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Subject - Heroes

Heroes take on quite a few different forms. Many spoken of here are the traditional ones. Helen Keller is one you might not expect to find.

1. Bruce and the Spider by Bernard Barton
2. The Death of Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant
3. How in all wonder . . . by Arthur Hugh Clough

   How in all wonder Columbus got over,
   That is a marvel to me!
   

4. Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson
   Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836

5. To the Memory of the Brave Americans by Philip Freneau
6. To Mr. Blanchard, the Celebrated Aeronaut in America by Philip Freneau
7. On the Death of Mr. Franklin by Philip Freneau
8. The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson by Sidney Lanier
9. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight by Vachel Lindsay
10. Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    the inspired telling of one of America most memorable historic events
    
    Listen my children and you shall hear
    Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere
    
11. Drake's Drum by Henry Newbolt
12. Warren's Address to the American Soldiers, Before the Battle of Bunker Hill by John Pierpoint
13. Helen Keller by Edmund Clarence Stedman
14. O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
    on the death of Abraham Lincoln