Every Day in the Year A Poetical Epitome of the World’s History

A Poetical Epitome of the World’s History

Edited by James L. Ford and Mary K. Ford

These 718 annotated selections illustrate the great happenings and major authors of every age.

Bibliographic Record Preface

Contents

NEW YORK: DODD, MEAD & Co., 1902
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2011

January 1
		The Proclamation by John Greenleaf Whittier
		Boston Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson
		Twenty-eight and Twenty-nine by William Mackworth Praed
		The Last of the New Year’s Callers by Henry Cuyler Bunner
January 2
		The Battle of Murfreesboro by Kinahan Cornwallis
January 3
		Rachel by Matthew Arnold
January 4
		To Charles Dickens by Thomas Hood
January 5
		St. Simeon Stylites by Enrico Nencione
		Released by John Boyle O’Reilly
January 6
		Epiphany by Reginald Heber
January 7
		Holy Cross Day by Robert Browning
		St. Distaff’s Day by Robert Herrick
January 8
		Verlaine by Bliss Carman
		The Battle of New Orleans by Thomas Dunn English
		Jackson at New Orleans by Wallace Rice
		The Battle of New Orleans by Wallace Rice
January 9
		Death of Louis Napoleon by Christopher Pearse Cranch
January 10
		Laud by William Wordsworth
January 11
		Bayard Taylor by Craven Langstroth Betts
January 12
		To William H. Seward by John Greenleaf Whittier
January 13
		Spenser by Craven Langstroth Betts
January 14
		Cardinal Manning from London Punch
		In Memory of Lewis Carroll from London Punch
		Death of a Firstborn by Christina Georgina Rossetti
January 15
		Everett by Thomas William Parsons
		A Thought by John Hall Ingham
January 16
		Burial of Sir John Moore by Charles Wolfe
January 17
		Colonel Burnaby by Andrew Lang
		St. Anthony’s Sermon to the Fishes, Anonymous
January 18
		To Austin Dobson by Richard Watson Gilder
January 19
		To Mr. Congreve by Elizabeth Tollet
January 20
		St. Agnes’ Eve by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
January 21
		Execution of Louis XVI by William Makepeace Thackeray
January 22
		God Save the King! by Theodosia Garrison
		The Akond of Swat by Edward Lear
		A Threnody by George Thomas Lanigan
		On Lord Bacon’s Birthday by Ben Jonson
		On My Thirty-seventh Birthday by Lord Byron
January 23
		A Welcome to the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
		On the Death of Canon Kingsley by Paul Hamilton Hayne
		Epitaph for William Pitt by Lord Byron
		Phillips Brooks by Harriet Prescott Spofford
		Phillips Brooks by John Hall Ingham
January 24
		After the Lecture on Spion Kop by Joseph I. C. Clarke
		Sidney Godolphin by Clinton Scollard
January 25
		Robin Burns by Gerald Massey
January 26
		Gordon by Bertram Tennyson
		Epitaph on General Gordon by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
January 27
		Threnody by Ralph Waldo Emerson
		Unter den Linden by Harry Thurston Peck
January 28
		Drake’s Drum by Henry Newbolt
		Epigram on Francis Drake by Cowley, translated by Ben Jonson
January 29
		On the Death of George the Third by Horace Smith
January 30
		Execution of Charles I. by Andrew Marvell
		Upon the Death of King Charles I. by James Graham, Marquess of Montrose
		On the Funeral of Charles the First by William Lisle Bowles
January 31
		Three Portraits of Prince Charles by Andrew Lang
		Charles H. Spurgeon, London Punch
		Laus Deo! by John Greenleaf Whittier
February 1
		Arthur Henry Hallam by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
February 2
		Candlemas by Robert Herrick
		The Kearsarge by James Jeffrey Roche
February 3
		Before the Convent of Yuste, 1556 by From the German of Count Platen
February 4
		Thomas Carlyle, London Punch
		Carlyle by Paul Hamilton Hayne
February 5
		Death of Cato by Joseph Addison
		The Ballad of Paco Town by Clinton Scollard
February 6
		A Man’s Name by Richard Realf
February 7
		To Charles Dickens by John Forster
		Pio Nono by Julia Ward Howe
February 8
		Adieux a Mary Stuart by Algernon Charles Swinburne
		The Battle of Eylau by Isaac McLellan
February 9
		How We Burned the “Philadelphia” by Barrett Eastman
		The Murder of Darnley by William E. Aytoun
February 10
		To Charles Lamb by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
February 11
