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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I
THE COLONIAL PERIOD
America, Arthur Cleveland Coxe
CHAPTER I
The Discovery of America
The Story of Vinland, Sidney Lanier
The Norsemen, John Greenleaf Whittier
The Skeleton in Armor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Prophecy, Luigi Pulci
The Inspiration, James Montgomery
Columbus, Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Columbus to Ferdinand, Philip Freneau
Columbus at the Convent, John T. Trowbridge
The Final Struggle, Louis James Block
Steer, Bold Mariner, On, Friedrich von Schiller
The Triumph, Sidney Lanier
Columbus, Joaquin Miller
The Thanksgiving for America, Hezekiah Butterworth
Columbus in Chains, Philip Freneau
Columbus Dying, Edna Dean Proctor
Columbus, Edward Everett Hale
Columbus and the Mayflower, Lord Houghton
CHAPTER II
In the Wake of Columbus
The First Voyage of John Cabot, Unknown
The Legend of Waukulla, Hezekiah Butterworth
The Fountain of Youth, Hezekiah Butterworth
Ponce de Leon, Edith M. Thomas
Balboa, Nora Perry
With Cortez in Mexico, W. W. Campbell
The Lust of Gold, James Montgomery
Verazzano, Hezekiah Butterworth
Ortiz, Hezekiah Butterworth
The Fall of Maubila, Thomas Dunn English
Quivíra, Arthur Guiterman
Norembega, John Greenleaf Whittier
Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The First American Sailors, Wallace Rice
CHAPTER III
The Settlement of Virginia
The Mystery of Cro-a-tàn, Margaret Junkin Preston
John Smith's Approach to Jamestown, James Barron Hope
Pocahontas, William Makepeace Thackeray
Pocahontas, George Pope Morris
Bermudas, Andrew Marvell
Newes from Virginia, Richard Rich
To the Virginian Voyage, Michael Drayton
The Marriage of Pocahontas, Mrs. M. M. Webster
The Last Meeting of Pocahontas and the Great Captain, Margaret Junkin Preston
The Burning of Jamestown, Thomas Dunn English
Bacon's Epitaph, Unknown
Ode to Jamestown, James Kirke Paulding
The Downfall of Piracy, Benjamin Franklin
From Potomac to Merrimac, Edward Everett Hale
CHAPTER IV
The Dutch at New Amsterdam
Henry Hudson's Quest, Burton Egbert Stevenson
The Death of Colman, Thomas Frost
Adrian Block's Song, Edward Everett Hale
The Praise of New Netherland, Jacob Steendam
The Complaint of New Amsterdam, Jacob Steendam
Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call, Edmund Clarence Stedman
CHAPTER V
The Settlement of New England
The Word of God to Leyden came, Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Song of the Pilgrims, Thomas Cogswell Upham
Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, Felicia Hemans
The First Proclamation of Miles Standish, Margaret Junkin Preston
The Mayflower, Erastus Wolcott Ellsworth
The Peace Message, Burton Egbert Stevenson
The First Thanksgiving Day, Margaret Junkin Preston
The War-Token, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Five Kernels of Corn, Hezekiah Butterworth
The Expedition to Wessagusset, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
New England's Annoyances, Unknown
The Pilgrim Fathers, William Wordsworth
The Pilgrim Fathers, John Pierpont
The Thanksgiving in Boston Harbor, Hezekiah Butterworth
The First Thanksgiving, Clinton Scollard
New England's Growth, William Bradford
The Assault on the Fortress, Timothy Dwight
Death Song, Alonzo Lewis
Our Country, Julia Ward Howe
CHAPTER VI
Religious Persecutions in New England
Prologue, from "John Endicott," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Roger Williams, Hezekiah Butterworth
God makes a Path, Roger Williams
Canonicus and Roger Williams, Unknown
Anne Hutchinson's Exile, Edward Everett Hale
John Underhill, John Greenleaf Whittier
The Proclamation, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cassandra Southwick, John Greenleaf Whittier
The King's Missive, John Greenleaf Whittier
CHAPTER VII
King Philip's War and the Witchcraft Delusion
The Lamentable Ballad of the Bloody Brook, Edward Everett Hale
The Great Swamp Fight, Caroline Hazard
On a Fortification at Boston begun by Women, Benjamin Tompson
The Sudbury Fight, Wallace Rice
King Philip's Last Stand, Clinton Scollard
Prologue, from "Giles Corey of the Salem Farms," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Salem, Edmund Clarence Stedman
The Death of Goody Nurse, Rose Terry Cooke
A Salem Witch, Ednah Proctor Clarke
The Trial, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Giles Corey, Unknown
Mistress Hale of Beverly, Lucy Larcom
