| Abraham Lincoln, Edmund Clarence Stedman | 538 |
| Pardon, Julia Ward Howe | 539 |
| The Dear President, John James Piatt | 539 |
| Abraham Lincoln, William Cullen Bryant | 540 |
| Abraham Lincoln, Richard Henry Stoddard | 540 |
| Parricide, Julia Ward Howe | 542 |
| Abraham Lincoln, Tom Taylor | 543 |
| CHAPTER XIII |
| Peace |
| "Stack Arms," Joseph Blynth Alston | 545 |
| Jefferson Davis, Walker Meriwether Bell | 545 |
| In the Land where we were Dreaming, Daniel B. Lucas | 546 |
| Acceptation, Margaret Junkin Preston | 547 |
| The Conquered Banner, Abram J. Ryan | 547 |
| Peace, Adeline D. T. Whitney | 547 |
| Peace, Phœbe Cary | 548 |
| A Second Review of the Grand Army, Bret Harte | 548 |
| When Johnny comes marching Home, Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore | 549 |
| Driving Home the Cows, Kate Putnam Osgood | 550 |
| Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration, James Russell Lowell | 550 |
| PART V |
| THE PERIOD OF EXPANSION |
| The Eagle's Song, Richard Mansfield | 558 |
| CHAPTER I |
| Reconstruction and After |
| To the Thirty-Ninth Congress, John Greenleaf Whittier | 559 |
| "Mr. Johnson's Policy of Reconstruction," Charles Graham Halpine | 559 |
| Thaddeus Stevens, Phœbe Cary | 560 |
| South Carolina to the States of the North, Paul Hamilton Hayne | 561 |
| Ku-Klux, Madison Cawein | 562 |
| The Rear Guard, Irene Fowler Brown | 562 |
| The Blue and the Gray, Francis Miles Finch | 563 |
| The Stricken South to the North, Paul Hamilton Hayne | 564 |
| How Cyrus laid the Cable, John Godfrey Saxe | 565 |
| The Cable Hymn, John Greenleaf Whittier | 565 |
| An Arctic Vision, Bret Harte | 566 |
| Alaska, Joaquin Miller | 567 |
| Israel Freyer's Bid for Gold, Edmund Clarence Stedman | 567 |
| Chicago, John Greenleaf Whittier | 568 |
| Chicago, Bret Harte | 569 |
| Chicago, John Boyle O'Reilly | 569 |
| Boston, John Boyle O'Reilly | 570 |
| The Church of the Revolution, Hezekiah Butterworth | 570 |
| After the Fire, Oliver Wendell Holmes | 571 |
| The Ride of Collins Graves, John Boyle O'Reilly | 571 |
| |
| CHAPTER II |
| The Year of a Hundred Years |
| Our First Century, George Edward Woodberry | 572 |
| Centennial Hymn, John Greenleaf Whittier | 573 |
| The Centennial Meditation of Columbia, Sidney Lanier | 573 |
| Centennial Hymn, William Cullen Bryant | 574 |
| Welcome to the Nations, Oliver Wendell Holmes | 574 |
| The National Ode, Bayard Taylor | 575 |
| Our National Banner, Dexter Smith | 578 |
| After the Centennial, Christopher Pearse Cranch | 578 |
| CHAPTER III |
| The Conquest of the Plains |
| The Pacific Railway, C. R. Ballard | 579 |
| After the Comanches, Unknown | 579 |
| Down the Little Big Horn, Francis Brooks | 580 |
| Little Big Horn, Ernest McGaffey | 581 |
| Custer's Last Charge, Frederick Whittaker | 582 |
| Custer, Edmund Clarence Stedman | 583 |
| The Revenge of Rain-in-the-Face, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 583 |
| Miles Keogh's Horse, John Hay | 584 |
| On the Big Horn, John Greenleaf Whittier | 585 |
| The "Grey Horse Troop," Robert W. Chambers | 585 |
| Geronimo, Ernest McGaffey | 586 |
| The Last Reservation, Walter Learned | 586 |
| Indian Names, Lydia Huntley Sigourney | 587 |
| CHAPTER IV |
| The Second Assassination |
| Rejoice, Joaquin Miller | 587 |
| The Bells at Midnight, Thomas Bailey Aldrich | 588 |
| J. A. G., Julia Ward Howe | 589 |
| Midnight—September 19, 1881, John Boyle O'Reilly | 589 |
| At the President's Grave, Richard Watson Gilder | 590 |
| On the Death of President Garfield, Oliver Wendell Holmes | 590 |
| President Garfield, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 591 |
| Yorktown Centennial Lyric, Paul Hamilton Hayne | 592 |
| The Brooklyn Bridge, Edna Dean Proctor | 593 |
