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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BATTLE BALLAD TO GENERAL J.E. JOHNSTON, by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A summer sunday morning
Last Line: The life-blood of the brave.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; Johnston, Joseph E. (1807-1891); United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of


A CRY TO ARMS, by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! Woodsmen of the mountain side!
Last Line: And for the lily's sake!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy


A DIRGE FOR MCPHERSON; KILLED IN FRONT OF ATLANTA, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arms reversed and banners craped
Last Line: Sarpedon of the mighty war.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Atlanta Campaign (1864); Funerals; Mcpherson, James Birdseye (1828-1864); United States - History; Burials


A NAMELESS GRAVE; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A soldier of the union mustered out'
Last Line: And I can give thee nothing in return.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


A REQUIEM FOR SOLDIERS LOST IN OCEAN TRANSPORTS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When, after storms that woodlands rue
Last Line: Round the lone spar where mid-sea surges pour.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Soldiers; United States - History


A SECOND REVIEW OF THE GRAND ARMY [MAY 24, 1865], by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I read last night of the grand review
Last Line: Awakened me from my slumber.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Declaration Day


A TENT SCENE, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our generals sat in their tent one night
Last Line: "will be dislodged at morn!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History


A UTILITARIAN VIEW OF THE MONITOR'S FIGHT, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse
Last Line: And a singe runs through lace and feather.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Monitor (ship); Sea Battles; United States - History; Naval Warfare


A VISIT TO GETTYSBURG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will / touch stone
Subject(s): American Civil War; Blood; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of


A VOICE OF THE LOYAL NORTH, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sing 'our country's' song tonight
Last Line: God keep us all! Amen!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Classmates; United States - History; Schoolmates


A VOICE PROPHETIC, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice
Last Line: Nay, nor the world, nor any living thing, will so cohere.)
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Patriotism; United States - History


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr. Stone
Last Line: The curtain falls
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1), by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not as when some great captain falls
Last Line: Of that paternal soul.
Variant Title(s): An Horatian Ode;abraham Lincoln: An Horation Ode
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; United States - History


ACROSS THE LONG DARK BORDER, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My sister and I learned about our first war
Last Line: War between the states.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Divorce; Novels & Novelists; United States - History


AFTER SPOTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE, by DAVID FERRY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I read the brown sentences of my great-grandfather
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON [APRIL 6, 1862], by KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear again the tread of war go thundering through the land
Last Line: One heart, one hope, one destiny, one flag from sea to sea.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Johnston, Albert Sidney (1803-1862); Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


AN ANTE-BELLUM SERMON, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: We is gathered hyeah, my brothahs
Last Line: Huh uh! Chillun, let us pray!
Subject(s): African Americans; American Civil War; Freedom; United States - History; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty


AN ARCTIC VISION [JUNE 20, 1867], by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the short-legged esquimaux
Last Line: See the real magician's hammer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Alaska Purchase (1867); United States - History


AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With its cloud of skirmishers in advance
Last Line: As the army corps advances.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


AN OLD BATTLE-FIELD, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The softest whisperings of the scented south
Last Line: Dream of the battle and an unmarked grave!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History


AN UNINSCRIBED MONUMENT - BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silence and solitude may hint
Last Line: Silent as I, and lonesome as the land.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864)


ARMY CORRESPONDENT'S LAST RIDE; FIVE FORKS, APRIL 1, 1865, by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! Pony. Down the lonely road
Last Line: And took the first despatch!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; War; Declaration Day


ARMY HYMN, by FREDERIC DENISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O thou enthroned above the skies
Last Line: And spread abroad thy grace.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History


ARMY HYMN; 'OLD HUNDRED', by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O lord of hosts! Almighty king!
Last Line: Join our loud anthem, praise to thee!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Prayer; United States - History


AT FREDERICKSBURG [DECEMBER 13, 1862], by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God send us peace, and keep red strife away
Last Line: No matter what birth or what race or what creed.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


AT MAGNOLIA CEMETERY, by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep sweetly in your humble graves
Last Line: By mourning beauty crowned!
Variant Title(s): Ode Sung On The Occasion Of Decorating The Graves - Charleston;decoration Day At Charleston;magnolia Cemetery Ode;ode For Decoration Day;hymn For Memorial Day;ode On Decorating The Graves;magnolia Cemetery;lines;ode At Magnolia Cemetery;ode Sung At Magnolia Cemetery
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Charleston, South Carolina; Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; United States - History; Graveyards; Confederacy


AT PORT ROYAL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tent-lights glimmer on the land
Last Line: Their broken saxon words.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Port Royal, Battle Of (1861); United States - History


AT THE CANNON'S MOUTH, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Palely intent, he urged his keel
Last Line: The star ascended in his nativity.
Subject(s): Albemarle (ship); American Civil War; Cushing, William Barker (1842-1874); United States - History


BALL'S BLUFF; A REVERIE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One noonday, at my window in the town
Last Line: Far footfalls died away till none were left.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Ball's Bluff, Battle Of; United States - History; United States; War; America


BARBARA FRIETCHIE [SEPTEMBER 13, 1862], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the meadows rich with corn
Last Line: On thy stars below in frederick town!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Courage; Flags - United States; Frietschie, Barbara (1766-1862); Maryland; Patriotism; United States - History; United States; Valor; Bravery; American Flag; Fritchie, Barbara (1766-1862); America


BATTLE BUNNY; MALVERN HILL, 1864, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bunny, lying in the grass
Last Line: Twixt a rabbit's god and man's.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Rabbits; United States - History; Hares


BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord
Last Line: While god is marching on.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Freedom; Patriotism; Religion; United States - History; United States; War; Liberty; Theology; America


BATTLE OF SOMERSET, by CORNELIUS C. CULLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I gazed, and lo! Afar and near
Last Line: And cease this bloody strife.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Somerset, Kentucky, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


BAY BILLY, by FRANK HARRISON GASSAWAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You may talk of horses of renown
Last Line: "the whole line answered, ""here!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Derrick Dogg
Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Horses; United States - History; War


BAYARD TAYLOR, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In other years - lost youth's enchanted years
Last Line: Ay, he will come! To us he is not dead.
Subject(s): Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878); United States - History


BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beat! Beat! Drums! - blow! Bugles! Blow / through the windows - through doors
Last Line: So strong you thump o terrible drums -- so loud you bugles blow.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


BEAUREGARD, by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our trust is now in thee
Last Line: Beauregard!
Alternate Author Name(s): Warfield, Catherine M.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauregard, Pierre Gustave T. (1818-93); Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Confederacy


BEAUREGARD'S APPEAL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yea! Since the need is bitter
Last Line: The eucharist of prayer.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauregard, Pierre Gustave T. (1818-93); Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy


BEFORE VICKSBURG, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While sherman stood beneath the hottest fire
Last Line: "more cartridges, sir, -- calibre fifty-four!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63)


