"""Hail to the Chief"", the march primarily associated with the President of the US has verses derived from which narrative poem of Walter Scott?"
"The Lady of the Lake (poem) The Lady of the Lake is a narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1810. Set in the Trossachs region of Scotland, it is composed of six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single day. The poem has three main plots: the contest among three men, Roderick Dhu, James Fitz-James, and Malcolm Graeme, to win the love of Ellen Douglas; the feud and reconciliation of King James V of Scotland and James Douglas; and a war between the lowland Scots (led by James V) and the highland clans (led"
"Waterloo"" An explicit connection of Sir Walter Scott's name with the by-then familiar exclamation is found in a poem published 15 August 1871, on the centenary anniversary of Scott's birth: Mark Twain also uses the phrase to reference Sir Walter Scott and his writing. Twain's disdain for Scott is evident in ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"" (1889), in which the main character repeatedly utters ""great Scott"" as an oath, and in ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884), where he names a sinking boat the ""Walter Scott"". John William De Forest, in ""Miss Ravenel's Conversion From Secession to Loyalty"""
"Hail to the Chief ""Hail to the Chief"" is the official Presidential Anthem of the United States, composed by James Sanderson. The song's playing accompanies the appearance of the President of the United States at many public events. For major official occasions, the United States Marine Band and other military ensembles are generally the performers, so directives of the United States Department of Defense have, since 1954, been the main basis for according it official status. It is preceded by four ruffles and flourishes when played for the President. The song is also played during a former President's state funeral"
"George Frederick Cooke recited at his benefit in Chester. The accepted tune for the Robert Burns poem ""Comin' Thro' the Rye"" was composed by him. A ballad, ""Bound 'Prentice to a Waterman"", sung in the drama ""Sir Francis Drake"" (1800), was regularly introduced into nautical plays for half a century. Two of Sanderson's ballads were still reprinted in the ""Musical Bouquet"" of 1874. James Sanderson (musician) James Sanderson (1769–c.1841) was an English musician, now remembered as a songwriter. The tune for ""Hail to the Chief"", the presidential anthem of the United States, is attributed to him, taken from a Scottish"
"G. T. Beauregard, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, and Gustavus Woodson Smith at Fairfax Court House (now Fairfax, Virginia) for a Council of War. While at Fairfax, President Davis also conducted a formal Review of the Troops, which numbered some 30,000. At the start of the review, the band of the 1st Virginia Infantry struck up ""Hail to the Chief"" and concluded with ""Dixie"". Lyrics that were written by Albert Gamse are set to James Sanderson's music, but they are rarely sung. The original lyrics, written by Sir Walter Scott, read: Hail to the Chief ""Hail to the Chief"" is the official"
"Hail, America ""Hail, America"" is a regal concert march composed by George Drumm. It is known for its fanfare and trio sections performed during the presidential entrance at state dinners, but is not to be confused with ""Hail to the Chief"", the president's arrival march. It has also been used as the honors music for the President-Elect of the United States. ""Hail, America"" was composed by George Drumm, a German immigrant to the United States, in 1917 and first publicly performed during a concert in New York City the following year. Drumm appears to have composed the march to rebut"
"questions as to his national loyalty after the United States declaration of war on Germany. According to Drumm, he wrote the march while riding the subway between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Dwight Eisenhower preferred ""Hail, America"" to the traditional arrival march ""Hail to the Chief"" and ordered it performed at the 1953 and 1957 inaugurations to introduce him. Beginning with John F. Kennedy, the use of ""Hail to the Chief"" was resumed. The trio section of ""Hail, America"" was performed to introduce then President-Elect Barack Obama during the 2009 U.S. presidential inauguration and, eight years later, to introduce then President-Elect Donald"
"who died in infancy were named John Calvin Stanley (in memory of the protestant reformer) and Ulysses Grant Stanley (in memory of the Union commander and US President). It has been suggested that the names Francis Edgar and Freelan Oscar were drawn from the pages of Sir Walter Scott although Edgar appears to be the only one of their names shared with a character from his works. Scott's ""Marmion"" had special significance to the Stanley brothers, uniting their love of poetry and the arts with pride in their Scottish ancestry. ""On, Stanley, on!"" a battle cry quoted in this poem"
"(1715 lines) in total. The Passioun of Crist The Passioun of Crist, which begins ""Hail, Cristin knycht, haill, etern confortour..."" is a long poem in Middle Scots by the Scottish makar Walter Kennedy, who was associated with the renaissance court of James IV of Scotland. It is Kennedy's longest surviving work and a significant, though historically neglected work of Scottish literature. The poem is not just a narrative of the Passion, but in fact gives an account, in the vernacular, of the life of Christ from the nativity to the resurrection and ascension composed in the courtly rhyme royal stanza."
