From Bob Holman & Margery Snyder,
Your Guide to Poetry.
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Here is a gathering of classic American poems for reading around the 4th of July:

• Ralph Waldo Emerson,
  “Concord Hymn” (1837)
  
  
• 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)