Poetry Codex

American

Anonymous (American Ballads and Songs)

traditional and anonymous; 17th–19th century

These ballads, songs, epigrams and satires are printed without an author's name in Burton E. Stevenson's Poems of American History (1908; revised 1922), where they illustrate events from the colonial period to the Civil War.

They are given here in the order of the book, which arranges its poems by historical chapter, from early voyages and settlements through the Revolution, the War of 1812 and the war between the States. Stevenson's own headnotes are not reproduced.

Poems (138)

  1. The First Voyage of John Cabot
  2. Bacon's Epitaph
  3. New England's Annoyances
  4. Canonicus and Roger Williams
  5. Giles Corey
  6. Lovewell's Fight
  7. Lovewell's Fight
  8. Louisburg
  9. The Song of Braddock's Men
  10. Ode to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania
  11. On the Defeat at Ticonderoga or Carilong
  12. Brave Wolfe
  13. The Death of Wolfe
  14. The Virginia Song
  15. The World Turned Upside Down
  16. A Song
  17. The Liberty Pole
  18. The British Grenadier
  19. A New Song Called the Gaspee
  20. A New Song
  21. A Proclamation
  22. Epigram
  23. On the Snake Depicted at the Head of Some American Newspapers
  24. Pennsylvania Song
  25. Maryland Resolves
  26. Epigram
  27. To the Boston Women
  28. The King's Own Regulars
  29. A Song
  30. Tom Gage's Proclamation
  31. The Battle of Bunker Hill
  32. The Trip to Cambridge
  33. The Bombardment of Bristol
  34. A Song
  35. A Poem Containing Some Remarks on the Present War
  36. Off from Boston
  37. Rodney's Ride
  38. The American Patriot's Prayer
  39. A New War Song by Sir Peter Parker
  40. Nathan Hale
  41. The Battle of Trenton
  42. Trenton and Princeton
  43. The Rifleman's Song at Bennington
  44. The Progress of Sir Jack Brag
  45. The Fate of John Burgoyne
  46. Saratoga's Song
  47. Lord North's Recantation
  48. A New Ballad
  49. General Howe's Letter
  50. Yankee Doodle's Expedition to Rhode Island
  51. The Cruise of the Fair American
  52. Paul Jones
  53. The Yankee Man-of-War
  54. Paul Jones--a New Song
  55. Paul Jones
  56. The South Carolina
  57. The Modern Jonas
  58. Brave Paulding and the Spy
  59. Arnold the Vile Traitor
  60. Epigram
  61. Sergeant Champe
  62. About Savannah
  63. A Song About Charleston
  64. The Battle of King's Mountain
  65. The Dance
  66. Cornwallis's Surrender
  67. The Surrender of Cornwallis
  68. On Sir Henry Clinton's Recall
  69. Evacuation of New York by the British
  70. The American Soldier's Hymn
  71. Thanksgiving Hymn
  72. The Federal Convention
  73. Convention Song
  74. Truxton's Victory
  75. The Constellation and the Insurgente
  76. Washington's Monument
  77. The Times
  78. Reparation or War
  79. Terrapin War
  80. Farewell, Peace
  81. Come, Ye Lads, Who Wish to Shine
  82. Hull's Surrender
  83. The Constitution and the Guerrière
  84. Halifax Station
  85. The Wasp's Frolic
  86. The United States and Macedonian
  87. The United States and Macedonian
  88. Yankee Thunders
  89. The General Armstrong
  90. Capture of Little York
  91. Old Fort Meigs
  92. Chesapeake and Shannon
  93. Enterprise and Boxer
  94. Perry's Victory
  95. The Battle of Erie
  96. Perry's Victory--a Song
  97. The Fall of Tecumseh
  98. The Battle of Valparaiso
  99. The Battle of Bridgewater
  100. The Ocean-Fight
  101. The Battle of Plattsburg
  102. The Battle of Baltimore
  103. Fort McHenry
  104. Ye Parliament of England
  105. The Hunters of Kentucky
  106. Sea and Land Victories
  107. Ode to Peace
  108. Sainclaire's Defeat
  109. The Battle of Tippecanoe
  110. "The Days of 'Forty-Nine"
  111. Old Tippecanoe
  112. The Last Appendix to "Yankee Doodle"
  113. The Fight over the Body of Keitt
  114. Bob Anderson, My Beau
  115. On Fort Sumter
  116. The Battle of Morris' Island
  117. Sumter--a Ballad of 1861
  118. The Fight at Sumter
  119. "Call All"
  120. I Give My Soldier Boy a Blade
  121. Ellsworth
  122. On the Death of "Jackson"
  123. Wait for the Wagon
  124. The Run from Manassas Junction
  125. Cast Down, but Not Destroyed
  126. Shop and Freedom
  127. The C. S. A. Commissioners
  128. Death of the Lincoln Despotism
  129. A New Song to an Old Tune
  130. Tardy George
  131. How McClellan Took Manassas
  132. The Turtle
  133. "The Brigade Must Not Know, Sir"
  134. The Ballad of Ishmael Day
  135. Allatoona
  136. Kearsarge and Alabama
  137. Through Fire in Mobile Bay
  138. After the Comanches

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