CHAPTER VIII
The Struggle for the Continent
St. John, John Greenleaf Whittier
The Battle of La Prairie, William Douw Schuyler-Lighthall
The Sack of Deerfield, Thomas Dunn English
Pentucket, John Greenleaf Whittier
Lovewell's Fight, Unknown
Lovewell's Fight, Unknown
The Battle of Lovell's Pond, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Louisburg, Unknown
A Ballad of the French Fleet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The British Lyon roused, Stephen Tilden
The Song of Braddock's Men, Unknown
Braddock's Fate, Stephen Tilden
Ned Braddock, John Williamson Palmer
Ode to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, Unknown
The Embarkation, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
On the Defeat at Ticonderoga or Carilong, Unknown
On the Late Successful Expedition against Louisbourg, Francis Hopkinson
Fort Duquesne, Florus B. Plimpton
Hot stuff, Edward Botwood
How Stands the Glass around, James Wolfe
Brave Wolfe, Unknown
The Death of Wolfe, Unknown
The Captive's Hymn, Edna Dean Proctor
A Prophecy, Arthur Lee
PART II
THE REVOLUTION
Flawless his Heart, James Russell Lowell
CHAPTER I
The Coming of Discontent
The Virginia Song, Unknown
The World turned Upside Down, Unknown
A Song, Unknown
The Liberty Pole, Unknown
The British Grenadier, Unknown
Crispus Attucks, John Boyle O'Reilly
Unhappy Boston, Paul Revere
Alamance, Seymour W. Whiting
A New Song called the Gaspee, Unknown
A Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party, Oliver Wendell Holmes
A New Song, Unknown
How we became a Nation, Harriet Prescott Spofford
A Proclamation, Unknown
The Blasted Herb, Mesech Weare
Epigram, Unknown
The Daughter's Rebellion, Francis Hopkinson
On the Snake depicted at the Head of Some American Newspapers, Unknown
Free America, Joseph Warren
Liberty Tree, Thomas Paine
The Mother Country, Benjamin Franklin
Pennsylvania Song, Unknown
Maryland Resolves, Unknown
Massachusetts Song of Liberty, Mercy Warren
Epigram, Unknown
To the Boston Women, Unknown
Prophecy, Gulian Verplanck
CHAPTER II
The Bursting of the Storm
Paul Revere's Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What's in a Name, Helen F. More
Lexington, Sidney Lanier
Lexington, Oliver Wendell Holmes
New England's Chevy Chase, Edward Everett Hale
The King's Own Regulars, Unknown
Morgan Stanwood, Hiram Rich
The Minute-Men of Northboro, Wallace Rice
Lexington, John Greenleaf Whittier
The Rising, Thomas Buchanan Read
The Prize of the Margaretta, Will Carleton
The Mecklenburg Declaration, William C. Elam
A Song, Unknown
CHAPTER III
The Colonists take the Offensive
The Green Mountain Boys, William Cullen Bryant
The Surprise at Ticonderoga, Mary A. P. Stansbury
The Yankee's Return from Camp, Edward Bangs
Tom Gage's Proclamation, Unknown
The Eve of Bunker Hill, Clinton Scollard
Warren's Address to the American Soldiers, John Pierpont
The Ballad of Bunker Hill, Edward Everett Hale
Bunker Hill, George H. Calvert
Grandmother's Story of Bunker-Hill Battle, Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Death of Warren, Epes Sargent
The Battle of Bunker Hill, Unknown
The New-Come Chief, James Russell Lowell
The Trip to Cambridge, Unknown
War and Washington, Jonathan Mitchell Sewall
The Bombardment of Bristol, Unknown
Montgomery at Quebec, Clinton Scollard
A Song, Unknown
A Poem containing Some Remarks on the Present War, Unknown
Mugford's Victory, John White Chadwick
Off from Boston, Unknown
CHAPTER IV
Independence
Emancipation from British Dependence, Philip Freneau
Rodney's Ride, Unknown
American Independence, Francis Hopkinson
The Fourth of July, John Pierpont
Independence Day, Royall Tyler
On Independence, Jonathan Mitchell Sewall
The American Patriot's Prayer, Unknown
Columbia, Timothy Dwight
CHAPTER V
The First Campaign
The Boasting of Sir Peter Parker, Clinton Scollard
A New War Song by Sir Peter Parker, Unknown
The Maryland Battalion, John Williamson Palmer
Haarlem Heights, Arthur Guiterman
Nathan Hale, Unknown
Nathan Hale, Francis Miles Finch
The Ballad of Sweet P, Virginia Woodward Cloud
Across the Delaware, Will Carleton
The Battle of Trenton, Unknown
Trenton and Princeton, Unknown
Assunpink and Princeton, Thomas Dunn English
Seventy-Six, William Cullen Bryant
Betsy's Battle Flag, Minna Irving
The American Flag, Joseph Rodman Drake
CHAPTER VI
"The Fate of Sir Jack Brag"
The Rifleman's Song at Bennington, Unknown
The Marching Song of Stark's Men, Edward Everett Hale
Parson Allen's Ride, Wallace Bruce
