, Unknown, [264].
Ancient Prophecy, An, Philip Freneau, [258].
André, C. F. Bates, [239].
André's Request to Washington, N. P. Willis, [238].
Angels of Buena Vista, The, J. G. Whittier, [366].
Anne Hutchinson's Exile, E. E. Hale, [73].
Apostrophe to the Island of Cuba, J. G. Percival, [606].
Arctic Vision, An, Bret Harte, [566].
Arizona, S. M. Hall, [655].
Armstrong at Fayal, The, Wallace Rice, [321].
Arnold at Stillwater, T. D. English, [200].
Arnold the Vile Traitor, Unknown, [238].
Assault on the Fortress, The, Timothy Dwight, [70].
Assunpink and Princeton, T. D. English, [189].
Astræa at the Capitol, J. G. Whittier, [478].
At Fredericksburg, J. B. O'Reilly, [447].
At Port Royal, J. G. Whittier, [461].
At the Cannon's Mouth, Herman Melville, [537].
At the President's Grave, R. W. Gilder, [590].
Attack, The, T. B. Read, [463].

Bacon's Epitaph, Unknown, [45].
Balboa, Nora Perry, [23].
Ballad of Bunker Hill, The, E. E. Hale, [162].
Ballad of Chickamauga, The, Maurice Thompson, [501].
Ballad of Ishmael Day, The, Unknown, [487].
Ballad of Manila Bay, A, C. G. D. Roberts, [618].
Ballad of New Orleans, The, G. H. Boker, [472].
Ballad of Paco Town, The, Clinton Scollard, [644].
Ballad of Redhead's Day, A, R. B. Glaenzer, [672].
Ballad of Sweet P, The, V. W. Cloud, [186].
Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party, A, O. W. Holmes, [136].
Ballad of the Conemaugh Flood, A, H. D. Rawnsley, [600].
Ballad of the French Fleet, A, H. W. Longfellow, [110].
Ballade of Expansion, Hilda Johnson, [642].
Barbara Frietchie, J. G. Whittier, [444].
Barney's Invitation, Philip Freneau, [226].
Baron Renfrew's Ball, C. G. Halpine, [382].
Bartholdi Statue, The, J. G. Whittier, [595].
Battle Autumn of 1862, The, J. G. Whittier, [460].
Battle Ballad, A, F. O. Ticknor, [424].
Battle Cry, W. H. Venable, [614].
Battle-Cry of Freedom, The, G. F. Root, [500].
Battle-Field, The, Lloyd Mifflin, [492].
Battle-Hymn of the Republic, The, J. W. Howe, [384].
Battle in the Clouds, The, W. D. Howells, [506].
Battle of Baltimore, The, Unknown, [315].
Battle of Pennington, The, T. P. Rodman, [195].
Battle of Bridgewater, The, Unknown, [308].
Battle of Bunker Hill, The, Unknown, [167].
Battle of Charleston Harbor, The, P. H. Hayne, [507].
Battle of Charlestown, The, H. H. Brownell, [395].
Battle of Erie, The, Unknown, [303].
Battle of Eutaw, The, W. G. Simms, [254].
Battle of King's Mountain, The, Unknown, [251].
Battle of Lake Champlain, The, Philip Freneau, [312].
Battle of La Prairie, The, W. D. S. Lighthall, [101].
Battle of Lookout Mountain, The, G. H. Boker, [505].
Battle of Lovell's Pond, The, H. W. Longfellow, [109].
Battle of Manila, The, Richard Hovey, [619].
Battle of Monmouth, The, Unknown, [210].
Battle of Monmouth, The, T. D. English, [211].
Battle of Morris' Island, The, Unknown, [404].
Battle of Murfreesboro, The, Kinahan Cornwallis, [459].
Battle of Muskingum, The, W. H. Safford, [337].
Battle of New Orleans, The, T. D. English, [323].
Battle of Oriskany, The, C. D. Helmer, [198].
Battle of Plattsburg, The, Unknown, [314].
Battle of Plattsburg Bay, The, Clinton Scollard, [313].
Battle of Queenstown, The, William Banker, [292].
Battle of Somerset, C. C. Cullen, [454].
Battle of Stonington, The, Philip Freneau, [309].
Battle of the Cowpens, The, T. D. English, [252].
Battle of the Kegs, The, Francis Hopkinson, [208].
Battle of the King's Mill, T. D. English, [370].
Battle of Tippecanoe, The, Unknown, [339].
Battle of Trenton, The, Unknown, [188].
Battle of Valparaiso, The, Unknown, [307].
Battle Song, R. B. Wilson, [613].