BETHEL, by AUGUSTINE JOSEPH HICKEY DUGANNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We mustered at midnight, in darkness we formed
Last Line: "column! Forward!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bethel, Virgina, Battle Of (1861); United States - History; Great Bethel (church), Virginia; Big Bethel (church), Virginia; Little Bethel (church), Virginia


BEYOND THE POTOMAC, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They slept on the field which their valor had won
Last Line: Since they passed o'er the river?
Subject(s): American Civil War; Maryland; United States - History


BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see before me now a travelling army halting
Last Line: Studded, breaking out, the eternal stars.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day


BOSTON HYMN; READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The word of the lord by night
Last Line: His way home to the mark.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; United States - History; United States; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; America


BOY BRITTAN [FEBRUARY 8, 1862], by BYRON FORCEYTHE WILLSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Boy brittan - only a lad a fair-haired boy - sixteen
Last Line: "my darling, thou shalt rest!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Willson, Forceythe
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Fort Henry, Battle Of (1862); Sailing & Sailors; United States - History; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails


BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE [DECEMBER 2, 1859], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: John brown of ossawatomie spake on his dying day
Last Line: To love!
Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Freedom; Slavery; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Serfs


BURY THEM, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bury the dragon's teeth!
Last Line: Fighting against great god.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Fort Wagner, Battle Of (1863); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History


BUTLER'S PROCLAMATION, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay! Drop the treacherous mask! Throw by
Last Line: Save -- immortality of shame!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Butler, Benjamin Franklin (1818-1893); New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Women


BY THE CONEMAUGH, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Foreboding sudden of untoward change
Last Line: "but I cannot hide them away from him!"
Subject(s): Conemaugh (river), Pennsylvania; United States - History


BY THE POTOMAC, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The soft new grass is creeping o'er the graves
Last Line: And all our heavy heritage of grief.
Variant Title(s): Accomplices
Subject(s): American Civil War; Potomac River; Rivers; United States - History


CAMPS OF GREEN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not alone those camps of white, old comrades of wars
Last Line: Nor drummer to beat the morning drum.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


CANTICLE DE PROFUNDIS, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Glory to thee, father of all the immortal
Last Line: Glory to thee!
Variant Title(s): A Canticle In War
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


CAROLINA [JANUARY, 1865], by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The despot treads thy sacred sands
Last Line: Carolina!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); South Carolina; United States - History


CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands
Last Line: The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Cavalry; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; United States - History; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day


CEDAR MOUNTAIN [AUGUST 9, 1862], by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ring the bells, nor ring them slowly
Last Line: These lives that now we dedicate.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cedar Mountain, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


CENTENNIAL HYMN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through calm and storm the years have led
Last Line: The record of thy happier reign.
Subject(s): United States - History


CHARLES SUMNER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Garlands upon his grave
Last Line: Upon the paths of men.
Subject(s): United States - History


CHARLESTON, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Calmly beside her tropic strand
Last Line: Pass from the world to glory.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History


CHARLESTON, by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Calm as that second summer which precedes / the first fall of snow
Last Line: April, 1'63.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History


CHARLESTON AT THE CLOSE OF 1863, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What! Still does the mother of treason uprear
Last Line: Where her dead martyrs rest!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History


CHICKAMAUGA, by MARY EVELYN DAVID    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sharp, clear crack of rifles, and the deep
Last Line: By the river of death!
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Mollie E.; Davis, Mollie E. Moore
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Death; United States - History; Dead, The


CHIVALRY AND SLAVERY, SELECTION, by JOHN BURKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It chanced that in a southern state
Last Line: * * *
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cruelty; Death; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; United States - History; Dead, The; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs


CHRISTMAS EVE, SOUTH, 1865, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poverty, remorseless spectre
Last Line: For heaven is real, and earth deceiving.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): American Civil War; Christmas; Reconstruction (1865-1876); Southern States; United States - History; Nativity, The; South (u.s.)


CIVIL WAR, by CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rifleman, shoot me a fancy shot
Last Line: "load again, rifleman, keep your hand in!"
Variant Title(s): The Fancy Shot
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; War


CLAY PIPE, by J. O. GARRETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old log house, built by his own hands
Last Line: "I shall sleep."" and a door closed silently."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Grandparents; Pioneers; Southern States; United States - History; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; South (u.s.)


CLERICAL OPPRESSORS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just god! And these are they
Last Line: As in their home above.
Subject(s): Clergy; Slavery; Social Protest; United States - History; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Serfs


COLUMBUS AND THE MAYFLOWER, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O little fleet! That on thy quest divine
Last Line: As in the straitness of the ancient ways.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Mayflower (ship); United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


COLUMBUS TO FERDINAND, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Illustrious monarch of iberia's soil
Last Line: Reason shall steer, and skill disarm the gale.
Subject(s): United States - History


COLUMBUS [AUGUST 3, 1492], by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Steer, bold mariner, on! Albeit witlings deride thee
Last Line: What is promised by one, surely the other performs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


COLUMBUS, THE DISCOVERER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see a caravel of spanish make
Last Line: Columbus, calm, his prescience verified.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come up from the fields father, here's a letter from our pete
Last Line: To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son.
Variant Title(s): A Letter From Camp
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; United States; War; Declaration Day; America


COMING (APRIL, 1861), by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: World, art thou 'ware of a storm?
Last Line: Be swept, as by fire, away!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; War


COMMEMORATION ODE READ AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weak-winged is song
Last Line: But ask whatever else, and we will dare!
Variant Title(s): Ode Recited At The Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865
Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Harvard University; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Peace; Presidents, United States; United States - History; Valor; Bravery


COMMEMORATIVE OF A NAVAL VICTORY, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sailors there are of gentlest breed
Last Line: Glides white through the phosphorus sea.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Sea Battles; United States - History; Naval Warfare


CRAVEN, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the turret, shut in his ironclad tower
Last Line: Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud, and strong.
Variant Title(s): Craven: Mobile Bay, 1864
Subject(s): American Civil War; Craven, Tunis Augustus M. (1813-1864); Mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864); Tecumseh (ship); United States - History


DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENADOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 1, by JOHN M. DAGNALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long ere ruthless civil war laid waste
Last Line: They idolized with fond, indulgent care.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The


DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 10, by JOHN M. DAGNALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the chieftain deep into the forest shade
Last Line: And on his mangled bosom died.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The


DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 2, by JOHN M. DAGNALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sounds of trumpet, drum, and shrilling fife
Last Line: His lifeless flesh.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The


DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 3, by JOHN M. DAGNALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the balmy breeze of that same morning
Last Line: * * *
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The


DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 4, by JOHN M. DAGNALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: At early dawn the wounded federal
Last Line: Of both the rescued and the rescuer.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The


DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 5, by JOHN M. DAGNALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: One bright morn as the lovers near the cot
Last Line: Them in a loathsome dungeon south.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The


DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 6, by JOHN M. DAGNALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down beside her senseless mother daisy
Last Line: Death freed reuben from his clanking chains.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The


DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 7, by JOHN M. DAGNALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soon upon the breeze she heard the tramp
Last Line: Were lost, in the gloom of night enshrouded deeply.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The


DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 9, by JOHN M. DAGNALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not till their victims charr'd remains exhaled
Last Line: "but never from your wicked conscience.[""]"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The


DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON, by HENRY LYNDEN FLASH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not midst the lightning of the stormy fight
Last Line: He rises with the crown!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History


DESTRUCTION OF COLUMBIA, by ELIZABETH OTIS MARSHALL DANNELLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Methinks there'll be emblazoned on the dismal walls of hell
Last Line: "time cannot teach forgetfulness,"" the past can never die."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Columbia, South Carolina; United States - History


DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER [SEPTEMBER 1, 1862], by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Close his eyes; his work is done!
Last Line: Lay him low!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Kearny, Philip (1814-1862); Patriotism; United States - History


DIXIE, by DANIEL DECATUR EMMETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish I was in de land ob cotton
Last Line: Chorus.
Variant Title(s): Dixie's Land
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Patriotism; United States - History; Liberty


DIXIE, by ALBERT PIKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Southrons, hear your country call you!
Last Line: And conquer peace for dixie!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy


DRIVING HOME THE COWS, by KATE PUTNAM OSGOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of the clover and blue-eyed grass
Last Line: Together they followed the cattle home.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; United States - History; Declaration Day


EIGHTEEN SIXTY-ONE, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arm'd year - year of the struggle
Last Line: I repeat you, hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted year.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


ETHIOPIA SALUTING THE COLORS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human
Last Line: Are the things so strange and marvellous you see or have seen?
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; American Civil War; Georgia (state); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History


ETHNOGENESIS, by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hath not the morning dawned with added light?
Last Line: Strange tropic warmth and hints of summer seas.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Southern States; United States - History; Confederacy; South (u.s.)


EVANGELINE; A TALE OF ACADIE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks
Last Line: Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
Subject(s): Acadia; Love; Mothers; Social Protest; United States - History


F.B.C.; CHANCELLORSVILLE, MAY 3, 1863, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was our noblest, he was our bravest & best
Last Line: Still our bravest and best!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Death; Heroism; Honor; Soldiers; United States - History; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines


FARRAGUT, by WILLIAM TUCKEY MEREDITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Farragut, farragut
Last Line: Thunderbolt stroke!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); Mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864); Patriotism; United States - History


FOR DECORATION DAY: 1861-1865, by RUPERT HUGHES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But do we truly mourn our soldier dead
Last Line: The peaceful barracks where their bodies sleep.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


FOR THE COMMEMORATION SERVICES; MEMORIAL VERSES, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four summers coined their golden light in leaves
Last Line: Living and dead alike forever dear!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands
Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 54
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History; Heroes; Heroines; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


FORGOTTEN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgotten! Can it be a few swift rounds
Last Line: For the old time's return!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


FORMERLY A SLAVE' (AN IDEALIZED PORTRAIT, BY E. VEDDER), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sufferance of her race is shown
Last Line: Sibylline, yet benign.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Paintings & Painters; Slavery; United States - History; Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923); Serfs


FREDERICKSBURG, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The increasing moonlight drifts across my bed
Last Line: Hark! -- the black squadrons wheeling down to death!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


GARFIELD'S RIDE AT CHICKAMAUGA, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again the summer-fevered skies
Last Line: By chickamauga river.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881); Thomas, George Henry (1816-1870); United States - History


GEORGE WASHINGTON, by LAURA REW BIXBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A nation was born in a vast new domain
Last Line: Of a self-governed people. May they honor his name!
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; United States - History; United States - Politics & Government; Washington, George (1732-1799)


GETTYSBURG [JULY 1-3, 1863], by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was no union in the land, / though wise men labored long
Last Line: The sword of meade and lee!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Patriotism; United States - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of


GOD SAVE THE FLAG, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Washed in the blood of the brave and the blooming
Last Line: Washed from its stains in the blood of the brave!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - United States; United States - History; American Flag


GOD SAVE THE NATION!, by THEODORE TILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou who ordainest, for the land's salvation
Last Line: With peace elysian!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


GREAT BELL ROLAND; SUGGESTED BY PRESIDENT'S CALL VOLUNTEERS, by THEODORE TILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Toll! Roland, toll!
Last Line: Tool! Roland, toll!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; United States - History


HEROES, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In rich virginian woods
Last Line: Of knightly deeds and dreams.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


HEROES, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds that once the argo bore
Last Line: And the world is a braver world to-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Heroism; United States - History; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines


HOME, SWEET HOME, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sharers of a common country
Last Line: Be our watchwords evermore.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


HOOKER'S ACROSS, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Hooker's across! Hooker's across!
Last Line: Hooker's across!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Hooker, Joseph (1814-1879); United States - History


HOW ARE YOU, SANITARY?', by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the picket-guarded lane
Last Line: "pass in, sanitary!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; Declaration Day


HOW THE CUMBERLAND WENT DOWN [MARCH 8, 1862], by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray swept the angry waves
Last Line: As the cumberland went down.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship)


HYMN FOR THE FAIR AT CHICAGO, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O god! In danger's darkest hour
Last Line: And all the earth is thine.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


HYMN WRITTEN FOR THE GREAT CENTRAL FAIR IN PHILADELPHIA, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Father, send on earth again
Last Line: Faithful to freedom and thee.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


I'M DYING, COMRADE, by MARY H. C. BOOTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think I'm dying, comrade
Last Line: Is calling me from life.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Martyrs; United States - History


IN HOSPITAL: 21. ROMANCE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Talk of pluck!' pursued the sailor
Last Line: "and they meant it too, by thunder!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Hospitals; United States - History


IN THE LAND WHERE WE WERE DREAMING, by DANIEL BEDINGER LUCAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair were our visions! Oh, they were as grand
Last Line: In the land where we were dreaming.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History


INSCRIPTION FOR A WELL IN MEMORY OF THE MARTYRS OF THE WAR, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fall, stream, from heaven to bless; return as well
Last Line: So did our sons; heaven met them as they fell.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fountains; Martyrs; United States - History


IT IS A LIVING CORAL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A trouble / archaically fettered
Subject(s): United States - History


JEFFERSON D., by HENRY SYLVESTER CORNWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: You're a traitor convicted, you know very well
Last Line: Jefferson d.!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy


JEFFERSON DAVIS, by WALKER MERIWETHER BELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Calm martyr of a noble cause
Last Line: A relic and a shrine!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy


JOHN BROWN'S BODY, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They came on to fish-hook gettysburg in this way, after this fashion
Last Line: And the strange south moved against you, lean members lost in the corn
Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Slavery; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Serfs


JOHN BURNS OF GETTYSBURG, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you heard the story that gossips tell
Last Line: You'll show a hat that's white, or a feather.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): American Civil War; Burns, John; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Patriotism; United States - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of