"a publisher and editor. They published, in Philadelphia, ""The President's March"" in 1793; written by Philip Phile, ""The President's March"" is one of the most enduring of American patriotic songs. The march was soon politicized, adopted by the Federalists as a rallying song. The British James Hewitt was one of the most distinguished musicians of early American history. He was already renowned in London before moving across the Atlantic, accompanied by Belgian composer and violinist Jean Gehot. Hewitt became established in New York, organizing concerts and other musical events. His opera ""Tammany; or, The Indian Chief"" became controversial after its"
"Walter Scott preach; and the couple were abolitionists. Her parents hosted pioneers and luminaries including James A. Garfield. ""Her pen produced upwards of eight hundred hymns, eighty short stories, seven novels, lyrics, and scripts for cantatas, and numerous brief essays and non-fiction articles."" ""Anywhere with Jesus"" is possibly the most well-known of her poems. Some of her poems have been set to a number of musical scores, the most familiar being the tune ""Serenity"" by Daniel B. Towner (1850–1919). Her 1896 poem ""Beautiful Isle"" became the song ""Beautiful Isle of Somewhere"", which was sung at President McKinley's funeral and criticized"
"of the poem describes the thoughts of a lone rider (the speaker), pausing at night in his travel to watch snow falling in the woods. It ends with him reminding himself that, despite the loveliness of the view, ""I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep."" In the early morning of November 23, 1963, Sid Davis of Westinghouse Broadcasting reported the arrival of President John F. Kennedy's casket to the White House. As Frost was one of the President's favorite poets, Davis concluded his report with a passage from this poem but was overcome with"
"is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and a major influence on the Romantic movement. His poem (and song) ""Auld Lang Syne"" is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day of the year), and ""Scots Wha Hae"" served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country. Scott began as a poet and also collected and published Scottish ballads. His first prose work, ""Waverley"" in 1814, is often called the first historical novel. It launched a highly successful career, with other historical novels such as ""Rob Roy"" (1817), ""The Heart of Midlothian"" (1818) and ""Ivanhoe"""
"Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who had participated in the presidential entrance during previous visits to the United States, at the time remarked ""I love coming in to that music"" in reference to ""Hail, America"". Hail, America ""Hail, America"" is a regal concert march composed by George Drumm. It is known for its fanfare and trio sections performed during the presidential entrance at state dinners, but is not to be confused with ""Hail to the Chief"", the president's arrival march. It has also been used as the honors music for the President-Elect of the United States. ""Hail, America"" was composed by"
"the nineteenth century. Above the presiding officer's desk at the rostrum was the press gallery. Here, reporters are able to observe and cover the proceedings of the Senate. Because of the chamber's theater-like qualities and size, numerous requests were made and fulfilled to use the chamber for functions other than that of legislation. In 1863, the chamber was used for a presentation of a narrative poem (""The Sleeping Sentinel"") about a Union Army soldier, William Scott, who had fallen asleep at his post and was sentenced to be shot. Among the audience for the performance was the then-President of the"
"The Passioun of Crist The Passioun of Crist, which begins ""Hail, Cristin knycht, haill, etern confortour..."" is a long poem in Middle Scots by the Scottish makar Walter Kennedy, who was associated with the renaissance court of James IV of Scotland. It is Kennedy's longest surviving work and a significant, though historically neglected work of Scottish literature. The poem is not just a narrative of the Passion, but in fact gives an account, in the vernacular, of the life of Christ from the nativity to the resurrection and ascension composed in the courtly rhyme royal stanza. It has 245 stanzas"
"to pay tribute to him with photo and video reenactments of the ""Dead Poets Society"" ""O Captain! My Captain!"" scene. O Captain! My Captain! ""O Captain! My Captain!"" is an extended metaphor poem written in 1865 by Walt Whitman, about the death of American president Abraham Lincoln. The poem was first published in the pamphlet ""Sequel to Drum-Taps"" which assembled 18 poems regarding the American Civil War, including another Lincoln elegy, ""When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"". It was included in Whitman's comprehensive collection ""Leaves of Grass"" beginning with its fourth edition published in 1867. The poem emphasizes or"
"and journalist Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859). However, at the time, Walter Scott (1771–1832) was the most famous poet. Scott achieved immediate success with his long narrative poem ""The Lay of the Last Minstrel"" in 1805, followed by the full epic poem ""Marmion"" in 1808. Both were set in the distant Scottish past. The early Romantic Poets brought a new emotionalism and introspection, and their emergence is marked by the first romantic manifesto in English literature, the ""Preface"" to ""Lyrical Ballads"" (1798). The poems in ""Lyrical Ballads"" were mostly by Wordsworth, although Coleridge contributed the long ""Rime of the Ancient Mariner""."
