Old Glory PA

by Hedin,Robert

• ISBN13: 9780892553105
• ISBN10: 0892553103
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-17
• Publisher: PERSEA

Summary

"This anthology encompasses the entire tradition of American war poetry, from our nation's birth in the Revolutionary War to the present-day War on Terrorism. Some of the most memorable and enduring poems in our literature have been written about war, and many of our major poets are represented in these pages. From "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Quincy Troupe's "Transcircularities," this gathering of nearly two hundred poems establishes the standard for the genre while providing a historical record." "Narratives, meditations, elegies, lamentations, odes, tributes, and battle hymns - all deeply felt - reflect love of country, sacrifice, tragedy, glory, and sometimes disillusionment and dissent. This is poetry that establishes and preserves our national continuity, a poetry that remembers and gives voice to those who have fallen silent."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Walter Cronkite
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	xvii
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Paul Revere's Ride	5	(4)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Yankee Doodle	9	(3)
Anonymous
To His Excellency General Washington	12	(2)
Phillis Wheatley
Warren's Address to the American Soldiers	14	(1)
John Pierpont
Song of Marion's Men	15	(2)
William Cullen Bryant
Black Samson of Brandywine	17	(2)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Yankee Man-of-War	19	(2)
Anonymous
from The British Prison Ship	21	(2)
Philip Freneau
To the Memory of the Brave Americans	23	(2)
Philip Freneau
from The Columbiad	25	(2)
Joel Barlow
New England's Dead	27	(2)
Isaac McLellan
Concord Hymn	29	(4)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
WAR OF 1812
from The Battle of Niagara	33	(3)
John Neal
On the Conflagrations at Washington	36	(4)
Philip Freneau
The Star-Spangled Banner	40	(2)
Francis Scott Key
Old Ironsides	42	(3)
Oliver Wendell Holmes
MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR
Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing	45	(3)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Angels of Buena Vista	48	(3)
John Greenleaf Whittier
from The Biglow Papers	51	(2)
James Russell Lowell
When with Pale Cheek and Sunken Eye I Sang	53	(4)
Henry David Thoreau
CIVIL WAR
In the Defences	57	(3)
Elizabeth Akers Allen
John Brown's Body	60	(1)
Anonymous
The March into Virginia	61	(1)
Herman Melville
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight	62	(1)
Herman Melville
The College Colonel	63	(2)
Herman Melville
Battle Hymn of the Republic	65	(1)
Julia Ward Howe
Barbara Frietchie	66	(3)
John Greenleaf Whittier
Fredericksburg	69	(1)
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson	70	(2)
Sidney Lanier
The High Tide at Gettysburg	72	(3)
Will Henry Thompson
The Battlefield	75	(1)
Lloyd Mifflin
Corporal	76	(1)
Ambrose Bierce
Sheridan's Ride	77	(2)
Thomas Buchanan Read
Cavalry Crossing a Ford	79	(1)
Walt Whitman
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	79	(1)
Walt Whitman
The Wound-Dresser	80	(3)
Walt Whitman
My Triumph Lasted Till the Drums	83	(1)
Emily Dickinson
My Portion Is Defeat Today	84	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Ode to the Confederate Dead	85	(3)
Allen Tate
Memorial Wreath	88	(1)
Dudley Randall
For the Union Dead	89	(3)
Robert Lowell
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek	92	(5)
James Dickey
INDIAN WARS
Unknown	97	(2)
William Heyen
Wildwest	99	(2)
Archibald MacLeish
A Tribute to Chief Joseph (1840?--1904)	101	(2)
Duane Niatum
Two War Songs, Sitting Bull	103	(1)
Last Song, Sitting Bull	103	(1)
Interpolation Sounds	104	(1)
Walt Whitman
The Whole World Is Coming Traditional	105	(4)
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
Harry Wilmans	109	(1)
Edgar Lee Masters
On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines	110	(1)
William Vaughn Moody
Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind	111	(4)
Stephen Crane
FIRST WORLD WAR
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight	115	(2)
Vachel Lindsay
The Aisne (1914--15)	117	(2)
Alan Seeger
Rendezvous	119	(1)
Alan Seeger
Verdun	120	(1)
Robert Lowell
Trophy, W. W. I	121	(2)
Janet Lewis
Patterns	123	(3)
Amy Lowell
Not to Keep	126	(1)
Robert Frost
i sing of Olaf glad and big	127	(1)
E. E. Cummings
my sweet old etcetera	128	(2)
E. E. Cummings
Chateau de Soupir, 1917	130	(2)
Malcolm Cowley
In the Dordogne	132	(2)
John Peale Bishop
Champs d'Honneur	134	(1)
Ernest Hemingway
Killed Piave---July 8---1918	134	(1)
Ernest Hemingway
The Death of a Soldier	135	(1)
Wallace Stevens
Memorial Rain	136	(2)
Archibald MacLeish
On Active Service	138	(1)
Edith Wharton
My Brother	139	(1)
Mikhail Naimy
To My Brother Killed: Haumont Wood: October, 1918	140	(1)
Louise Bogan
