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  • A blush as of roses, 392.
  • A boy drove into the city, his wagon loaded down, 209.
  • A cheer and salute for the Admiral, and here's to the Captain bold, 637.
  • A cliff-locked port and a bluff sea wall, 319.
  • A cloud possessed the hollow field, 491.
  • A cycle was closed and rounded, 196.
  • A flash of light across the night, 517.
  • A fleet with flags arrayed, 110.
  • A gallant foeman in the fight, 524.
  • A grand attempt some Amazonian Dames, 85.
  • A granite cliff on either shore, 593.
  • A handful came to Seicheprey, 672.
  • A hundred thousand Northmen, 419.
  • A midnight cry appalls the gloom, 334.
  • A moonless night—a friendly one, 498.
  • A pillar of fire by night, 513.
  • A score of years had come and gone, 74.
  • A song unto Liberty's brave Buccaneer, 222.
  • A story of Ponce de Leon, 21.
  • A summer Sunday morning, 424.
  • A transient city, marvellously fair, 649.
  • A voice went over the waters, 608.
  • A Yankee ship and a Yankee crew, 327.
  • Abraham Lincoln, the Dear President, 539.
  • Across the Stony Mountains, o'er the desert's drouth and sand, 372.
  • After the eyes that looked, the lips that spake, 497.
  • After the war—I hear men ask—what then, 678.
  • Again Columbia's stripes, unfurl'd, 302.
  • Again the summer-fevered skies, 503.
  • Ah, you mistake me, comrades, to think that my heart is steel, 200.
  • All alone on the hillside, 585.
  • All day long the guns at the forts, 475.
  • All day the great guns barked and roared, 213.
  • All hail! Unfurl the Stripes and Stars, 403.
  • All night upon the guarded hill, 390.
  • "All quiet along the Potomac," they say, 433.
  • All summer long the people knelt, 590.
  • Aloft upon an old basaltic crag, 379.
  • Along a river-side, I know not where, 450.
  • America! dear brother land, 614.
  • America, my own, 659.
  • America! thou fractious nation, 138.
  • An American frigate from Baltimore came, 224.
  • "An empire to be lost or won," 342.
  • An eye with the piercing eagle's fire, 560.
  • "And now," said the Governor, gazing abroad on the piled-up store, 60.
  • And they have thrust our shattered dead away in foreign graves, 612.
  • Are these the honors they reserve for me, 17.
  • "Are you ready, O Virginia," 627.
  • Arms reversed and banners craped, 511.
  • Arnold! the name as heretofore, 238.
  • As billows upon billows roll, 524.
  • As hang two mighty thunderclouds, 361.
  • As men who fight for home and child and wife, 198.
  • As near beauteous Boston lying,

    • CÆsar, afloat with his fortunes, 462.
    • Call Martha Corey, 92.
    • Calm as that second summer which precedes, 507.
    • Calm martyr of a noble cause, 545.
    • Calmly beside her tropic strand, 515.
    • Came the morning of that day, 404.
    • Chained by stern duty to the rock of state, 537.
    • Champion of those who groan beneath, 385.
    • Cheer up, my young men all, 122.
    • "Chuff! chuff! chuff!" An' a mountain-bluff, 652.
    • Close his eyes; his work is done, 442.
    • Cold, cold is the north wind and rude is the blast, 109.
    • Columbia, appear!—To thy mountains ascend, 305.
    • Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, 180.
    • Columbus looked; and still around them spread, 273.
    • Come, all ye bold Americans, to you the truth I tell, 257.
    • Come all ye lads who know no fear, 226.
    • Come all ye sons of Brittany, 112.
    • Come all ye Yankee sailors, with swords and pikes advance, 280.
    • Come all you brave Americans, 237.
    • Come all you brave soldiers, both valiant and free, 179.
    • Come, all you sons of Liberty, that to the seas belong, 296.
    • Come, brothers! rally for the right, 413.
    • Come, cheer up, my lads, like a true British band, 130.
    • Come, come fill up your glasses, 132.
    • Come, each death-doing dog who dares venture his neck, 121.
    • Come, fill the beaker, while we chaunt a pean of old days, 119.
    • Come, Freemen of the land, 509.
    • Come, gentlemen Tories, firm, loyal, and true, 229.