The Battle of Bennington, Thomas P. Rodman
Bennington, W. H. Babcock
The Battle of Oriskany, Charles D. Helmer
Saint Leger, Clinton Scollard
The Progress of Sir Jack Brag, Unknown
Arnold at Stillwater, Thomas Dunn English
The Fate of John Burgoyne, Unknown
Saratoga's Song, Unknown
CHAPTER VII
The Second Stage
Lord North's Recantation, Unknown
A New Ballad, Unknown
General Howe's Letter, Unknown
Carmen Bellicosum, Guy Humphreys McMaster
Valley Forge, Thomas Buchanan Read
British Valor displayed; or, The Battle of the Kegs, Francis Hopkinson
The Little Black-Eyed Rebel, Will Carleton
The Battle of Monmouth, Unknown
The Battle of Monmouth, Thomas Dunn English
Molly Pitcher, Kate Brownlee Sherwood
Molly Pitcher, Laura E. Richards
Yankee Doodle's Expedition to Rhode Island, Unknown
Running the Blockade, Nora Perry
Betty Zane, Thomas Dunn English
The Wyoming Massacre, Uriah Terry
CHAPTER VIII
The War on the Water
The Cruise of the Fair American, Unknown
On the Death of Captain Nicholas Biddle, Philip Freneau
The Yankee Privateer, Arthur Hale
Paul Jones, Unknown
The Yankee Man-of-War, Unknown
Paul Jones—A New Song, Unknown
Paul Jones, Unknown
The Bonhomme Richard and Serapis, Philip Freneau
Barney's Invitation, Philip Freneau
Song on Captain Barney's Victory, Philip Freneau
The South Carolina, Unknown
CHAPTER IX
New York and the "Neutral Ground"
Sir Henry Clinton's Invitation to the Refugees, Philip Freneau
The Storm of Stony Point, Arthur Guiterman
Wayne at Stony Point, Clinton Scollard
Aaron Burr's Wooing, Edmund Clarence Stedman
The Modern Jonas, Unknown
Caldwell of Springfield, Bret Harte
The Cow-Chace, John André
Brave Paulding and the Spy, Unknown
Arnold the Vile Traitor, Unknown
Epigram, Unknown
André's Request to Washington, Nathaniel Parker Willis
André, Charlotte Fiske Bates
Sergeant Champe, Unknown
A New Song, Joseph Stansbury
The Lords of the Main, Joseph Stansbury
The Royal Adventurer, Philip Freneau
The Descent on Middlesex, Peter St. John
CHAPTER X
The War in the South
Hymns of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
About Savannah, Unknown
A Song about Charleston, Unknown
The Swamp Fox, William Gilmore Simms
Song of Marion's Men, William Cullen Bryant
Macdonald's Raid, Paul Hamilton Hayne
Sumter's Band, J. W. Simmons
The Battle of King's Mountain, Unknown
The Battle of the Cowpens, Thomas Dunn English
The Battle of Eutaw, William Gilmore Simms
Eutaw Springs, Philip Freneau
The Dance, Unknown
Cornwallis's Surrender, Unknown
The Surrender of Cornwallis, Unknown
News From Yorktown, Lewis Worthington Smith
An Ancient Prophecy, Philip Freneau
CHAPTER XI
Peace
On Sir Henry Clinton's Recall, Unknown
On the Departure of the British from Charleston, Philip Freneau
On the British King's Speech, Philip Freneau
England and America in 1782, Alfred Tennyson
On Disbanding the Army, David Humphreys
Evacuation of New York by the British, Unknown
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, on his Way to his Residence in Virginia, Philip Freneau
The American Soldier's Hymn, Unknown
Thanksgiving Hymn, Unknown
Land of the Wilful Gospel, Sidney Lanier
PART III
THE PERIOD OF GROWTH
"Oh Mother of a Mighty Race," William Cullen Bryant
CHAPTER I
The New Nation
A Radical Song of 1786, St. John Honeywood
The Federal Convention, Unknown
To the Federal Convention, Timothy Dwight
The New Roof, Francis Hopkinson
Convention Song, Unknown
The Federal Constitution, William Milns
The First American Congress, Joel Barlow
Washington, James Jeffrey Roche
The Vow of Washington, John Greenleaf Whittier
On the Death of Benjamin Franklin, Philip Freneau
George Washington, John Hall Ingham
Washington, Lord Byron
Adams and Liberty, Robert Treat Paine
Hail Columbia, Joseph Hopkinson
Ye Sons of Columbia, Thomas Green Fessenden
Truxton's Victory, Unknown
The Constellation and the Insurgente, Unknown
Washington's Monument, Unknown
How we burned the Philadelphia, Barrett Eastman
Reuben James, James Jeffrey Roche
Skipper Ireson's Ride, John Greenleaf Whittier
A Plea for Flood Ireson, Charles Timothy Brooks
CHAPTER II
The Second War with England
The Times, Unknown
Reparation or War, Unknown
Terrapin War, Unknown
Farewell, Peace, Unknown
Come, ye Lads, who wish to shine, Unknown
Hull's Surrender, Unknown
The Constitution and the Guerrière, Unknown
Halifax Station, Unknown
On the Capture of the Guerrière, Philip Freneau
Firstfruits in 1812, Wallace Rice
The Battle of Queenstown, William Banker, Jr.
