Vision of War (Lincoln Colcord Poems)
1.I went out into the night of quiet stars;I looked up at the wheeling heavens, at the mysterious firmament;I thought ...
1.I went out into the night of quiet stars;I looked up at the wheeling heavens, at the mysterious firmament;I thought ...
Of his beauty, or stature, or colour of hair I hadn't the slightest hint,But he comes to me as a little ...
Joy in rebel Plymouth town, in the spring of 'sixty-four,When the Albemarle down on the Yankee frigates bore,With the saucy ...
SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,For thus, friends absent speak. This ease controlsThe tediousness of my life ; but ...
We must suffer, husband and father, we must suffer, daughter and son,For the wrong we have taken part in and ...
Valiant sons of the sea, All the vast deep, your home, Holds no terror so dread As this novel and unseen foe, Lurking under ...
MULTITUDINOUS the cry beating on the smokeveiled sky.Since the first war-wrath burst on immortal Belgium,- Roar of cannon, shriek of ...
ALAS, alas for those blond boys who stalkTheir prey in ambush of the shuddering seas,Whiling the wait with merry, tender ...
No, no, my friend; there is an agony Not to be exorcised out of the world By any ...
When Drake sailed out from Devon to break King Phillip's pride,He had great ships at his bidding and little ones ...
There be poets in plenty have sung in the praiseOf the famous old names out of Old Navy days,Of Victory, ...
His name was Kelly Ingram; he was Alabama's son,And he whistled "Yankee Doodle," as he stood beside his gun;There was ...
Not the encounter of navies in battle array —The roar of salvoes — the smoke-wrack that darkens the day —But ...
We must suffer, husband and father, we must suffer, daughter and son, For the wrong we have taken part in ...
I imagine Nice and topless beaches, women smoking and reading novels in the sun. I pretend I am comfortable undressing ...
Small is the new-born plant scarce seen Amid the soft encircling green, Where yonder budding acorn rears, Just o'er the ...
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