Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MUSTER; SUGGESTED BY TWO DAYS' REVIEW AT WASHINGTON, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The abrahamic river - / patriarch of floods Last Line: By rills from kansas lone. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army - United States; U.s. - History | ||||||||
The Abrahamic river -- Patriarch of floods, Calls the roll of all his streams And watery multitudes: Torrent cries to torrent, The rapids hail the fall; With shouts the inland freshets Gather to the call. The quotas of the Nation, Like the water-shed of waves, Muster into union -- Eastern warriors, Western braves. Martial strains are mingling, Though distant far the bands, And the wheeling of the squadrons Is like surf upon the sands. The bladed guns are gleaming -- Drift in lengthened trim, Files on files for hazy miles -- Nebulously dim. O Milky Way of armies -- Star rising after star, New banners of the Commonwealths, And eagles of the War. The Abrahamic river To sea-wide fullness fed, Pouring from the thaw-lands By the God of floods is led: His deep enforcing current The streams of ocean own, And Europe's marge is evened By rills from Kansas lone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OLD OSAWATOMIE by CARL SANDBURG THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG by HARRY MACARTHY LEE'S PAROLE by MARION MANVILLE THE SURRENDER OF NEW ORLEANS by MARION MANVILLE THE LITTLE ODYSSEY OF JASON QUINT, OF SCIENCE, DOCTOR by THOMAS MCGRATH A CANTICLE: SIGNIFICANT OF NATIONAL EXALTATION CLOSE OF WAR by HERMAN MELVILLE A GRAVE NEAR PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA by HERMAN MELVILLE FORMERLY A SLAVE' (AN IDEALIZED PORTRAIT, BY E. VEDDER) by HERMAN MELVILLE THE COMING STORM' (A PICTURE BY R. S. GIFFORD) by HERMAN MELVILLE A DIRGE FOR MCPHERSON; KILLED IN FRONT OF ATLANTA by HERMAN MELVILLE |
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