		Corydon, a Pastoral by John Cunningham
February 12
		Abraham Lincoln by Joel Benton
February 13
		The Widow of Glencoe by William E. Aytoun
		Only a Woman’s Hair by James Ashcroft Noble
		Saint Valentine’s Eve by Ernest McGaffey
		William the Third by William Wordsworth
February 14
		Grandmother’s Valentine by Minnia Irving
		A Valentine by Frank Dempster Sherman
		Valentine Verses by Thomas Nelson Page
		Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
		Song: “Shake off your heavy trance” by Francis Beaumont
		Sherman by Richard Watson Gilder
February 15
		The Fifteenth of February by Charles Edward Russell
		The Spirit of the Maine by Tudor Jenks
		Off Havana by John Hall Ingham
		The Fighting Race by Joseph I. C. Clarke
February 16
		Elisha Kent Kane by George H. Boker
February 17
		Heine’s Grave by Matthew Arnold
February 18
		At Luther’s Grave, Wittenberg by Richard Watson Gilder
		The Dead Czar by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
February 19
		Lines on the Prince of Wales, Anonymous
February 20
		The Constitution’s Last Fight by James Jeffrey Roche
		Andrew Hofer by Julius Mosen
February 21
		Epitaph: David Halliday, Anonymous
February 22
		George Washington by John Hall Ingham
		The Twenty-second of February by William Cullen Bryant
		Edgar W. Nye by Marion F. Ham
February 23
		Keats by Erasmus H. Brodie
		Keats by Craven Langstroth Betts
		The Grave of Keats by Oscar Wilde
		An Elegy on the Death of John Keats by Percy Bysshe Shelley
February 24
		Ode to France by James Russell Lowell
		Derwentwater’s Farewell, Old Ballad
February 25
		Wallenstein’s Death by Owen Meredith
February 26
		The Loss of the “Birkenhead” by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle
February 27
		Longfellow by Craven Langstroth Betts
February 28
		Anne Clough by Edmund Gosse
February 29
		Rossini by John Todhunter
March 1
		Robinson of Leyden by Oliver Wendell Holmes
March 2
		Ulric Dahlgren by Kate Brownlee Sherwood
March 3
		On the Freeing of the Serfs by Edna Dean Proctor
		Epigram on Waller by Thomas Middleton
March 4
		To Alexander H. Stephens by Paul Hamilton Hayne
March 5
		Lines on the Death of Gen. Joseph Reed by Philip Freneau
		The Boston Massacre by John Boyle O’Reilly
March 6
		The Defence of the Alamo by Joaquin Miller
		Louisa May Alcott by Louise Chandler Moulton
		Michael Angelo Buonarotti by Christopher Pearse Cranch
March 7
		Ichabod by John Greenleaf Whittier
		On the Death of Captain Nicholas Biddle by Philip Freneau
March 8
		Judas the Second by Francis Saltus Saltus
		The Battle of Alexandria by James Montgomery
March 9
		Wilhelm I., Emperor of Germany by Henry Cuyler Bunner
		The Murder of Riccio by William E. Aytoun
		The Death of Cardinal Mazarin by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
March 10
		A Welcome to Alexandra by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
		On the Monument Erected to Mazzini at Genoa by Algernon Charles Swinburne
March 11
		Tasso by Craven Langstroth Betts
March 12
		The Bells of San Blas by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
March 13
		Ballade to Banville by Edmund Gosse
		Alexander II. by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
		For a Portrait of Felice Orsini, Anonymous
March 14
		Benjamin Harrison by Charles Edward Russell
		Ivry by Thomas Babington Macaulay
March 15
		The Death of Julius Cæsar by William Shakespeare
		An International Episode by Caroline Duer
March 16
		Destiny by Emma Lazarus
		On the Death of Burbage by Thomas Middleton
March 17
		St. Patrick Was a Gentleman by Henry Bennett
		Wanted—Saint Patrick by Fitz-James O’Brien
		The Dead Cannoneer by James Ryder Randall
		The Band in the Pines by John Esten Cooke
		The Men of Monomoy by Joe Cone
March 18
		On Laurence Sterne, Anonymous
March 19
		The Race of the “Oregon” by John James Meehan
		Battle-Song of the Oregon by Wallace Rice
March 20
		To Louis Kossuth, Anonymous
		John Mitchel by John Boyle O’Reilly
March 21
		Epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton by Alexander Pope
		Cranmer by William Wordsworth
		On the Death of Southey by Walter Savage Landor
		The Death of the Duke d’Enghien by Henry Kirke White
March 22
