Poems about shenandoah (14 Poems)
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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 the shapes from the mist,Call the dead men out of the mist and watch them ride.Tall the first rider, tall … Continue reading
The Virginia Cadets (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
Shun! dress! shoulder a’ms!Fours right! Forward! March!That was how they kept us at it;Heads up stiff as starch.We were Virginia boys, three hundred,In Virginia’s military school.The war was raging North and South,And how could we fiery lads keep cool?For we … Continue reading
Stonewall Jackson (Ascribed To A Virginian) (Herman Melville Poems)
One man we claim of wrought reknown Which not the North shall care to slur;A Modern lived who sleeps in death, Calm as the marble Ancients are: ‘Tis he whose life, though a vapor’s wreath, Was charged with the lightning’s burning breath — Stonewall, stormer … Continue reading
A Georgia Volunteer (Mary Ashley Townsend Poems)
Far up the lonely mountain-sideMy wandering footsteps led;The moss lay thick beneath my feet,The pine sighed overhead.The trace of a dismantled fortLay in the forest nave,And in the shadow near my pathI saw a soldier’s grave. The bramble wrestled with … Continue reading
I Fights Mit Sigel (Grant P Robinson Poems)
I met him again, he was trudging along, His knapsack with chickens was swelling;He’d “Blenkered” these dainties, and thought it no wrong, From some secessionist’s dwelling.“What regiment’s yours? and under whose flag Do you fight?” said I, touching his shoulder;Turning slowly around, he … Continue reading
Tell Me (Jean Toomer Poems)
Tell me, dear beauty of the dusk,When purple ribbons bind the hill,Do dreams your secret wish fulfill,Do prayers, like kernels from the huskCome from your lips? Tell me if whenThe mountains loom at night, giant shadesOf softer shadow, swift like … Continue reading
Lee In The Mountains (Donald Grady Davidson Poems)
Walking into the shadows, walking aloneWhere the sun falls through the ruined boughs of locustUp to the president’s office. . . . … Continue reading
The Trip I Would Like to Take (Frank Barbour Coffin Poems)
Man has a curious appetite, He’s all the time wishing to go; And if he had the wings of a kite, He’d travel this wide world o’er. Sometime I’d like to go away, Far over the Rocky Mountains; Where the … Continue reading
Virginia’s Dead (Cornelia Jane Matthews Jordan Poems)
Proud mother of a race that reared The brave and good of ours,Lo! on thy bleeding bosom lie Thy pale and perished flowers.Where’er upon her own bright soil Hosts meet their blood to shed—Where brightly gleams the victor’s sword, There … Continue reading
Shenandoah (Anonymous Americas Poems)
Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you, Away you rolling river, Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you, Away, I’m bound away ‘Cross the wide Missouri. Oh Shenandoah, I … Continue reading
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