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    The Poetry Of American Patriotism
    The Poetry Of American Patriotism
    The Poetry Of American Patriotism
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    The Poetry Of American Patriotism

    By Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Walt Whitman

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    The United States of America: Land of the Brave, Home of the Free. The United States was born by rebelling from the grasp of the British Empire, forging its own unique identity with a constitution based on equality for all. Undoubtedly this was an ideal rather than a standard for all. However what has been taken up by all is a love of Country proudly held by all. Many may disagree with the Government of the day but all support the idea of America. Here its eminent wordsmiths craft their views and thoughts in beautiful poems that explain, deepen and bring forth that love of country expressed as Patriotism.

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    Release dateNov 10, 2014
    ISBN9781785430312
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      The Poetry Of American Patriotism - Ralph Waldo Emerson

      The Poetry Of American Patriotism

      The United States of America: Land of the Brave, Home of the Free. 

      The United States was born by rebelling from the grasp of the British Empire, forging its own unique identity with a constitution based on equality for all.  Undoubtedly this was an ideal rather than a standard for all. However what has been taken up by all is a love of Country proudly held by all.  Many may disagree with the Government of the day but all support the idea of America.

      Here its eminent wordsmiths craft their views and thoughts in beautiful poems that explain, deepen and bring forth that love of country expressed as Patriotism.

