America’s 1912 messenger
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-04-16
Creator(s)
Language
English
Period
(1911-1912) Progressive Party Candidate
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Poem
Matrondom
Dewitt Wise extolls the divine and virtuous nature of mothers in poetic verse.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-01-01
Creator(s)
The American flag
A poem by Francis A. M. Stuart about the American flag intended to be a patriotic song.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-01-13
Creator(s)
In salutation
Perlie M. Huntley writes a salutatory poem about Theodore Roosevelt’s trip and subsequent return from Africa.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1910-03-09
Creator(s)
From an Ode for the Fourth of July
This excerpt from C. E. Perkins’s Ode for the Fourth of July discusses how life in America has changed since George Washington with political bosses and industrial trusts. The ode closes with praise for President Roosevelt.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905
Creator(s)
Poem by Elihu Root
A poem about an international incident, possibly by Secretary of State Root, reads: “This Tower of silence / Has suffered violence / For everyone talked / When the Kaiser balked / Except this home of the dead.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-04-16
Creator(s)
Good mornin’
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-04-24
Creator(s)
Language
English
Period
U.S. President – 2nd Term (March 1905-February 1909)
Translation by Kogoro Takahira of poem by the governor of Shan-tung
Baron Takahira’s translation of a poem by the governor of Shan-tung.
Collection
Massachusetts Historical Society
Creation Date
1903-06
Creator(s)
Non sine dolore
Text of the poem “Non Sine Dolore.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-04
Creator(s)
Wer nicht gelitten
Elbert F. Baldwin encloses this German poem in a letter to President Roosevelt, asking him to write the preface for a book about the life and work of Reverend W. S. Rainsford of St. George’s Church of New York, New York. (President Roosevelt did write the preface and included this poem.)
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-04-03
Creator(s)
On seeing Roosevelt’s cabin in winter
Poem about Theodore Roosevelt and his North Dakota cabin during its time on the grounds of the North Dakota State Capitol.
Collection
State Historical Society of North Dakota
Creation Date
1908-1949
Creator(s)
To Roosevelt’s Rough Riders
David Gregory describes, in a two-stanza poem, the battle of San Juan Hill and the defeat of the Spaniards that was led by “gallant Wood and our own Ted.”
Collection
Creation Date
1898-1900
Creator(s)
A Cuban idyl
Poem about a soldier suffering from yellow fever in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
Collection
Creation Date
1898-07-24
Creator(s)
Birch bark poems
Small book of poems printed on thin sheets of birch bark.
Collection
Creation Date
1879
Creator(s)
I like the path to the summer house
Short poem written by Theodore Roosevelt.
Collection
Creation Date
1875
Creator(s)
Jungle-jangle
This verse, illustrated and with strategic cut-outs, satirizes Theodore Roosevelt’s African safari.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
Creation Date
1909
Creator(s)
Coronation ode
William Pember Reeves comments on the delay and rescheduling of Edward VII’s original coronation, which was planned for June 1902.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-08-09
Creator(s)
Poem about Theodore Roosevelt
Poem praising Theodore Roosevelt for volunteering himself and four sons to go fight in World War I.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1915
Creator(s)
Valor
Text of “Valor,” a poem by Nathanial Southgate Shaler.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-06-26
Creator(s)
The seige of the Alamo
James Lynch dedicated a poem about the Siege of the Alamo to President Roosevelt to help him write a history of Texas.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-05-19