Poems

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Title	Author	Year
Paul Revere’s Ride	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1861
His Excellency General Washington	Phillis Wheatley	1776
On Being Brought from Africa to America	Phillis Wheatley	1773
I Hear America Singing	Walt Whitman	1891
The Star-Spangled Banner	Francis Scott Key	1814
A Nation's Strength	William Ralph Emerson	1847
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Declaration	Tracy K. Smith	2018
America	Walt Whitman	1891
Song of Myself, 3	Walt Whitman	1891
Old South Meeting House	January Gill O’Neil	2016
A Farewell to America	Phillis Wheatley	1773
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d	Walt Whitman	1850
America, a Prophecy, Plates 3 and 4	William Blake	1793
The British Prison Ship	Philip Freneau	1780
American Liberty	Philip Freneau	1775
The Centenarian’s Story	Walt Whitman
A Political Litany	Philip Freneau	1775
England in 1819	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1839
To The Memory Of The Brave Americans	Philip Freneau	1783

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1861