JOHN PELHAM, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just as the spring came laughing through the strife
Last Line: Twining the victor's crown!
Variant Title(s): The Dead Cannoneer
Subject(s): American Civil War; Kelly's Ford, Virginia, Battle Of (1863); Pelham, John (1838-1863); United States - History


KEARNY AT SEVEN PINES [MAY 31, 1862], by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So that soldierly legend is still on its journey
Last Line: Line.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Kearny, Philip (1814-1862); Memorial Day; Patriotism; Seven Pines, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Declaration Day; Fair Oaks, Battle Of (1862)


KEENAN'S CHARGE, by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun had set
Last Line: That saved the army at chancellorsville.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Keenan, Peter (1834-1863); Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


KENTUCKY BELLE, by CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer of 'sixty-three, sir, and conrad was gone away
Last Line: Ah! We've had many horses since, but never a horse like her!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Kentucky; Morgan, John Hunt (1825-1864); United States - History


KILLED AT THE FORD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He is dead, the beautiful youth
Last Line: And the neighbors wondered that she should die.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; War


LAST CENTURY, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last century we took a lot of shots
Subject(s): United States - History


LAUS DEO!, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is done! / clang of bell and roar of gun
Last Line: Who alone is lord and god!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; God; Patriotism; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty


LEE TO THE REAR [MAY 12, 1864], by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn of a pleasant morning in may
Last Line: The gray-bearded man in the black slouched hat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864); Declaration Day


LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the norn mother saw the whirlwind hour
Last Line: And leaves a lonesome place against the sky.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Religion; United States - History; Theology


LINES ON THE BACK OF A CONFEDERATE NOTE, by SAMUEL ALROY JONAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Representing nothing on god's earth now
Last Line: Like our hope of success it has passed.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy


LINES UPON THE DEATH OF CHARLEY DU BIGNON, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The years of manhood had not tinged
Last Line: The laurel wreath of fame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Soldiers; United States - History; Dead, The


LITTLE GIFFEN, by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the focal and foremost fire
Last Line: "for ""little giffen,"" of tennessee."
Variant Title(s): Little Giffen Of Tennessee
Subject(s): American Civil War; Giffen, Isaac Newton (1847-1865); Heroism; Murfreesboro, Battle Of (1862); Patriotism; United States - History; Giffen, Isaac; Heroes; Heroines


LOGAN AT PEACH TREE CREEK; A VETERAN'S STORY [JULY 20, 1864], by HAMLIN GARLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You know that day at peach tree creek
Last Line: As on the day mcpherson died.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Atlanta Campaign (1864); Logan, John Alexander (1826-1886); Mcpherson, James Birdseye (1828-1864); United States - History


MALVERN HILL [JULY 1, 1862], by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye elms that wave on malvern hill
Last Line: Leaves must be green in spring.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Malvern Hill, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


MANASSAS [JULY 21, 1861], by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They have met at last - as storm-clouds
Last Line: At manassas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Warfield, Catherine M.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of; Declaration Day


MANHATTAN ARMING, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First o songs for a prelude
Last Line: But now you smile with joy exulting old mannahatta.
Variant Title(s): Drum-taps
Subject(s): American Civil War; New York City - 19th Century; Soldiers; United States - History


MANHATTAN, 1609, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where now the bells of trinity are heard
Last Line: Up went the flag of holland like a flame!
Subject(s): New York City; Sea Voyages; Tourists; United States - History; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA, by HENRY CLAY WORK    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring the good old bugle boys, we'll sing another song
Last Line: While we were marching through georgia.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Holidays; Memorial Day; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History; Declaration Day


MARTHY VIRGINIA'S HAND [SEPTEMBER 17, 1862], by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There, on the left!' said the colonel; the battle had shuddered
Last Line: See! There is lifted the hand of a baby -- marthy virginia's hand!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Antietam, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


MEMORLAE POSITUM; R. G. S., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the trees
Last Line: And die as thine have done!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


MIRANDA'S SUPPER (VIRGINIA, 1866), by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the solemn portico's
Last Line: Nothing is lost! Nothing is lost!
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


MISGIVINGS (1860), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When ocean-clouds over inland hills
Last Line: The hemlock shakes in the rafter, the oak in the driving keel.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


MOSBY AT HAMILTON, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down loudon lanes, with swinging reins
Last Line: She would not scorn to bury.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Mosby, John Singleton (1833-1916); United States - History


MY AUTUMN WALK, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On woodlands ruddy with autumn
Last Line: Roslyn, october, 1'64.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


MY MARYLAND, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The despot's heel is on thy shore
Last Line: Maryland, my maryland!
Variant Title(s): Maryland! My Maryland;maryland
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Maryland; Patriotism; State Rights; United States - History; Liberty; Secession


MY MOTHER-LAND, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother-land! Thou wert the first to fling
Last Line: A prelude and a prophecy combined!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; United States - History; Confederacy


NEVER OR NOW; AN APPEAL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, young heroes! Your country is calling!
Last Line: Hear the last angel-trump, -- never or now!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


NEW NATION, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A mountain of white ice
Subject(s): United States - History; Native Americans; Massacres; Slavery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Serfs


NORTHWARD, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the high unclouded sun
Last Line: In dalliance deck the bridal bower.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Key West, Florida; United States - History


NOT THE PILOT, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship to port
Last Line: For a battle-call, rousing to arms if need be, years, centuries hence.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


NOT YET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O country, marvel of the earth!
Last Line: Writes, in men's sight, the answer, no!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done
Last Line: Fallen cold and dead.
Variant Title(s): On The Death Of President Lincoln;my Captain;to Abraham Lincoln;on Lincoln
Subject(s): American Civil War; Assassination; Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Sea; United States - History; Liberty; Ocean


ODE (IN HONOR OF THE BRAVERY AND SACRIFICES OF SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTH), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With bayonets slanted in the glittering sun
Last Line: Across those lonely desolated graves!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Courage; Soldiers; United States - History; Confederacy; Valor; Bravery


ODE TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Row after row with strict impunity
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Graveyards; Confederacy


ODE; SUNG BY THE CHILDREN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, by W. T. ADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: No more the cannon peal
Last Line: And deathless fame.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Fame; Monuments; United States - History; Dead, The; Reputation


OF HISTORY AND HOPE, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: We have memorized america,
Last Line: Press.
Subject(s): United States - History


OLD GLORY, by EMMA FRANCES DAWSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Enchanted web! A picture in the air
Last Line: "our hallowed, eloquent, beloved ""old glory""!"
Subject(s): Flags - United States; United States - History; American Flag


OLD WAR-DREAMS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In midnight sleep of many a face of anguish
Last Line: I dream, I dream, I dream.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Dreams; United States - History; Nightmares


ON BOARD THE CUMBERLAND, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand to your guns, men!' morris cried
Last Line: For those beneath the wave!
Variant Title(s): Attack Of The Cumberland
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Morris, George Upham; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship)


