American
Silas Weir Mitchell
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) is represented in this archive by verse from Burton E. Stevenson's anthology Poems of American History (1908; revised 1922).
Poems of American History gathers verse on events from the Norse voyages to the Spanish-American War, arranged by historical chapter. The poems here are “Herndon”, “How the Cumberland Went Down”, “Kearsarge”, “Lincoln” and “The Song of the Flags”; Stevenson's editorial headnotes are not reproduced.
Poems (12)
- Herndon
- How the Cumberland Went Down
- Kearsarge
- Lincoln
- The Song of the Flags
- On a Boy's First Reading of "King Henry V"
- To a Magnolia Flower in the Garden of the Armenian Convent at Venice
- Of One Who Seemed to Have Failed
- The Quaker Graveyard
- Idleness
- A Decanter of Madeira, Aged 86, to George Bancroft, Aged 86, Greeting
- Good-Night