Patriotic poems America loves: 125 poems commemorating stirring historical events and American ideals

America / Samuel Francis Smith

A National Hymn (from "Miss Ravenel's Conversion) / John William DeForest

America / Arlo Bates

America / Sydney Dobell

Our Country / Julia Ward Howe

One Country / Frank L. Stanton

Land of My Heart (from "Ad Patriam) / William Dudley Foulke

Land of the Free / Arthur Nicholas Hosking

My Land / Thomas Osborne Davis

Innominatus 9from "The Lay of the Last Minstrel") / Sir Walter Scott

There is a Land / James Montgomery

Where are You Going, Greatheart? / John Oxenham

The Gift Outright / Robert Frost

America the Beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates

Hail, Columbia / Joseph Hopkinson

Plain-Chant for America / Katherine Garrison Chapin

Tribute to America / Percy Bysshe Shelley

America (from "The National Ode, July 4, 1876") / Bayard Taylor

America for Me / Henry van Dyke

National Hymn / Daniel C. Roberts

Columbus / Joaquin Miller

Henry Hudson's Quest 1609 / Burton Egbert Stevenson

Pocahontas / William Makepeace Thackeray

The Word of God to Leyden Came 1620 / Jeremiah Eames Rankin

The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England / Felicia D. Hemans

First Thanksgiving of All / Nancy Byrd Turner

The Star-Spangled Banner / Francis Scott Key

The American Flag / Joseph Rodman Drake

A Toast to the Flag / John Jay Daly

The Old Flag / H.C. Bunner

Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean (first sung in Philadelphia about 1843) / Author Unknown The Flag Goes By / Henry Holcomb Bennett

Freedom / Joel Barlow

A Nation's Strength / Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Freedom / James Russell Lowell

Our Fathers Fought for Liberty / James Russell Lowell

Once to Every Man and Nation (from "The Present Crisis") / James Russell Lowell

God Save Our President / Francis DeHaes Janvier

The Errand Imperious / Edwin Markham

Oh Mother of a Mighty Race / William Cullen Bryant

A Toast to Our Native Land / Robert Bridges

Boston Hymn (Read in Boston Music Hall, January 1, 1863) / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Independence Bell, July 4, 1776 / Author Unknown

The Fourth of July / John Pierpont

Ode (Sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857) / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Centennial Hymn / John Greenleaf Whittier

Cnetennial Hymn / John Pierpont

A Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party, December 16, 1773 / Oliver Wendell Holmes

Paul Revere's Ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Concord Hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lexington, April 19, 1775 / Sidney Lanier

New England's Chevy Chase, April 19, 1775 / Edward Everett Hale

Warren's Address at Bunker Hill, June 16, 1775 / John Pierpont

Yankee Doodle / Edward Bangs

Nathan Hale / William Ordway Partridge

Nathan Hale / Francis Miles Finch

Carmen Bellicosum / Guy Humphreys McMaster

Molly Pitcher / Kate Brownlee Sherwood

LaFayette to Washington (from "Valley Forge") / Maxwell Anderson

La Fayette / Dolly Madison

Captain Molly / William Collins

Ticonderoga / V.B. Wilson

Emily Geiger / Author Unknown

Betty Zane, September, 1777 / Thomas Dunn English

John Paul Jones, September 23, 1779 / Walt Whitman

Paul Jones / Author Unknown

To the Memory of the Brave Americans (under General Greene, in South Carolina, who fell in the action of September 8, 1781)/ Philip Freneau

England and America in 1782 / Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Washington / George Gordon, Lord Byron

Ours, and All Men's (from "Under the Old Elm") / James Russell Lowell

George Washington / John Hall Ingham

At Mount Vernon / Thomas Curtis Clark

The Name of Washington / Arthur Gordon Field

John Adams / Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benét

Ballad of the Common Man (For the Jefferson Memorial) / Alfred Kreymborg

Battle-Hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe

An Army Corps on the March / Walt Whitman

Bivouac on a Mountain Side / Walt Whitman

Shiloh ; A Requiem (April, 1862) / Herman Melville

Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier

The High Tide at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 / Will Henry Thompson

John Burns of Gettysburg / Bret Harte

We're Tenting To-night / Walter Kittredge

When Johnny Comes Marching Home / Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore

The Blue and the Gray / Francis Miles Finch

Ode to the Confederate Dead in Magnolia Cemetery / Henry Timrod

O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman

Lincoln, the Man of the People / Edwin Markham

There was a Darkness in This Man (from "Lincoln") / John Gould Fletcher

Abraham Lincoln / Mildred Meigs

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd / Walt Whitman

Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (in Springfield, Ilinois) / Vachel Lindsay

I Am the Flag / Lawrence M. Jones

I Hear America Singing / Walt Whitman

America Greets and Alien / Author Unknown

The New Colossus / Emma Lazarus

The Poor Voter on Election Day / John Greenleaf Whittier

I Am an American / Elia Lieberman

America was Schoolmasters / Robert P. Tristram Coffin

Cool Tombs / Carl Sandburg

Old Ironsides (Written with reference to the proposed breaking up of the famous U.S. frigate Constitution) / Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Battle-field / William Cullen Bryant

The Reveille / Bret Harte

The Bivouac of the Dead / Theodore O'Hara

Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War is Kind (from "War is Kind") / Stephen Crane

Song of the Brave / Laurence Altgood

The Marines' Song / Author Unknown

The Caisson Song / Major Edmund L. Gruber

The Unknown Soldier / Billy Rose

In flanders Fields / John McCrae

Reply to in Flanders Fields / John Mitchell

Another reply to in Flanders Fields / J.A. Armstrong

America's Answer / R.W. Lilliard

The First Division Marches, September 1919 / Grantland Rice

Memorial Day / William E. Brooks

Written in a Time of Crisis (World War II) / Stephen Vincent Benét

Atlantic Charter: 1942 / Francis Brett Young

John Fitzgerald Kennedy / John Masefield

The Need of the Hour / Edwin Markham

The Ship of State (from "The Building of the Ship") / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American Muse / Stephen Vincent Benét

America was Promises / Archibalc MacLeish

The Moral Warfare / John Greenleaf Whittier

God, Give Us Men! / Josiah Gilbert Holland

Unmanifest Destiny / Richard Hovey.