"poem is classified as an elegy or mourning poem, and was written to honor Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States. Walt Whitman was born in 1819 and died in 1892, and the American Civil War was the central event of his life. Whitman was a staunch Unionist during the Civil War. He was initially indifferent to Lincoln, but as the war pressed on, Whitman came to love the president, though the two men never met. ""O Captain! My Captain!"" became one of Whitman's most famous poems, one that he would read at the end of his famous"
"in nature, rather than relating directly to operational activities of the army. There also are at least five published collections of Sherman correspondence: The presentation of Sherman in popular culture is now discussed at book-length in ""Sherman's March in Myth and Memory"" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), by Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown. Some of the artistic treatments of Sherman's march are the Civil War era song ""Marching Through Georgia"" by Henry Clay Work; Herman Melville's poem ""The March to the Sea""; Ross McElwee's film ""Sherman's March""; and E. L. Doctorow's novel ""The March"". Sherman is one of the few generals"
"Go visit it by the pale moonlight;"" drew hundreds of tourists to Melrose Abbey. The Lay of the Last Minstrel ""The Lay of the Last Minstrel"" (1805) is a long narrative poem by Walter Scott. (It should not be confused with ""Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border"", also by Walter Scott, compiled three years previously.) Scott had spent considerable time in compiling a collection of traditional ballads. He began ""The Lay of the Last Minstrel"" in 1802 and intended it as part of ""Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border"". Scott was kicked by a horse, while on maneuvers with his cavalry regiment."
"poem, including the flag imagery and some of the wording, is derived from an earlier song by Key, also set to the tune of ""The Anacreontic Song"". The song, known as ""When the Warrior Returns"", was written in honor of Stephen Decatur and Charles Stewart on their return from the First Barbary War. Absent elaboration by Francis Scott Key prior to his death in 1843, some have speculated in modern times about the meaning of phrases or verses. According to British historian Robin Blackburn, the words ""the hireling and slave"" allude to the thousands of ex-slaves in the British ranks"
"spare, grave, free from excessive decoration, and full of firmly controlled feeling."" In the fifteenth edition of ""Bartlett's Familiar Quotations"" (1980), nine sections of ""Ulysses"", comprising 36 of the poem's 70 lines, are quoted, compared to only six in the ninth edition (1891). Many readers have accepted the acclaimed last lines of ""Ulysses"" as inspirational. The poem's ending line has also been used as a motto by schools and other organisations. The final line is inscribed on a cross at Observation Hill, Antarctica, to commemorate explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his party, who died on their return trek from the"
"... and a way was cleared for the President."" Under the term of Harry Truman the Department of Defense made it the official tribute to the President. President Chester A. Arthur did not like the song and asked John Philip Sousa to compose a new song, which was entitled ""Presidential Polonaise"". After Arthur left office, the Marine Band resumed playing ""Hail to the Chief"" for public appearances by the President. During the American Civil War (1861–1865) the same piece was also used to announce the arrival of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. On October 3, 1861, Davis visited with Generals P."