    • Come let us rejoice, 245.
    • Come, listen all unto my song, 565.
    • Come listen and I'll tell you, 221.
    • Come listen, good neighbors of every degree, 131.
    • Come listen to the Story of brave Lathrop and his Men, 82.
    • Come muster, my lads, your mechanical tools, 270.
    • Come, rouse up, ye bold-hearted Whigs of Kentucky, 353.
    • Come sheathe your swords! my gallant boys, 239.
    • Come, stack arms, men! Pile on the rails, 483.
    • Come swallow your bumpers, ye Tories, and roar, 143.
    • Come unto me, ye heroes, 202.
    • Come, ye lads, who wish to shine, 287.
    • Comes a cry from Cuban water, 609.
    • Compassionate eyes had our brave John Brown, 397.
    • Concentred here th' united wisdom shines, 269.
    • Content within his wigwam warm, 73.
    • Cornwallis led a country dance, 256.
    • "Cut the cables!" the order read, 622.
    • Dark as the clouds of even, 500.
    • Dawn of a pleasant morning in May, 518.
    • Dawn peered through the pines as we dashed at the ford, 488.
    • Day of glory! Welcome day, 179.
    • Daybreak upon the hills, 547.
    • Dead! Is it possible? He, the bold rider, 582.
    • Death, why so cruel? What! no other way, 45.
    • Delusions of the days that once have been, 88.
    • Did you hear of the fight at Corinth, 458.
    • Do you know how the people of all the land, 49.
    • Do you know of the dreary land, 468.
    • Down in the bleak December bay, 59.
    • Down Loudon Lanes, with swinging reins, 482.
    • Down the Little Big Horn, 580.
    • Down toward the deep-blue water, 668.
    • Dreary and brown the night comes down, 10.
    • Ebbed and flowed the muddy Pei-Ho by the gulf of Pechili, 380.
    • Eight volunteers! on an errand of death, 626.
    • Eighty and nine with their captain, 438.
    • El Emplazado, the Summoned, the Doomed One, 613.
    • Ere five score years have run their tedious rounds, 125.
    • Ere Murfreesboro's thunders rent the air, 459.
    • Fair were our visions! Oh, they were as grand, 546.
    • Fallen? How fallen? States and empires fall, 376.
    • Fallen with autumn's fallen leaf, 590.
    • Famine once we had, 69.
    • Far spread, below, 3.
    • Farewell! for now a stormy morn and dark, 650.
    • Farewell, Peace! another crisis, 287.
    • Farragut, Farragut, 528.
    • Father and I went down to camp, 159.
    • First in the fight, and first in the arms, 454.
    • Five fearless knights of the first renown, 34.
    • Flawless his heart and tempered to the core, 128.
    • "Fly to the mountain! Fly," 601.
    • For him who sought his country's good, 280.
    • For sixty days and upwards, 499.
    • For us, the dead, though young, 674.
    • Foreboding sudden of untoward change, 599.
    • "Forgive them, for they know not what they do," 538.
    • Four-and-eighty years are o'er me; great-grandchildren sit before me, 211.
    • Four gallant ships from England came, 309.
    • Four times the sun has risen and set; and now on the fifth day, 115.
    • Four young men, of a Monday morn, 155.
    • France, 666.
    • Francisco Coronado rode forth with all his train, 31.
    • Free are the Muses, and where freedom is, 641.
    • Freedom called them—up they rose, 606.
    • Fresh palms for the Old Dominion, 395.
    • From a junto that labor for absolute power, 176.
    • From dawn to dark they stood, 441.
    • From dusk till dawn the livelong night, 191.
    • From France, desponding and betray'd, 312.
    • From Halifax station a bully there came, 289.
    • From keel to fighting top, I love, 618.
    • From Lewis, Monsieur GÉrard came, 214.
    • From out my deep, wide-bosomed West, 587.
    • From out the North-land his leaguer he led, 199.
    • From Santiago, spurning the morrow, 635.
    • From the commandant's quarters on Westchester height, 231.
    • From the laurel's fairest bough, 307.
    • From the Rio Grande's waters to the icy lakes of Maine, 364.
    • From this hundred-terraced height, 573.
    • From Yorktown on the fourth of May, 436.
    • Furl that Banner, for 'tis weary, 547.
