Category: Poetry
While it has been, in the main, the purpose of the Editor to include in the present collection only such poems as commemorate some signal act of valor historically verified, it has seemed best to widen the scope sufficiently to admit a few selections that must have been exclud...
While it has been, in the main, the purpose of the Editor to include in the present collection only such poems as commemorate some signal act of valor historically verified, it...
2. Part 2’Twas the death-tide of the year; Night had passed its murky noon; Through the bitter atmosphere Pierced nor ray of star nor moon; But upon the bleak earth beat Blinding arrows...
3. Part 3_By the beard of the Prophet the Bashaw swore_ _He would scourge us from the seas;_ _Yankees should trouble his soul no more--_ _By the Prophet’s beard the Bashaw swore._ _Then...
4. Part 4Ebbs and flows the muddy Pei-Ho by the Gulf of Pechi-Li, Idly floats beside the stream the dragon-flag; Past the batteries of China, looking westward still you see Lazy junks al...
5. Part 5Sweet Malvern Hill is wreathed in flame, From serried ranks the steel is gleaming; Our legions march to death and fame, Their battle flags right wildly streaming. Each hero bare...
6. Part 6Rose from the rippling ranks a cheer; Pickett saluted, with bold eyes beaming, Sweeping his hat like a cavalier, With his tawny locks in the warm wind streaming. Fierce little J...
7. Part 7Seasons have passed since that day and year; Again o’er its pebbles the brook runs clear, And the field in a richer green is dressed Where the dead of the terrible conflict rest.
8. Part 8With shot and shell, like a loosened hell, Smiting them left and right, They rise or fall on the sloping wall Of beetling bush and height! They do not shrink at the awful brink...
9. Part 9And this was all the religion he had,-- To treat his engine well; Never be passed on the river; To mind the pilot’s bell; And if ever the _Prairie Belle_ took fire,-- A thousand...
10. Part 10=1. 84.= =Putnam= (Israel, 1718-1790), a Continental major-general, active at Bunker Hill and in various other engagements until stricken by paralysis in 1779. His daring escape...
11. Part 11Monterey is the capital of the Mexican State Nuevo Leon. The famous battle was fought on September 21, 22, and 23, 1846. The place was defended by ten thousand men under General...
12. Part 12George Henry Boker, poet and diplomat, and perhaps best known as the author of the play, “Francesca da Rimini,” was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1823. He was s...
13. Part 13The story, as related in the poem, is in the main true. The church, however, was St. Philip’s (Charleston, South Carolina), an earlier edifice that stood upon the same site as S...