Love Poems – Page 2527

At Marshfield

His way in farming all men knew;
Way wide, forecasting, free,
A liberal tilth that made the tiller poor. …

William Cleaver Wilkinson English
The Cowboy

“what care I, what cares he,
What cares the world of the life we know?
Little they reck of the shadowless plains, …

John Antrobus English
All Quiet along the Potomac

“all quiet along the Potomac,” they say,
“Except now and then a stray picket
Is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro, …

Ethel Lynn Beers English
Sambo's Right to Be Kilt

Some tell us ’t is a burnin’ shame
To make the naygers fight;
An’ that the thrade of bein’ kilt …

Charles Graham Halpine English
The Band in the Pines

Oh, band in the pine-wood, cease!
Cease with your splendid call;
The living are brave and noble, …

John Esten Cooke English
The Volunteer

“at dawn,” he said, “I bid them all farewell,
To go where bugles call and rifles gleam.”
And with the restless thought asleep he fell, …

Elbridge Jefferson Cutler English
Stonewall Jackson

Not midst the lightning of the stormy fight,
Nor in the rush upon the vandal foe,
Did kingly Death, with his resistless might, …

Henry Lynden Flash English
Roll-Call

“corporal green!” the Orderly cried;
“Here!” was the answer loud and clear,
From the lips of a soldier who stood near,— …

Nathaniel Graham Shepherd English
Picciola

It was a Sergeant old and gray,
Well singed and bronzed from siege and pillage,
Went tramping in an army’s wake …

Robert Henry Newell English
Reveille

The morning is cheery, my boys, arouse!
The dew shines bright on the chestnut boughs,
And the sleepy mist on the river lies, …

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