| Brooklyn Bridge, Charles George Douglas Roberts | 593 |
| Charleston, Richard Watson Gilder | 594 |
| Mayflower, John Boyle O'Reilly | 594 |
| Fairest of Freedom's Daughters, Jeremiah Eames Rankin | 594 |
| Liberty Enlightening the World, Edmund Clarence Stedman | 595 |
| The Bartholdi Statue, John Greenleaf Whittier | 595 |
| Additional Verses to Hail Columbia, Oliver Wendell Holmes | 596 |
| New National Hymn, Francis Marion Crawford | 596 |
| In Apia Bay, Charles George Douglas Roberts | 597 |
| An International Episode, Caroline T. Duer | 598 |
| By the Conemaugh, Florence Earle Coates | 599 |
| The Man who rode to Conemaugh, John Eliot Bowen | 599 |
| A Ballad of the Conemaugh Flood, Hardwick Drummond Rawnsley | 600 |
| Conemaugh, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward | 601 |
| "The White City," Richard Watson Gilder | 602 |
| The Kearsarge, James Jeffrey Roche | 602 |
| Tennessee, Virginia Fraser Boyle | 603 |
| An Ode on the Unveiling of the Shaw Memorial, Thomas Bailey Aldrich | 603 |
| The Klondike, Edwin Arlington Robinson | 604 |
| CHAPTER V |
| The War with Spain |
| Apostrophe to the Island of Cuba, James Gates Percival | 606 |
| The Gallant Fifty-One, Henry Lynden Flash | 606 |
| Cuba, Edmund Clarence Stedman | 607 |
| The Gospel of Peace, James Jeffrey Roche | 607 |
| Cuba, Harvey Rice | 608 |
| Cuba to Columbia, Will Carleton | 608 |
| Cuba Libre, Joaquin Miller | 609 |
| The Parting of the Ways, Joseph B. Gilder | 609 |
| The Men of the Maine, Clinton Scollard | 609 |
| The Word of the Lord from Havana, Richard Hovey | 610 |
| Half-Mast, Lloyd Mifflin | 611 |
| The Fighting Race, Joseph I. C. Clarke | 611 |
| On the Eve of War, Danske Dandridge | 612 |
| To Spain—A Last Word, Edith M. Thomas | 612 |
| The Martyrs of the Maine, Rupert Hughes | 612 |
| El Emplazado, William Henry Venable | 613 |
| Battle Song, Robert Burns Wilson | 613 |
| Greeting from England, Unknown | 614 |
| Battle Cry, William Henry Venable | 614 |
| Just One Signal, Unknown | 614 |
| Dewey at Manila, Robert Underwood Johnson | 615 |
| Dewey and his Men, Wallace Rice | 617 |
| "Off Manilly," Edmund Vance Cooke | 618 |
| Manila Bay, Arthur Hale | 618 |
| A Ballad of Manila Bay, Charles George Douglas Roberts | 618 |
| The Battle of Manila, Richard Hovey | 619 |
| Dewey in Manila Bay, R. V. Risley | 620 |
| "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin," Madison Cawein | 620 |
| The Spirit of the Maine, Tudor Jenks | 621 |
| The Dragon of the Seas, Thomas Nelson Page | 621 |
| The Sailing of the Fleet, Unknown | 622 |
| "Cut the Cables," Robert Burns Wilson | 622 |
| The Race of the Oregon, John James Meehan | 624 |
| Battle-Song of the Oregon, Wallace Rice | 624 |
| Strike the Blow, Unknown | 625 |
| Eight Volunteers, Lansing C. Bailey | 626 |
| The Men of the Merrimac, Clinton Scollard | 626 |
| The Victory-Wreck, Will Carleton | 627 |
| Hobson and his Men, Robert Loveman | 627 |
| The Call to the Colors, Arthur Guiterman | 627 |
| Essex Regiment March, George Edward Woodberry | 628 |
| The Gathering, Herbert B. Swett | 629 |
| Comrades, Henry R. Dorr | 629 |
| Wheeler's Brigade at Santiago, Wallace Rice | 629 |
| Deeds of Valor at Santiago, Clinton Scollard | 630 |
| The Charge at Santiago, William Hamilton Hayne | 630 |
| Private Blair of the Regulars, Clinton Scollard | 631 |
| Wheeler at Santiago, James Lindsay Gordon | 631 |
| Spain's Last Armada, Wallace Rice | 632 |
| Santiago, Thomas A. Janvier | 633 |
| The Fleet at Santiago, Charles E. Russell | 634 |
| The Destroyer of Destroyers, Wallace Rice | 635 |
| The Brooklyn at Santiago, Wallace Rice | 636 |
| The Rush of the Oregon, Arthur Guiterman | 637 |
| The Men behind the Guns, John Jerome Rooney | 637 |
| Cervera, Bertrand Shadwell | 638 |
