Poems

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Title	Author	Year
Paul Revere’s Ride	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1861
The Star-Spangled Banner	Francis Scott Key	1814
I Hear America Singing	Walt Whitman	1891
His Excellency General Washington	Phillis Wheatley	1776
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d	Walt Whitman	1850
On Being Brought from Africa to America	Phillis Wheatley	1773
A Nation's Strength	William Ralph Emerson	1847
America	Walt Whitman	1891
Song of Myself, 3	Walt Whitman	1891
Declaration	Tracy K. Smith	2018
The British Prison Ship	Philip Freneau	1780
A Farewell to America	Phillis Wheatley	1773
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth	Phillis Wheatley	1773
The American Soldier	Philip Freneau	1790
American Liberty	Philip Freneau	1775
To The Memory Of The Brave Americans	Philip Freneau	1783
The Centenarian’s Story	Walt Whitman
The Negro’s “America”	Frank Barbour Coffin	1897
America, a Prophecy, Plates 3 and 4	William Blake	1793
A Political Litany	Philip Freneau	1775

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