The Wasp's Frolic, Unknown
The United States and Macedonian, Unknown
The United States and Macedonian, Unknown
Jack Creamer, James Jeffrey Roche
Yankee Thunders, Unknown
The General Armstrong, Unknown
Capture of Little York, Unknown
The Death of General Pike, Laughton Osborn
Old Fort Meigs, Unknown
The Shannon and the Chesapeake, Thomas Tracy Bouvé
Chesapeake and Shannon, Unknown
Defeat and Victory, Wallace Rice
Enterprise and Boxer, Unknown
Perry's Victory, Unknown
The Battle of Erie, Unknown
Perry's Victory—A Song, Unknown
The Fall of Tecumseh, Unknown
The Legend of Walbach Tower, George Houghton
The Battle of Valparaiso, Unknown
The Battle of Bridgewater, Unknown
The Hero of Bridgewater, Charles L. S. Jones
The Battle of Stonington, Philip Freneau
The Ocean-Fight, Unknown
The Lost War-Sloop, Edna Dean Proctor
On the British Invasion, Philip Freneau
The Battle of Lake Champlain, Philip Freneau
The Battle of Plattsburg Bay, Clinton Scollard
The Battle of Plattsburg, Unknown
The Battle of Baltimore, Unknown
Fort McHenry, Unknown
The Star-Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key
Ye Parliament of England, Unknown
The Bower of Peace, Robert Southey
Reid at Fayal, John Williamson Palmer
The Fight of the Armstrong Privateer, James Jeffrey Roche
The Armstrong at Fayal, Wallace Rice
Fort Bowyer, Charles L. S. Jones
The Battle of New Orleans, Thomas Dunn English
Jackson at New Orleans, Wallace Rice
To the Defenders of New Orleans, Joseph Rodman Drake
The Hunters of Kentucky, Unknown
The Constitution's Last Fight, James Jeffrey Roche
Sea and Land Victories, Unknown
Ode to Peace, Unknown
CHAPTER III
The West
The Settler, Alfred B. Street
The Mothers of the West, William Davis Gallagher
On the Emigration to America, Philip Freneau
John Filson, William Henry Venable
Sainclaire's Defeat, Unknown
Johnny Appleseed, William Henry Venable
The Founders of Ohio, William Henry Venable
Blennerhassett's Island, Thomas Buchanan Read
The Battle of Muskingum, William Harrison Safford
To Aaron Burr, under Trial for High Treason, Sarah Wentworth Morton
The Battle of Tippecanoe, Unknown
The Tomb of the Brave, Joseph Hutton
Sa-cá-ga-we-a, Edna Dean Proctor
On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis, Joel Barlow
Whitman's Ride for Oregon, Hezekiah Butterworth
Discovery of San Francisco Bay, Richard Edward White
John Charles Frémont, Charles F. Lummis
"The Days of 'Forty-Nine," Unknown
The Old Santa Fé Trail, Richard Burton
California, Lydia Huntley Sigourney
CHAPTER IV
Through Five Administrations
Theodosia Burr, John Williamson Palmer
On the Death of Commodore Oliver H. Perry, John G. C. Brainard
On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake, Fitz-Greene Halleck
On Laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, John Pierpont
La Fayette, Dolly Madison
The Death of Jefferson, Hezekiah Butterworth
Old Ironsides, Oliver Wendell Holmes
Concord Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Wreck of the Hesperus, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Old Tippecanoe, Unknown
The Death of Harrison, Nathaniel Parker Willis
CHAPTER V
The War with Mexico
The Valor of Ben Milam, Clinton Scollard
Ben Milam, William H. Wharton
The Men of the Alamo, James Jeffrey Roche
The Defence of the Alamo, Joaquin Miller
The Fight at San Jacinto, John Williamson Palmer
Song of Texas, William Henry Cuyler Hosmer
Texas, John Greenleaf Whittier
Mr. Hosea Biglow speaks, James Russell Lowell
The Guns in the Grass, Thomas Frost
Rio Bravo—A Mexican Lament, Charles Fenno Hoffman
To Arms, Park Benjamin
Monterey, Charles Fenno Hoffman
Victor Galbraith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Buena Vista, Albert Pike
The Angels of Buena Vista, John Greenleaf Whittier
The Bivouac of the Dead, Theodore O'Hara
What Mr. Robinson thinks, James Russell Lowell
Battle of the King's Mill, Thomas Dunn English
The Siege of Chapultepec, William Haines Lytle
Illumination for Victories in Mexico, Grace Greenwood
The Crisis, John Greenleaf Whittier
The Volunteers, William Haines Lytle
CHAPTER VI
Fourteen Years of Peace
The Ship Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Francis Lieber
The War Ship of Peace, Samuel Lover
On the Defeat of Henry Clay, William Wilberforce Lord
On the Death of M. D'Ossoli and his Wife, Margaret Fuller, Walter Savage Landor
The Last Appendix to "Yankee Doodle," Unknown
