Poems for Independence Day

Here is a gathering of classic poems about America for reading around the 4th of July:

• William Blake,
  “America, A Prophecy” (1793)
  
  
• Ralph Waldo Emerson,
  “Concord Hymn” (1837)
  
  
• Ralph Waldo Emerson,
  “A Nation’s Strength” (1904)
  
  
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
  “Paul Revere’s Ride” (1863)
  
  
• Emma Lazarus,
  “The New Colossus” (1883)
  
  
• Walt Whitman,
  “I Hear America Singing” (1900)
  
  
• Carl Sandburg,
  “Good Night” (1920)
  
  
• Stephen Vincent Benét,
  “American Names” (1863)