Ode II (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WITH bayonets slanted in the glittering light,With solemn ...
WITH bayonets slanted in the glittering light,With solemn ...
THEY declare that I'm gracefully pretty,The very best waltzer that whirls;They say I am sparkling and witty,The pearl, the queen ...
THE maimed and broken warrior lay,By his last foeman brought to bay.No sounds of battlefield were there--The drum's deep bass, ...
WHEN the war-drums beat and the trumpets blare,When banners flaunt in the stormy air,When at thought of the deeds that ...
MORTALS there are who seem, all over, flame,Vitalized radiance, keen, intense, and high,Whose souls, like planets in it dominant sky,Burn ...
MY father! in the vague, mysterious past,My boyish thoughts have wandered o'er and o'er,To thy lone grave upon a distant ...
O CHRISTIAN soldier! shouldst thou rueLife and its toils, as others do--Wear a sad frown from day to day,And garb ...
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