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His most well-known work is the poem, "Your Flag and My Flag". It appeared in the Baltimore American in 1902, and became popular during World War I. [1] It was often recited in school classrooms. [4] Much of his work was published by Chicago publishers P. F. Volland Company [8] and Frank K. Root & Co. [9]
The Six-Cornered Snowflake and Other Poems. New Directions Publishing. 1990. ISBN 978-0-8112-1143-7. John Frederick Nims., selected for the New York Public Library's Ninety from the Nineties. The Kiss: A Jambalaya (1982) Selected poems. University of Chicago Press. 1982. ISBN 978-0-226-58118-7. Of Flesh and Bone (1967)
"Flag of the Southern Cross" is a poem written in 1887 by Australian bush poet Henry Lawson. The title refers to the Eureka Flag flown at the Eureka Rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria in 1854. It was originally published in Truth , a Sydney newspaper.
And floats aloft our spangled flag in glory and in pride; And bayonets in the sunlight gleam, and bands brave music pour, We are coming, father Abr'am, three hundred thousand more! We are coming, coming, our Union to restore, We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more! If you look up all our valleys where the growing harvests shine,
The poem was first published on June 24, 1865, in the New York Freeman, a pro-Confederate, Roman Catholic newspaper.Ryan published it under the pen-name "Moina". [1] [3] It made Father Ryan famous [4] and this became one of the best-known poems of the post-war South, memorized and recited by generations of Southern schoolchildren.
The Best American Poetry 1990 book cover. The Best American Poetry 1990, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Jorie Graham. The book contains seventy-five poems with a range of poet-authors from a college freshman to the 1990 United States Poet Laureate. David Lehman publicly commented that ...
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This was followed in 2013 by The Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition (2013), in which guest editor Robert Pinsky selected 100 poems from the series' history. A collection of Lehman's forewords was published together as a look at contemporary poetry called The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988–2014.