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Patriotic poems America loves: 125 poems commemorating stirring historical events and American ideals
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Doubleday
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1968
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English
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From the Book - [1st ed.]
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.
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