We’ll Go Down Ourselves (Henry Clay Work Poems)
"What shall we do, as years go by,And Peace remains a stranger —With Richmond yet in rebel hands,And Washington in ...
"What shall we do, as years go by,And Peace remains a stranger —With Richmond yet in rebel hands,And Washington in ...
O ye who sail Potomac's even tideTo Vernon's shades, our Chieftain's hallowed mound;Or who at distant shrines high paeans soundIn ...
John Brown in Kansas settled, like a steadfast Yankee farmer, Brave and godly, with four sons, all stalwart men ...
And so to-day--they lay him away-- the boy nobody knows the name of-- the buck private--the unknown soldier-- the doughboy ...
To BEVERLEY TUCKER, ESQUIRE, GREETING: Dear BEV. this greeting goes to you across the Atlantic brine, From the little room ...
Now must the storied Potomac ...
Proud mother of a race that reared The brave and good of ours,Lo! on thy bleeding bosom lie Thy pale ...
All quiet along the Potomac to-night! Except here and there a stray picketIs shot, as he walks on his beat, ...
(RE-UNION, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, 12TH MAY, 1871)Well, you see, the fact is, Colonel, I don't know as I can ...
I myself saw furious with bloodNeoptolemus, at his side the black Atridae,Hecuba and the hundred daughters, PriamCut down, his filth ...
"Must I die so soon? ah, far away By blue Ohio's shore,A little group waits patiently Till this sad war ...
596When I was small, a Woman died-Today-her Only BoyWent up from the Potomac-His face all VictoryTo look at her-How slowlyThe ...
By broad Potomac's silent shoreBetter than Trajan lowly lies,Gilding her green declivitiesWith glory now and evermore; Art to his fame ...
When I was small, a Woman died -- Today -- her Only Boy Went up from the Potomac -- His ...
O Mother Earth! upon thy lap Thy weary ones receiving, And o'er them, silent as a dream, Thy grassy mantle ...
1 BROTHER of all, with generous hand, Of thee, pondering on thee, as o'er thy tomb, I and my Soul, ...
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
1 BY broad Potomac's shore-again, old tongue! (Still uttering-still ejaculating-canst never cease this babble?) Again, old heart so gay-again to ...
Until tonight they were separate specialties, different stories, the best of their own worst. Riding my warm cabin home, I ...
THE DOME of the capitol looks to the Potomac river. Out of haze over the sunset, Out of a smoke ...
ALL the policemen, saloonkeepers and efficiency experts in Toledo knew Bern Dailey; secretary ten years when Whitlock was mayor. Pickpockets, ...
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