Love Poems – Page 2834

• “Under the shade of the trees”

  [The last words of Stonewall Jackson 1 were: “Let us cross the river and rest under the shade of the trees.”] / WHAT are the thoughts that are stirring his breast? / What is the mystical vision he sees? …

  by Margaret Junkin Preston

• The Black Regiment

  [May 27, 1863] / DARK as the clouds of even, / Ranked in the western heaven, …

  by George Henry Boker

• The C. S. Army’s Commissary

  I.—1863 / “well, this is bad!” we sighing said, / While musing round the bivouac fire, …

  by Ed. Porter Thompson

• Lee to the Rear

  [An incident in one of the battles in the Wilderness at the beginning of the campaign of 1864] / DAWN of a pleasant morning in May / Broke through the Wilderness cool and gray; …

  by John Randolph Thompson

• Sherman’s March to the Sea

  [May 4 to December 21, 1864] 1 / OUR camp-fires shone bright on the mountains / That frowned on the river below, …

  by Samuel H. M. Byers

• The Year of Jubilee

  SAY, 1 darkeys, hab you seen de massa, / Wid de muffstash on he face, / Go long de road some time dis mornin’, …

  by Anonymous

• All

  There hangs a sabre, and there a rein, / With a rusty buckle and green curb chain; / A pair of spurs on the old gray wall, …

  by Francis Alexander Durivage

• The Battle of Manila

  A Fragment / [May 1, 1898] / BY Cavité on the bay …

  by Richard Hovey

• Ode to Peace

  Daughter of God! that sitt’st on high / Amid the dances of the sky, / And guidest with thy gentle sway …

  by William Tennant

• End of the Civil War

  From “King Richard III.,” Act I. Sc. 1. / NOW is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun of York, …

  by William Shakespeare

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