| McIlrath of Malate, John Jerome Rooney | 639 |
| When the Great Gray Ships come in, Guy Wetmore Carryl | 640 |
| Full Cycle, John White Chadwick | 640 |
| Breath on the Oat, Joseph Russell Taylor | 641 |
| The Islands of the Sea, George Edward Woodberry | 641 |
| Ballade of Expansion, Hilda Johnson | 642 |
| "Rebels," Ernest Crosby | 643 |
| On a Soldier fallen in the Philippines, William Vaughn Moody | 643 |
| The Ballad of Paco Town, Clinton Scollard | 644 |
| The Deed of Lieutenant Miles, Clinton Scollard | 644 |
| Aguinaldo, Bertrand Shadwell | 645 |
| The Fight at Dajo, Alfred E. Wood | 645 |
| An Ode in Time of Hesitation, William Vaughn Moody | 646 |
| CHAPTER VI |
| The New Century |
| A Toast to Our Native Land, Robert Bridges | 649 |
| Buffalo, Florence Earle Coates | 649 |
| McKinley, Unknown | 649 |
| Faithful unto Death, Richard Handfield Titherington | 650 |
| The Comfort of the Trees, Richard Watson Gilder | 650 |
| Outward Bound, Edward Sydney Tylee | 650 |
| Panama, James Jeffrey Roche | 651 |
| Darien, Edwin Arnold | 651 |
| Panama, Amanda T. Jones | 652 |
| A Song of Panama, Alfred Damon Runyon | 652 |
| Hymn of the West, Edmund Clarence Stedman | 653 |
| Britannia to Columbia, Alfred Austin | 654 |
| Those Rebel Flags, John H. Jewett | 654 |
| The Song of the Flags, S. Weir Mitchell | 655 |
| Arizona, Sharlot M. Hall | 655 |
| San Francisco, Joaquin Miller | 657 |
| San Francisco, John Vance Cheney | 657 |
| To San Francisco, S. J. Alexander | 657 |
| Resurge San Francisco, Joaquin Miller | 658 |
| Grover Cleveland, Joel Benton | 658 |
| Unguarded Gates, Thomas Bailey Aldrich | 659 |
| National Song, William Henry Venable | 659 |
| Ad Patriam, Clinton Scollard | 660 |
| O Land Beloved, George Edward Woodberry | 660 |
| The Republic, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 660 |
| CHAPTER VII |
| The World War |
| Sonnets written in the Fall of 1914, George Edward Woodberry | 661 |
| Abraham Lincoln walks at Midnight, Vachel Lindsay | 661 |
| The "William P. Frye," Jeanne Robert Foster | 662 |
| The White Ships and the Red, Joyce Kilmer | 663 |
| Mare Liberum, Henry van Dyke | 664 |
| Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers fallen for France, Alan Seeger | 664 |
| Republic to Republic, Witter Bynner | 666 |
| To the United States of America, Robert Bridges | 666 |
| The Captive Ships at Manila, Dorothy Paul | 666 |
| The Road to France, Daniel Henderson | 667 |
| Pershing at the Tomb of Lafayette, Amelia Josephine Burr | 667 |
| Your Lad, and my Lad, Randall Parrish | 668 |
| A Call to Arms, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews | 668 |
| The First Three, Clinton Scollard | 669 |
| To America, on her First Sons fallen in the Great War, E. M. Walker | 670 |
| Rouge Bouquet, Joyce Kilmer | 670 |
| Marching Song, Dana Burnet | 671 |
| Our Modest Doughboys, Charlton Andrews | 671 |
| Seicheprey | 672 |
| A Ballad of Redhead's Day, Richard Butler Glaenzer | 672 |
| Victory Bells, Grace Hazard Conkling | 673 |
| Epicedium, J. Corson Miller | 673 |
| The Dead, David Morton | 674 |
| The Unreturning, Clinton Scollard | 674 |
| The Star, Marion Couthouy Smith | 674 |
| Brest left behind, John Chipman Farrar | 674 |
| To the Returning Brave, Robert Underwood Johnson | 675 |
| The Return, Eleanor Rogers Cox | 676 |
| King of the Belgians, Marion Couthouy Smith | 676 |
| The Family of Nations, Willard Wattles | 677 |
| The League of Nations, Mary Siegrist | 677 |
| Beyond Wars, David Morton | 678 |
| "When there is Peace," Austin Dobson | 678 |
| After the War, Richard Le Gallienne | 678 |
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| NOTES | 681 |
| INDEX OF AUTHORS | 699 |
| INDEX OF FIRST LINES | 705 |
| INDEX OF TITLES | 713 |