ON THE DEFEAT OF HENRY CLAY [A GREAT MAN], by WILLIAM WILBERFORCE LORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fallen? How fallen? States and empires fall
Last Line: Time's dim horizon with eternity.
Subject(s): Clay, Henry (1777-1852); United States - History


ON THE HOME GUARDS; WHO PERISHED ... LEXINGTON, MISSOURI, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The men who here in harness died
Last Line: Hearts sore beset, which died at bay.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; United States - History


ON THE SLAIN AT CHICKAMAUGA, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy are they and charmed in life
Last Line: Make this memorial due.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


ON THE SLAIN COLLEGIANS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Youth is the time when hearts are large
Last Line: And kill them in their flush of bloom.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; Youth


OUR COUNTRY'S CALL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay down the axe; fling by the spade
Last Line: And glorious must their triumph be.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; United States - History


OUR FALLEN BRAVE, by CORNELIA J. M. JORDAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: They fell! In freedom's cause they fell
Last Line: Our fallen and our free.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Freedom; Love; United States - History; Confederacy; Dead, The; Liberty


OUR LEFT', by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From dawn to dark they stood
Last Line: "your all upon ""our left."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of


OUR MARTYRS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am sitting alone and weary
Last Line: May rise to the calm of thine.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy


OUR PRIVILEGE, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not ours, where battle-smoke upcurls
Last Line: With valor's clashing steel.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


OUT AND FIGHT, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out and fight! The clouds are breaking
Last Line: Be extinguished from the land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Breitmann, Hans
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; United States - History


PARDON, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pains the sharp sentence
Last Line: Greatest, forgive!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Assassination; Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; United States - History


PARTING HYMN; 'DUNDEE', by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Father of mercies, heavenly friend
Last Line: Rule thou our throneless land!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Prayer; United States - History


PEACE, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O land, of every land the best
Last Line: They gained a better peace than ours.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History


PICCIOLA, by ROBERT HENRY NEWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a sergeant old and gray
Last Line: That trembles first when earth is shaken.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kerr, Orpheus
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; War


POEM, READ THE SOLDIERS' WELCOME, FRANKLIN, NEW YORK, AUG. 5, 1865, by B. H. BARNES    Poem Text                    
First Line: The heroes of a hundred fields
Last Line: For peace and liberty!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Homecoming; Life; Soldiers; United States - History; Dead, The


PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S BURIAL HYMN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd
Last Line: There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.
Variant Title(s): When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloomed
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilacs; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Mourning; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States - History; United States; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; America


PROGRESSION; OR, THE SOUTH DEFENDED: SLAVERY, by MARY SOPHIE SHAW HOMES    Poem Text                    
First Line: The book of books we confidently quote
Last Line: Gainst wild fanaticism's fickle laws.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mayfield, Millie
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bible; Cruelty; Slavery; Southern States; United States - History; Serfs; South (u.s.)


PROSPECT, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: War will not always be
Last Line: "but that was long ago."
Subject(s): United States - History; War; World War I; First World War


PUT IT THROUGH, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, freeman of the land
Last Line: Put it through!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


READY, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loaded with gallant soldiers
Last Line: Who was fitter to die than he!
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Sailing & Sailors; United States - History; Seamen; Sails


REBEL COLOR-BEARERS AT SHILOH, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The color-bearers facing death
Last Line: And think how grant met lee.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


RECONCILIATION, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Word over all, beautiful as the sky
Last Line: Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


RELIEVING GUARD, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Came the relief. 'what, sentry, ho!'
Last Line: "somewhere had just relieved a picket."
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


RETURNED FROM THE WAR, by HENRY ABBEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shrouded by his country's flag
Last Line: He was all the world to her.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Grief; Marriage; United States - History; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ROBERT E. LEE, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A gallant foeman in the fight
Last Line: We honor thee, virginia's son.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); United States - History


RUNNING THE BATTERIES, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A moonless night - a friendly one
Last Line: So porter proves himself a brave man's son.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Navy - United States; Patriotism; United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63); American Navy


SAVANNAH, by ALETHEA S. BURROUGHS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou hast not drooped thy stately head
Last Line: Savannah! O savannah!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Savannah, Georgia; United States - History


SCENE IN A COUNTRY HOSPITAL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, lonely, wounded and apart
Last Line: Thank heaven! This -- all -- ends with me soon.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; United States - History


SHERIDAN AT CEDAR CREEK, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shoe the steed with silver
Last Line: Where the nameless followers sleep.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cedar Creek, Battle Of (1864); Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888); United States - History


SHERIDAN'S RIDE [DECEMBER 19, 1864], by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the south, at break of day
Last Line: "from winchester, -- twenty miles away!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Cedar Creek, Battle Of (1864); Courage; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888); United States - History; War; Valor; Bravery; Declaration Day


SHERMAN'S IN SAVANNAH [DECEMBER 22, 1864], by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the tribes of israel
Last Line: As it crowns savannah!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Savannah, Georgia; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History


SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA, by SAMUEL HAWKINS MARSHALL BYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our camp-fires shone bright on the mountain
Last Line: When sherman marched down to the sea.
Variant Title(s): Song Of Sherman's March To The Sea
Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History


SHILOH; A REQUIEM, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Skimming lightly, wheeling still
Last Line: And all is hushed at shiloh.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


SIOUX SONGS: HARVEST, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Only the seasons and the years invade
Last Line: The youth that bled beside these old stone walls.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of


SIOUX SONGS: ROCKS, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Among these jagged rocks, whose height commands
Last Line: At bay among these rocks, or charged this wood?
Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of


SIOUX SONGS: THE BATTLE, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Three times the sun rose while the battle held
Last Line: There lay the shadow of that agony.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of


SIOUX SONGS: THE CEMETERY, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lincoln stood, in strong simplicity
Last Line: And gave himself, these graves, this land, to god.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of


SLED BURIAL, DREAM CEREMONY, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While the south rains, the north
Subject(s): American Civil War; Funerals; United States - History; Burials


SONNET: ELLIOTT IN FORT SUMTER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And high amongst these chiefs of iron grain
Last Line: Confer an antique immortality!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; United States - History


SONNET: ON THE CHIVALRY OF THE PRESENT TIME, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Foolish souls and false! Who loudly cried
Last Line: Who had not shunned earth's haughtiest chivalry.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chivalry; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy


SPIRIT WHOSE WORK IS DONE (WASHINGTON CITY, 1865), by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit whose work is done -- spirit of dreadful hours!
Last Line: Let them identify you to the future in these songs.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


SPRING [IN WAR-TIME], by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring, with that nameless pathos in the air
Last Line: "behold me! I am may!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Nature; South Carolina; Spring; United States - History


STONEWALL JACKSON, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fashions and the forms of men decay
Last Line: To know the long fruition of the just!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History


