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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: UNITED STATES - HISTORY Matches Found: 322 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) |
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