Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRESENTATION TO AUTHORITIES BY PRIVATES, OF COLORS CAPTURED, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These flags of armies overthrown Last Line: To waiting homes with vindicated laws. Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History | ||||||||
These flags of armies overthrown -- Flags fallen beneath the sovereign one In end foredoomed which closes war; We here, the captors, lay before The altar which of right claims all -- Our Country. And as freely we, Revering ever her sacred call, Could lay our lives down -- though life be Thrice loved and precious to the sense Of such as reap the recompense Of life imperiled for just cause -- Imperiled, and yet preserved; While comrades, whom Duty as strongly nerved, Whose wives were all as dear, lie low. But these flags given, glad we go To waiting homes with vindicated laws. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OLD OSAWATOMIE by CARL SANDBURG THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG by HARRY MACARTHY LEE'S PAROLE by MARION MANVILLE THE SURRENDER OF NEW ORLEANS by MARION MANVILLE THE LITTLE ODYSSEY OF JASON QUINT, OF SCIENCE, DOCTOR by THOMAS MCGRATH A CANTICLE: SIGNIFICANT OF NATIONAL EXALTATION CLOSE OF WAR by HERMAN MELVILLE A GRAVE NEAR PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA by HERMAN MELVILLE FORMERLY A SLAVE' (AN IDEALIZED PORTRAIT, BY E. VEDDER) by HERMAN MELVILLE THE COMING STORM' (A PICTURE BY R. S. GIFFORD) by HERMAN MELVILLE A DIRGE FOR MCPHERSON; KILLED IN FRONT OF ATLANTA by HERMAN MELVILLE |
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