		Death of Goethe by Matthew Arnold
		On the Death of Decatur by William Crafts
March 23
		Occupation of Naples by the Austrians by Thomas Moore
March 24
		The Loss of the Eurydice by Edmund Gosse
March 25
		The Annunciation by Father John Banister Tabb
		On the Union by Ben Jonson
March 26
		Beethoven by Richard Watson Gilder
		Cecil Rhodes by Rudyard Kipling
		On Sir John Vanbrugh—Poet and Architect by Abel Evans
March 27
		Bois Ton Sang, Beaumanoir by Frances Sargent Osgood
March 28
		Anton Seidl by John Hall Ingham
		In Memoriam Prince Leopold by Henry Halloran
March 29
		Battle of Towton by William Shakespeare
March 30
		Guns of Peace by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
March 31
		Haworth Churchyard by Matthew Arnold
		Charlotte Brontë by Charlotte Becker
		Donne by Hartley Coleridge
		Epitaph on Prince Frederick, Anonymous
April 1
		The First of April by Mortimer Collins
		Madcap April by Tudor Jenks
		The Loss of the Emigrants by John Boyle O’Reilly
April 2
		Battle of the Baltic by Thomas Campbell
		Mirabeau Dying by William Ross Wallace
April 3
		Death of Prince Arthur by William Shakespeare
April 4
		Peter Cooper by Joaquin Miller
April 5
		The Lost Leader by Robert Browning
		The Sixty-second Birthday of Swinburne by Charles Edward Russell
April 6
		The Massacre at Scio by William Cullen Bryant
		Fitz James O’Brien by Andrew E. Watrous
		Albert Sidney Johnston by Kate Brownlee Sherwood
		General Albert Sidney Johnston by Mary Jervey
April 7
		Wordsworth by Lord Byron
		The Battle of Charleston Harbor by Paul Hamilton Hayne
April 8
		On Captain Barney’s Victory over the Ship General Monk by Philip Freneau
		Easter Even by Christina Georgina Rossetti
April 9
		Easter Morning by Edmund Spenser
		Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Edmund Gosse
		Peace by Phoebe Cary
		The Conquered Banner by Abram Joseph Ryan
		“Stack Arms!” by Joseph Blynth Alston
		In the Land Where We Were Dreaming by Daniel B. Lucas
April 10
		Chartist Song by Thomas Cooper
April 11
		The Protestants’ Joy, Old Ballad
		Death of Cardinal Beaufort by William Shakespeare
		Abdication of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray
April 12
		Sumter by Edmund Clarence Stedman
April 13
		Men of the North and West by Richard Henry Stoddard
April 14
		Battle of Barnet by William Shakespeare
April 15
		The Réveille by Francis Bret Harte
		Father Damien by Father John Banister Tabb
		How We Became a Nation by Harriet Prescott Spofford
		O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
		Abraham Lincoln by Richard Henry Stoddard
		Abraham Lincoln by Tom Taylor
April 16
		Charles Edward at Versailles by William E. Aytoun
April 17
		On the Late Massacre in Piedmont by John Milton
		The Death of the Duke of Buckingham by Alexander Pope
		Character of Zimri by John Dryden
		On the Death of Benjamin Franklin by Philip Freneau
April 18
		Sir Sidney Smith by Thomas Dibdin
April 19
		At His Grave by Alfred Austin
		Through Baltimore by Bayard Taylor
		Apocalypse by Richard Realf
		Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson
		The Minute Men of Northboro’ by Wallace Rice
		Byron by Craven Langstroth Betts
April 20
		Spain’s Hour of Doom by Albert Rowland Haven
		To Spain—A Last Word by Edith M. Thomas
		The Sudbury Fight by Wallace Rice
April 21
		The Fight at San Jacinto by John Williamson Palmer
April 22
		Incident of the French Camp by Robert Browning
April 23
		An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare by John Milton
		On the Portrait of Shakespeare by Ben Jonson
		Cervantes by William Cullen Bryant
		Wordsworth by Craven Langstroth Betts
April 24
		The “Varuna” by George H. Boker
April 25
		Cowper’s Grave by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
		Tasso by Lord Byron
April 26
		Farewell to Salvini by Henry Cuyler Bunner
April 27
		To Toussaint l’Ouverture by William Wordsworth
		Grant at Rest by John James Meehan
April 28
		The Launching of Cortez’ Ships by Kinahan Cornwallis
April 29
		The Battle of Limerick by William Makepeace Thackeray
April 30
		Epicede by Algernon Charles Swinburne
		The Death of Livingstone by Roden Noel
		For the Picture by J. M. W. Turner
May 1
		Manila Bay by H. E. W., Jr.
