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 ...
Ye ancient Maids, who ne'er must proveThe early joys of youth and love,Whose names grim Fate (to whom 'twas given,When ...
Tom Van Arden, my old friend, Our warm fellowship is oneFar too old to comprehend Where its bond was first begun: Mirage-like before ...
Nothing so true as what you once let fall,--"To growl at something is the lot of all;Contentment is a gem ...
Death went upon a solemn dayAt Pluto's hall his court to pay;The phantom having humbly kiss'dHis grisly monarch's sooty fist,Presented ...
By the late W. W. (of H.M. Inland Revenue Service).And is it so? Can Folly stalkAnd aim her unrespecting dartsIn ...
(Written in her sixteenth year.)I dreamed a dream in the midst of my slumbers,And as fast as I dreamed it, ...
THE PRIMRWOSE in the shade do blow,The cowslip in the zun,The thyme upon the down do grow,The clote where streams ...
CHRISTMAS is over, and Christmas cheer;-- What shall we wish you, O reader dear? What do you want for your ...
If ever I marry, I'll marry a maid; To marry a widow, I am sore afraid: ...
Discerning Mr. Murphy sees The dangers of the foolish planOf giving frailty its fees, And taxing weak, misguided man.Reluctantly, and ...
Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse. Said he who ...
What conversazzhyonies wuz I really did not know, For that, you must remember, wuz a powerful spell ago; The camp ...
The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs, Balance-loving nature Made all things in pairs. To every foot its ...
I Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, ...
IN Tarbolton, ye ken, there are proper young men, And proper young lasses and a', man; But ken ye the ...
Ye ancient Maids, who ne'er must prove The early joys of youth and love, Whose names grim Fate (to whom ...
Beneath an old wall, that went round an old Castle, For many a year, with brown ivy o'erspread; A neat ...
Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the ...
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