"Hail, Columbia ""Hail, Columbia"" is an American patriotic song that is the ceremonial entrance march of the Vice President of the United States. It was previously considered, with several other songs, one of the unofficial national anthems of the United States until 1931, when ""The Star-Spangled Banner"" was named as the official national anthem. Columbia is the poetic name for the national personification of the United States, which originated during the 18th century. The music was composed by Philip Phile in 1789 for the first inauguration of George Washington and titled ""The President's March."" It became the song ""Hail, Columbia"""
"Harold the Dauntless Harold the Dauntless is a rhymed, romantic, narrative-poem by Sir Walter Scott. The last of his long verse narratives, written in 1817, it weaves together elements of popular English legends and folklore using dramatic themes. The poem recounts the exploits and the personal spiritual journey of a doubtful knight errant - Harold the son of Danish Count Witikind: who seeks to recover his lands and wed a suitable spouse. Scott described it as ""a strange, rude story"". It was largely inspired by the Old Norse sagas, with which his library was well stocked. Cleverly integrated into the"
"President James Garfield, Guiteau announced, after famously dancing his way to the gallows, that he would read a poem that he had written. Guiteau said that he had written the poem, which was entitled ""I am Going to the Lordy"", at about 10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time that day. After ""stubbing his toe on the way to the gallows"", as he put it to the executioner, Guiteau read and announced that he would now read a prayer of his own composition. After paraphrasing , Guiteau proceeded to read the poem from a piece of paper in a style described as"
"series: Other novels: Many of the short poems or songs released by Scott (or later anthologized) were originally not separate pieces but parts of longer poems interspersed throughout his novels, tales, and dramas. Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Famous titles include ""Ivanhoe"", ""Rob Roy"", ""Old Mortality"", ""The Lady of the Lake"", ""Waverley"", ""The Heart of Midlothian"" and ""The Bride of Lammermoor"". Although primarily remembered for his extensive literary"
"Translations and Imitations from German Ballads by Sir Walter Scott Throughout Walter Scott literary career, he imitated and translate poems from German sources. The resulting collection was gradually expanded over successive editions of Scott's poetry until it included seven items, which are introduced below. Each ballad is a narrative poem retelling a popular German fairy-tale: including poignantly dramatic and tragic themes. William - long thought dead - unexpectedly returns at midnight from the crusades to marry his betrothed. Helen - relieved at his return - joyfully agrees, after initial misgivings: follows him on horseback on a wild gallop through the"
"to the garden scene in ""Richard II"". Scott has also read Sir Thomas Wyatt, George Buchanan's Latin plays, ""Gorboduc"", ""The Mirror for Magistrates"", Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Troilus and Criseyde"", Samuel Daniel's ""The Civil Wars"", Michael Drayton's ""Englands Heroical Epistles"", Edmund Spenser's ""Shepheardes Calendar"", ""View of the Present State of Ireland"" and ""Faerie Queene"", and Robert Southwell's ""Saint Peters Complaint"". Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso and Giovanni Batista Guarini are among the continental poets Scott knows. Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas held a special place in Scott's thought. Du Bartas, who was already well known in English literary circles in the 1590s, was"
"In the Clearing In the Clearing is a 1962 poetry collection by Robert Frost. It contains the poem ""For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration"", much of which Frost had composed to be read at President Kennedy's inauguration but which he did not read. The book is also known for ""Kitty Hawk"", the book's longest poem, which muses on the Wright Brothers' accomplishment in manned flight. Invited to recite ""The Gift Outright"" at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, Frost composed a new, prefatory poem that became ""For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration"". At the actual event Frost wasn't able"
"Gertrude of Wyoming Gertrude of Wyoming; A Pennsylvanian Tale (1809) is a romantic epic in Spenserian stanza composed by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell (1777–1844). The poem was well received, but not a financial success for its author. The setting of the poem is the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania and the massacre that occurred there on July 3, 1778. On that day, more than three hundred American Revolutionaries died at the hands of Loyalists and their Iroquois allies. At the time, it was widely believed that the attack was led by Joseph Brant; in the poem, Brant is described as the"
"Boston Hymn ""Boston Hymn"" (full title: ""Boston Hymn, Read in Music Hall, January 1, 1863"") is a poem by the American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson composed the poem in late 1862 and read it publicly in Boston Music Hall on January 1, 1863. It commemorates the Emancipation Proclamation issued earlier that day by President Abraham Lincoln, tying it and the broader campaign for the abolition of slavery to the Puritan notion of sacred destiny for America. In 1861 the American Civil War began, with a number of Southern states rebelling against the United States government (known as"