Stanzas (Henry Jerome Stockard Poems)
She calmly brought his sabre bright,Tempered with death;And, girding him, her all, aright,She spoke with eyes of kindling lightMore than ...
Henry Jerome Stockard Poems (11 Poems)
The Last Charge At Appomattox (Henry Jerome Stockard Poems)
Scarred on a hundred fields before,Naked and starved and travel-sore, Each man a tiger hunted,They stood at bay as brave as ...
Over Their Graves (Henry Jerome Stockard Poems)
OVER their graves rang once the bugle's call, The searching shrapnel and the crashing ball; The shriek, the shock of battle, and ...
The Dreamer (Henry Jerome Stockard Poems)
THE dreamer cried, ((Oh, that it once were mineO build a song that should defy the years-One that should lift ...
The Past (Henry Jerome Stockard Poems)
YE that pine for the vanished years, as pinedOdysseus for one glimpse of Hellas more;That toward them lean, as toward ...
Shakespear (Henry Jerome Stockard Poems)
He heard the Voice that spake, and, unafraid,Beheld at dawning of primeval lightThe systems flame to being, move in flightUnmeasured, ...
As Some Mysterious Wanderer of the Skies (Henry Jerome Stockard Poems)
As some mysterious wanderer of the skies,Emerging from the deeps of outer dark,Traces for once in human ken the arcOf ...
The Closing Century (Henry Jerome Stockard Poems)
AS one who, roused from sleep, hears far awayThe closing strokes of some cathedral bellTolling the hour, strives all in ...
Some Verses Carol (Henry Jerome Stockard Poems)
Some verses carol blithely as a bird,of violet and asphodel;While others slowly strike a funeral bell,Or call like clarionets till, ...
Homer (Henry Jerome Stockard Poems)
That conjuring name doth change the centuries,And the enchanted pagan world restore!Old Triton and the Nereids sport beforePoseidon's chariot storming ...
The Mocking Bird (Henry Jerome Stockard Poems)
The name thou wearest does thee grievous wrong. No mimic thou! That voice is thine alone! The poets sing but strains of ...