Category: Poetry

American War Ballads and Lyrics, Volume 1 (of 2) A Collection of the Songs and Ballads of the Colonial Wars, the Revolutions, the War of 1812-15, the War with Mexico and the Civil War

The editor of these volumes makes grateful acknowledgment of the courtesy of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., Harper & Brothers, Ticknor & Co., and D. Lothrop & Co., in freely permitting him to make use of poems of which they own the copyright, and of their other good offices...

Chapters

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See how, see how, they break and fly before us! See how they are scattered all over the plain! Now, now--now, now, our country will adore us! In peace and in triumph, boys, when...

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Our banners on those turrets wave, And there our evening bugles play: Where orange-boughs above their grave Keep green the memory of the brave Who fought and fell at Monterey.

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"Stand firm to your quarters--your duty don't shun, The first one that shrinks, through the body I'll run, Though their force is superior, yet they shall know, What true, brave...

3. Part 3

Still deaf to mild entreaties, still blind to England's good, You have for thirty pieces betrayed your country's blood. Like Esop's greedy cur you'll gain a shadow for your bone...

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Peace, peace to the world--is our motto unfurled, Tho' we shun not a field that is gory; At home or abroad, fearing none but our God, We will carve our own pathway to glory! The...

5. Part 5

Our second told so well That their fore and mizzen fell, Which dous'd the Royal ensign neat and handy, oh! "By George!" says he, "we're done," And they fired a lee gun, While th...

1. Part 1

The editor of these volumes makes grateful acknowledgment of the courtesy of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., Harper & Brothers, Ticknor & Co., and D. Lothrop & Co., in freely...

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The right-hand vapor broader grew; It rose, and joined itself unto The main cloud with a sudden dash. Loud and more near the cannon's crash Came toward me, and I heard a sound A...