		Dewey in Manila Bay by R. V. Risley
		Kitchen May-day Song, Old Ballad
		Lines on a Late Hospicious Ewent by William Makepeace Thackeray
		Hooker ’s Across by George H. Boker
May 2
		Keenan’s Charge (Part II) by George Parsons Lathrop
		The Brier-wood Pipe by Charles Dawson Shanly
May 3
		Stanzas to the Memory of Thomas Hood by Bartholomew Simmons
		Battle of St. Albans by William Shakespeare
May 4
		Battle of Tewksbury by William Shakespeare
May 5
		Death of Napoleon by Isaac McLellan
		Lines Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon by Percy Bysshe Shelley
		Popular Recollections of Bonaparte by Father Prout (Francis Mahony)
		Napoleon by Richard Watson Gilder
May 6
		An Uninscribed Monument on One of the Battlefields of the Wilderness by Herman Melville
		Thoreau’s Flute by Louisa May Alcott
May 7
		To Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor
May 8
		Relief of Orleans by William Shakespeare
May 9
		The Death of Schiller by William Cullen Bryant
May 10
		The Surprise at Ticonderoga by Mary A. P. Stansbury
		Under the Shade of the Trees by Margaret J. Preston
		Death of Stonewall Jackson by Harry L. Flash
		The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson by Sidney Lanier
		Stonewall Jackson by Herman Melville
		Stonewall Jackson’s Way by John Williamson Palmer
May 11
		Fontenoy by Thomas Osborne Davis
		Lord Chatham by William Cowper
		One Country—One Sacrifice by Richard Watson Gilder
		To Dr. John Brown by Algernon Charles Swinburne
		On the Death of Mr. Perceval by Thomas Moore
May 12
		Obsequies of Stuart by John R. Thompson
May 13
		To King Charles and Queen Mary, for the Loss of Their First-born by Ben Jonson
May 14
		Henry IV by Francis Saltus Saltus
May 15
		Daniel O’Connell by John Boyle O’Reilly
		Miss Nightingale by Alexander Smith
May 16
		Mary Queen of Scots by William Wordsworth
		Mrs. Hemans by B. Hallock
		Battle of Albuera by Lord Byron
May 17
		On the Death of General Worth by George W. Cutter
May 18
		A Ballad of Sir John Franklin by George H. Boker
May 19
		William E. Gladstone, London Punch
		Lament of Anne Boleyn on the Eve of Her Execution by Anne Boleyn
May 20
		I Am! Yet What I Am by John Clare
May 21
		The Execution of Montrose by William E. Aytoun
May 22
		The Death of King Bomba, Anonymous
		Victor Hugo by Algernon Charles Swinburne
May 23
		I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
		Death of Savonarola by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
May 24
		Second Review of the Grand Army by Francis Bret Harte
		To the Queen by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
May 25
		Emerson by Craven Langstroth Betts
May 26
		The Prisoner of Chillon by Lord Byron
		The Voice of the Oregon by H. J. D. Browne
May 27
		The Black Regiment by George H. Boker
May 28
		Thomas Moore by Richard Henry Stoddard
May 29
		Charles the Second by William Wordsworth
		A Little Dead Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
		A Short Hymn upon the Birth of Prince Charles by Henry Wotton
May 30
		The Blue and the Gray by Francis Miles Finch
		The Reason Why, Anonymous
		The Rear Guard by Irene Fowler Brown
		Memorial Day by Cy Warman
		Decoration Day by Eugene Fitch Ware (“Ironquill”)
		A Scot to Jeanne d’Arc by Andrew Lang
May 31
		A Ballad of the Conemaugh Flood by Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley
		Hervé Riel by Robert Browning
June 1
		The “Shannon” and the “Chesapeake” by Thomas Tracy Bouvé
		Louis Napoleon by Oscar Wilde
		Destiny by Emma Lazarus
June 2
		The Royal Victory over the Dutch, Old Ballad
June 3
		Hobson and His Men by Robert Loveman
		Eight Volunteers by Lansing C. Bailey
		The Men of the Merrimac by Clinton Scollard
		Sinking the Merrimac by Joe Cone
June 4
		Grattan by Aubrey T. De Vere
June 5
		Sacheverel by William Wordsworth
June 6
		The Rhymed Will of Hunnis by William Hunnis
		Blaine of Maine by Eugene Fitch Ware (“Ironquill”)
June 7
		J. B. by Henry Cuyler Bunner
June 8
		Mahomet by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
		In the Round Tower at Jhansi by Christina Georgina Rossetti
		To Andrew Jackson by George H. Boker
June 9
		Saint Columba by Lionel Johnson
		Dickens in Camp by Francis Bret Harte
June 10
		Bethel by Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne
June 11
		Sir John Franklin by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
		Lady Franklin by Elizabeth Whittier
		On Sir Kenelm Digby, Anonymous
June 12
		Bryant Dead! by Paul Hamilton Hayne
		Rugby Chapel by Matthew Arnold
		The Kidnapping of Sims by John Pierpont
June 13
		On the Lord General Fairfax by John Milton
		On the Death of Lord Hastings by John Dryden
June 14
		Naseby by Thomas Babington Macaulay
		The American Flag by Joseph Rodman Drake
		Betsy’s Battle Flag by Minna Irving
June 15
		Eve of Quatre Bras by Lord Byron
		Frederick III by Ina D. Coolbrith
June 16
		Lead, Kindly Light by John Henry, Cardinal Newman