    • Gallants attend, and hear a friend, 208.
    • Gaunt in the midst of the prairie, 569.
    • Gentle and generous, brave-hearted, kind, 650.
    • Gift from the cold and silent Past, 4.
    • Giles Corey was a Wizard strong, 96.
    • "Give me but two brigades," said Hooker, frowning at fortified Lookout, 505.
    • Give me white paper, 18.
    • Glistering high in the midnight sky the starry rockets soar, 617.
    • Glorious the day when in arms at Assunpink, 189.
    • "Go, bring the captive, he shall die," 26.
    • God is shaping the great future of the Islands of the Sea, 641.
    • God makes a path, provides a guide, 72.
    • God send us peace, and keep red strife away, 447.
    • God wills no man a slave. The man most meek, 274.
    • Golden through the golden morning, 676.
    • Gone down in the flood, and gone out in the flame, 468.
    • Good Junipero, the Padre, 343.
    • Goody Bull and her daughter together fell out, 130.
    • Gray swept the angry waves, 466.
    • Great Sassacus fled from the eastern shores, 70.
    • Great soul, to all brave souls akin, 674.
    • Greece was; Greece is no more, 602.
    • Green be the turf above thee, 348.
    • Grown sick of war, and war's alarms, 261.
    • Guvener B. is a sensible man, 369.
    • Hail! Columbia, happy land, 277.
    • Hail, Freedom! thy bright crest, 596.
    • Hail, great Apollo! guide my feeble pen, 111.
    • Hail, happy Britain, Freedom's blest retreat, 144.
    • Hail sons of generous valor, 326.
    • Hail to Hobson! Hail to Hobson! hail to all the valiant set, 626.
    • Hail to thee, gallant foe, 638.
    • Hard aport! Now close to shore sail, 51.
    • Hark! do I hear again the roar, 18.
    • Hark! hark! down the century's long reaching slope, 592.
    • Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands, 442.
    • Hark! 'tis Freedom that calls, come, patriots, awake, 157.
    • Hark! 'tis the voice of the mountain, 254.
    • "Has the Marquis La Fayette," 240.
    • Have you heard the story that gossips tell, 493.
    • "He chases shadows," sneered the British tars, 19.
    • He took a thousand islands and he didn't lose a man, 620.
    • Hear through the morning drums and trumpets sounding, 325.
    • Heard ye how the bold McClellan, 434.
    • Heard ye that thrilling word, 439.
    • Hearken the stirring story, 27.
    • Here comes the Marshal, 76.
    • Here halt we our march, and pitch our tent, 157.
    • Here, in my rude log cabin, 323.
    • Here the oceans twain have waited, 651.
    • "Here we stan' on the Constitution, by thunder," 386.
    • Here's the spot. Look around you. Above on the height, 232.
    • Highlands of Hudson! ye saw them pass, 230.
    • His bark, 7.
    • His echoing axe the settler swung, 329.
    • "His policy," do you say, 559.
    • His soul to God! on a battle-psalm, 457.
    • His triumphs of a moment done, 260.
    • His work is done, his toil is o'er, 650.
    • "Ho, Rose!" quoth the stout Miles Standish, 58.
    • Ho, woodsmen of the mountain-side, 411.
    • Hobson went towards death and hell, 627.
    • "Home, home—where's my baby's home," 73.
    • Hooker's across! Hooker's across, 483.
    • How glows each patriot bosom that boasts a Yankee heart, 293.
    • How history repeats itself, 519.
    • How long, O sister, how long, 588.
    • How sad the note of that funereal drum, 347.
    • How spoke the King, in his crucial hour victorious, 676.
    • How stands the glass around, 121.
    • How sweetly on the wood-girt town, 105.
    • Huge and alert, irascible yet strong, 649.
    • Huzza for our liberty, boys, 286.
    • Huzza, my Jo Bunkers! no taxes we'll pay, 269.
    • I am a wandering, bitter shade, 146.
    • I gazed, and lo! Afar and near, 454.
    • I give my soldier boy a blade, 413.
    • I hear again the tread of war go thundering through the land, 456.
    • I heard the bells across the trees, 673.
    • I lay in my tent at mid-day, 440.
    • I lift these hands with iron fetters banded, 561.
    • I never have got the bearings quite, 378.