Daniel Webster, Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Flag, James Jeffrey Roche
Kane, Fitz-James O'Brien
Herndon, S. Weir Mitchell
Blood is Thicker than Water, Wallace Rice
Baron Renfrew's Ball, Charles Graham Halpine
PART IV
THE CIVIL WAR
Battle-Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe
CHAPTER I
The Slavery Question
To William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier
Clerical Oppressors, John Greenleaf Whittier
The Debate in the Sennit, James Russell Lowell
Ichabod, John Greenleaf Whittier
The Kidnapping of Sims, John Pierpont
The Kansas Emigrants, John Greenleaf Whittier
Burial of Barber, John Greenleaf Whittier
The Defence of Lawrence, Richard Realf
The Fight over the Body of Keitt, Unknown
Le Marais du Cygne, John Greenleaf Whittier
How Old Brown took Harper's Ferry, Edmund Clarence Stedman
The Battle of Charlestown, Henry Howard Brownell
Brown of Ossawatomie, John Greenleaf Whittier
Glory Hallelujah! or John Brown's Body, Charles Sprague Hall
John Brown, Edna Dean Proctor
John Brown: a Paradox, Louise Imogen Guiney
Lecompton's Black Brigade, Charles Graham Halpine
Lincoln, the Man of the People, Edwin Markham
Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline, Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jefferson D., H. S. Cornwell
The Old Cove, Henry Howard Brownell
A Spool of Thread, Sophie E. Eastman
God save Our President, Francis DeHaes Janvier
CHAPTER II
The Gauntlet
Bob Anderson, my Beau, Unknown
On Fort Sumter, Unknown
Sumter, Edmund Clarence Stedman
The Battle of Morris' Island, Unknown
Sumter—A Ballad of 1861, Unknown
The Fight at Sumter, Unknown
Sumter, Henry Howard Brownell
The Great Bell Roland, Theodore Tilton
Men of the North and West, Richard Henry Stoddard
Out and Fight, Charles Godfrey Leland
No More Words, Franklin Lushington
Our Country's Call, William Cullen Bryant
Dixie, Albert Pike
A Cry to Arms, Henry Timrod
"We Conquer or Die," James Pierpont
"Call All," Unknown
The Bonnie Blue Flag, Annie Chambers Ketchum
I give my Soldier Boy a Blade, Unknown
CHAPTER III
The North gets its Lesson
The Nineteenth of April, Lucy Larcom
Through Baltimore, Bayard Taylor
My Maryland, James Ryder Randall
Ellsworth, Unknown
Colonel Ellsworth, Richard Henry Stoddard
On the Death of "Jackson," Unknown
The Virginians of the Valley, Francis Orrery Ticknor
Bethel, A. J. H. Duganne
Dirge, Thomas William Parsons
Wait for the Wagon, Unknown
Upon the Hill before Centreville, George Henry Boker
Manassas, Catherine M. Warfield
A Battle Ballad, Francis Orrery Ticknor
The Run from Manassas Junction, Unknown
On to Richmond, John R. Thompson
Cast Down, but not Destroyed, Unknown
Shop and Freedom, Unknown
The C. S. A. Commissioners, Unknown
Death of the Lincoln Despotism, Unknown
Jonathan to John, James Russell Lowell
A New Song to an Old Tune, Unknown
CHAPTER IV
The Grand Army of the Potomac
Civil War, Charles Dawson Shanly
The Picket-Guard, Ethel Lynn Beers
Tardy George, Unknown
How McClellan took Manassas, Unknown
Wanted—A Man, Edmund Clarence Stedman
The Gallant Fighting "Joe," James Stevenson
Kearny at Seven Pines, Edmund Clarence Stedman
The Burial of Latané, John R. Thompson
The Charge by the Ford, Thomas Dunn English
Dirge for Ashby, Margaret Junkin Preston
Malvern Hill, Herman Melville
A Message, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Three Hundred Thousand More, James Sloan Gibbons
Cedar Mountain, Annie Fields
"Our Left," Francis Orrery Ticknor
Dirge for a Soldier, George Henry Boker
The Reveille, Bret Harte
Beyond the Potomac, Paul Hamilton Hayne
Barbara Frietchie, John Greenleaf Whittier
Marthy Virginia's Hand, George Parsons Lathrop
The Victor of Antietam, Herman Melville
The Crossing at Fredericksburg, George Henry Boker
At Fredericksburg, John Boyle O'Reilly
Fredericksburg, Thomas Bailey Aldrich
By the Potomac, Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Washers of the Shroud, James Russell Lowell
CHAPTER V
The War in the West
The Little Drummer, Richard Henry Stoddard
The Death of Lyon, Henry Peterson
Zagonyi, George Henry Boker
Battle of Somerset, Cornelius C. Cullen
Zollicoffer, Henry Lynden Flash
Boy Brittan, Forceythe Willson
Albert Sidney Johnston, Kate Brownlee Sherwood
Albert Sidney Johnston, Francis Orrery Ticknor
Beauregard, Mrs. C. A. Warfield
The Eagle of Corinth, Henry Howard Brownell
The Battle of Murfreesboro, Kinahan Cornwallis
Little Giffen, Francis Orrery Ticknor