Mothers	141	(1)
Kay Boyle
The People's Cry	141	(2)
Kay Boyle
from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley	143	(2)
Ezra Pound
Triumphal March	145	(2)
T. S. Eliot
Grass	147	(1)
Carl Sandburg
There Will Come Soft Rains	148	(1)
Sara Teasdale
The Wars and the Unknown Soldier	149	(6)
Conrad Aiken
SECOND WORLD WAR
Roosters	155	(5)
Elizabeth Bishop
Czecho-Slovakia	160	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Moon and the Night and the Men	161	(2)
John Berryman
The Last Picnic	163	(1)
Stanley Kunitz
Jim Crow's Last Stand	164	(2)
Langston Hughes
War, the Destroyer!	166	(2)
William Carlos Williams
After Experience Taught Me . . .	168	(2)
W. D. Snodgrass
The U.S. Soldier with the Japanese Skull	170	(2)
Winfield Townley Scott
The Searchlight	172	(1)
Isabella Gardner
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment	173	(1)
Richard Eberhart
The War in the Air	174	(1)
Howard Nemerov
Losses	175	(1)
Randall Jarrell
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	176	(1)
Randall Jarrell
Memories of West Street and Lepke	177	(2)
Robert Lowell
No Man Knows War	179	(1)
Edwin Rolfe
World War II	180	(5)
Edward Field
Un Bel Di Vedremo	185	(2)
Kenneth Rexroth
Remembering That Island	187	(1)
Thomas McGrath
The Pit	188	(2)
Lucien Stryk
Portrait from the Infantry	190	(2)
Alan Dugan
Troop Train	192	(2)
Karl Shapiro
Vaudeville	194	(1)
Lincoln Kirstein
Carentan O Carentan	195	(2)
Louis Simpson
Survival: Infantry	197	(1)
George Oppen
First Snow in Alsace	198	(2)
Richard Wilbur
Christmas 1944	200	(4)
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Christmas, 1944	204	(1)
Denise Levertov
In Distrust of Merits	205	(3)
Marianne Moore
Battle Report	208	(4)
Harvey Shapiro
Prodigy	212	(2)
Charles Simic
Letter to Simic from Boulder	214	(2)
Richard Hugo
Buchenwald, Near Weimar	216	(2)
Joseph Langland
``More Light! More Light!''	218	(2)
Anthony Hecht
Easter Eve 1945	220	(2)
Muriel Rukeyser
Return	222	(1)
Robert Creeley
A Box Comes Home	223	(1)
John Ciardi
V-J Day	224	(1)
John Ciardi
Victory	225	(4)
James Dickey
War Memoir: Jazz, Don't Listen to It at Your Own Risk	229	(2)
Bob Kaufman
To World War Two	231	(6)
Kenneth Koch
KOREAN WAR
On a Certain Engagement South of Seoul	237	(2)
Hayden Carruth
A Korean Woman Seated by a Wall	239	(2)
William Meredith
Viewing Picasso's Massacre in Korea	241	(2)
Dale Jacobsen
The Circle	243	(1)
Keith Wilson
Memory of a Victory	244	(2)
Keith Wilson
A Sheaf of Percussion Fire	246	(2)
Rolando Hinojosa
Re-runs	248	(1)
Reg Saner
Trying to Remember People I Never Really Knew	249	(2)
William Childress
Repository	251	(2)
James Magner, Jr.
Korean Litany	253	(5)
Howard Fast
Ode for the American Dead in Asia	258	(5)
Thomas McGrath
VIETNAM WAR
A Short History of the Vietnam War Years	263	(2)
Dick Allen
War Profit Litany	265	(1)
Allen Ginsberg
Up Rising	266	(2)
Robert Duncan
Bad Year, Bad War: A New Year's Card, 1969	268	(2)
Robert Penn Warren
You Could Make a Song of It, A Dirge of It, A Heartbreaker of It	270	(1)
Daniel Berrigan
The Birds of Vietnam	271	(2)
Hayden Carruth
The Asians Dying	273	(1)
W. S. Merwin
Two Villages	274	(2)
Grace Paley
Counting Small-Boned Bodies	276	(1)
Robert Bly
Vietnam #4	277	(1)
Clarence Major
Christmas Bells, Saigon	278	(1)
Walt McDonald
AK--47	279	(1)
Michael Casey
For the Old Man	280	(2)
Michael Casey
Search and Destroy	282	(1)
Dale Ritterbusch
Caves	283	(1)
Michael S. Harper
Communique	284	(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa
Thanks	285	(2)
Yusef Komunyakaa
Song of Napalm	287	(2)
Bruce Weigl
The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible	289	(5)
Galway Kinnell
We	294	(2)
Karen Swenson
What Were They Like?	296	(2)
Denise Levertov
News Update	298	(2)
John Balaban
For a Coming Extinction	300	(1)
W. D. Ehrhart
Places Without Names	301	(2)
Philip Booth
At the Vietnam War Memorial, Washington, D. C.	303	(6)
Robert Dana
GULF WAR
The Winter of Desert Storm	309	(1)
Walt McDonald
On a Line from Valery	310	(1)
Carolyn Kizer
from Ribbons: The Gulf War	311	(2)
William Heyen
Ode to X	313	(1)
Page Dougherty
Section Three	314	(2)
Albert Goldbarth
Favorite Iraqi Soldier	316	(2)
Stephen Dobyns
Old Glory	318	(1)
William Stafford
Operations: Desert Shield, Desert Storm	319	(6)
Eleanor Wilner
WAR ON TERRORISM
Loving This Earth	325	(2)
Judith Minty
Ground Zero	327	(1)
Robert Creeley
Complicity	328	(1)
Michael Waters
The Names	329	(2)
Billy Collins
Speak Out	331	(2)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
For the New Year	333	(1)
Timothy Liu
Call and Answer	334	(1)
Robert Bly
Found in the Free Library	335	(2)
Eleanor Wilner
Talking Heads	337	(1)
W. D. Snodgrass
Cyclamen	338	(1)
Shirley Kaufman
War	339	(2)
C. K. Williams
The School Among the Ruins	341	(4)
Adrienne Rich
Transcircularities	345	(2)
Quincy Troupe
Selected Bibliography of Related Titles	347	(7)
Permissions and Acknowledgments	354	(8)
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines	362