Henry Howard Brownell

Poems (5)

• From "The River-Fight"

  Would you hear of the River-Fight? / It was two of a soft spring night;— …

• The Burial of the Dane

  Blue gulf all around us, / Blue sky overhead— …

• The Lawyer’s Invocation to Spring

  Whereas, on certain boughs and sprays / Now divers birds are heard to sing, …

• The Sphinx

  They glare—those stony eyes! / That in the fierce sun-rays …

• Words for the “Hallelujah Chorus”

  John Brown’s body lies a-moldering in the grave, / John Brown’s body lies slumbering in his grave— …