STONEWALL JACKSON'S WAY, by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, stack arms, men! Pile on the rails
Last Line: That gets in stonewall's way.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); Patriotism; United States - History


STONEWALL JACKSON; MORTALLY WOUNDED AT CHANCELLORSVILLE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man who fiercest charged in fight
Last Line: Because no wreath we owe.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History


STUART, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A cup of your potent 'mountain dew'
Last Line: "ay, you and I shall be there."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Stuart, James Ewell (jeb) (1833-1864); United States - History


SUMTER, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So they will have it!
Last Line: On with the cannon!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; Patriotism; United States - History


SUMTER [APRIL 12, 1861], by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Came the morning of that day / when the god to whom we pray
Last Line: For the sin!
Variant Title(s): The Twelfth Of April
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; United States - History


SYMBOL OF OUR COUNTRY, by MAUD MCKINSEY BUTLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cabin stands in clearing, unkempt, deserted
Last Line: Songs of the fearless.
Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Progress; United States - History


THE 'VARUNA', by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who has not heard of the dauntless varuna
Last Line: Oh! For the dead let us all kneel to pray!
Subject(s): American Civil War; New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Varuna (ship)


THE ADVANCE GUARD, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dream of the northern poets
Last Line: And the battle of life be won.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


THE ALABAMA, by MAURICE BELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: She has gone to the bottom! The wrath of the tide
Last Line: And the brave ship that bore him to glory!
Subject(s): Alabama (ship); American Civil War; Sea Battles; United States - History; Naval Warfare


THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the arsenal. From floor to ceiling
Last Line: The holy melodies of love arise.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; Springfield, Massachusetts; United States - History


THE ARTILLERYMAN'S VISION, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long
Last Line: And bombs bursting in air, and at night the vari-color'd rockets.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; United States - History; Drills & Minor Tactics


THE BALLAD OF CHICKAMAUGA [SEPTEMBER 19-20, 1863], by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By chickamauga's crooked stream the martial trumpets blew
Last Line: As one old soldier's ballad borne on breath of battle-song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Thomas, George Henry (1816-1870); United States - History


THE BALLAD OF NEW ORLEANS, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just as the hour was darkest
Last Line: Were resting the will and the power.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


THE BATTLE AUTUMN OF 1862, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The flags of war like storm-birds fly
Last Line: Ring peace and freedom in.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Autumn; Seasons; United States - History; Fall


THE BATTLE IN THE CLOUDS, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the dews and the rains of heaven have their
Last Line: Chanting solemn music for the souls that passed below.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lookout Mountain, Battle Of (1863); United States - History


THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTON HARBOR, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two hours, or more, beyond the prime of a blithe april day
Last Line: And thou in clear-eyed faith hast seen god's angels near the guns!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


THE BATTLE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN [NOVEMBER 24, 1863], by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me but two brigades,' said hooker, frowning at fortified lookout
Last Line: Standing, like demigods, in light and triumph upon their own lookout!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Hooker, Joseph (1814-1879); Lookout Mountain, Battle Of (1863); United States - History


THE BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO, by KINAHAN CORNWALLIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ere murfreesboro's thunders rent the air
Last Line: Who fought so grandly, to their country true.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Murfreesboro, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


THE BATTLE-CRY OF FREEDOM, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again
Last Line: Shouting the battle-cry of freedom.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Patriotism; Soldiers; United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63); Liberty


THE BAY FIGHT, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three days through sapphire seas we sailed
Last Line: The green were one wide grave.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864); Patriotism; Tennessee (ship); United States - History


THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: 2. JONATHAN TO JOHN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It don't seem hardly right, john
Last Line: "may larn, like you an' me!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Mason, James Murry (1798-1871); Patriotism; Slidell, John (1793-1871); United States - History; War


THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: 4. A MESSAGE OF JEFF DAVIS ..., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sent you a messige, my friens, t' other day
Last Line: Consists in triumphantly gittin' away.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy


THE BLACK REGIMENT, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark as the clouds of even
Last Line: Scorn the black regiment!
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History; War


THE BLUE AND THE GRAY, by FRANCIS MILES FINCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the flow of the inland river
Last Line: Tears and love for the gray.
Variant Title(s): Decoration Day;memorial Day
Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day


THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG, by ANNIE CHAMBERS KETCHUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, brothers! Rally for the right!
Last Line: That bears the cross and star!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Flags - United States; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy; American Flag


THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me your hand, old revolutionary
Last Line: Stands forever the camp of that dead brigade.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Brooklyn, New York; Old Age; United States - History; Veterans


THE CHARGE BY THE FORD, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eighty and nine with their captain
Last Line: Give them the roll of the drum!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Calvary; United States - History


THE COAT OF FADED GRAY, by GEORGE WASHINGTON HARRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A low hut rests in lookout's shade
Last Line: Her soldier's coat of faded gray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harris, G. W.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


THE COLLEGE COLONEL, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He rides at their head
Last Line: Ah heaven! -- what truth to him!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Labor & Laborers; United States - History; War; Work; Workers


THE COLORED SOLDIERS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: If the muse were mine to tempt it
Last Line: Who fought for uncle sam!
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; United States - History


THE CONFLICT OF CONVICTIONS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On starry heights / a bugle wails the long recall
Last Line: Wisdom is vain, and prophesy.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Dreams; Hope; Past; United States - History; Wisdom; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism


THE CONQUERED BANNER, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Furl that banner, for 'tis weary
Last Line: For its people's hoped are fled!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Flags - United States; Patriotism; Peace; United States - History; Confederacy; American Flag


THE CRIME OF THE AGES; 1861, by AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poet, write! / not of a purpose dark and dire
Last Line: New life, new birth, or a nation's tomb?
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


THE CROSSING AT FREDERICKSBURG, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I lay in my tent at mid-day
Last Line: "and one more for michigan!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


THE CRUISE OF THE MONITOR [MARCH 9, 1862], by GEORGE M. BAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of a northern city's bay
Last Line: Hurrah for the monitor's famous cruise!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Hampton Roads, Virginia; Monitor (ship); Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship)


THE CUMBERLAND, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some names there are of telling sound
Last Line: Cumberland! Cumberland!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship)


THE CUMBERLAND [MARCH 8, 1862], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At anchor in hampton roads we lay
Last Line: And without a seam!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Patriotism; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship)


THE DAY OF THE DEAD SOLDIERS; MARY 30, 1869, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, thou gray and fragrant sabbath-day
Last Line: So rich a page of thrilling histories.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


THE DEATH OF GRANT, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Father! Whose hard and cruel law / is part of thy compassion's plan
Last Line: Thy servant's soul in paradise.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


THE DEATH OF LYON, by HENRY PETERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sing, bird, on green missouri's plain
Last Line: And grave thy name immortal.
Variant Title(s): Lyon
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lyon, Nathaniel (1818-1861); United States - History; Wilson's Creek, Missouri, Battle Of


