Poetry Codex

American

Robert Burns Wilson

1850–1916

Robert Burns Wilson (1850–1916) 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 “Battle Song” and “"Cut the Cables"”; Stevenson's editorial headnotes are not reproduced.

Poems (9)

  1. Battle Song
  2. "Cut the Cables"
  3. It Is in Winter That We Dream of Spring
  4. The Dead Player
  5. To a Crow
  6. The Sunrise of the Poor
  7. Such Is the Death the Soldier Dies
  8. Ballad of the Faded Field
  9. The Passing of March

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