		The Death of Marlborough by George Walter Thornbury
		The Lay of the Brave Cameron by John Stuart Blackie
June 17
		Warren’s Address by John Pierpont
		Addison by Elisabeth J. Eames
June 18
		Defeat of Napoleon by Lord Byron
		Elegy on William Cobbett by Ebenezer Elliott
June 19
		Maximilian by John Godfrey Saxe
		The Alabama by Maurice Bell
June 20
		The Sack of Baltimore by Thomas Osborne Davis
		The Nameless One by James Clarence Mangan
		The Young Queen by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
June 21
		The Summer Solstice by Edith Thomas
		Trial of Queen Katherine by William Shakespeare
June 22
		The Battle of Morat by William Wetmore Story
		Recessional by Rudyard Kipling
June 23
		The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey by Susan Coolidge
June 24
		Bannockburn by Robert Burns
		M. Carnot’s Death by John Hall Ingham
		The Death of Hampden by Pakenham Beatty
		Saint John the Baptist by William Drummond
		The Forced Recruit by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
June 25
		The Martyrdom of the Archbishop of Paris by John Mason Neale
		Miles Keogh’s Horse by John Hay
June 26
		The Vigil, London Punch
		Mercedes by Thomas William Parsons
June 27
		The Battle of Pultowa by Robert Southey
June 28
		Mollie Pitcher by Kate Brownlee Sherwood
		To John Boyle O’Reilly by James Berry Bensel
		Raglan by Edwin Arnold
June 29
		St. Peter’s Day by John Keble
		On the Death of Mrs. Browning by Sydney Dobell
		To E. B. B. by James Thomson
June 30
		Acquittal of the Bishops by William Wordsworth
July 1
		The Boyne Water, Old Ballad
		The Charge at Santiago by William Hamilton Hayne
July 2
		Three Hundred Thousand More, Anonymous
		Sir Nicholas at Marston Moor by Winthrop Mackworth Praed
		Santiago by Thomas A. Janvier
		The Fleet at Santiago by Charles E. Russell
		The Brooklyn at Santiago by Wallace Rice
		The Men behind the Guns by John Jerome Rooney
		Spain’s Last Armada by Wallace Rice
July 3
		High Tide at Gettysburg by Will Henry Thompson
		To the Spirit of Abraham Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder
July 4
		Before Vicksburg by George H. Boker
		England and America by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
July 5
		The Field of Wagram by Edmond Rostand
July 6
		Edward VI by William Wordsworth
		Cœur de Lion at the Bier of His Father by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
July 7
		On the Death of Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Lord Byron
		Lines on the Death of Sheridan by Thomas Moore
July 8
		Shelley by Craven Langstroth Betts
		The Grave of Shelley by Oscar Wilde
July 9
		The Song of Braddock’s Men, Old Ballad
		The Patriot’s Password by James Montgomery
July 10
		The Tower of Flame by Richard Watson Gilder
July 11
		First News from Villafranca by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
July 12
		Death of Jack Cade by William Shakespeare
		Caesar by Francis Saltus Saltus
July 13
		Charlotte Corday, Anonymous
July 14
		The Column of July by George Gordon McCrae
		La Tricoteuse by George Walter Thornbury
July 15
		Napoleon’s Farewell by Lord Byron
		Character of the Duke of Monmouth by John Dryden
July 16
		From “The Fight of Faith” by Anne Askew
		On the Death of M. D’Ossoli and His Wife, Margaret Fuller by Walter Savage Landor
		The Burial of Béranger by Alfred Watts
July 17
		Leconte de Lisle by Edmund Gosse
July 18
		Dean Stanley by Paul Hamilton Hayne
		Thackeray’s Birthday by Robert Cameron Rogers
July 19
		Petrarch’s Tomb by Lord Byron
July 20
		The Dead Singer by John Boyle O’Reilly
		Logan at Peach Tree Creek by Hamlin Garland
July 21
		On the Death of Burns by William Roscoe
		At the Grave of Burns by William Wordsworth
		Manassas by Catherine Warfield
		Battle of Shrewsbury by William Shakespeare
July 22
		Napoleon II., Duke of Reichstadt by Francis Saltus Saltus
July 23
		Vanquished by Francis F. Browne
July 24
		Thomas à Kempis by Richard Rogers Bowker
July 25
		Coleridge’s Epitaph on Himself by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
July 26
		Parsifal—at Baireuth by Irving Browne
July 27
		The Burial March of Dundee by William E. Aytoun
July 28
		The Death of Robespierre by Henry Howard Brownell
July 29
		How Cyrus Laid the Cable by John Godfrey Saxe
July 30
		The Siege of Derry by Cecil Frances Alexander
		Stanzas on the Death of Thomas Gray, Anonymous
July 31
		Sir Walter Raleigh to a Caged Linnet by Eugene Lee Hamilton
August 1
		Casabianca by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
August 2
		Wha’ll Be King but Charlie? by Lady Nairne
August 3
		Nilsson by Sidney Lanier
August 4
		On the Coronation of Queen Victoria by Jedediah Vincent Huntington
		Hans Christian Andersen by Edmund Gosse
August 5
		Farragut by William Tuckey Meredith
		Sheridan by Richard Watson Gilder
August 6
		To Ben Jonson by Robert Herrick
		The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood
August 7