The Battle Autumn of 1862, John Greenleaf Whittier
CHAPTER VI
The Coast and the River
At Port Royal, John Greenleaf Whittier
Ready, Phœbe Cary
The Daughter of the Regiment, Clinton Scollard
The Turtle, Unknown
The Attack, Thomas Buchanan Read
The Cumberland, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
On Board the Cumberland, George Henry Boker
The Cumberland, Herman Melville
How the Cumberland went down, S. Weir Mitchell
The Cruise of the Monitor, George Henry Boker
The Sinking of the Merrimack, Lucy Larcom
The River Fight, Henry Howard Brownell
The Ballad of New Orleans, George Henry Boker
The Varuna, George Henry Boker
The Surrender of New Orleans, Marion Manville
Mumford, Ina M. Porter
Butler's Proclamation, Paul Hamilton Hayne
CHAPTER VII
Emancipation
To John C. Frémont, John Greenleaf Whittier
Astræa at the Capitol, John Greenleaf Whittier
Boston Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Proclamation, John Greenleaf Whittier
Treason's Last Device, Edmund Clarence Stedman
Laus Deo, John Greenleaf Whittier
CHAPTER VIII
The "Grand Army's" Second Campaign
Mosby at Hamilton, Madison Cawein
John Pelham, James Ryder Randall
Hooker's Across, George Henry Boker
Stonewall Jackson's Way, John Williamson Palmer
Keenan's Charge, George Parsons Lathrop
"The Brigade must not know, Sir," Unknown
Stonewall Jackson, Henry Lynden Flash
The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson, Sidney Lanier
Under the Shade of the Trees, Margaret Junkin Preston
The Ballad of Ishmael Day, Unknown
Riding with Kilpatrick, Clinton Scollard
Gettysburg, Edmund Clarence Stedman
The High Tide at Gettysburg, Will Henry Thompson
Gettysburg, James Jeffrey Roche
The Battle-Field, Lloyd Mifflin
John Burns of Gettysburg, Bret Harte
Kentucky Belle, Constance Fenimore Woolson
The Draft Riot, Charles de Kay
Lincoln at Gettysburg, Bayard Taylor
CHAPTER IX
With Grant on the Mississippi
Running the Batteries, Herman Melville
Before Vicksburg, George Henry Boker
Vicksburg, Paul Hamilton Hayne
The Battle-Cry of Freedom, George Frederick Root
The Black Regiment, George Henry Boker
The Ballad of Chickamauga, Maurice Thompson
Thomas at Chickamauga, Kate Brownlee Sherwood
Garfield's Ride at Chickamauga, Hezekiah Butterworth
The Battle of Lookout Mountain, George Henry Boker
The Battle in the Clouds, William Dean Howells
Charleston, Henry Timrod
The Battle of Charleston Harbor, Paul Hamilton Hayne
Bury Them, Henry Howard Brownell
Twilight on Sumter, Richard Henry Stoddard
CHAPTER X
The Final Struggle
Put it Through, Edward Everett Hale
Logan at Peach Tree Creek, Hamlin Garland
A Dirge for McPherson, Herman Melville
With Corse at Allatoona, Samuel H. M. Byers
Allatoona, Unknown
Sherman's March to the Sea, Samuel H. M. Byers
The Song of Sherman's Army, Charles Graham Halpine
Marching through Georgia, Henry Clay Work
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors, Walt Whitman
Sherman's in Savannah, Oliver Wendell Holmes
Savannah, Alethea S. Burroughs
Carolina, Henry Timrod
Charleston, Paul Hamilton Hayne
Romance, William Ernest Henley
The Foe at the Gates, John Dickson Bruns
Ulric Dahlgren, Kate Brownlee Sherwood
Lee to the Rear, John Randolph Thompson
Can't, Harriet Prescott Spofford
Obsequies of Stuart, John Randolph Thompson
A Christopher of the Shenandoah, Edith M. Thomas
Sheridan at Cedar Creek, Herman Melville
Sheridan's Ride, Thomas Buchanan Read
The Year of Jubilee, Henry Clay Work
Virginia Capta, Margaret Junkin Preston
The Fall of Richmond, Herman Melville
The Surrender at Appomattox, Herman Melville
Lee's Parole, Marion Manville
Robert E. Lee, Julia Ward Howe
CHAPTER XI
Winslow and Farragut
The Eagle and Vulture, Thomas Buchanan Read
Kearsarge and Alabama, Unknown
Kearsarge, S. Weir Mitchell
The Alabama, Maurice Bell
Craven, Henry Newbolt
Farragut, William Tuckey Meredith
Through Fire in Mobile Bay, Unknown
The Bay Fight, Henry Howard Brownell
"Albemarle" Cushing, James Jeffrey Roche
At the Cannon's Mouth, Herman Melville
CHAPTER XII
The Martyr President
Lincoln, S. Weir Mitchell
O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman
The Dead President, Edward Rowland Sill
Abraham Lincoln, Edmund Clarence Stedman
Pardon, Julia Ward Howe
The Dear President, John James Piatt
Abraham Lincoln, William Cullen Bryant
Abraham Lincoln, Richard Henry Stoddard
Parricide, Julia Ward Howe
Abraham Lincoln, Tom Taylor
CHAPTER XIII
