Love Poems – Page 2824

• The Republic

  From “The Building of the Ship” / THOU, too, sail on, O Ship of State! / Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! …

  by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Men of the North and West

  [April, 1861] / men of the North and West, / Wake in your might. …

  by Richard Henry Stoddard

• Our Country’s Call

  [1861] / lay down the axe, fling by the spade; / Leave in its track the toiling plough; …

  by William Cullen Bryant

• A Cry to Arms

  [1861] / ho, woodsmen of the mountain-side! / Ho, dwellers in the vales! …

  by Henry Timrod

• The Nation’s Prayer

  [1861] / i. / before Thy Throne we bow: …

  by Crammond Kennedy

• The Brave at Home

  The Maid who binds her warrior’s sash / With smile that well her pain dissembles, / The while beneath her drooping lash …

  by Thomas Buchanan Read

• The Place where Man should Die

  How little recks it where men lie, / When once the moment’s past / In which the dim and glazing eye …

  by Michael Joseph Barry

• Hallowed Ground

  What ’s hallowed ground? Has earth a clod / Its Maker meant not should be trod / By man, the image of his God, …

  by Thomas Campbell

• The Wolf and the Dog

  From the French by Elizur Wright / A PROWLING wolf, whose shaggy skin / (So strict the watch of dogs had been) …

  by Jean de La Fontaine

• Rienzi to the Romans

  From “Rienzi” / FRIENDS! / I come not here to talk. Ye know too well …

  by Mary Russell Mitford

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