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| Searching... Subject: CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Matches Found: 73 A CRY TO ARMS, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text 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 MEMORIAL DAY POEM FOR THE CONFEDERACY, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wearing the gray, wearing the gray Last Line: The old rebel jacket our dead boy had on! Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Confederacy; Declaration Day A PLEA FOR THE GRAY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the land's a martyr, mid her tears Last Line: Scorn traitors to the gray! Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Confederacy A SPOOL OF THREAD, by SOPHIE E. EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: Well, yes, I've lived in texas, since the spring of '61 Last Line: I was but a boy in war time, and I carried him the thread. Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; Texas; Confederacy AT MAGNOLIA CEMETERY, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text 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 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'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 C.S.A., by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do we weep for the heroes who died for us Last Line: Shall forever live over again for us. Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Confederacy CALL ALL', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whoop! The doodles have broken loose Last Line: "mother and maiden, and child and slave, / a common triumph or a single grave" Subject(s): American Civil War;confederate States Of America;u.s. - History; Confederacy CONFEDERACY, by JANE T. H. CROSS Poem Source First Line: Born in a day, full-grown our nation stood Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History CONFEDERATE GRAVES IN LITTLE ROCK, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Far from these stones, in my country wind shouts Last Line: Your car, whatever speed you drive Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Little Rock, Arkansas CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL, by MARGARET RABB Poem Source First Line: Flag-high over the stop light, brakes and exhaust Last Line: Whose spirits and %whose souls are free Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Memory D.C., by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bad breed of the natives with their hates Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Georgia (state); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Confederacy D.C., by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bad breed of the natives with their hates Last Line: The ways of lee, who, having lost the slaves, died farther south, a general in the wrong Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Georgia (state); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870) DEATH OF LINCOLN DESPOTISM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Twas out upon mid-ocean that the san jacinto Last Line: And hold them till abe lincoln and all his northern scum / shall own our independence of 'yankee-doo Subject(s): "american Civil War;confederate States Of America;mason, James Murry (1798-1871);slidell, John (1793-1871);u.s. - History;" Confederacy 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 ELEGY ON JEFFERSON DAVIS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more the white refulgent streets Last Line: Orestes fled in night and day. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Consolation; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); U.s. - History; Confederacy ETHNOGENESIS, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text 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.) FOG ON KENNESAW, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We pitch our tent on kennesaw mountain Last Line: Maneuvering on kennesaw. Subject(s): Camping; Confederate States Of America; Fog; Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia; Camps; Summer Camps; Confederacy; Haze HEROES OF THE SOUTH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four deadly years we fought Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Holidays; Memorial Day I GIVE MY SOLDIER BOY A BLADE!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "remember by these heartfelt strains, / I give my soldier boy the blade!" Subject(s): American Civil War;confederate States Of America;patriotism;u.s. - History;women; Confederacy 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 JEFFERSON DAVIS, by HARRY THURSTON PECK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And now he slinks through dark oblivion's gate Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); U.s. - History LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 1. THE MAGIC GLASS, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Twas fair and bright the first of may Last Line: When fate shall weave thy destiny. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 10. NORTHERN CHIEF, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Cold winter laid him down to rest Last Line: "I'll even say farewell to-night." Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 16. THE MAIDEN'S PRAYER, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: It was a beauteous, heavenly night Last Line: When walter draws to win lenare. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 17. THE RESCUE, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: At midnight's holy hour - a time Last Line: They thought on their unburied dead. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 18. THE NUPTIALS, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Twelve hours passed -- the grave had closed Last Line: But wind as one through time forever. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 2. THE PICKET, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Twas night; on old potomac's shore Last Line: And then resumed his weary pace. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 3. THE BATTLE, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: The cannon's roar booms on the air Last Line: But deeper still in darkness go. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 5. RECOGNITION - APPEAL, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Whiling the summer hours away Last Line: But strength is given as we need. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The 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 MARCH OF THE DEATHLESS DEAD, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gather the sacred dust Last Line: Together still shall sleep. Variant Title(s): Lines Respectfully Inscribed To The Ladies Memorial As'n Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History; Confederacy MY MOTHER-LAND, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text 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 NEW GOSPEL, by RUTH WILLS Poem Source First Line: So the south has been blest with a new revelation Last Line: And own the worst faith of the pagan as mine Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Slavery ODE (IN HONOR OF THE BRAVERY AND SACRIFICES OF SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTH), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text 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 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 TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Row after row with strict impunity Last Line: Riots with his tongue through the hush- %sentinel of the grave who counts us all! Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History ON FORT SUMTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was a noble roman Last Line: "who says with 'southern daring,' / 'I'll find a way, or make it!'" Subject(s): "american Civil War;confederate States Of America;fort Sumter, South Carolina;u.s. - History;" Confederacy ON TO RICHMOND, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Major general scott / an order had got Last Line: Was that pleasant excursion to richmond. Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History; Manassas, Batlle Of; Confederacy OUR CONFEDERATE DEAD, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unknown to me, brave boy, but still I wreathe Last Line: As the libretto of a maiden's heart. Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Death; Graves; Patriotism; Soldiers; Confederacy; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones OUR DEAD HEROES, by MORTON BRYAN WHARTON Poem Source First Line: The angels above us hover Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); U.s. - 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 MARTYRS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text 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 PRESENTATION TO AUTHORITIES BY PRIVATES, OF COLORS CAPTURED, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These flags of armies overthrown Last Line: To waiting homes with vindicated laws. Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History PROMISES: 2. COURT-MARTIAL, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the cedar tree Subject(s): American Civil War; Lynching; Confederate States Of America; Soldiers; Veterans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Confederacy; Heritage; Heredity RECORDING THE SPIRIT VOICES, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hollow below the hill vaults Last Line: Bury the truth these angels stand on: born and died. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; Death; Poetry & Poets; Southern States; Spiritual Life; Graveyards; Confederacy; Dead, The; South (u.s.) RESURGAM, by MARY BAYARD CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Rise, crowned with hope, o! Prostrate south, arise Subject(s): Confederate States Of America SECESSION, by T. A. R. NELSON Poem Text First Line: What pen can trace, with just impression Last Line: "be ""damned to everlasting fame!" Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, Thomas A. R. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Fame; State Rights; U.s. - History; Confederacy; Reputation; Secession SONNET: ON THE CHIVALRY OF THE PRESENT TIME, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text 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 SOUTHERN OATH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: By the cross upon our banner Subject(s): Confederate States Of America SOUTHERN REPUBLIC, by OLIVIA THOMAS Poem Source First Line: In the galaxy of nations Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History SUMTER - A BALLAD OF 1861, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Twas on the twelfth of april Last Line: "our soil's redeemed from hateful yoke, / we'll keep it pure or die" Subject(s): "american Civil War;confederate States Of America;fort Sumter, South Carolina;u.s. - History;" Confederacy TENNESSEE; A CENTENNIAL POEM, 1897, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun-shimmer'd fields of dreaming green Last Line: Love of thee. Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Freedom; Military; Soldiers; Tennessee; Confederacy; Liberty THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: 4. A MESSAGE OF JEFF DAVIS ..., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text 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 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 BONNIE BLUE FLAG, by HARRY MACARTHY Poem Text First Line: We are a band of brothers Last Line: Hurrah! For the bonnie blue flag has gain'd th' eleventh star! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History; Confederacy THE C.S.A. COMMISSIONERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ye jolly yankee gentlemen, who live at home" Last Line: That brains are sometimes northward found as well's in c.S.A Subject(s): "confederate States Of America;great Britain - Foreign Relations;mason, James Murry (1798-1871);slidell, John (1793-1871);" Confederacy 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 CRAFTSMEN, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Confederate hand and eye Last Line: What builds behind this dream. Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Confederacy 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 LAND WE LOVE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Land of the gentle and brave! Last Line: Thy loss by the graves of our dead! Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Confederacy THE LONE GRAVE ON THE MOUNTAIN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a dreary mountain top Last Line: These tokens of our love! Subject(s): Bull Mountain, Kentucky; Confederate States Of America; Graves; Confederacy; Tombs; Tombstones 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 SONG OF THE FLAGS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We loved the wild clamor of battle Last Line: "forgive, but ah, never forget." Variant Title(s): On The Return Of The Confederate Flags By Congress Subject(s): Flags - Confederate States Of America; Forgiveness; Southern States; Clemency; South (u.s.) THE SOUTH CAROLINA HYMN OF INDEPENDENCE, by CLAUDIAN BIRD NORTHROP Poem Text First Line: South carolinians! Proudly see Last Line: The drum has beat th' alarm. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; South Carolina; U.s. - History; Confederacy THE SUBSTITUTE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text 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 TENNESSEEAN TO THE FLAG, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We followed you first in the days of old Last Line: Than the love of our people for thee. Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Flags; Patriotism; Soldiers; Tennessee; Confederacy THE UNCONQUERED BANNER, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sad priest-singer, in his dread despair Last Line: And wed to deathless liberty again. Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Flags - Confederate States Of America; War; Confederacy THOSE REBEL FLAGS, by JOHN H. JEWETT Poem Text First Line: Shall we send back the johnnies their bunting Last Line: Is america's watchword to-day. Subject(s): Flags - Confederate States Of America; Flags - United States; United States; American Flag; America VIRGINIA - THE WEST, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text 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 |
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