The Nation’s Loss (Jacob Rhodes Poems)
President Lincoln, he has died,And gone to swell the upper tide;He on the earth will move on more-He's landed on ...
Poems about sumter (21 Poems)
At Fredericksburg-Dec. 13, 1862 (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
GOD send us peace, and keep red strife away;But should it come, God send us men and steel!The land is ...
Expostulation (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
OUR fellow-countrymen in chains!Slaves, in a land of light and law!Slaves, crouching on the very plainsWhere rolled the storm of ...
Carolina (Henry Timrod Poems)
IThe despot treads thy sacred sands,Thy pines give shelter to his bands,Thy sons stand by with idle hands, Carolina!He breathes at ...
Kyng Coten (Laurence Minot Poems)
A 'DARK' CONCEIT.O muse! that did me somedeal favour erst, Whereas I piped my silly oaten reede, And songs in homely guise ...
Voyage Of The Good Ship Union (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
1862'T is midnight: through my troubled dreamLoud wails the tempest's cry;Before the gale, with tattered sail,A ship goes plunging by.What ...
The Lost Occasion (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Some die too late and some too soon,At early morning, heat of noon,Or the chill evening twilight. Thou,Whom the rich ...
Ode– (William Gilmore Simms Poems)
IDo ye quail but to hear, Carolinians,The first foot-tramp of Tyranny's minions?Have ye buckled on armor, and brandished the spear,But ...
Lines On General Robert Edward Lee (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
Si veris magna paraturFama bonis, et se successu nuda remotoInspicitur virtus, quicquid laudamus in ulloMajorum, ortuna fuit.- LucanWhilst martial echoes ...
Tecumseh’s Reveille (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
Thou didst write these words with thine own hand"Remind me early in MayOf my promise to be with our boys ...
Fort Wagner (William Gilmore Simms Poems)
I.Glory unto the gallant boys who stoodAt Wagner, and, unflinching, sought the van;Dealing fierce blows, and shedding precious blood,For homes ...
Battle Of Charleston Harbor, April 7, 1863 (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
TWO hours, or more, beyond the prime of a blithe April day,The Northmen's mailed "Invincibles" steamed up fair Charleston Bay;They ...
Union Of The Blue And Gray (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE Blue is marching south once more,With serried steel and stately tread;Their martial music pealed before,Their flag of stars flashed ...
Gone To The War (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
My Charlie has gone to the war, My Charlie so brave and tall;He left his plough in the furrow, And flew at ...
Ripley (Henry Timrod Poems)
Rich in red honors, that upon him lieAs lightly as the Summer dewsFall where he won his fame beneath the ...
Ye Batteries Of Beauregard (James R Barrick Poems)
Ye batteries of Beauregard!Pour hail from Moultrie's wall;Bid the shock of your deep thunderOn their fleet in terror fall;Rain your ...
After Election (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE day's sharp strife is ended now,Our work is done, God knoweth how!As on the thronged, unrestful townThe patience of ...
II. Elliott In Fort Sumter (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AND high amongst these chiefs of iron grain,Large-statured natures, souls of Spartan mien,Superbly brave, inflexibly serene,Man of the, stalwart hope, ...
The Last Crew (DuBose Heyward Poems)
I Spring found us early that eventful year, Seeming to know in her clairvoyant way The bitterness ...
Lines (Epes Sargent Poems)
Ignoble hate, defeating its own ends!The act that meant dishonor, working glory!Could any mausoleum built by handsLift his sweet memory ...
Jacob Goodpasture (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
When Fort Sumter fell and the war came I cried out in bitterness of soul: "O glorious republic now no ...