| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
xii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Colonies. Indian burying ground / Philip Freneau -- Story of Vinland / Sidney Lanier -- Columbus / Joaquin Miller -- from Conquistador / Archibald MacLeish -- Bermudas / Andrew Marvell -- To the Virginian voyage / Michael Drayton -- Pocahontas / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Landing of the Pilgrim fathers / Felicia Hemans -- First Thanksgiving Day / Margaret Junkin Preston -- Captain Kidd / Stephen Vincent Benet --- Giles Corey / Anonymous -- Cotton Mather / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Louisburg / Anonymous -- Braddock's fate / Stephen Tilden -- Brave Wolfe / Anonymous. |
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New nation. Ballad of the Boston tea-party / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longellow -- Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nathan Hale / Francis Miles Finch -- Molly Pitcher / Laura E. Richards -- Song of Marion's men / William Cullen Bryant -- On the death of Benjamin Franklin / Philip Freneau -- Blennerhassett's Island / Thomas Buchanan Read -- Star-spangled Banner / Francis Scott Key -- Battle of New Orleans / Thomas Dunn English -- Skipper Ireson's ride / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Death of Jefferson / Hezekiah Butterworth -- La Fayette / Dolley Madison -- Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- John James Audubon / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Founders of Ohio / William Henry Venable -- Men of the Alamo / James Jeffrey Roche -- Old Tippecanoe / Anonymous -- Monterey / Charles Fenno Hoffman. |
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Nation divided. Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln / Vachel Lindsay -- Brown of Ossawatomie / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Glory hallelujah! or John Brown's body / Anonymous -- Battle-hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe -- Bonnie blue flag / Annie Chambers Ketchum -- Brother Jonathan's lament for Sister Caroline / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- from John Brown's body / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Farragut / William Tucker Meredith -- Cruise of the Monitor / George Henry Baker -- Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Anne Rutledge / Edgar Lee Masters -- Proclamation / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Running the batteries / Herman Melville -- "Brigade must not know, sir!" / Anonymous -- O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman. |
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Nation grows. When Johnny comes marching home / Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore -- Ku-Klux / Madison Cawein -- Rebel / Innes Randolph -- Blue and the gray / Francis Miles Finch -- Returned volunteer to his rifle / Herman Melville -- Cable hymn / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Alaska / Joaquin Miller -- Chicago / Bret Harte -- Custer's last charge / Frederick Whittaker -- What's the railroad / Henry David Thoreau -- Casey Jones / Anonymous -- Garfield's murder / Anonymous -- Billy the Kid / Anonymous -- Jesse James / William Rose Benet -- Dance the boatman / Anonymous -- Buffalo skinners / Anonymous -- Cuba libre / Joaquin Miller -- War is kind / Stephen Crane -- On a soldier fallen in the Philippines / William Vaughn Moody -- Song of Panama / Alfred Damon Runyon -- John Henry / Anonymous -- Cowboy's lament / Anonymous -- Ballad of the boll weevil / Anonymous -- There is power in a union / I.W.W. song -- To Brooklyn Bridge / Hart Crane -- Geronimo / Ernest McGaffey -- Bartholdi statue / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Klondike / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Crinolines and bloomers / from British television. |
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United States and a world at war. I have a rendezvous with death / Alan Seeger -- "next to of course god ..." / e.e. cummings -- Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight / Vachel Lindsay -- it's jolly / e.e. cummings -- Soldier / Robert Frost -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley / Ezra Pound. |
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Between wars. Drug store / John V.A. Weaver -- Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Mrs. Swartz / Don Marquis -- Down on Roberts' farm / Claude Reeves -- What shall we do for the striking seamen? -- Dirge / Kenneth Fearing. |
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World War II and after. Camptown / John Ciardi -- Memorial to the great big beautiful self-sacrificing advertisers / Frederick Ebright -- plato told him / e.e. cummings -- Kilroy / Peter Viereck -- Elegy for a dead soldier / Karl Shapiro -- Christmas Eve under Hooker's statue / Robert Lowell -- V-letter / Karl Shapiro -- For the one / Delmore Schwartz -- Christmas 1945 / Al Hine -- Redeployment / Howard Nemerov -- Progress / Samuel Hoffenstein -- Silent generation / Louis Simpson -- Poem to delight my friends / Edwin Rolfe -- Old feminist / Phyllis Mcginley -- Too old to work / Joe Glazer -- We shall overcome. |
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History. Channel U.S.A.-live / Adrien Stoutenberg -- Star-spangled ode / Phyllis McGinley. |
| Subject |
Patriotic poetry, American.
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| Added Author |
Hine, Al, editor.
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