    • I often have been told, 288.
    • I pause not now to speak of Raleigh's dreams, 38.
    • I read last night of the Grand Review, 548.
    • I remember it well: 'twas a morn dull and gray, 248.
    • I saw her first abreast the Boston Light, 662.
    • Iberian! palter no more! By thine hands, 612.
    • Ice built, ice bound, and ice bounded, 567.
    • I'd weave a wreath for those who fought, 529.
    • If we dreamed that we loved Her aforetime, 'twas the ghost of a dream; for I vow, 657.
    • I'll tell you what I heard that day, 420.
    • Illustrious monarch of Iberia's soil, 9.
    • I'm a grandchild of the gods, 53.
    • In a chariot of light from the regions of day, 141.
    • In a stately hall at Brentford, when the English June was green, 43.
    • In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet, 670.
    • In battle-line of sombre gray, 621.
    • In Cherbourg Roads the pirate lay, 525.
    • In Hampton Roads, the airs of March were bland, 463.
    • In Paco town and in Paco tower, 644.
    • In revel and carousing, 346.
    • In seventeen hundred and seventy-five, 171.
    • In spite of Rice, in spite of Wheat, 140.
    • In that desolate land and lone, 583.
    • In that soft mid-land where the breezes bear, 177.
    • In the gloomy ocean bed, 602.
    • In the stagnant pride of an outworn race, 633.
    • In the tides of the warm south wind it lay, 25.
    • In their ragged regimentals, 206.
    • Into the thick of the fight he went, pallid, and sick and wan, 631.
    • Into the town of Conemaugh, 599.
    • Is it naught? Is it naught, 607.
    • Is it the wind, the many-tongued, the weird, 496.
    • Is this the price of beauty! Fairest, thou, 594.
    • Isle of a summer sea, 608.
    • It cannot be that men who are the seed, 572.
    • It don't seem hardly right, John, 430.
    • It fell upon us like a crushing woe, 416.
    • It is done, 481.
    • It is I, America, calling, 668.
    • It is no idle fabulous tale, nor is it fayned newes, 40.
    • It is not the fear of death, 238.
    • It is portentous, and a thing of state, 661.
    • It was a noble Roman, 403.
    • It was Captain Pierce of the Lion who strode the streets of London, 68.
    • It was early Sunday morning, in the year of sixty-four, 526.
    • It was less than two thousand we numbered, 511.
    • It was on the seventeenth, by break of day, 167.
    • It was Private Blair, of the regulars, before dread El Caney, 631.
    • It was that fierce contested field when Chickamauga lay, 502.
    • It was the schooner Hesperus, 351.
    • It wound through strange scarred hills, down caÑons lone, 346.
    • John Brown died on the scaffold for the slave, 397.
    • John Brown in Kansas settled, like a steadfast Yankee farmer, 393.
    • John Brown of Ossawatomie spake on his dying day, 396.
    • John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, 397.
    • John Bull, Esquire, my jo John, 441.
    • Rio Bravo! Rio Bravo, 362.
    • Room for a Soldier! lay him in the clover, 419.
    • Round Quebec's embattled walls, 171.
    • Rouse, Britons! at length, 205.
    • Rouse every generous, thoughtful mind, 139.
    • Rudely forced to drink tea, Massachusetts, in anger, 144.
    • Ruin and death held sway, 597.
    • Saddle! saddle! saddle, 579.
    • Said Burgoyne to his men, as they passed in review, 200.
    • Said my landlord, white-headed Gil Gomez, 370.
    • Said the captain: "There was mire," 671.
    • Said the Sword to the Ax, 'twixt the whacks and the hacks, 114.
    • Saint Patrick, slave to Milcho of the herds, 480.
    • St. Stephen's cloistered hall was proud, 9.
    • Santa Ana came storming, as a storm might come, 357.
    • Santa Maria, well thou tremblest down the wave, 12.
    • Say, darkeys, hab you seen de massa, 522.
    • Seize, O seize the sounding lyre, 309.
    • Shall we send back the Johnnies their bunting, 654.
    • She has gone,—she has left us in passion and pride, 400.
    • She has gone to the bottom! the wrath of the tide, 527.
    • She is touching the cycle,—her tender tread, 603.
    • Shoe the steed with silver, 521.
