Love Poems – Page 2836
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The Cause of the South
From “Sentinel Songs” / THE FALLEN cause still waits,— / Its bard has not come yet, … -
Sentinel Songs
When falls the soldier brave / Dead—at the feet of wrong,— / The poet sings, and guards his grave … -
Ode Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead
[At Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S. C.] / SLEEP sweetly in your humble graves,— / Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause! … -
Hymn of the West
World’s Fair, St. Louis / O THOU, 1 whose glorious orbs on high / Engird the earth with splendor round, … -
Ginevra
IF thou shouldst ever come by choice or chance / To Modena, where still religiously / Among her ancient trophies is preserved … -
Bernardo Del Carpio
The Warrior bowed his crested head, and tamed his heart of fire, / And sued the haughty king to free his long-imprisoned sire; / “I bring thee here my fortress keys, I bring my captive train, … -
The Prisoner of Chillon
Eternal spirit of the chainless mind! / Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, / For there thy habitation is the heart,— … -
Before Sedan
“The dead hand clasped a letter.” / —SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. / HERE in this leafy place, … -
Ivàn Ivànovitch
Early one winter morn, in such a village as this, / Snow-whitened everywhere except the middle road / Ice-roughed by track of sledge, there worked by his abode … -
A Dagger of the Mind
From “Macbeth,” Act II. Sc. 1. / [MACBETH, before the murder of Duncan, meditating alone, sees the image of a dagger in the air, and thus soliloquizes:] / IS this a dagger which I see before me, …
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