Peace
"Stack Arms," Joseph Blynth Alston
Jefferson Davis, Walker Meriwether Bell
In the Land where we were Dreaming, Daniel B. Lucas
Acceptation, Margaret Junkin Preston
The Conquered Banner, Abram J. Ryan
Peace, Adeline D. T. Whitney
Peace, Phœbe Cary
A Second Review of the Grand Army, Bret Harte
When Johnny comes marching Home, Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore
Driving Home the Cows, Kate Putnam Osgood
Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration, James Russell Lowell
PART V
THE PERIOD OF EXPANSION
The Eagle's Song, Richard Mansfield
CHAPTER I
Reconstruction and After
To the Thirty-Ninth Congress, John Greenleaf Whittier
"Mr. Johnson's Policy of Reconstruction," Charles Graham Halpine
Thaddeus Stevens, Phœbe Cary
South Carolina to the States of the North, Paul Hamilton Hayne
Ku-Klux, Madison Cawein
The Rear Guard, Irene Fowler Brown
The Blue and the Gray, Francis Miles Finch
The Stricken South to the North, Paul Hamilton Hayne
How Cyrus laid the Cable, John Godfrey Saxe
The Cable Hymn, John Greenleaf Whittier
An Arctic Vision, Bret Harte
Alaska, Joaquin Miller
Israel Freyer's Bid for Gold, Edmund Clarence Stedman
Chicago, John Greenleaf Whittier
Chicago, Bret Harte
Chicago, John Boyle O'Reilly
Boston, John Boyle O'Reilly
The Church of the Revolution, Hezekiah Butterworth
After the Fire, Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Ride of Collins Graves, John Boyle O'Reilly
CHAPTER II
The Year of a Hundred Years
Our First Century, George Edward Woodberry
Centennial Hymn, John Greenleaf Whittier
The Centennial Meditation of Columbia, Sidney Lanier
Centennial Hymn, William Cullen Bryant
Welcome to the Nations, Oliver Wendell Holmes
The National Ode, Bayard Taylor
Our National Banner, Dexter Smith
After the Centennial, Christopher Pearse Cranch
CHAPTER III
The Conquest of the Plains
The Pacific Railway, C. R. Ballard
After the Comanches, Unknown
Down the Little Big Horn, Francis Brooks
Little Big Horn, Ernest McGaffey
Custer's Last Charge, Frederick Whittaker
Custer, Edmund Clarence Stedman
The Revenge of Rain-in-the-Face, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Miles Keogh's Horse, John Hay
On the Big Horn, John Greenleaf Whittier
The "Grey Horse Troop," Robert W. Chambers
Geronimo, Ernest McGaffey
The Last Reservation, Walter Learned
Indian Names, Lydia Huntley Sigourney
CHAPTER IV
The Second Assassination
Rejoice, Joaquin Miller
The Bells at Midnight, Thomas Bailey Aldrich
J. A. G., Julia Ward Howe
Midnight—September 19, 1881, John Boyle O'Reilly
At the President's Grave, Richard Watson Gilder
On the Death of President Garfield, Oliver Wendell Holmes
President Garfield, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Yorktown Centennial Lyric, Paul Hamilton Hayne
The Brooklyn Bridge, Edna Dean Proctor
Brooklyn Bridge, Charles George Douglas Roberts
Charleston, Richard Watson Gilder
Mayflower, John Boyle O'Reilly
Fairest of Freedom's Daughters, Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Liberty Enlightening the World, Edmund Clarence Stedman
The Bartholdi Statue, John Greenleaf Whittier
Additional Verses to Hail Columbia, Oliver Wendell Holmes
New National Hymn, Francis Marion Crawford
In Apia Bay, Charles George Douglas Roberts
An International Episode, Caroline T. Duer
By the Conemaugh, Florence Earle Coates
The Man who rode to Conemaugh, John Eliot Bowen
A Ballad of the Conemaugh Flood, Hardwick Drummond Rawnsley
Conemaugh, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
"The White City," Richard Watson Gilder
The Kearsarge, James Jeffrey Roche
Tennessee, Virginia Fraser Boyle
An Ode on the Unveiling of the Shaw Memorial, Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Klondike, Edwin Arlington Robinson
CHAPTER V
The War with Spain
Apostrophe to the Island of Cuba, James Gates Percival
The Gallant Fifty-One, Henry Lynden Flash
Cuba, Edmund Clarence Stedman
The Gospel of Peace, James Jeffrey Roche
Cuba, Harvey Rice
Cuba to Columbia, Will Carleton
Cuba Libre, Joaquin Miller
The Parting of the Ways, Joseph B. Gilder
The Men of the Maine, Clinton Scollard
The Word of the Lord from Havana, Richard Hovey
Half-Mast, Lloyd Mifflin
The Fighting Race, Joseph I. C. Clarke
On the Eve of War, Danske Dandridge
To Spain—A Last Word, Edith M. Thomas
The Martyrs of the Maine, Rupert Hughes
El Emplazado, William Henry Venable
Battle Song, Robert Burns Wilson
