Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

Descriptive Poems: I. Personal: Rulers; Statesmen; Warriors

George Washington

Anonymous

BY broad Potomac’s silent shore

Better than Trajan lowly lies,

Gilding her green declivities

With glory now and evermore;

Art to his fame no aid hath lent;

His country is his monument.