Old Ironsides (Holmes)
Appearance
For works with similar titles, see Old Ironsides.
- "Old Ironsides" in The Riverside song book, 1893.
- "Old Ironsides" in Poems That Every Child Should Know, 1904.
Written on September 16, 1830, as a tribute to the frigate USS Constitution. Thanks in part to the poem, it was saved from being decommissioned, and is now the oldest commissioned warship in the world still afloat.