Battle Song of the Oregon, Wallace Rice, [624].
Bay Fight, The, H. H. Brownell, [530].
Beauregard, C. M. Warfield, [457].
Before Vicksburg, G. H. Boker, [499].
Bells at Midnight, The, T. B. Aldrich, [588].
Ben Milam, W. H. Wharton, [355].
Bennington, W. H. Babcock, [196].
Bermudas, Andrew Marvell, [39].
Bethel, A. J. H. Duganne, [417].
Betsy's Battle Flag, Minna Irving, [191].
Betty Jane, T. D. English, [216].
Beyond the Potomac, P. H. Hayne, [443].
Beyond Wars, David Morton, [678].
Bivouac of the Dead, The, Theodore O'Hara, [368].
Black Regiment, The, G. H. Boker, [500].
Blasted Herb, The, Mesech Weare, [139].
Blennerhassett's Island, T. B. Read, [335].
Blood is Thicker than Water, Wallace Rice, [380].
Blue and the Gray, The, F. M. Finch, [563].
Boasting of Sir Peter Parker, The, Clinton Scollard, [181].
Bob Anderson, my Beau, Unknown, [403].
Bombardment of Bristol, The, Unknown, [171].
Bonhomme Richard and Serapis, The, Philip Freneau, [225].
Bonnie Blue Flag, The, Annie Ketchum, [413].
Boston, J. B. O'Reilly, [570].
Boston Hymn, R. W. Emerson, [478].
Bower of Peace, The, Robert Southey, [318].
Boy Brittan, Forceythe Willson, [455].
Braddock's Fate, Stephen Tilden, [112].
Brave Paulding and the Spy, Unknown, [237].
Brave Wolfe, Unknown, [122].
Breath on the Oat, J. R. Taylor, [641].
Brest Left Behind, J. C. Farrar, [674].
"Brigade must not know, Sir, The," Unknown, [485].
Britannia to Columbia, Alfred Austin, [654].
British Grenadier, The, Unknown, [132].
British Lyon roused, The, Stephen Tilden, [111].
British Valor displayed, Francis Hopkinson, [208].
Brooklyn at Santiago, The, Wallace Rice, [636].
Brooklyn Bridge, C. G. D. Roberts, [593].
Brooklyn Bridge, The, Edna Dean Proctor, [593].
Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline, O. W. Holmes, [400].
Brown of Ossawatomie, J. G. Whittier, [396].
Buena Vista, Albert Pike, [364].
Buffalo, F. E. Coates, [649].
Bunker Hill, G. H. Calvert, [162].
Burial of Barber, J. G. Whittier, [389].
Burial of Latané, The, J. R. Thompson, [437].
Burning of Jamestown, The, T. D. English, [44].
Bury Them, H. H. Brownell, [508].
Butler's Proclamation, P. H. Hayne, [476].
By the Conemaugh, F. E. Coates, [599].
By the Potomac, T. B. Aldrich, [449].

C. A. S. Commissioners, The, Unknown, [428].
Cable Hymn, The, J. G. Whittier, [565].
Caldwell of Springfield, Bret Harte, [232].
California, L. H. Sigourney, [346].
"Call All," Unknown, [412].
Call to Arms, A, M. R. S. Andrews, [668].
Call to the Colors, The, Arthur Guiterman, [627].
Canonicus and Roger Williams, Unknown, [73].
Can't, H. P. Spofford, [519].
Captive Ships at Manila, The, Dorothy Paul, [666].
Captive's Hymn, The, E. D. Proctor, [123].
Capture of Little York, Unknown, [298].
Carmen Bellicosum, G. H. McMaster, [206].
Carolina, Henry Timrod, [515].
Cassandra Southwick, J. G. Whittier, [77].
Cast Down, but not Destroyed, Unknown, [427].
Cedar Mountain, Annie Fields, [441].
Centennial Hymn, J. G. Whittier, [573].
Centennial Hymn, W. C. Bryant, [574].
Centennial Meditation of Columbia, The, Sidney Lanier, [573].
Cervera, Bertrand Shadwell, [638].
Charge at Santiago, The, W. H. Hayne, [630].
Charge by the Ford, The, T. D. English, [438].
Charleston, Henry Timrod, [507].
Charleston, P. H. Hayne, [515].
Charleston, R. W. Gilder, [594].
Chesapeake and Shannon, Unknown, [301].
Chicago, Bret Harte, [569].
Chicago, J. B. O'Reilly, [569].
Chicago, J. G. Whittier, [568].
Christopher of the Shenandoah, A. E. M. Thomas, [520].
