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"Old Ironsides" is a poem written by American writer Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on September 16, 1830, as a tribute to the 18th-century USS Constitution. The poem was one reason that the frigate was saved from being decommissioned, and it is now the oldest commissioned ship in the world that is still afloat.
In addition to the commemorative nature of much of Holmes's poetry, some pieces were written based on his observations of the world around him. This is the case with two of Holmes's best known and critically successful poems—"Old Ironsides" and "The Last Leaf"—which were published when he was a young adult. [143]
USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. The ship is the world's oldest commissioned naval warship still afloat. [ 11 ] [
Old Ironsides, by hip-hop duo Mars ILL; Old Ironsides, a 1926 film directed by James Cruze and starring Wallace Beery; Old Ironsides (locomotive), the first locomotive built by Matthias W. Baldwin "Old Ironsides" (poem), an 1830 poem written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. as a tribute to the USS Constitution
George Claghorn (July 17, 1748 [O.S. July 6, 1748] – February 3, 1824) [1] [Note 1] [Note 2] was an American patriot and shipwright. He served as an officer in the American Revolutionary War and was wounded in the Battle of Bunker Hill. [2] [3] After the war, he was awarded the rank of colonel in the Massachusetts militia.
[1] [2] The poem has been referred to as "a short sequel" to "The Old Cumberland Beggar", and Wordsworth himself regarded it as "an overflowing" of it. [3] [4] The form of the poem has been described as "a sonnet-like poem in two acts". [5] It consists of one stanza written in blank verse. [6] The poem describes an old man and the journey he is on.
Baldwin's Old Ironsides engine, manufactured in 1832. Baldwin put his knowledge of stationary steam engines to new use in 1831 when he constructed his first experimental steam locomotive. Based on designs first shown at the Rainhill Trials in England , Baldwin's prototype was a small demonstration engine that was displayed at Peale's ...
Olio is a book of poetry written by Tyehimba Jess that was released in 2016. [1] The book is split into 16 sections, 14 of which are poems with the introduction section and extras and acknowledgments acting as the beginning and ending sections, and illustrated by Jessica Lynne Brown. Olio won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [2]