Army Of Northern Virginia (Stephen Vincent Benet Poems)
Army of Northern Virginia, army of legend,Who were your captains that you could trust them so surely?Who were your battle-flags?Call ...
Army of Northern Virginia, army of legend,Who were your captains that you could trust them so surely?Who were your battle-flags?Call ...
My mind's a map. A mad sea-captain drew itUnder a flowing moon until he knew it;Winds with brass trumpets, puffy-cheeked ...
All night they marched, the infantrymen under pack,But the hands gripping the rifles were naked boneAnd the hollow pits of ...
'The College will reopen Sept. -.'`Catalogue'.I was just aiming at the jagged holeTorn in the yellow sandbags of their trench,When ...
Tobacco smoke drifts up to the dim ceilingFrom half a dozen pipes and cigarettes,Curling in endless shapes, in blue rings ...
The little letters dance across the page,Flaunt and retire, and trick the tired eyes;Sick of the strain, the glaring light, ...
I lie stretched out upon the window-seatAnd doze, and read a page or two, and doze,And feel the air like ...
Black trees against an orange sky, Trees that the wind shook terribly, Like a harsh spume along the road, Quavering ...
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, ...
"But, sir," I said, "they tell me the man is like to die!" The Canon shook his head indulgently. "Young ...
Gods, what a black, fierce day! The clouds were iron, Wrenched to strange, rugged shapes; the red sun winked Over ...
(A Virginia Legend.) The Planting of the Hemp. Captain Hawk scourged clean the seas (Black is the gap below the ...
(A Pharaoh Speaks.) I said, "Why should a pyramid Stand always dully on its base? I'll change it! Let the ...
Eternally the choking steam goes up From the black pools of seething oil. . . . How merry Those little ...
"Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?" -- Browning. "Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then," The old man ...
I shall go away To the brown hills, the quiet ones, The vast, the mountainous, the rolling, Sun-fired and drowsy! ...
Tobacco smoke drifts up to the dim ceiling From half a dozen pipes and cigarettes, Curling in endless shapes, in ...
It was not when temptation came, Swiftly and blastingly as flame, And seared me white with burning scars; When I ...
The grey gulls drift across the bay Softly and still as flakes of snow Against the thinning fog. All day ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
Perhaps we go with wind and cloud and sun, Into the free companionship of air; Perhaps with sunsets when the ...
Well, I was tired of life; the silly folk, The tiresome noises, all the common things I loved once, crushed ...
He lay within a warm, soft world Of motion. Colors bloomed and fled, Maroon and turquoise, saffron, red, Wave upon ...
After the whipping he crawled into bed, Accepting the harsh fact with no great weeping. How funny uncle's hat had ...
The last pose flickered, failed. The screen's dead white Glared in a sudden flooding of harsh light Stabbing the eyes; ...
The boat ploughed on. Now Alcatraz was past And all the grey waves flamed to red again At the dead ...
There were not many at that lonely place, Where two scourged hills met in a little plain. The wind cried ...
There is darkness behind the light -- and the pale light drips Cold on vague shapes and figures, that, half-seen ...
I lie stretched out upon the window-seat And doze, and read a page or two, and doze, And feel the ...
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