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By broad Potomac's shore : great poems from the early days of our nation's capital / edited by Kim Roberts.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--Washington (D.C.).
- American poetry.
- Washington (D.C.).
- American poetry--1783-1850.
- American poetry--19th century.
- American poetry--20th century.
- Washington (D.C.)--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 332 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "A collection of the great poems from our nation's capital, from its founding up to the early twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Earliest Bards
- Joel Barlow
- From The Columbiad
- From The Hasty Pudding
- Thomas Law
- The Moth
- John Quincy Adams
- To a Lady
- The Lip and the Heart
- To the Sun-Dial
- Thomas Kennedy
- Ode to the Mammoth Cheese
- James Kirke Paulding
- The Old Man's Carousal
- Francis Scott Key
- Defense of Fort M'Henry
- Song
- To My Cousin Mary
- Joseph Story
- Advice to a Young Lawyer
- The Druid Rites: A Fragment
- George Washington Parke Custis
- Lines Written for the Centennial Anniversary of the Birth of Washington
- John Agg
- Mrs. Adams's Ball
- George Watterston
- My Native Home
- Emma Willard
- Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep
- To a Young Lady
- Lafayette's Welcome
- pt. II The Rift of the Civil War
- John Pierpont
- A Word from a Petitioner
- Oft, in the Chilly Night
- B. B. French
- A Short Poem on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
- From Fitz Clarence: A Poem
- Albert Pike
- Dixie
- The Magnolia
- Margaret Lucy Shands Bailey
- Endurance
- William Slade
- The Slave to His Star
- Arthur Bowen
- Farewell
- Frederick Douglass
- A Parody
- After the Departure of a Friend
- Walt Whitman
- By Broad Potomac's Shore
- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
- The Wound-Dresser
- Sara Clarke Lippincott (Grace Greenwood)
- The Leap from the Long Bridge
- George Boyer Vashon
- From Vincent Oge
- Mary E. Nealy
- Arlington
- O. O. Howard
- The Blue and the Gray
- John Sella Martin
- From The Hero and the Slave
- The Sentinel of Freedom
- Elizabeth Akers Allen
- Spring at the Capital
- Lost Light
- Rock Me to Sleep
- John L. McCreery
- There Is No Death
- Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
- Hearing the Battle
- -July 21, 1861
- Army of Occupation
- April at Washington
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Accomplices
- Fredericksburg
- Memory
- Fanny Jackson Coppin
- The Black Volunteers
- John Willis Menard
- The Negro's Lament
- Laura Reddon Searing (Howard Glyndon)
- In Time of War
- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
- John A. Joyce
- Grants Mustered Out!
- Decoration Day Poem
- Walter H. Brooks
- The Fall of Richmond, April 3, 1865
- Jeanie Gould Lincoln
- My Soldier's Grave
- T. Thomas Fortune
- Nat Turner
- Lincoln
- The Diamond in the Clay
- Slavery to the Slave!
- pt. III Poets of Moral Persuasion
- Daniel Alexander Payne
- From The Pleasures
- Christopher Pearse Cranch
- Correspondences
- The Pines and the Sea
- Jane Grey Swisshelm
- To George D. Prentiss
- November
- Anna Hanson Dorsey
- From Sunset among the Alps
- Charles Astor Bristed (Carl Benson)
- The Drinker's Apology
- The Pertinacious Toper
- Caroline Healey Dall
- At a Death-Bed
- Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren
- A First Pair of Spectacles
- The Blue Ridge
- Solomon G. Brown
- God's Vengeance Is Creeping
- Fifty Years To-Day
- Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton)
- Note
- To Dr. Bailey, with a Pair of Gloves, Christmas
- Henry McNeal Turner
- Hymn
- One Year Ago Today
- Mary Emily Neeley Bradley
- Beyond Recall
- Margaret Louisa Sullivan Burke
- In Spite of Fate
- Mary Clemmer Ames
- The Joy of Work
- Rose Elizabeth Cleveland
- From The Dilemma of the Nineteenth Century
- Marian Longfellow O'Donoghue (Miriam Lester)
- Leeward
- Newell Houston Ensley
- Write Thy Name
- Wendell Phillips Stafford
- On the Photograph of a Lynching
- The Cry of the Dark
- Passing Mount Vernon
- John Henry Paynter
- To Emperor Selassie
- Kelly Miller
- The Cat
- Isabel Likens Gates
- R.O.T.C., 1917
- Bertha Gerneaux Davis
- At Arlington
- The Service Flag
- Kendall Banning
- God's Puppets
- pt. IV Poets of the American Scene
- Horatio King
- "All's Well"
- Anne Lynch Botta
- Webster
- The Bee
- To an Astronomer
- In the Library
- Donn Piatt