Church of the Revolution, The, Hezekiah Butterworth, [570].
Civil War, C. D. Shanly, [432].
Clerical Oppressors, J. G. Whittier, [385].
Colonel Ellsworth, R. H. Stoddard, [416].
Columbia, Timothy Dwight, [180].
Columbus, E. E. Hale, [18].
Columbus, Joaquin Miller, [14].
Columbus, L. H. Sigourney, [9].
Columbus and the Mayflower, Lord Houghton, [18].
Columbus at the Convent, J. T. Trowbridge, [10].
Columbus Dying, E. D. Proctor, [18].
Columbus in Chains, Philip Freneau, [17].
Columbus to Ferdinand, Philip Freneau, [9].
Come, ye lads, who wish to shine, Unknown, [287].
Comfort of the Trees, The, R. W. Gilder, [650].
Complaint of New Amsterdam, The, Jacob Steendam, [53].
Comrades, H. R. Dorr, [629].
Conemaugh, E. S. P. Ward, [601].
Conquered Banner, The, A. J. Ryan, [547].
Constellation and the Insurgente, The, Unknown, [280].
Constitution and the Guerrière, The, Unknown, [288].
Constitution's Last Fight, The, J. J. Roche, [327].
Convention Song, Unknown, [271].
Cornwallis's Surrender, Unknown, [256].
Cow-Chace, The, John André, [233].
Craven, Henry Newbolt, [527].
Crisis, The, J. G. Whittier, [372].
Crispus Attucks, J. B. O'Reilly, [132].
Crossing at Fredericksburg, The, G. H. Boker, [446].
Cruise of the Fair American, The, Unknown, [219].
Cruise of the Monitor, The, G. H. Boker, [467].
Cry to Arms, A, Henry Timrod, [411].
Cuba, E. C. Stedman, [607].
Cuba, Harvey Rice, [608].
Cuba Libre, Joaquin Miller, [609].
Cuba to Columbia, Will Carleton, [608].
Cumberland, The, H. W. Longfellow, [464].
Cumberland, The, Herman Melville, [466].
Custer, E. C. Stedman, [583].
Custer's Last Charge, Frederick Whittaker, [582].
"Cut the Cables," R. B. Wilson, [622].

Dance, The, Unknown, [256].
Daniel Webster, O. W. Holmes, [377].
Darien, Edwin Arnold, [651].
Daughter of the Regiment, The, Clinton Scollard, [462].
Daughter's Rebellion, The, Francis Hopkinson, [140].
"Days of 'Forty-Nine, The," Unknown, [345].
Dead, The, David Morton, [674].
Dead President, The, E. R. Sill, [538].
Dear President, The, J. J. Piatt, [539].
Death of Colman, The, Thomas Frost, [50].
Death of General Pike, The, Laughton Osborn, [299].
Death of Goody Nurse, The, R. T. Cooke, [90].
Death of Harrison, The, N. P. Willis, [353].
Death of Jefferson, The, Hezekiah Butterworth, [349].
Death of Lyon, The, Henry Peterson, [453].
Death of the Lincoln Despotism, Unknown, [429].
Death of Warren, The, Epes Sargent, [166].
Death of Wolfe, The, Unknown, [123].
Death Song, Alonzo Lewis, [70].
Debate in the Sennit, The, J. R. Lowell, [386].
Deed of Lieutenant Miles, The, Clinton Scollard, [644].
Deeds of Valor at Santiago, Clinton Scollard, [630].
Defeat and Victory, Wallace Rice, [302].
Defence of Lawrence, The, Richard Realf, [390].
Defence of the Alamo, The, Joaquin Miller, [357].
Descent on Middlesex, The, Peter St. John, [242].
Destroyer of Destroyers, The, Wallace Rice, [635].
Dewey and His Men, Wallace Rice, [617].
Dewey at Manila, R. U. Johnson, [615].
Dewey in Manila Bay, R. V. Risley, [620].
Dirge for Ashby, M. J. Preston, [439].
Dirge for a Soldier, G. H. Boker, [442].
Dirge for McPherson, A, Herman Melville, [511].
Dirge for One who fell in Battle, T. W. Parsons, [419].
Discovery of San Francisco Bay, R. E. White, [343].
Dixie, Albert Pike, [411].
Down the Little Big Horn, Francis Brooks, [580].
Downfall of Piracy, The, Benjamin Franklin, [48].
Draft Riot, The, Charles de Kay, [496].
Dragon of the Seas, The, T. N. Page, [621].
Driving Home the Cows, K. P. Osgood, [550].
Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson, The, Sidney Lanier, [486].