THE DEATH OF SLAVERY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou great wrong, that, through the slow-paced years
Last Line: Dwell thou, a warning to the coming times.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Declaration Day


THE DECISION (APRIL 14, 1861), by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So there are five?
Last Line: Call the troops!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


THE DRAFT RIOT, by CHARLES DE KAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is it the wind, the many-tongued, the weird
Last Line: And burns the town.
Subject(s): American Civil War; New York Draft Riots (1863); United States - History


THE DYING WORDS OF STONEWALL JACKSON, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars of night contain the glittering day
Last Line: Solace hast thou for pain!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History


THE EAGLE OF CORINTH, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Did you hear of the fight at corinth
Last Line: On the nation's loftiest dome.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Corinth, Mississippi, Battle Of (1862); Courage; Eagles; United States - History; Valor; Bravery


THE EAGLE OF THE BLUE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aloft he guards the starry folds
Last Line: The eagle of the blue.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Eagles; United States - History


THE EAGLE'S SONG, by RICHARD MANSFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lioness whelped, and the sturdy cub
Last Line: Now that the two are one again!
Subject(s): Patriotism; Peace; United States - History


THE FALL OF RICHMOND [APRIL, 1865], by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What mean these peals from every tower
Last Line: God's way adore.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Richmond Campaign (1864); United States - History


THE FOE AT THE GATES, by JOHN DICKSON BRUNS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ring round her! Children of her glorious skies
Last Line: The last grand holocaust of liberty.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History


THE GATHERING OF THE GRAND ARMY, by CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through all the city's streets there poured a flood
Last Line: And love and peace prevail from shore to shore.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Army - United States; United States - History


THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS, by ABRAHAM LINCOLN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fourscore and seven years ago
Last Line: Shall not perish from the earth.
Variant Title(s): At Gettysburg
Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Religion; United States - History; United States; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Theology; America


THE HERO OF FORT WAGNER, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fort wagner! That is a place for us
Last Line: "and you can scale the wall!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


THE HIGH TIDE AT GETTYSBURG [JULY 3, 1863], by WILL HENRY THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A cloud possessed the hollow field
Last Line: Lamenting all her fallen sons!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; War; Liberty; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Declaration Day


THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE, by AUGUSTINE JOSEPH HICKEY DUGANNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From mossy woods and cypress bolls
Last Line: O god! Break not mine oath for me!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty


THE JACKET OF GREY, by CAROLINE AUGUSTA BALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fold it up carefully, lay it aside
Last Line: The jacket of grey our loved soldier boy wore!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy


THE LAST CHARGE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, men of the north! Will you join in the strife
Last Line: His sceptre once broken, the world is our own!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


THE LAST REVIEW, by EMILY J. BUGBEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twenty-one miles of boys in blue
Last Line: His spirit would thrill at a scene like this.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Religion; United States - History; Theology


THE LITTLE WHITE GLOVE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The early springtime faintly flushed the earth
Last Line: "but, god of heaven! I dreamed that stain was blood!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


THE MAIL HAS COME, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the bitter pangs of hope deferred
Last Line: Each kind letter thence is thrice welcome to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): American Civil War; Postal Service; United States - History; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE MARCH INTO VIRGINIA, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did all the lets and bars appear
Last Line: Thy after shock, manassas, share.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of


THE NATION'S PRAYER, by CRAMMOND KENNEDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Before thy throne we bow
Last Line: The jubilee!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History


THE NINETEENTH OF APRIL, 1861, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This year, till late in april, the snow fell thick and light
Last Line: Our blood may seal the victory, but god will shield the right!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


THE OLD COVE, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As vonce I valked by a dismal swamp
Last Line: "all that I axed vos, let me alone."
Variant Title(s): Let Us Alone;all We Ask Is To Be Let Alone
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); State Rights; United States - History; Confederacy; Secession


THE PACIFIC RAILWAY, by C. R. BALLARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis done - the wondrous thorough-fare
Last Line: And nations shall learn war no more.
Subject(s): Railroads; United States - History; Railways; Trains


THE PICKET-GUARD [NOVEMBER, 1861], by ETHEL LYNN BEERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All quiet along the potomac,' they say
Last Line: The picket's off duty forever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, Ethelinda; Lynn, Ethel
Variant Title(s): All Quiet Along The Potomac
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Potomac River; Rivers; United States - History


THE PORTENT, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hanging from the beam
Last Line: The meteor of the war.
Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Social Protest; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Serfs


THE REBEL, by INNES RANDOLPH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I'm a good old rebel, that's what I am
Last Line: I won't be reconstructed and I don't give a damn.
Variant Title(s): Unreconstructed
Subject(s): American Civil War; Hate; United States - History


THE RETURN OF THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear, from many a little throat
Last Line: "and freedom to the slave!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Holidays; Trees; United States - History


THE REVEILLE, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands
Last Line: "lord, we come!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Variant Title(s): What The Drums Say
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History


THE RIVER FIGHT; APRIL 18, 1862, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you know of the dreary land
Last Line: And the traitor flags come down.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); Navy - United States; New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); Patriotism; Slavery; United States - History; American Navy; Serfs


THE SINKING OF THE MERRIMAC [MAY 10, 1862], by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Gone down in the flood, and gone out in the flame!
Last Line: Then sink them together, -- the ship and the name!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship)


THE SOLDIER BOY'S DREAM, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A soldier boy lay dreaming
Last Line: Of liberty, new found.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): American Civil War; Dreams; Freedom; Soldiers; United States - History; Nightmares; Liberty


THE SOLDIER'S FIRESIDE, AFTER A BATTLE, by M. T. C.    Poem Text                    
First Line: They sat by the dying embers
Last Line: And hope for their country too.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Anxiety; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); United States - History


THE SONG OF SHERMAN'S ARMY, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pillar of fire by night
Last Line: For sherman and grant, hurrah!
Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles
Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History


THE SPARROW HARK IN THE RAIN (ALEXANDER STEPHENS HEARS NEWS), by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That's done! And well, I'd rather not have gone
Last Line: And I arose and left.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Stephens, Alexander Hamilton (1812-1883); United States - History


THE SUBSTITUTE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How say'st thou? Die to-morrow?
Last Line: Knelt by the corse -- alone.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Confederacy


THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX [APRIL 9, 1865], by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As billows upon billows roll
Last Line: Lee.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Appomattox, Virginia; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); United States - History


THE SWAMP ANGEL, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a coal-black angel
Last Line: Christ, the forgiver, convert his mind.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Guns; United States - History


THE SWEET LITTLE MAN; DEDICATED TO THE STAY-AT-HOME RANGERS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, while our soldiers are fighting our battles
Last Line: Take your white-feather plume, sweet little man!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


THE TEMERAIRE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gloomy hulls, in armor grim
Last Line: O, the temeraire no more!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Sea Battles; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851); United States - History; Naval Warfare


