jefferson (21 Poems)
To Joseph Jefferson (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
May 4th, 1898.-To-day, fishing down the Swiftwater, I found Joseph Jefferson on a big rock in the middle of the brook, casting the fly for trout. He said he had fished this very stream three-and-forty years ago; and near by, … Continue reading
Rape Of Florida: Canto III (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
On Tampa’s hights gray rose the battlements:A summer’s day had gone out in the west;The conflagration in the elementsWas ended, and the quiet shades of restSank like a dreamer’s visions on the breastOf far reposing nature. Soft the hourWas, brooding … Continue reading
The Spooniad (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but unfortunately did not live to complete even the first book. The fragment was found among his papers by William Marion … Continue reading
Jefferson’s Daughter (Anonymous Americas Poems)
It is asserted, on the authority of an American Newspaper, that thedaughter of Thomas Jefferson, late President of the United States, wassold at New Orleans for $1,000.—Morning Chronicle. Can the blood that, at Lexington, poured o’er the plain,When the sons … Continue reading
Rebecca Wasson (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Spring and Summer, Fall and Winter and Spring,After each other drifting, past my window drifting!And I lay so many years watching them drift and countingThe years till a terror came in my heart at times,With the feeling that I had … Continue reading
Requiescat (Edwin Carty Ranck Poems)
(Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the President of the Southern Confederacy died October 16, 1906.) Oh weep fair South, and bow thy head For one is gone beyond recall! Cast flowers on the sainted … Continue reading
Accomplished (Carl Sandburg Poems)
Every year Emily Dickinson sent one friendthe first arbutus bud in her garden. In a last will and testament Andrew Jacksonremembered a friend with the gift of GeorgeWashington’s pocket spy-glass. Napoleon too, in a last testament, mentioned a silverwatch taken … Continue reading
O’Dowd Of The Jefferson Club (Edwin Carty Ranck Poems)
A maddened horse comes down the street, With waving mane and flying feet. The crowd scatters in every direction; It looks like a fight at a city election. A big policeman waves his hands, … Continue reading
Elegy (Allen Tate Poems)
Jefferson Davis: 1808-1889 No more the white refulgent streets.Never the dry hollows of the mindShall he in fine courtesy walkAgain, for death is not unkind. A civil war cast on his fame,The four years’ odium of strifeUnbodies his dust; love … Continue reading
Judge Selah Lively (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Suppose you stood just five feet two,And had worked your way as a grocery clerk,Studying law by candle lightUntil you became an attorney at law?And then suppose through your diligence,And regular church attendance,You became attorney for Thomas Rhodes,Collecting notes and … Continue reading