Braddock’s Defeat |
On the Death of General Wolfe |
Brave Wolfe |
Quebec—1775 |
Battle of Bunker Hill |
General Warren; or, the Battle of Bunker Hill—1775 |
General Montgomery |
Elegy on the Death of Gen. Montgomery by Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752–1783) |
Battle of Bunker’s Hill |
On the Death of General Montgomery by Brian Edwards |
Hearts of Tempered Steel |
Battle of Trenton |
Capture of Cornwallis |
The Soldier |
To the Volunteers |
A Soldier’s Advice |
The Voice of America |
A Soldier’s Life |
The Soldier’s Call |
The Death of the Brave |
Battle of Bennington |
An Elegy to the Memory of the American Volunteers |
Battle of Princeton |
American History |
Taxation of America |
Warren’s Address by John Pierpont (1785–1866) |
Elegy on the Death of Brigadier-General Mercer |
Burgoyne’s Surrender |
The Battle of Monmouth by R. H. |
To the Memory of the Brave Americans by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
To the Americans by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
Death of Col. Laurens by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
Ode: ‘Once more we’re one, a nation cries’ |
Ierne’s Sons |
Major André |
The Patriot’s Adieu |
Incentives to Valour |
The Humours of Men |
To the Volunteer |
Sinclair’s Defeat |
Hark! Hark!—1812 |
To the Memory of Captain Jacob Cheeseman |
A Lady’s Adieu to Her Tea-Table |
Lines Occasioned by the War—1777 |
Bunker’s Hill by John Burk (1775?–1808) |
Come out, Ye Continentalers |
Trenton and Princeton |
General Burgoyne and the Boston Blockade |
Two Stanzas: ‘Cornwallis led a country-dance’ |
Song—1776: ‘The day is broke; my boys, push on’ |
Song: ‘See they come—the heroes come!’ by William Dunlap (1766–1839) |
Bunker’s Hill by John Neal (1793–1876) |
The Rifleman’s Song at Bennington—1777 |
Washington to His Troops by Edward Conway Jones (1820–1865) |
British Lamentation |
General Burgoyne’s Lamentation |
Elegy on the Death of Major Wyllys by St. John Honeywood (1763–1798) |
War Song of Seventy-Six by Frederick William Thomas (1806–1866) |
A New Song: the King’s Own Regulars, and Their Triumph over the Irregulars |
General Wayne—1799 |
Monmouth—1778 by William Dunlap (1766–1839) |
An Elegy on Lieut. De Hart by Colonel David Humphreys (1752–1818) |
Elegy: ‘Enroll’d among the mighty dead’ by Joseph Brown Ladd (1764–1786) |
Monody to the Memory of the Young Heroes |
Elegy: ‘Ye sires of freedom, patrons of the brave!’ |
Song: ‘Hail, Freedom, all hail! on the top of Mount Breed’ |
Sir Henry Clinton’s Invitation by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
An Epitaph: ‘What though no angel glanced aside the ball’ by Colonel David Humphreys (1752–1818) |
A Dialogue at Hyde-Park Corner |
Address to Cornwallis on Leaving Virginia |
The Soldier’s Health |
On General Washington |
An Epitaph: ‘Like other things, this marble must decay’ by William Pierce |
Pasquinade: ‘You know there goes a tale’ |
General Gage’s Soliloquy |
Lord Cornwallis to Sir Henry Clinton by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
To Lord Cornwallis by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
Sir Guy Carleton’s Address to the Americans—1782 by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
To Colonel Lovelace, of the British Guards |
The Hero of Bridgewater by Charles L. S. Jones |
Ode: ‘From Britain’s sea-girt isle’ |
The Soldier Lad by Charles L. S. Jones |
The Nation’s Guest by Charles L. S. Jones |
Bunker’s Hill by Charles L. S. Jones |
Ode: ‘Once more the rolling spheres proclaim’ |
Lamentation for Gen. Washington |
Columbia’s Lamentation for Gen. Washington |
Great Britain |
On the British Invasion—1814 by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