		Leonidas by George Croly
		The Death of Queen Caroline by Thomas Noon Talfourd
August 8
		The Armada by Thomas Babington Macaulay
		A Ballad to Queen Elizabeth by Austin Dobson
		Execution of Ugo Bassi by Harriet Eleanor Hamilton King
August 9
		Dryden by Craven Langstroth Betts
		Cedar Mountain by Annie Fields
August 10
		The Death of Lyon, Anonymous
August 11
		John Henry Newman by Edmund Gosse
		Thaddeus Stevens by Phoebe Cary
August 12
		Robert Southey by Lord Byron
		William Blake by Edmund Gosse
		Helen Hunt Jackson by Ina D. Coolbrith
August 13
		The Battle of Blenheim by Robert Southey
		Philip My King by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
August 14
		At the Farragut Statue by Robert Bridges
August 15
		Sir Walter Scott by Lord Byron
		The Assumption by Father John Banister Tabb
		Lillian Adelaide Neilson by Clement Scott
		Napoleon by Francis Saltus Saltus
August 16
		The Battle of Bennington by William Cullen Bryant
August 17
		Murder of the Princes in the Tower by William Shakespeare
August 18
		Kilmarnock’s Lament, Old Ballad
August 19
		The Capture of the Guerriere by the Constitution by Philip Freneau
August 20
		Marco Bozzaris by Fitz-Greene Halleck
		When the Great Gray Ships Come in by Guy Wetmore Carryl
August 21
		Farewell to France by Mary Queen of Scots
		Inscription for a Monument at Vimeiro by Robert Southey
		Prince Eugene, Anonymous
August 22
		Dead Men’s Holiday by Louise Chandler Moulton
		To the Memory of Sydney Dobell by John Stuart Blackie
August 23
		The Death of Wallace by Robert Southey
August 24
		Millais’s “Huguenots,” London Spectator
		Twilight on Sumter by Richard Henry Stoddard
August 25
		The Heart of the Bruce by William E. Aytoun
		On the Death of Chatterton by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
		Chatterton by Charles Edward Russell
August 26
		To Celia Thaxter by Annie Field
August 27
		The Maryland Battalion by John Williamson Palmer
		Ode on the Death of Thomson by William Collins
August 28
		Lohengrin by Andrew E. Watrous
August 29
		To O. W. Holmes by Paul Hamilton Hayne
		On the Loss of the Royal George by William Cowper
August 30
		Convention of Cintra by William Wordsworth
		“Our Left” by Francis O. Ticknor
		The Death of Cleopatra by Horace
August 31
		The Revenge by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
		Ave Atque Vale by Algernon Charles Swinburne
September 1
		Dirge for a Soldier by George H. Boker
		Before Sedan by Austin Dobson
September 2
		The Sphinx of the Tuileries by John Hay
September 3
		Execution of the Princess de Lamballe by William Makepeace Thackeray
		On the Death of Oliver Cromwell by John Dryden
September 4
		Geronimo by Ernest McGaffey
		Epitaph on the Earl of Leicester by Sir Walter Raleigh
September 5
		On the Taking of Namur by the King of Great Britain by Matthew Prior
September 6
		The Pilgrim Fathers by William Wordsworth
September 7
		Sidney Lanier by William Hamilton Hayne
		Threnody of the Pines by William Hamilton Hayne
September 8
		Eutaw Springs by Philip Freneau
September 9
		Edinburgh after Flodden by William E. Aytoun
		Dreyfus by John Hall Ingham
September 10
		Perry’s Victory, Old Ballad
September 11
		The Battle of Lake Champlain by Philip Freneau
		The Taking of Sebastopol by Thomas William Parsons
September 12
		The Lamentable Ballad of the Bloody Brook by Edward Everett Hale
		At the Grave of Walker by Joaquin Miller
September 13
		On General Wolfe, Anonymous
		On the Death of Mr. Fox by Lord Byron
September 14
		The Warden of the Cinque Ports by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Wellington by Lord Beaconsfield
		Faithful unto Death by R. H. Titherington
		The Comfort of the Trees by Richard Watson Gilder
		The Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
September 15
		Arthur Henry Hallam by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
September 16
		Bishop Patteson by Menella Bute Smedley
September 17
		In Memory of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles Swinburne
September 18
		King Henry V. at Harfleur by William Shakespeare
September 19
		On the Slain at Chickamauga by Herman Melville
		At the President’s Grave by Richard Watson Gilder
		The Bells at Midnight by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
September 20
		Chediock Ticheborne by Chediock Ticheborne
		Alma by Richard Chenevix Trench
		O! Breathe Not His Name by Thomas Moore
		When He Who Adores Thee by Thomas Moore
		She Is Far from the Land by Thomas Moore
September 21
		Sir Walter Scott by Richard Watson Gilder
		Joseph Rodman Drake by Fitz-Greene Halleck
		To Virgil by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
September 22
		Nathan Hale by Francis Miles Finch
		Nathan Hale by Joe Cone
September 23
		Victory of the “Bonhomme Richard” over the “Serapis” by Philip Freneau
		Paul Jones’ Victory, Anonymous
		Death of General Marceau by Lord Byron
September 24
