Love Poems – Page 4061

“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
Waterloo

[June 15, 1815]
From “Childe Harold,” Canto III.
THERE was a sound of revelry by night, …

Lord Byron English
“The lonely bugle grieves”

From an “Ode on the Celebration of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1825”
THE TRUMP hath blown,
And now upon that reeking hill …

Grenville Mellen English
Carmen Bellicosum

IN their ragged regimentals
Stood the old Continentals,
Yielding not, …

Guy Humphrey McMaster English
Coming

[April, 1861]
world, art thou ’ware of a storm?
Hark to the ominous sound; …

Henry Howard Brownell 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, …

Ethelinda Elliott Beers English
Stonewall Jackson’s Way

Come, stack arms, men; pile on the rails;
Stir up the camp-fire bright!
No growling if the canteen fails: …

John Williamson Palmer English
Cavalry Song

Our bugles sound gayly. To horse and away!
And over the mountains breaks the day;
Then ho! brothers, ho! for the ride or the fight, …

Rossiter Worthington Raymond English
The General’s Death

The General dashed along the road
Amid the pelting rain;
How joyously his bold face glowed …

Joseph O'Connor English
Requiem

For One Slain in Battle
BREATHE, trumpets, breathe
Slow notes of saddest wailing,— …

George Lunt English