Gettysburg: A Battle Ode (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
IVictors, living, with laureled brow,And you that sleep beneath the sward!Your song was poured from cannon throats:It rang in deep-tongued ...
IVictors, living, with laureled brow,And you that sleep beneath the sward!Your song was poured from cannon throats:It rang in deep-tongued ...
The lull of the Winter is over; and Spring Comes back, as delicious and buoyant a thing, As airy, and fairy, and ...
A Parliamentary Debate.All ye who with credulity the whispers hear of fancy,Or yet pursue with eagerness hope's wild extravagancy,Who dream ...
The sun had set;The leaves with dew were wet:Down fell a bloody duskOn the woods, that second day of May,Where ...
When tempest winnowed grain from bran;And men were looking for a man,Authority called you to the van, McClellan:Along the line the ...
One man we claim of wrought reknown Which not the North shall care to slur;A Modern lived who sleeps in death, Calm ...
Far up the lonely mountain-sideMy wandering footsteps led;The moss lay thick beneath my feet,The pine sighed overhead.The trace of a ...
Day after day our way has been O'er many a hill and hollow;Through marsh and bog, by wood and glen — Where ...
We are gathered here a feeble few Of those who wore the gray—The larger and the better part Have mingled with the ...
WHEN the land' s martyr, mid her tears,Outbreathed his latest breath,The discord of long, festering years,Lay also dumb in death:Our ...
Says Stonewall Jackson to "Little Phil": "Phil, have you heard the news?Why, our 'Joe' Wheeler — 'Fighting Joe' — has ...
_A plea against the vindictive cry raised by civiliansshortly after the surrender at Appomattox_The color-bearers facing deathWhite in the whirling ...
Mortally Wounded at ChancellorsvilleThe Man who fiercest charged in fight, Whose sword and prayer were long — Stonewall! Even him who stoutly stood ...
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Defiant in the cannon's mouth, ...
Row after row with strict impunityThe headstones yield their names to the element,The wind whirs without recollection;In the riven troughs ...
Gather the sacred dust Of the warriors tried and true,Who bore the flag of a Nation's trustAnd fell in a ...
The Old Soldier Speaks.I fought under Lee and Stonewall,And I hated a Yankee like sin,But gimme my uniform, sergeant,I'm going ...
At the far end of the manicured lawn, the field really, rolling up toward the horizon line, up above the ...
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Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn, The clustered spires of Frederick stand Green-walled ...
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