A Souvenir of Fort Mimms by Charles L. S. Jones |
The Hero of Sandusky by Charles L. S. Jones |
The Battle of Chippewa by Charles L. S. Jones |
Royal Consultations by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
On Laying the Corner-stone of the Bunker-Hill Monument by John Pierpont (1785–1866) |
To the Memory of Gen. Charles Lee by Thomas Paine (1737–1809) |
On the Approach of the British to Baltimore—1814 by Margaret Botsford (b. 1790?) |
Day of Glory |
The Bugle by Samuel Woodworth (1784–1842) |
Death of Stark by William Bingham Tappan (1794–1849) |
Congress of 1776 by William Bingham Tappan (1794–1849) |
Fort Bowyer by Charles L. S. Jones |
Pulaski, and His Dragoons by Charles L. S. Jones |
The Scar of Lexington by Hannah Flagg Gould (1789–1865) |
The Last Veteran of the Revolution by William Bingham Tappan (1794–1849) |
Liberty by William Bingham Tappan (1794–1849) |
An Intended Inscription for the Monument on Beacon-Hill, in Boston by James Allen (1739–1808) |
Saratoga by William Bingham Tappan (1794–1849) |
La Fayette by William Bingham Tappan (1794–1849) |
Descriptive Lines: ‘Far from this spot let sportive Fiction hie’ |
The Fields of War by Isaac McLellan (1806–1899) |
The Plain of Lexington by Robert Francis Astrop |
The Tomb of the Brave by Joseph Hutton (1787–1828) |
The Bell of the Revolution by William Bingham Tappan (1794–1849) |
Fort Griswold, Sept. 6, 1781 by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1795–1828) |
Battle of North Point |
Elegiac Ode by George Richards |
Lexington—“Seventy Five” by George Lunt (1803–1885) |
The Siege of Baltimore by Angus Umphraville (b. 1797?) |
Battle of La Tranche by Angus Umphraville (b. 1797?) |
Song: ‘When the warrior returns from the battle afar’ |
Ode: ‘Hark! how the passing bell’ |
Address: ‘When first this clay the Forming Hand’ |
Epitaph on General Wolfe |
The Battle of New Orleans |
The Battle of New Orleans by Thomas Wells |
The Eighth of January; or, the Victory at New Orleans by T. J. Allen |
Battle of Tippecanoe |
Arnold’s Departure by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
Stanzas: ‘O dark was the cloud, and more dark the foreboding’ |
The Tribute by Richard Dabney (1787?–1825) |
The Washington Guards |
Boreal’s Truce |
On Gen. Washington’s Accepting the Command of the Army in 1798 by Brasseya Allen (1762–1831) |
An Ancient Prophecy by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
The Volunteer’s March |
The Pennsylvania Line |
Sons of Freedom |
Song of the Revolution by Edward M. Paxton |
The Soldier’s Song |
A New Bow Wow |
The Battle of Plattsburgh |
Columbia’s Bold Yeomanry—1814 |
Monody |
The Battle of Baltimore |
Song: ‘The first of Freedom’s chosen band’ |
To the Memory of Brig. General Zebulon Montgomery Pike by William Ray (1771–1827) |
The Hunters of Kentucky |
The Heroine of the Revolution by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
To the Memory of Lieutenant Nathaniel Sherman |
Poem: ‘From realms of bondage and a tyrant’s reign’ by James Allen (1739–1808) |
On the Death of Gen. Montgomery |
Fragment: ‘Now Sol resplendent from the ocean rose’ |
Ode to the Memory of Dr. Joseph Warren |
America by Samuel Francis Smith (1808–1895) |
The Battle of Bridgewater |
The Battle-field by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
Fall of Tecumseh |
Seventy-Six by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
The Gathering of ’76 by Edward J. Porter |
Rule, Columbia |
Song of Marion’s Men by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
Ode to Columbia by Edward Chapman |
The Field of Orleans by Joseph Hutton (1787–1828) |
To the Eagle by James Gates Percival (1795–1856) |
