America
I Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand I saw a Banner in gladsome air- Starry, like Berenice’s Hair- […]
I Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand I saw a Banner in gladsome air- Starry, like Berenice’s Hair- […]
Healed of my hurt, I laud the inhuman Sea Yea, bless the Angels Four that there convene; For healed I […]
“Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him” Shall hearts that beat no base retreat In youth’s magnanimous […]
In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What […]
Children of my happier prime, When One yet lived with me, and threw Her rainbow over life and time, Even […]
Ye elms that wave on Malvern Hill In prime of morn and May, Recall ye how McClellan’s men Here stood […]
One that I cherished, Yea, loved as a son – Up early, up late with, My promising one: No use […]
The grass shall never forget this grave. When homeward footing it in the sun After the weary ride by rail, […]
When ocean-clouds over inland hills Sweep storming in late autumn brown, And horror the sodden valley fills, And the spire […]
O Pride of the days in prime of the months Now trebled in great renown, When before the ark of […]
About the Shark, phlegmatical one, Pale sot of the Maldive sea, The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim, How alert […]
Hanging from the beam, Slowly swaying (such the law), Gaunt the shadow on the green, Shenandoah! The cut is on […]
A Requiem Skimming lightly, wheeling still, The swallows fly low Over the fields in cloudy days, The forest-field of Shiloh […]
(November, 1863) A kindling impulse seized the host Inspired by heaven’s elastic air; Their hearts outran their General’s plan, Though […]