Category: Poetry
An attempt has been made in the present collection to gather together the patriotic poems of America, those which depict feelings as well as those which describe actions, since these latter are as indicative of the temper of the time. It is a collection, for the most part, of...
An attempt has been made in the present collection to gather together the patriotic poems of America, those which depict feelings as well as those which describe actions, since...
2. Chapter 2Every woman's heart grew bigger when we saw his manly figure, With the banyan buckled round it, standing up so straight and tall; Like a gentleman of leisure who is strolling ou...
3. Chapter 3Soldier and statesman, rarest unison; High-poised example of great duties done Simply as breathing, a world's honors worn As life's indifferent gifts to all men born; Dumb for h...
4. Chapter 4Then they seized another brave boy,--not amid the heat of battle, But in peace, behind his ploughshare,--and they loaded him with chains, And with pikes, before their horses, ev...
5. Chapter 5By communion of the banner,-- Crimson, white, and starry banner,-- By the baptism of the banner, Children of one Church are we. Creed nor faction can divide us, Race nor languag...
6. Chapter 6Close at his elbows all that day, Veterans of the Peninsula, Sunburnt and bearded, charged away; And striplings, downy of lip and chin,-- Clerks that the Home Guard mustered in,...
7. Chapter 7Then cheer upon cheer for bold Sherman Went up from each valley and glen, And the bugles re-echoed the music That came from the lips of the men; For we knew that the stars in ou...
8. Chapter 8Neutral! We who go forth with sword and lance, A little band to swell the battle's flow, Go willingly, to pay again to France Some of the debt we owe.