Poems

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Title	Author	Year
On Being Brought from Africa to America	Phillis Wheatley	1773
The Star-Spangled Banner	Francis Scott Key	1814
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d	Walt Whitman	1850
Paul Revere’s Ride	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1861
The Englishman's Complaint	Philip Freneau	1788
To Lord Cornwallis	Philip Freneau	1781
A New-York Tory	Philip Freneau	1781
The British Prison Ship	Philip Freneau	1780
On the Death of Captain Nicholas Biddle	Philip Freneau	1781
Lord Dunmore's Petition To The Legislature Of Virginia	Philip Freneau	1782
To The Memory Of The Brave Americans	Philip Freneau	1783
On The Death Of Dr. Benjamin Franklin	Philip Freneau	1790
The American Soldier	Philip Freneau	1790
Jeffery, or, the Solder’s Progress	Philip Freneau	1795
Altitude	Cyrus Cassells	2019
The Centenarian’s Story	Walt Whitman
Declaration	Tracy K. Smith	2018
Old South Meeting House	January Gill O’Neil	2016
The Continental Army	Marilyn Nelson	2016
England in 1819	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1839

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1773