The Feast Of The Virgins – The Feast Of The Virgins (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
The sun sails high in his azure realms;Beneath the arch of the breezy elmsThe feast is spread by the murmuring ...
Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems on God (26 Poems)
Men (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Man is a creature of a thousand whims;The slave of hope and fear and circumstance.Through toil and martyrdom a million ...
The Feast Of The Virgins – The Giant’s Dance (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
The night-sun sails in his gold canoe,The spirits walk in the realms of airWith their glowing faces and flaming hair,And ...
Winona – In Camp (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
With sable wings wide o'er the land night sprinkles the dew of the heavens;And hard by the dark river's strand, in the ...
Winona – Winona And Ta-Te-Psin (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
'Tis the moon of the sere, falling leaves. From the heads of the maples the west-windPlucks the red-and-gold plumage and grieves on ...
New Year’s Address-January 1, 1866 (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Good morning--good morning--a happy new year!We greet you, kind friends of the old _Pioneer_;Hope your coffee is good and your ...
The Legend Of The Falls (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
On the Spirit-Island sitting under midnight's misty moon,Lo I see the spirits flitting o'er the waters one by one!Slumber wraps the ...
Winona – The Wakan-Wacepee, Or Sacred Dance (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Lo the lights in the _"Teepee-Wakan!"_ 'tis the night of the _Wakan Wacepee_.Round and round walks the chief of the clan, as ...
Daniel (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Down into the darkness at last, Daniel,--down into the darkness at last;Laid in ...
Gettysburg: Charge Of The First Minnesota (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
[Written for and read at the Camp Fire of the G.A.R. Department ofMinnesota, National Encampment of the Grand Army of ...
The Reign Of Reason (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
The day of truth is dawning. I beholdO'er darksome hills the trailing robes of goldAnd silent footsteps of the gladsome ...
Pauline – Part I – Introduction (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Fair morning sat upon the mountain-top,Night skulking crept into the mountain-chasm.The silent ships slept in the silent bay;One broad blue ...
Address To The Flag (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Float in the winds of heaven, O tattered Flag!Emblem of hope to all the misruled world:Thy ...
Mauley (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
THE BRAVE FERRY-MAN[NOTE.--The great Sioux massacre in Minnesota commenced at the Agencyvillage, on the Minnesota River, early in the morning ...
Fame (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Dust of the desert are thy walls And temple-towers, O Babylon!O'er crumbled halls the lizard crawls, And serpents bask in blaze of ...
Spring (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Delightful harbinger of joys to come, Of summer's verdure and a fruitful year,Who bids thee o'er our northern snow-fields roam, And make ...
Lines (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
On the death of Captain Hiram A. Coats, my old schoolmate and friend.Dead? or is it a dream--Only the voice ...
Charge Of “The Black-Horse” (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Our columns are broken, defeated, and fled;We are gathered, a few from the flying and dead,Where ...
The Old Flag (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Have ye heard of Fort Donelson's desperate fight,Where the giant Northwest bared his arm for the right,Where thousands so bravely ...
Dust To Dust (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Dust to dust:Fall and perish love and lust: Life is one brief autumn day; Sin and sorrow haunt the way To the narrow ...
The Minstrel (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
"What hear I at the gateway ringing?What bard upon the ...
Do They Think Of Us? (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Do they think of us, say--in the far distant West--On the Prairies of ...
A Million More (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
The nation calls aloud again,For Freedom wounded writhes in pain.Gird on your armor, Northern men;Drop scythe and sickle, square ...
Charity (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Frail are the best of us, brothers-- God's charity cover us all--Yet we ask for perfection in others, And scoff when they ...
Anthem (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Spirit of Liberty, Wake in the Land!Sons of our Forefathers, Raise the strong hand!Burn in each heart anew Liberty's fires;Wave the old Flag ...
On Reading President Lincoln’s Letter (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
To Horace Greeley, of date Aug. 22, 1862--"If I could save the Unionwithout freeing any slave, I would do it," ...