The long agony of the American Civil War inspired a wealth of contemporary verse — from sentimental doggerel to sublime lyrics that rank among the finest American poetry. This inexpensive anthology brings together a superb selection of poems from both North and South, comprising the best and most representative poetry of those turbulent times.
Over 75 poems include works by many of America's greatest 19th century writers: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Cullen Bryant, and many more. Also included are many fine poems by lesser-known poets of the period: Julia Ward Howe, Henry Timrod, Edwin Markham, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Francis Miles Finch, George Henry Boker, and more.
Among the selections in this volume: Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic," Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Boston Hymn," John Greenleaf Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie," "The Death of Slavery," by William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Killed at the Ford," Henry Howard Brownell's "The Bay Flight," "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" by Ethel Lynn Beers, "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" by Walt Whitman, and many more.
Ranging from boisterous calls to arms to poignant memorials for the slain, these poems reflect the heroism, horror, exaltation, and anguish of the bloodiest and most crucial conflict in the nation's history. Anyone interested in the Civil War or American literature of the period will want this collection on their bookshelves.
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
JULIA WARD HOWE
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Pardon
Robert E. Lee
HENRY TIMROD
Ethnogenesis
Charleston
A Cry to Arms
Carolina
Ode at Magnolia Cemetery
JAMES SLOAN GIBBONS
Three Hundred Thousand More
JAMES RYDER RANDALL
My Maryland
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Boston Hymn
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
Brown of Ossawatomie
A Word for the Hour
The Battle Autumn of 1862
"Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott"
Laus Deo!
Barbara Frietchie
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
The Death of Slavery
Abraham Lincoln
ETHEL LYNN BEERS
"All Quiet Along the Potomac"
SIDNEY LANIER
The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
Fredericksburg
By the Potomac
FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR
Little Giffen
A Battle Ballad
The Virginians of the Valley
"Our Left"
HERMAN MELVILLE
The Portent
The March into Virginia
Ball's Bluff
Shiloh
Malvern Hill
Stonewall Jackson
A Dirge for McPherson
Sheridan at Cedar Creek
"Formerly a Slave"
Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh
On the Slain at Chickamauga
The Surrender at Appomattox
JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE
Gettysburg
WILL HENRY THOMPSON
The High Tide at Gettysburg
LLOYD MIFFLIN
The Battlefield
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN
Sumter
Kearny at Seven Pines
MADISON CAWEIN
Mosby at Hamilton
JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON
Lee to the Rear
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Killed at the Ford
The Cumberland
HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL
The Bay Fight
GEORGE HENRY BOKER
Dirge for a Soldier
FRANCIS MILES FINCH
The Blue and the Gray
EDWIN MARKHAM
"Lincoln, the Man of the People"
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Hesitating Veteran
The Death of Grant
BRET HARTE
The Reveille
A Second Review of the Grand Army
WALT WHITMAN
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Bivouac on a Mountain Side
An Army Corps on the March
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
"A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown"
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
The Wound-Dresser
The Artilleryman's Vision
To a Certain Civilian
O Captain! My Captain!
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN
The Conquered Banner
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
"Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865"
KATE PUTNAM OSGOOD
Driving Home the Cows
