Old Glory : American war poems from the Revolutionary War to the war on terrorism / edited by Robert Hedin ; with a foreword by Walter Cronkite. [print]

"A Karen & Michael Braziller Book."

Revolutionary War -- Paul Revere's Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Yankee Doodle Anonymous -- To His Excellency General Washington Phillis Wheatley -- Warren's Address to the American Soldiers John Pierpont -- Song of Marion's Men William Cullen Bryant -- Black Samson of Brandywine Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The Yankee Man-of-War Anonymous -- from The British Prison Ship Philip Freneau -- To the Memory of the Brave Americans Philip Freneau -- from The Columbiad Joel Barlow -- New England's Dead Isaac McLellan -- Concord Hymn Ralph Waldo Emerson -- War of 1812 -- from The Battle of Niagara John Neal -- On the Conflagrations at Washington Philip Freneau -- The Star-Spangled Banner Francis Scott Key -- Old Ironsides Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Mexican-American War -- Ode, Inscribed to W.H. Channing Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The Angels of Buena Vista John Greenleaf Whittier -- from The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell -- When with Pale Cheek and Sunken Eye I Sang Henry David Thoreau -- Civil War -- In the Defences Elizabeth Akers Allen -- John Brown's Body Anonymous -- The March into Virginia Herman Melville -- A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight Herman Melville -- The College Colonel Herman Melville -- Battle Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe -- Barbara Frietchie John Greenleaf Whittier -- Fredericksburg Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson Sidney Lanier -- The High Tide at Gettysburg Will Henry Thompson -- The Battlefield Lloyd Mifflin -- Corporal Ambrose Bierce -- Sheridan's Ride Thomas Buchanan Read -- Cavalry Crossing a Ford Walt Whitman -- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night Walt Whitman -- The Wound-Dresser Walt Whitman -- My Triumph Lasted Till the Drums Emily Dickinson -- My Portion Is Defeat Today Emily Dickinson -- Ode to the Confederate Dead Allen Tate -- Memorial Wreath Dudley Randall -- For the Union Dead Robert Lowell -- Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek James Dickey -- Indian Wars -- Unknown William Heyen -- Wildwest Archibald MacLeish -- A Tribute to Chief Joseph (1840?-1904) / Duane Niatum -- Two War Songs Sitting Bull -- Last Song Sitting Bull -- Interpolation Sounds Walt Whitman -- The Whole World Is Coming Traditional -- Spanish-American War -- Harry Wilmans Edgar Lee Masters -- On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines William Vaughn Moody -- Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind Stephen Crane -- First World War -- Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight Vachel Lindsay -- The Aisne (1914-15) / Alan Seeger -- Rendezvous Alan Seeger -- Verdun Robert Lowell -- Trophy, W.W.I Janet Lewis -- Patterns Amy Lowell -- Not to Keep Robert Frost -- i sing of Olaf glad and big E.E. Cummings -- my sweet old etcetera E.E. Cummings -- Chateau de Soupir, 1917 Malcolm Cowley -- In the Dordogne John Peale Bishop -- Champs d'Honneur Ernest Hemingway -- Killed Piave--July 8--1918 Ernest Hemingway -- The Death of a Soldier Wallace Stevens -- Memorial Rain Archibald MacLeish -- On Active Service Edith Wharton -- My Brother Mikhail Naimy -- To My Brother Killed: Haumont Wood: October, 1918 Louise Bogan -- Mothers Kay Boyle -- The People's Cry Kay Boyle -- from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Ezra Pound -- Triumphal March T.S. Eliot -- Grass Carl Sandburg -- There Will Come Soft Rains Sara Teasdale -- The Wars and the Unknown Soldier Conrad Aiken -- Second World War -- Roosters Elizabeth Bishop -- Czecho-Slovakia Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The