Book
Old Ironsides
- Published
- 2012
- Genre
- Poetry
- URL
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46547/old-ironsides
Reading measures
- Lexile code
- NP — non-prose
Old Ironsides is a poem written by American writer Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on September 16, 1830, as a tribute to the 18th-century USS Constitution. The poem was one reason that the frigate was saved from being decommissioned, and it is now the oldest commissioned ship in the world that is still afloat.
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