    • Shoot down the rebels—men who dare, 643.
    • Sho-shÓ-ne Sa-cÁ-ga-we-a—captive and wife was she, 340.
    • "Silent upon a peak in Darien," 651.
    • Since you all will have singing, and won't be said nay, 150.
    • Sing, O goddess, the wrath, the ontamable dander of Keitt, 391.
    • Single-handed, and surrounded by Lecompton's black brigade, 398.
    • Sir George Prevost, with all his host, 314.
    • Slowly the mists o'er the meadow were creeping, 147.
    • Smile, Massachusetts, smile, 172.
    • So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn, 388.
    • So that soldierly legend is still on its journey, 437.
    • So, they will have it, 408.
    • Soe, Mistress Anne, faire neighboure myne, 89.
    • Some names there are of telling sound, 466.
    • "Somewhere in France," upon a brown hillside, 669.
    • Sons of New England, in the fray, 480.
    • Sons of valor, taste the glories, 176.
    • Souls of the patriot dead, 388.
    • Southrons, hear your country call you, 411.
    • Southward with fleet of ice, 34.
    • Spain drew us proudly from the womb of night, 640.
    • Speak and tell us, our Ximena, looking northward far away, 366.
    • "Speak! speak! thou fearful guest," 6.
    • Spruce Macaronis, and pretty to see, 183.
    • Squeak the fife, and beat the drum, 179.
    • "Stack Arms!" I've gladly heard the cry, 545.
    • Stand! the ground's your own, my braves, 161.
    • "Stand to your guns, men!" Morris cried, 464.
    • Still and dark along the sea, 509.
    • Still shall t
    • When a certain great King, whose initial is G., 258.
    • When arms and numbers both have failed, 645.
    • When brave Van Rensselaer cross'd the stream, 292.
    • When Britain, with envy and malice inflamed, 298.
    • When British troops first landed here, 256.
    • When Carolina's hope grew pale, 250.
    • When Congress sent great Washington, 169.
    • When darkness prevail'd and aloud on the air, 339.
    • When fair Columbia was a child, 140.
    • When Faction, in league with the treacherous Gaul, 241.
    • When first I saw our banner wave, 478.
    • When Freedom, fair Freedom, her banner display'd, 279.
    • When Freedom from her mountain height, 192.
    • When George the King would punish folk, 138.
    • When Jack the King's commander, 202.
    • When Johnny comes marching home again, 549.
    • When life hath run its largest round, 377.
    • When North first began, 204.
    • When Pershing's men go marching into Picardy, marching, marching into Picardy, 671.
    • When ruthful time the South's memorial places, 564.
    • When shall the Island Queen of Ocean lay, 318.
    • When tempest winnowed grain from bran, 445.
    • When the British fleet lay, 215.
    • When the dying flame of day, 245.
    • When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, 399.
    • When the vengeance wakes, when the battle breaks, 613.
    • When the war-cry of Liberty rang through the land, 166.
    • "When there is Peace, our land no more," 678.
    • When you speak of the dauntless deeds, 644.
    • Where may the wearied eye repose, 276.
    • Where murdered Mumford lies, 476.
    • Where nowadays the Battery lies, 54.
    • Where shall we seek for a hero, and where shall we find a story, 132.
    • Where the dews and the rains of heaven have their fountain, 506.
    • Where the remote Bermudas ride, 39.
    • Where the short-legged Esquimaux, 566.
    • Where the wild wave, from ocean proudly swelling, 323.
    • Whereas the rebels hereabout, 160.
    • While far along the eastern sky, 571.
    • While Sherman stood beneath the hottest fire, 499.
    • Whilst in peaceful quarters lying, 210.
    • Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient hardly human, 514.
    • Who cries that the days of daring are those that are faded far, 630.
    • Who has not heard of the dauntless Varuna, 474.
    • Who is this ye say is slain, 416.
    • Who now dare longer trust thy mother hand, 657.
    • Who with the soldiers was stanch danger-sharer, 462.
    • Whoop! the Doodles have broken loose, 412.
    • "Who've ye got there?"—"Only a dying brother," 485.
    • Why come ye hither, stranger, 193.
    • Why do I sleep amid the snows, 72.
    • Wide o'er the valley the pennons are fluttering, 371.
    • Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, 659.
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