A poem lamenting the treatment of veterans of this war describes a soldier who "feeds on praise, lost in the abyss of want.
A poem lamenting the treatment of veterans of this war describes a soldier who "feeds on praise, lost in the abyss of want." A poem set during this war describes the "bleating of the flock and the twitter of birds" before imagining "one [who] was safe and asleep in his bed" but would be dead the next day. Another poem which describes this war begins "By the (*) rude bridge that arched the flood" and describes the flag flown by "embattled farmers." Philip Freneau is called the poet of this war. "Hardly a man is still alive" who remembers a night during this war on which the title character of a poem uses a light in the North Church tower as a signal. For 10 points, name this war whose opening is the setting of Emerson's "Concord Hymn" and Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride."
A poem lamenting the treatment of veterans of this war describes a soldier who "feeds on praise, lost in the abyss of want.
American Revolution [or Revolutionary War]