Poems of American History: Collected and Edited (Classic Reprint)

Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration ;W illiam Vaughn Moody: On a Soldier fallen in the Philippines, An Ode in Time of Hesitation ;N ora Perry: Running the Blockade ;E dna Dean Proctor: Columbus Dying, The Captive s Hymn, The Lost War-S loop, Sa-ca-ga-we-a, John Brown, The Brooklyn Bridge ;M argaret Junkin Preston: The Mystery of Cro-a-tan, The Last Meeting of Pocahontas and the Great Captain, The First Proclamation of Miles Standish, The First Thanksgiving Day, Dirge for A shby, Under the Shade of the Trees, Virginia Capta, Acceptation ;J ohn Godfrey Saxe: How Cyrus laid the Cable ;E dward Rowland Sill: The Dead President ;H arriet Prescott Spofford: How we became a Nation, Can t; Edmund Clar ence Stedman: Peter Stuyvesant s New Year s Call, Salem, A aron Burr s Wooing, How Old Brown took Harper s Ferry, Sumter, Wanted AM an, Kearny at Seven Pines, Treason s Last Device, Gettysburg, A braham Lincoln, Israel Freyer s Bid for Gold, Custer, Liberty Enlightening the World, Cuba, Hymn of the West ;B ayard Taylor: Through Baltimore, Lincoln at Gettysburg, The National Ode ;J oseph Russell Taylor: Breath on the Oat ;E dith M. Thomas: AC hristopher of the Shenandoah, To Spain A Last Word ;M aurice Thompson: The Ballad of Chickamauga ;J. T. Trowbridge: Columbus at the Convent ;E lizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward: Conemaugh ;M rs. A. D. T. Whitney: Peace ;J ohn G. Whittier: The Norsemen, Norembega, John Underbill, Cassandra Southwick, The King s Missive, St. John, Pentucket, Lexington, The Vow of Washington, Skipper I reson s Ride, Texas, The Angels of Buena Vista, The Crisis, To William Lloyd Garrison, I chabod, The Kansas Emigrants, Burial of Barber, Le Marais du Cygne, Brown of Ossawatomie, Barbara Frietchie, The Battle Autumn of 1862, At Port Royal, To John C. Fre mont, A strseaat the Capitol, The Proclamation, Laus Deo, To the Thirty-N inth Congress, The Cable Hym
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