      Index Of Poems

      PREFATORY NOTE – Brander Matthews

      BOSTON - Ralph Waldo Emerson

      PAUL REVERE'S RIDE - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

      THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON - Sidney Lanier

      HYMN - Ralph Waldo Emerson

      TICONDEROGA - V. B. Wilson

      GRANDMOTHER'S STORY OF BUNKER HILL BATTLE - Oliver Wendell Holmes

      WARREN'S ADDRESS - John Pierpont

      THE OLD CONTINENTALS - Guy Humphrey McMaster

      NATHAN HALE - Francis Miles Finch

      THE LITTLE BLACK-EYED REBEL - Will Carleton

      MOLLY MAGUIRE AT MONMOUTH - William Collins

      SONG OF MARION'S MEN - William Cullen Bryant

      TO THE MEMORY OF THE AMERICANS WHO FELL AT EUTAW - Philip Freneau

      GEORGE WASHINGTON - James Russell Lowell

      PERRY'S VICTORY ON LAKE ERIE - James Gates Percival

      THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER - Francis Scott Key

      THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS - Thomas Dunn English

      THE AMERICAN FLAG - Joseph Rodman Drake

      OLD IRONSIDES - Oliver Wendell Holmes

      MONTEREY - Charles Fenno Hoff man

      THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD - Theodore O'Hara

      HOW OLD BROWN TOOK HARPER'S FERRY - Edmund Clarence Stedman

      APOCALYPSE - Richard Realf

      THE PICKET GUARD - Ethel Lynn Beers

      THE WASHERS OF THE SHROUD - James Russell Lowell

      BATTLE-HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC - Julia Ward Howe

      AT PORT ROYAL - John Greenleaf Whittier

      SONG OF THE NEGRO BOATMEN – John Greenleaf Whittier

      READY - Phoebe Gary

      HOW ARE YOU, SANITARY? - Bret Harte

      SONG OF THE SOLDIERS - Charles G. Halpine

      JONATHAN TO JOHN - James Russell Lowell

      THE CUMBERLAND - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

      KEARNY AT SEVEN PINES - Edmund Clarence Stedman

      DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER - George H. Boker

      BARBARA FRIETCHIE - John Greenleaf Whittier

      FREDERICKSBURG - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

      MUSIC IN CAMP - John R. Thompson

      KEENAN'S CHARGE - George Parsons Lathrop

      THE BLACK REGIMENT - George H. Boker

      JOHN BURNS OF GETTYSBURG - Bret Harte

      TWILIGHT ON SUMTER - Richard Henry Stoddard

      THE BAY-FIGHT - Henry Howard Brownell

      SHERIDAN'S RIDE - Thomas Buchanan Read

      CRAVEN - Henry Newbolt

      SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA - Samuel H. M. Byers

      O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! - Walt Whitman

      ABRAHAM LINCOLN - James Russell Lowell

      THE BLUE AND THE GRAY - Francis Miles Finch

      AT THE FARRAGUT STATUE - Robert Bridges

      GRANT - H. C. Bunner

      THE BURIAL OF SHERMAN - Richard Watson Gilder

      THE MEN BEHIND THE GUNS - John Jerome Rooney

      THE REGULAR ARMY MAN - Joseph C. Lincoln

      WHEN THE GREAT GRAY SHIPS COME IN - Guy Wetmore Carryl

      AD FINEM FIDELES - Guy Wetmore Carry

      GROVER CLEVELAND - Joel Benton

      A TOAST TO OUR NATIVE LAND - Robert Bridges

      FIFTY YEARS - James Weldon Johnson

      THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS - Marie Van Vorst

      I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH - Alan Seeger

      THE CHOICE - Rudyard Kipling

      ANNAPOLIS - Waldron Kinsolving Post

      YANKS - James W. Foley

      ANY WOMAN TO A SOLDIER - Grace Ellery Channing

      TO PEACE, WITH VICTORY - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

      YOU AND YOU - Edith Wharton

      WITH THE TIDE - Edith Wharton

      AMERICA'S WELCOME HOME - Henry van Dyke

      THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER - Angela Morgan

      PREFATORY NOTE

      An attempt has been made in the present collection to gather together the patriotic poems of America, those which depict feelings as well as those which describe actions, since these latter are as indicative of the temper of the time. It is a collection, for the most part, of old favorites, for Americans have been quick to take to heart a stirring telling of a daring and noble deed; but these may be found to have gained freshness by a grouping in order. The arrangement is chronological so far as it might be, that the history of America as told by her poets should be set forth. Here and there occur breaks in the story, chiefly because there are fit incidents for song which no poet has fitly sung as yet.

      The poems have been printed scrupulously from the best accessible text, and they have not been tinkered in any way, though some few have been curtailed slightly for the sake of space. In a few cases, where the whole poem has not fallen within the scope of this volume, only a fragment is here given. When this has been done, it is pointed out. Brief notes have been prefixed to many of the poems, making plain the occasion of their origin, and removing any chance obscurity of allusion.

      New York, November, 1882.

      In the two score years since this collection was prepared many things have happened, and many poets have been inspired to celebrate men and moods and deeds. It has been found necessary to omit a few of the less important verses in the earlier edition to make room for the most significant of the lyric commemorations of events almost contemporary, and therefore appealing to us more immediately, and perhaps more poignantly.

      Brander Matthews, July 4, 1922.

      BOSTON – RALPH WALDO EMERSON

      SICUT PATRIBUS, SIT DEUS NOBIS

      Dec. 16, 1773

      This poem was read in Faneuil Hall, on the Centennial Anniversary of the Boston Tea-Party, at which a band of men disguised as Indians had quietly emptied into the sea the taxed tea-chests of three British ships.

      The rocky nook with hill-tops three

      Looked eastward from the farms,

      And twice each day the flowing sea

      Took Boston in its arms;

      The men of yore were stout and poor,

      And sailed for bread to every shore.

      And where they went on trade intent

      They did what freemen can,

      Their dauntless ways did all men praise,

      The merchant was a man.

      The world was made for honest trade,

      To plant and eat be none afraid.

      The waves that rocked them on the deep

      To them their secret told;

      Said the winds that sung the lads to sleep,

      Like us be free and bold!

      The honest waves refuse to slaves

      The empire of the ocean caves.

      Old Europe groans with palaces,

      Has lords enough and more;

      We plant and build by foaming seas

      A city of the poor;

      For day by day could Boston Bay

      Their honest labor overpay.

      We grant no dukedoms to the few,

      We hold like rights and shall;

      Equal on Sunday in the pew,

      On Monday in the mall.

      For what avail the plough or sail,

      Or land or life, if freedom fail?

      The noble craftsmen we promote,

      Disown the knave and fool;

      Each honest man shall have his vote,

      Each child shall have his school.

      A union then of honest men,

      Or union nevermore again.

      The wild rose and the barberry thorn

      Hung out their summer pride

      Where now on heated pavements worn

      The feet of millions stride.

      Fair rose the planted hills behind

      The good town on the bay,

      And where the western hills declined

      The prairie stretched away.

      What care though rival cities soar

      Along the stormy coast:

      Penn's town, New York, and Baltimore,

      If Boston knew the most!

      They laughed to know the world so wide;

      The mountains said: "Good-day!

      We greet you well, you Saxon men,

      Up with your towns and stay!"

      The world was made for honest trade,

      To plant and eat be none afraid.

      For you, they said, "no barriers be,

      For you no sluggard rest;

      Each street leads downward to the sea,

      Or landward to the West."

      O happy town beside the sea,

      Whose roads lead everywhere to all;

      Than thine no deeper moat can be,

      No stouter fence, no steeper wall!

      Bad news from George on the English throne:

      You are thriving well, said he;

      "Now by these presents be it known,

      You shall pay us a tax on tea;

      'T is very small, no load at all,

      Honor enough that we send the call."

      Not so, said Boston, "good my lord,

      We pay your governors here

      Abundant for their bed and board,

      Six thousand pounds a year.

      (Your highness knows our homely word,)

      Millions for self-government,

      But for tribute never a cent."

      The cargo came! and who could blame

      If Indians seized the tea,

      And, chest by chest, let down the same

      Into the laughing sea?

      For what avail the plough or sail

      Or land or life, if freedom fail?

      The townsmen braved the English king,

      Found friendship in the French,

      And Honor joined the patriot ring

      Low on their wooden bench.

      O bounteous seas that never fail!

      O day remembered yet!

      O happy port that spied the sail

      Which wafted Lafayette!

      Pole-star of light in Europe's night,

      That never faltered from the right.

      Kings shook with fear, old empires crave

      The secret force to find

      Which fired the little State to save

      The rights of all mankind.

      But right is might through all the world;

      Province to province faithful clung,

      Through good and ill the war-bolt hurled,

      Till Freedom cheered

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