The Old Flag (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Have ye heard of Fort Donelson's desperate fight,Where the giant Northwest bared his arm for the right,Where thousands so bravely ...
Have ye heard of Fort Donelson's desperate fight,Where the giant Northwest bared his arm for the right,Where thousands so bravely ...
Into the west the day goes down, Smiling and fading into the night,Is it a cross, or is it a crown I ...
Dead Petra in her hill-tomb sleeps,Her stones of emptiness remain;Around her sculptured mystery sweepsThe lonely waste of Edom's plain.From the ...
_A plea against the vindictive cry raised by civiliansshortly after the surrender at Appomattox_The color-bearers facing deathWhite in the whirling ...
When all the sky was wild and dark,When every heart was wrung with fear,He rose serene, and took his place,The ...
Written on Board the Medway, in the South Seas.THE sun had gone down, and his last feeble rayOn the high ...
Skimming lightly, wheeling still,The swallows fly lowOver the field in clouded days,The forest-field of Shiloh —Over the field where April ...
Sleep softly in your ocean bed,You who could grandly die !Our fathers, who at Shiloh bled,Accept your company.O sons of ...
"COME a little nearer, Doctor,-thank you,-let me take the cup: Draw your chair up,-draw it closer,-just another little sup! May ...
(To have been read before the statue of Lafayette and Washington inParis, on Decoration Day, May 30, 1916.) Ay, it ...
The women who went to the field, you say,The women who went to the field; and prayWhat did they go ...
Row after row with strict impunityThe headstones yield their names to the element,The wind whirs without recollection;In the riven troughs ...
From the wide miles of autumn corn, Here to this sun-lit hill, The wind wails for a hope forlorn, And ...
As his bark dashed away on the night-shrouded deep, And out towards the South he was gazing,First there passed ...
Many years have passed since Shiloh Day.Who are left of that gallant throng?Not many and their locks are gray.Their memories ...
The Old Soldier Speaks.I fought under Lee and Stonewall,And I hated a Yankee like sin,But gimme my uniform, sergeant,I'm going ...
We are children of the sun, Rising sun!Weaving Southern destiny,Waiting for the mighty hourWhen our Shiloh shall appearWith the flaming ...
The marching armies of the past Along our Southern plains,Are sleeping now in quiet rest Beneath the Southern ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
I Ay, it is fitting on this holiday, Commemorative of our soldier dead, When -- with sweet flowers of our ...
A Requiem Skimming lightly, wheeling still, The swallows fly low Over the fields in cloudy days, The forest-field of Shiloh ...
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