		Monterey by Charles Fenno Hoffman
September 25
		Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke by Ben Jonson
September 26
		John George Nicolay by Richard Watson Gilder
September 27
		The Reduction of Harfleur by William Shakespeare
		The Song of the Railroad by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
September 28
		Marathon by Lord Byron
September 29
		Michael the Archangel by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
September 30
		On the Death of The Rev. George Whitefield by Phillis Wheatley
October 1
		October by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
October 2
		To the Memory of Channing by Anne Charlotte Lynch
		Richard III by Francis Saltus Saltus
October 3
		The Battle of Moncontour by Thomas Babington Macaulay
October 4
		In Memory of Barry Cornwall by Algernon Charles Swinburne
October 5
		In Memoriam—J. O. by Andrew E. Watrous
October 6
		Under the Pine by Paul Hamilton Hayne
		Parnell by Lionel Johnson
		Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
October 7
		To Edgar A. Poe by Sarah Helen Whitman
		Lament for Sir Philip Sidney by Mathew Roydon
		Oliver Wendell Holmes by William Hamilton Hayne
October 8
		Rienzi’s Address to the Romans by Mary Russell Mitford
October 9
		Chicago by John Boyle O’Reilly
		The Siege of Savannah by Rivington’s Gazette, 1779
October 10
		Reopening of the Drury Lane Theatre by Lord Byron
		The Baby’s Debut by Horace and James Smith
		The Battle of Maciejowice by Thomas Campbell
October 11
		Sir Thomas Wyatt by Sir Antonio Sentleger
October 12
		The Wexford Massacre by Michael Joseph Barry
		The Wanderer by Eugene Field
		Columbus by Joaquin Miller
		Columbus by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
		Tennyson by Thomas Henry Huxley
		“Gone Forward” by Margaret J. Preston
October 13
		The Defeat of Burgoyne by Rev. Wheeler Case
October 14
		Jena by Francis Saltus Saltus
		Saxon Grit by Robert Collyer
October 15
		A Ballad of the French Fleet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Lines upon Himself by Robert Herrick
October 16
		John Brown by Eugene Fitch Ware (“Ironquill”)
		Execution of Marie Antoinette by William Makepeace Thackeray
		Latimer and Ridley by William Wordsworth
October 17
		The Field of the Grounded Arms by Fitz-Greene Halleck
October 18
		St. Luke the Painter by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
		Fall of Wolsey by William Shakespeare
		The Wasp’s Frolic by From “Naval Songster,” 1815
October 19
		Yorktown Centennial Lyric by Paul Hamilton Hayne
		The Kinship of the Celt by Joseph I. C. Clarke
		Swift by Hartley Coleridge
October 20
		Burton by Algernon Charles Swinburne
October 21
		Trafalgar Day by E. Nesbit
October 22
		Theophile Gautier by Algernon Charles Swinburne
October 23
		A Dinner at the House of Dugal Stewart by Robert Burns
October 24
		Montefiore by Ambrose Bierce
		Webster by Epes Sargent
October 25
		The Ballad of Agincourt by Michael Drayton
		The “United States” and “Macedonian,” Old Ballad
		The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
		Chaucer by Craven Langstroth Betts
October 26
		On William Hogarth—In Chiswick Churchyard, Anonymous
		Lady Penelope Clifton by Francis Beaumont
October 27
		The Two Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		On a Portrait of Servetus by Richard Watson Gilder
October 28
		Alfred by William Wordsworth
October 29
		Death of Sir Walter Raleigh by Sir Walter Raleigh
October 30
		De Long by Andrew E. Watrous
		Henry George by Bliss Carman
		Of Henry George by Richard Watson Gilder
		John A. Andrew by Louise Chandler Moulton
		Nikolson’s Nek by Charles Edward Russell
October 31
		Hallow E’en by Nora Hopper Chesson
		All Souls’ Day by Rosamund Marriott Watson
November 1
		All-Saints’ Day by James Russell Lowell
		When I beneath the Cold, Red Earth Am Sleeping by William Motherwell
November 2
		To Jenny Lind by Edmund Gosse
November 3
		To Bryant on His Birthday by George H. Boker
November 4
		Eugene Field by Marion F. Ham
		Churchill’s Grave by Lord Byron
November 5
		Inkerman by Richard Chenevix Trench
		Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lord Byron
		Gunpowder Plot by William Wordsworth
November 6
		The Old Admiral by Edmund Clarence Stedman
November 7
		The Man of Ross by Alexander Pope
		The Gospel of Peace by James Jeffrey Roche
November 8
		Madame Roland, Anonymous
		Francis Parkman by Oliver Wendell Holmes
November 9
		Boston by John Boyle O’Reilly
November 10
		The Fishermen of Wexford by John Boyle O’Reilly
November 11
		St. Martin’s Day by Browne Willis
November 12
		Epitaph on Sir Thomas Fairfax by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
November 13
		Stevenson’s Birthday by Katherine Miller
November 14
		The Traveller at the Source of the Nile by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
		Nell Gwynn by Algernon Charles Swinburne
November 15
		The Comedian’s Last Night by Edmund Clarence Stedman