The American Eagle by C. W. Thompson |
To the American Flag by Joseph Rodman Drake (1795–1820) |
The American Patriot’s Song |
The Swamp Fox by William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) |
The Kentucky Volunteers |
The Soldier’s Visit to His Family by John Neal (1793–1876) |
Song: ‘The bright tear of beauty, in sadness, is stealing’ by Robert Waln (1794–1825) |
Hymn: ‘When the dying flame of day’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
The Green Mountain Boys by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
Memento by William Ray (1771–1827) |
The Host That Fights for Liberty |
Ode to the Spirit of Kosciusko by David Macbeth Moir (1798–1851) |
Tecumseh by George Hooker Colton (1818–1847) |
The Last Revolutionary by Jesse Erskine Dow (1809–1850) |
Hurrah for Our Country! |
Stanzas Written at Fort Erie |
An Elegy: ‘A happy autumn, with accustom’d cheer’ |
Song: ‘Far o’er the sounding billows’ by Jacob B. Moore |
Patriotic Song: ‘When Freedom midst the battle-storm’ by Robert Stevenson Coffin (1797–1827) |
An Account of the Battle |
Arrival of General La Fayette by Robert Stevenson Coffin (1797–1827) |
Death of Warren by Epes Sargent (1813–1880) |
Queenstown Heights |
Battle of Orleans by Charles Mead |
His Captors to Andre by James William Miller (d. 1829) |
Lexington by Prosper Montgomery Wetmore (1798–1876) |
Hurrah for the White, Red, and Blue |
Capture of Cornwallis |
Jackson’s Address by Leander Kerr |
The Battle of Bennington by Thomas P. Rodman |
Responsive Chorus: ‘We stood in the battle when Tyranny came’ by Alonzo Lewis (1794–1861) |
American Volunteers by Charles Mead |
The Flag of Freedom by Alonzo Lewis (1794–1861) |
Lines: ‘Hail! sons of generous valour’ by Joseph Rodman Drake (1795–1820) |
Michigan Forest |
Battle of New Orleans by I. C. Gillen |
Acrostic: ‘Go home, you vain Britons’ |
National Jubilee |
Welcome La Fayette by Samuel Woodworth (1784–1842) |
Columbia, Land of Liberty |
Hey for Yankee Sons |
Bolivar; or, the Hero of Liberty |
Unfurl Our Standard High by Owen Grenliffe Warren |
Battle of New Orleans by Samuel Woodworth (1784–1842) |
The Surrender of Cornwallis |
The Heroes of Queenstown |
The True American |
The Free Warrior’s Song |
The Frogs of Windham |
The Yankees’ Version |
To the Memory of William Lowe |
James Allen’s Poem on the Battle of Bunker Hill |
I Dearly Love the Free |
The Flag of the United States by Thomas G. Spear |
The Land of Heroes |
The Noble Lads of Canada |
Andre’s Request to Washington by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) |
The Winnebagoe’s Sigh |
We Cannot War |
The Dying Warrior by George Hooker Colton (1818–1847) |
Columbia’s Champions |
Epigram, 1785: ‘Ye kings, behold a brother fall!’ |
Liberty and Washington by John Hill Hewitt (1801–1890) |
Our Country by William Jewett Pabodie (1813–1870) |
Land of Our Birth by Alonzo Lewis (1794–1861) |
Epistle: ‘While many a servile muse her succour lends’ |
Song: ‘When first, by Heaven’s inspiring skill’ |
To the Memory of Tench Tilghman, Esq. |
To Liberty |
The Battle of Queenstown by William Banker, Jr. |
The American Sword |
Maine Battle Song |
Columbia |
A Bloody Battle |
The American Flag |
On the Death of Capt. L. Story |
The Surprise |
War Song—1776 |
A Song for the Sons of Liberty by Benjamin Young Prime (1733–1791) |
Ode: ‘When Liberty first raised her voice in our land’ by Thomas Powar |
Capture of Burgoyne |
An Ode: ‘When the Almighty’s fiat gave’ |
The Capture of Burgoyne |
Fourth of July Ode by Willis Gaylord Clark (1808–1841) |
The Progress of Sir Jack Brag |
Sumpter’s Band by James Wright Simmons (1790–1858) |
Gen. William Henry Harrison by George Hooker Colton (1818–1847) |