THE UNSUNG HEROES, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A song for the unsung heroes who rose in the country's need
Last Line: Who fought their way from night to day and struggled up to god.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; United States - History; Liberty


THE VICTOR AT ANTIETAM [SEPTEMBER 17, 1862], by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When tempest winnowed grain from bran
Last Line: And great antietam's cheers renew.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Antietam, Battle Of (1862); Mcclellan, George Brinton (1826-1885); United States - History


THE VIRGINIANS OF THE VALLEY, by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The knightliest of the knightly race
Last Line: But not a knight asleep.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History; Virginia (state)


THE VISION OF GETTYSBURG (1863-1913), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What if, that day, when on those tawny slopes
Last Line: The squandered blood of gettysburgs to come.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of


THE VOICE OF WEBSTER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silence was envious of the only voice
Last Line: Long shall its echoes rouse the patriot's heart.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Democracy; United States - Congress - Senate; United States - History; United States - Reconstruction (1865-1877); Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)


THE WASHERS OF THE SHROUD; OCTOBER, 1861, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along a river-side, I know not where
Last Line: While waking I recalled my wandering brain.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Potomac River; Rivers; United States - History


THE WOUND-DRESSER, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: An old man bending I come among new faces
Last Line: Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.)
Variant Title(s): The Dresser
Subject(s): American Civil War; Nurses; Travel; United States - History; War; Journeys; Trips


THE YEAR OF JUBILEE, by HENRY CLAY WORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say, darkeys, hab you seen de massa
Last Line: An' de yar ob jubilo.
Variant Title(s): Year Of Jubilo;kingdom Coming
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Richmond Campaign (1864); United States - History


THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE, by ROBERT MORRIS    Poem Text                 Recitation    
First Line: We are coming, father abraham, three hundred thousand more
Last Line: We are coming, father abraham, three hundred thousand more!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gibbons, James Sloane
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States - History


TO A CERTAIN CIVILIAN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did you ask dulcet rhymes from me?
Last Line: For I lull nobody, and you will never understand me.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


TO A MOTHER, by A. I. AMBLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh mother, when with thy sorrow alone
Last Line: Thou wilt call the lost once more thine own.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Grief; Love; Mothers; United States - History; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


TO CANAAN; A PURITAN WAR-SONG, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are you going, soldiers
Last Line: A whirlwind from the north!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


TO THE FEDERAL CONVENTION, by TIMOTHY DWIGHT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be then your counsels, as your subject, great
Last Line: And grant new scions from each friendly sky.
Subject(s): Federal Constitutional Convention; United States - History


TO THE TENTH LEGION, NEW YORK STATE VOLUNTEERS, 1862, by RUTH NATALIE CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Marching along!-marching to the war
Last Line: "for god and their country, they were marching along."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Marching & Marches; Military Service, Voluntary; New York City - 19th Century; Patriotism; United States - History


TURN O LIBERTAD, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Turn o libertad, for the war is over
Last Line: Is swiftly, surely preparing for you.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; United States - History; Liberty


TWO SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF BLONDEL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twere no hard task, perchance, to win
Last Line: And blondel were royal himself, if he knew it!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Blondel De Nesle; United States - History


ULTIMA THULE: BAYARD TAYLOR, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead he lay among his books
Last Line: The peace of god in all thy looks!
Subject(s): Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878); United States - History


UNDER THE SHADE OF THE TREES [MAY 10, 1863], by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What are the thoughts that are stirring his breast?
Last Line: Under the shade of the trees!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History; War


UNION AND LIBERTY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flag of the heroes who left us their glory
Last Line: Union and liberty! One evermore!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


UPON THE HILL BEFORE CENTREVILLE, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll tell you what I heard that day
Last Line: Strike for the crown of victory!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of


VICKSBURG, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For sixty days and upwards
Last Line: To the music in their hearts.
Variant Title(s): The Bombardment Of Vicksburg
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63); Declaration Day


VIRGINIA - THE WEST, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The noble sire fallen on evil days
Last Line: For you provided me washington -- and now these also.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Virginia (state); Confederacy


VIRGINIA'S DEAD, by CORNELIA J. M. JORDAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Proud mother of a race that reared
Last Line: There sleep virginia's dead.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Virginia (state); Confederacy


VOYAGE OF THE GOOD SHIP UNION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis midnight: through my troubled dream
Last Line: One nation, evermore!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Classmates; United States - History; Schoolmates


WALT WHITMAN IN THE CIVIL WAR HOSPITALS, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Prescient, my hands soothing
Last Line: To death which I have praised
Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; Poetry & Poets; United States - History; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)


WAR IS KIND: 1, by STEPHEN CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
Last Line: War is kind.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Men; Social Protest; United States - History; United States; America


WARREN'S ADDRESS [TO THE AMERICANS] [AT BUNKER HILL] [JUNE 17, 1775], by JOHN PIERPONT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand! The ground's your own, my braves!
Last Line: Of his deeds to tell?
Variant Title(s): Warren's Address To The American Soldiers
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Fourth Of July; Freedom; History; Patriotism; United States - History; War; Warren, Joseph (1741-1775); Independence Day; Liberty; Historians


WHAT THE BIRDS SAID, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds against the april wind
Last Line: And in the evening there was light.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; United States - History


WHEN DEY 'LISTED COLORED SOLDIERS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dey was talkin' in de cabin, dey was talkin' in de hall
Last Line: W'en dey 'listed colo'ed sojers an' my 'lias went to wah.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; United States - History


WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME, by PATRICK SARSFIELD GILMORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When johnny comes marching home again hurrah!
Last Line: When johnny comes marching home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lambert, Louis
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Peace; United States - History; United States; America


WITH CORSE AT ALLATOONA, by SAMUEL HAWKINS MARSHALL BYERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was less than two thousand we numbered
Last Line: "this morning up there on the hill."
Subject(s): Allatoona Pass, Georgia; American Civil War; Atlanta Campaign (1864); Corse, John Murray (1835-1893); United States - History


WRITTEN ON THE DEATH OF OUR BELOVED GENERAL STONEWALL JACKSON, by CAROLINE AUGUSTA BALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a wail of woe on the summer breeze
Last Line: His last victory gained, his rest has won.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Heroism; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines


WRITTEN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1864, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more, despite the noise of war
Last Line: For only such can save us now.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fourth Of July; United States - History; Independence Day


YE SONS OF COLUMBIA, by THOMAS GREEN FESSENDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ye sons of columbia, unite in the cause
Last Line: Till the continent sinks, and the ocean is dry!
Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); United States - History


ZAGONYI, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bold captain of the body-guard
Last Line: To death or victory!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Springfield, Missouri, Battle Of (1861); United States - History; Zagonyi, Charles


ZOLLICOFFER, by HENRY LYNDEN FLASH    Poem Text                    
First Line: First in the fight, and first in the arms
Last Line: Dead on the field of glory!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Somerset, Kentucky, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Zollicoffer, Felix Kirk (1812-1862)