		Song of the Battle of Morgarten by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
November 16
		James McCosh by Robert Bridges
November 17
		The Defence of Lucknow by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
November 18
		Burial of the Duke of Wellington by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
November 19
		Emma Lazarus by Richard Watson Gilder
		The Dead Player by John James Meehan
		To the King on His Birthday by Ben Jonson
November 20
		St. Paul at Melita by John Henry, Cardinal Newman
		Hawke by Henry Newbolt
		Chatterton at Bristol by Charles Edward Russell
November 21
		On the Death of James Hogg by William Wordsworth
November 22
		Alexander’s Feast; Or, the Power of Music by John Dryden
November 23
		To Philip Massinger, “A Stranger” by Charles Edward Russell
		Richard Hakluyt’s Men by Wallace Rice
November 24
		The Battle in the Clouds by William Dean Howells
		The Battle of Lookout Mountain by Kinahan Cornwallis
November 25
		On the Birthday of Catherine of Braganza by Mrs. Knight
		Queen Henrietta Maria by Oscar Wilde
		Gaetano Donizetti by Francis Saltus Saltus
November 26
		He Never Smiled Again by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
November 27
		Philip Van Artevelde by Sir Henry Taylor
		Horace by Alexander Pope
November 28
		Eleanor of Castile, Anonymous
November 29
		At Chappaqua by Joel Benton
November 30
		Jefferson Davis by Harry Thurston Peck
		When the Assault Was Intended to the City by John Milton
		“Shot through the Heart” by Ina Marie Porter
December 1
		A Poet’s Epitaph by Ebenezer Elliott
December 2
		The Last Cæsar, 1851–1870 by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
		To Louis Napoleon by George H. Boker
		Austerlitz by Francis Saltus Saltus
December 3
		A Grave in Samoa by John Macfarlane
		To Robert Louis Stevenson by Herman Knickerbocker Viele
		Hohenlinden by Thomas Campbell
December 4
		On Washington’s Farewell Address by St. John Honeywood
December 5
		Killing of Macbeth by William Shakespeare
		Mozart’s Requiem by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
December 6
		Kitty Clive by Charles Churchill
December 7
		Epitaph on Algernon Sidney by Robert Southey
December 8
		To Christina of Sweden by William Cowper, trans.
December 9
		Milton by Ernest Myers
		Milton by Craven Langstroth Betts
		Milton’s Sonnets by John Milton
December 10
		The Retreat from Moscow by George Walter Thornbury
		The French Army in Russia by William Wordsworth
December 11
		Mario by Francis Saltus Saltus
		Charles XII. of Sweden by Samuel Johnson
December 12
		Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor
		The Twelfth of December by Richard Watson Gilder
December 13
		The Battle of Fredericksburg by Kinahan Cornwallis
		The Martyrdom of St. Lucy by John Mason Neale
		On Dr. Johnson by John Wolcot
		On the Death of Dr. Johnson by William Cowper
December 14
		To the Princess Alice by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
		The Prince Consort by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
		Washington by Lord Byron
		On the Death of Washington by Theodore Dwight
		Agassiz by James Thomas Fields
December 15
		The Return of Napoleon from St. Helena by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
December 16
		To the Authoress of “Our Village” by Charles Kingsley
		Beethoven by John Hall Ingham
December 17
		Bolivar by Barry Cornwall
December 18
		To Samuel Rogers, Esq. by Lord Byron
December 19
		To Bayard Taylor beyond Us by Paul Hamilton Hayne
December 20
		The Little Church round the Corner by A. E. Lancaster
December 21
		A Nocturnal upon St. Lucie’s Day by John Donne
		The Winter Solstice by Edith Thomas
		The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
December 22
		Oh May I Join the Choir Invisible by George Eliot
		George Eliot by James Ashcroft Noble
		Shan Van Vocht, Anonymous
December 23
		Savannah by Alethea S. Burroughs
December 24
		Adsum by Richard Henry Stoddard
		A Christmas Hymn by Alfred Domett
		A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore
		Christmas Eve, London “Public Opinion”
December 25
		The Eve of Mary by Nora Hopper Chesson
		A Christmas Song by Tudor Jenks
		The Mahogany Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray
		A Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour by Ben Jonson
		The End of the Play by William Makepeace Thackeray
		Christmas Night of ’62 by W. Gordon McCabe
December 26
		The Battle of Trenton, Anonymous
December 27
		Charles Lamb by Pakenham Beatty
		To the Sister of “Elia” by Walter Savage Landor
December 28
		The Death of Queen Mary, Old Ballad
December 29
		To Carmen Sylva by Emma Lazarus
December 30
		Blücher on the Rhine by August Kopisch
		On His Marriage to Mary Godwin by Percy Bysshe Shelley
		Wicliffe by William Wordsworth
December 31
		Montgomery at Quebec by Clinton Scollard
		New Year’s Eve by Alfred, Lord Tennyson