For the Union Dead (Robert Lowell Poem)
"Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam." The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows ...
"Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam." The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows ...
After the burial-parties leave And the baffled kites have fled; The wise hyaenas come out at eve To take account ...
South of the Line, inland from far Durban, A mouldering soldier lies--your countryman. Awry and doubled up are his gray ...
To Jenny came a gentle youth From inland leazes lone; His love was fresh as apple-blooth By Parrett, Yeo, or ...
We may not carry scars from beatings from proclaiming the good news of Christ Unlike Paul many journey onward only ...
The little French doll was a dear little doll Tricked out in the sweetest of dresses; Her eyes were of ...
There once was a bird that lived up in a tree, And all he could whistle was "Fiddle-dee-dee" - A ...
While Monarchs in stern Battle strove For proud Imperial Sway; Abandon'd to his milder Love, Within a silent peaceful Grove, ...
Henry the first, surnamed " Beauclare," Lost his only son William at sea, So when Henry died it were hard ...
You were never told, Mother, how old Illyawas drunk That last holiday, for five days and nights He stumbled through ...
Who never lost, are unprepared A Coronet to find! Who never thirsted Flagons, and Cooling Tamarind! Who never climbed the ...
My friend attacks my friend! Oh Battle picturesque! Then I turn Soldier too, And he turns Satirist! How martial is ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
She looks out in the blue morning and sees a whole wonderful world she looks out in the morning and ...
O English mother, in the ruddy glow Hugging your baby closer when outside You see the silent, soft, and cruel ...
Memorial day for the war dead. Add now the grief of all your losses to their grief, even of a ...
NO churchman am I for to rail and to write, No statesman nor soldier to plot or to fight, No ...
RecitativoWHEN lyart leaves bestrow the yird, Or wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas' blast; When hailstanes drive wi' bitter ...
And yet, because thou overcomest so, Because thou art more noble and like a king, Thou canst prevail against my ...
We see it each day in the paper, And know that there's mischief in store; That some unprofessional caper Has ...
With eyes that searched in the dark, Peering along the line, Stood the grim Scotsman, Hector Clark, Driver of "Forty-nine". ...
Morgan the drover explained, As he drank from his battered quart-pot, Many a slut I have trained; This is the ...
A pathetic tale of the sea I will unfold, Enough to make one's blood run cold; Concerning four fishermen cast ...
Ye sons of Mars, come join with me, And sing in praise of Sir Herbert Stewart's little army, That made ...
After seeing at Boston the statue of Robert Gould Shaw, killed while storming Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, at the ...
When Fort Sumter fell and the war came I cried out in bitterness of soul: "O glorious republic now no ...
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...
We were smoking some of this knockout weed when Operation Memory was announced. To his separate bed Each soldier went, ...
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