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

Object Details

Author

Hedin, Robert 1949-

"A Karen & Michael Braziller Book."

Contents

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 -- AK-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, D. C. / 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

2004

C2004

Type

Books

Poetry

Physical description

xxviii, 370 p. ; 24 cm

Place

United States

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

War poetry, American

History, Military

Record ID

siris_sil_950074

Metadata Usage (text)

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