Produced by Robert Prince, David Starner, Juliet Sutherland Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. POEMS OF AMERICAN PATRIOTISM CHOSEN BY BRANDER MATTHEWS AN EDITION REVISED AND EXTENDED ILLUSTRATED BY N.C. WYETH TO THE MEMORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT 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 in-spired 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. B. M. July 4, 1922. TABLE OF CONTENTS 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