Greeting from England, Unknown
Battle Cry, William Henry Venable
Just One Signal, Unknown
Dewey at Manila, Robert Underwood Johnson
Dewey and his Men, Wallace Rice
"Off Manilly," Edmund Vance Cooke
Manila Bay, Arthur Hale
A Ballad of Manila Bay, Charles George Douglas Roberts
The Battle of Manila, Richard Hovey
Dewey in Manila Bay, R. V. Risley
"Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin," Madison Cawein
The Spirit of the Maine, Tudor Jenks
The Dragon of the Seas, Thomas Nelson Page
The Sailing of the Fleet, Unknown
"Cut the Cables," Robert Burns Wilson
The Race of the Oregon, John James Meehan
Battle-Song of the Oregon, Wallace Rice
Strike the Blow, Unknown
Eight Volunteers, Lansing C. Bailey
The Men of the Merrimac, Clinton Scollard
The Victory-Wreck, Will Carleton
Hobson and his Men, Robert Loveman
The Call to the Colors, Arthur Guiterman
Essex Regiment March, George Edward Woodberry
The Gathering, Herbert B. Swett
Comrades, Henry R. Dorr
Wheeler's Brigade at Santiago, Wallace Rice
Deeds of Valor at Santiago, Clinton Scollard
The Charge at Santiago, William Hamilton Hayne
Private Blair of the Regulars, Clinton Scollard
Wheeler at Santiago, James Lindsay Gordon
Spain's Last Armada, Wallace Rice
Santiago, Thomas A. Janvier
The Fleet at Santiago, Charles E. Russell
The Destroyer of Destroyers, Wallace Rice
The Brooklyn at Santiago, Wallace Rice
The Rush of the Oregon, Arthur Guiterman
The Men behind the Guns, John Jerome Rooney
Cervera, Bertrand Shadwell
McIlrath of Malate, John Jerome Rooney
When the Great Gray Ships come in, Guy Wetmore Carryl
Full Cycle, John White Chadwick
Breath on the Oat, Joseph Russell Taylor
The Islands of the Sea, George Edward Woodberry
Ballade of Expansion, Hilda Johnson
"Rebels," Ernest Crosby
On a Soldier fallen in the Philippines, William Vaughn Moody
The Ballad of Paco Town, Clinton Scollard
The Deed of Lieutenant Miles, Clinton Scollard
Aguinaldo, Bertrand Shadwell
The Fight at Dajo, Alfred E. Wood
An Ode in Time of Hesitation, William Vaughn Moody
CHAPTER VI
The New Century
A Toast to Our Native Land, Robert Bridges
Buffalo, Florence Earle Coates
McKinley, Unknown
Faithful unto Death, Richard Handfield Titherington
The Comfort of the Trees, Richard Watson Gilder
Outward Bound, Edward Sydney Tylee
Panama, James Jeffrey Roche
Darien, Edwin Arnold
Panama, Amanda T. Jones
A Song of Panama, Alfred Damon Runyon
Hymn of the West, Edmund Clarence Stedman
Britannia to Columbia, Alfred Austin
Those Rebel Flags, John H. Jewett
The Song of the Flags, S. Weir Mitchell
Arizona, Sharlot M. Hall
San Francisco, Joaquin Miller
San Francisco, John Vance Cheney
To San Francisco, S. J. Alexander
Resurge San Francisco, Joaquin Miller
Grover Cleveland, Joel Benton
Unguarded Gates, Thomas Bailey Aldrich
National Song, William Henry Venable
Ad Patriam, Clinton Scollard
O Land Beloved, George Edward Woodberry
The Republic, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
CHAPTER VII
The World War
Sonnets written in the Fall of 1914, George Edward Woodberry
Abraham Lincoln walks at Midnight, Vachel Lindsay
The "William P. Frye," Jeanne Robert Foster
The White Ships and the Red, Joyce Kilmer
Mare Liberum, Henry van Dyke
Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers fallen for France, Alan Seeger
Republic to Republic, Witter Bynner
To the United States of America, Robert Bridges
The Captive Ships at Manila, Dorothy Paul
The Road to France, Daniel Henderson
Pershing at the Tomb of Lafayette, Amelia Josephine Burr
Your Lad, and my Lad, Randall Parrish
A Call to Arms, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
The First Three, Clinton Scollard
To America, on her First Sons fallen in the Great War, E. M. Walker
Rouge Bouquet, Joyce Kilmer
Marching Song, Dana Burnet
Our Modest Doughboys, Charlton Andrews
Seicheprey
A Ballad of Redhead's Day, Richard Butler Glaenzer
Victory Bells, Grace Hazard Conkling
Epicedium, J. Corson Miller
The Dead, David Morton
The Unreturning, Clinton Scollard
The Star, Marion Couthouy Smith
Brest left behind, John Chipman Farrar
To the Returning Brave, Robert Underwood Johnson
The Return, Eleanor Rogers Cox
King of the Belgians, Marion Couthouy Smith
The Family of Nations, Willard Wattles
The League of Nations, Mary Siegrist
Beyond Wars, David Morton
"When there is Peace," Austin Dobson
After the War, Richard Le Gallienne
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