Army Of Northern Virginia (Stephen Vincent Benet Poems)
Army of Northern Virginia, army of legend,Who were your captains that you could trust them so surely?Who were your battle-flags?Call ...
Army of Northern Virginia, army of legend,Who were your captains that you could trust them so surely?Who were your battle-flags?Call ...
The little letters dance across the page,Flaunt and retire, and trick the tired eyes;Sick of the strain, the glaring light, ...
I lie stretched out upon the window-seatAnd doze, and read a page or two, and doze,And feel the air like ...
Black trees against an orange sky, Trees that the wind shook terribly, Like a harsh spume along the road, Quavering ...
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, ...
"But, sir," I said, "they tell me the man is like to die!" The Canon shook his head indulgently. "Young ...
"Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?" -- Browning. "Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then," The old man ...
Eternally the choking steam goes up From the black pools of seething oil. . . . How merry Those little ...
I shall go away To the brown hills, the quiet ones, The vast, the mountainous, the rolling, Sun-fired and drowsy! ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
Perhaps we go with wind and cloud and sun, Into the free companionship of air; Perhaps with sunsets when the ...
There is darkness behind the light -- and the pale light drips Cold on vague shapes and figures, that, half-seen ...
I lie stretched out upon the window-seat And doze, and read a page or two, and doze, And feel the ...
The little letters dance across the page, Flaunt and retire, and trick the tired eyes; Sick of the strain, the ...
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