Moon and the Night and the Men John Berryman -- The Last Picnic Stanley Kunitz -- Jim Crow's Last Stand Langston Hughes -- War, the Destroyer! / William Carlos Williams -- After Experience Taught Me ... / W.D. Snodgrass -- The U.S. Soldier with the Japanese Skull Winfield Townley Townley Scott -- The Searchlight Isabella Gardner -- The Fury of Aerial Bombardment Richard Eberhart -- The War in the Air Howard Nemerov -- Losses Randall Jarrell -- The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Randall Jarrell -- Memories of West Street and Lepke Robert Lowell -- No Man Knows War Edwin Rolfe -- World War II Edward Field -- Un Bel Di Vedremo Kenneth Rexroth -- Remembering That Island Thomas McGrath -- The Pit Lucien Stryk -- Portrait from the Infantry Alan Dugan -- Troop Train Karl Shapiro -- Vaudeville Lincoln Kirstein -- Carentan O Carentan Louis Simpson -- Survival: Infantry George Oppen -- First Snow in Alsace Richard Wilbur -- Christmas 1944 H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) -- Christmas, 1944 Denise Levertov -- In Distrust of Merits Marianne Moore -- Battle Report Harvey Shapiro -- Prodigy Charles Simic -- Letter to Simic from Boulder Richard Hugo -- Buchenwald, Near Weimar Joseph Langland -- "More Light! More Light!" / Anthony Hecht -- Easter Eve 1945 Muriel Rukeyser -- Return Robert Creeley -- A Box Comes Home John Ciardi -- V-J Day John Ciardi -- Victory James Dickey -- War Memoir: Jazz, Don't Listen to It at Your Own Risk Bob Kaufman -- To World War Two Kenneth Koch -- Korean War -- On a Certain Engagement South of Seoul Hayden Carruth -- A Korean Woman Seated by a Wall William Meredith -- Viewing Picasso's Massacre in Korea Dale Jacobsen -- The Circle Keith Wilson -- Memory of a Victory Keith Wilson -- A Sheaf of Percussion Fire Rolando Hinojosa -- Re-runs Reg Saner -- Trying to Remember People I Never Really Knew William Childress -- Repository James Magner, Jr. -- Korean Litany Howard Fast -- Ode for the American Dead in Asia Thomas McGrath -- Vietnam War -- A Short History of the Vietnam War Years Dick Allen -- War Profit Litany Allen Ginsberg -- Up Rising Robert Duncan -- Bad Year, Bad War: A New Year's Card, 1969 Robert Penn Warren -- You Could Make a Song of It, A Dirge of It, A Heartbreaker of It Daniel Berrigan -- The Birds of Vietnam Hayden Carruth -- The Asians Dying W.S. Merwin -- Two Villages Grace Paley -- Counting Small-Boned Bodies Robert Bly -- Vietnam #4 Carence Major -- Christmas Bells, Saigon Walt McDonald -- Alaska-47 Michael Casey -- For the Old Man Michael Casey -- Search and Destroy Dale Ritterbusch -- Caves Michael S. Harper -- Communique Yusef Komunyakaa -- Song of Napalm Bruce Weigl -- The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible Galway Kinnell -- We Karen Swenson -- What Were They Like? / Denise Levertov -- News Update John Balaban -- For a Coming Extinction W.D. Ehrhart -- Places Without Names Philip Booth -- At the Vietnam War Memorial, Washington, District of Columbia Robert Dana -- Gulf War -- The Winter of Desert Storm Walt McDonald -- On a Line from Valery Carolyn Kizer -- from Ribbons: The Gulf War William Heyen -- Ode to X Page Dougherty -- Section Three Albert Goldbarth -- Favorite Iraqi Soldier Stephen Dobyns -- Old Glory William Stafford -- Operations: Desert Shield, Desert Storm Eleanor Wilner -- War on Terrorism -- Loving This Earth Judith Minty -- Ground Zero Robert Creeley -- Complicity Michael Waters -- The Names Billy Collins -- Speak Out Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- For the New Year Timothy Liu -- Call and Answer Robert Bly -- Found in the Free Library Eleanor Wilner -- Talking Heads W.D. Snodgrass -- Cyclamen Shirley Kaufman -- War C.K. Williams -- The School Among the Ruins Adrienne Rich -- Transcirularities Quincy Troupe.

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