The Battle of Concord, between American colonial troops and British troops, on April 19, 1775.
This web site presents poems that have been written about some of the American patriots in the American War of Independence.
A monument honoring Thomas Paine, on Paine Avenue, in New Rochelle, New York, near the Thomas Paine Museum.
ANONYMOUS
BATTLE
OF TRENTON
EMILY
GEIGER
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
SONG
OF MARION'S MEN
WILL CARLETON
THE
LITTLE BLACK-EYED REBEL - WILL CARLETON
WILLIAM COLLINS
MOLLY
MAGUIRE AT MONMOUTH
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
BOSTON
CONCORD
HYMN
THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH
THE
BATTLE OF BENNINGTON
THE
BATTLE OF THE COWPENS
THE
FIGHT AT LEXINGTON
THE
FIGHT AT ORISKANY
SULLIVAN'S
ISLAND
FRANCIS MILES FINCH
NATHAN
HALE
PHILIP FRENEAU
TO
THE MEMORY OF THE AMERICANS WHO FELL AT EUTAW
BRETE HARTE
CALDWELL
OF SPRINGFIELD
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
GRANDMOTHER'S
STORY OF BUNKER HILL BATTLE
FRANCIS HOPKINSON
HALE
IN THE BUSH
SIDNEY LANIER
THE
BATTLE OF LEXINGTON
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
THE
MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE
GUY HUMPHREY MCMASTER
THE
OLD CONTINENTALS
THOMAS PAINE
LIBERTY
TREE
WILLIAM ORDWAY PARTRIDGE
NATHAN
HALE, THE IDEAL PATRIOT
JOHN PIERPONT
WARREN'S
ADDRESS
KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD
MOLLY
PITCHER
V. B. WILSON
TICONDEROGA
The Thomas Paine Cottage, on Paine Avenue, in New Rochelle, New York.
Patrick Henry, Give me Liberty or Give
me Death, 1775
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter.
Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually
begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears
the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why
stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have?
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of
chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others
may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
