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• 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, …

  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’, …

  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, …

  Francis Alexander Durivage

• The Battle of Manila

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

  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 …

  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, …

  William Shakespeare

• Disarmament

  “put up the sword!” the voice of Christ once more
  Speaks, in the pauses of the cannon’s roar,
  O’er fields of corn by fiery sickles reaped …

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Tubal Cain

  Old Tubal Cain was a man of might,
  In the days when earth was young;
  By the fierce red light of his furnace bright, …

  Charles Mackay

• The Knight’s Tomb

  Where is the grave of Sir Arthur O’Kellyn?
  Where may the grave of that good man be?—
  By the side of a spring, on the breast of Helvellyn, …

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Not on the Battle-Field

  “To fall on the battle-field fighting for my dear country,—that would not be hard.”—The Neighbors.
  O NO, no,—let me lie
  Not on a field of battle when I die! …

  John Pierpont

• The Day is Coming

  Come hither lads and hearken,
  for a tale there is to tell,
  Of the wonderful days a-coming, …

  William Morris

• The Grave of Bonaparte

  On a lone barren isle, where the wild roaring billows
  Assail the stern rock, and the loud tempests rave,
  The hero lies still, while the dew-drooping willows, …

  Lyman Heath

• The Battle of Blenheim

  [In Bavaria, August 13, 1704, between the English and Austrians on one side, under the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene, and the French and Bavarians on the other side, led by Marshal Tallart and the Elector of Bavaria. The latter party was defeated, and the schemes of Louis XIV. of France w…

  Robert Southey

• The Arsenal at Springfield

  This is the arsenal. From floor to ceiling,
  Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms;
  But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing …

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• An Old Battle-Field

  The Softest whisperings of the scented South,
  And rust and roses in the cannon’s mouth;
  And, where the thunders of the fight were born, …

  Frank Lebby Stanton

• Our Fallen Heroes

  The Angel of the nation’s peace
  Has wreathed with flowers the battle-drum;
  We see the fruiting fields increase …

  George Bancroft Griffith

• The Cause of the South

  From “Sentinel Songs”
  THE FALLEN cause still waits,—
  Its bard has not come yet, …

  Abram Joseph Ryan

• Sentinel Songs

  When falls the soldier brave
  Dead—at the feet of wrong,—
  The poet sings, and guards his grave …

  Abram Joseph Ryan

• 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! …

  Henry Timrod

• Hymn of the West

  World’s Fair, St. Louis
  O THOU, 1 whose glorious orbs on high
  Engird the earth with splendor round, …

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

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