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Collections:

Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between. - Carl Sandburg

1. Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden

   Charles II's illegitimate son plots to overthrow his father

2. Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836

3. Monterey by Charles Fenno Hoffman

   Zachary Taylor's forces attack during the Mexican-American War

4. A History of England by Rudyard Kipling

   22 poems written for C.R.L. Fletcher's "A History of England"

5. The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson by Sidney Lanier
6. Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

   the inspired telling of one of America most memorable historic events

   Listen my children and you shall hear
   Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere
   

7. Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babbington Macaulay

   stories of the Roman Empire, with notes by the author

8. Cromwell's Return by Andrew Marvell
9. Blake's Victory by Andrew Marvell
10. On the Painting of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo
11. Admiral's All by Henry Newbolt
12. The Fighting Téméraire by Henry Newbolt
13. How Cyrus Laid the Cable by John Godfrey Saxe
14. The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers by Lydia H. Sigourney
15. Salem by Edmund Clarence Stedman
16. Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier
17. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd by Walt Whitman
18. London, 1802 by William Wordsworth

    on the state of England in the early 19th century