- We Parted at the Omnibus
- Jeremiah Eames Rankin
- From Broken Cadences: An Ode in Three Parts
- Charles G. Halpine (Miles O'Reilly)
- Eliza Woodworth
- Asleep upon the Grass
- On the Beach
- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton (Owen Meredith)
- The Cloud
- John James Piatt
- Taking the Night-Train
- To Walt Whitman, the Man
- Harriet Prescott Spofford
- Evanescence
- Reprieve
- A Weed
- Mary Toles Peet
- Ethels Letter
- John Burroughs
- The Bobolink
- Waiting
- Charlotte Forten Grimke
- The Gathering of the Grand Army
- Charles Sumner
- Wordsworth
- At Newport
- A Parting Hymn
- Cincinnatus Heine Miller (Joaquin Miller)
- By the Pacific Ocean
- Sea-Blown
- Henry Adams
- Prayer to the Dynamo
- The Capitol by Moonlight
- John Hay
- The Crows at Washington
- Two on the Terrace
- Esmerelda Boyle
- Love Me Little, Love Me Long
- George Alfred Townsend (Gath)
- Cloture
- Julia Von Stosch Schayer
- The Moon-Flower
- Ambrose Bierce
- The Statesmen
- The New Decalogue
- A Year's Casualties
- Alfred Islay Walden
- Dedicated to a Young Lady Representing the Indian Race at Howard University
- The Nation's Friend
- Charles Warren Stoddard
- The First Rain
- Emily Thornton Charles (Emily Hawthorn)
- Rondeau
- William Henry Babcock
- Edgar Poe's Grave
- Grace Denio Litchfield
- The Setting Sun
- Good Bye
- Robert Underwood Johnson
- In Tesla's Laboratory
- On Nearing Washington
- William Temple Hornaday
- The Whispering Pine
- Anne Kelledy Gilbert
- Grief
- Snow
- Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice
- The St. Gaudens Monument at Rock Creek Cemetery
- Carrie Williams Clifford
- To Howard University
- Peril
- Tercentenary of the Landing of Slaves at Jamestown
- Egyptian Sphinx
- Maud Andrews Ohl (Annulet Andrews)
- Why Is It?
- Richard Hovey
- An Off-Shore Villanelle
- Evening on the Potomac
- John Claggett Proctor
- Georgia Avenue
- Helen Hay Whitney
- Alone
- Sapphics
- The Seal
- pt. V The Rise of the Personal
- Paul Claudel
- Sieste/Nap
- Alice Archer Sewall James
- There Is a Veil
- The Greek Bath
- James Weldon Johnson
- Mother Night
- To America
- O Black and Unknown Bards
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Lovers Lane
- Slow through the Dark
- Douglass
- We Wear the Mask
- Leonora Speyer
- The Saint-Gaudens Statue in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington
- Suddenly
- Ascent
- Measure Me, Sky
- Mary Berri Chapman Hansbrough
- Debonair
- After Grief
- Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
- I Sit and Sew
- The Lights at Carney's Point
- Sonnet
- To the Negro Farmers of the United States
- Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa)
- Winona's Aria: The Magic of the Night
- Natalie Clifford Barney
- More Night!
- A Sonnet to My Lady with the Jaundice
- How Write the Beat of Love
- Georgia Douglas Johnson
- The Heart of a Woman
- Little Son
- Prejudice
- Common Dust
- To John Brown
- Pledge
- Eloise Bibb Thompson
- Tribute
- After Reading Bryant's Lines to a Waterfowl
- Don Marquis
- The Prudes Alphabet
- A Politician
- Angelina Weld Grimke
- A Winter Twilight
- The Want of You
- Dawn
- To the Dunbar High School: A Sonnet
- To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimke
- Juan Ramon Jimenez
- El mar/The Sea
- Jessie Redmon Fauset
- Oriflamme
- Dead Fires
- La vie cest la vie
- Edith B.
- Mirick
- Turn of Tide
- Walter Everette Hawkins
- A Spade Is Just a Spade
- Where Air of Freedom Is
- Child of the Night
- Louise Kidder Sparrow
- Hokkus in Sequence
- Elinor Wylie
- Wild Peaches
- Atavism
- Mariano Brull
- Interior: Soneto V/Interior: Sonnet V
- Caresse Crosby
- Coffins Beach
- Nile-Boat
- Archibald MacLeish
- Soul-Sight
- Jean Toomer
- Beehive
- Seventh Street
- Her Lips Are Copper Wire
- Reapers
- Otto Leland Bohanan
- The Washer-Woman
- Muna Lee
- Methodist Revival
- Electors
- Melilot
- Herbert Gerhard Bruncken
- To a Thrush at Evening
- Esther Popel Shaw
- Flag Salute
- Grant Me Strength
- Theft
- Ruth Muskrat Bronson
- Sentenced: A Dirge
- Songs of the Spavinaw
- The Hunter's Wooing
- Joseph Auslander
- Dawn at the Rain's Edge
- Home-Bound
- Lewis Grandison Alexander
- Hokku
- Frank Smith Home
- To a Persistent Phantom.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: By broad Potomac's shore
- ISBN:
- 9780813944746
- 0813944740
- 9780813944753
- 0813944759
- OCLC:
- 1150858698
- Publisher Number:
- 99985948700
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