Julia Ward Howe

  • Weave no more silks, ye Lyons looms,
      To deck our girls for gay delights!
    The crimson flower of battle blooms,
      And solemn marches fill the night.

    Weave but the flag whose bars to-day
      Drooped heavy o’er our early dead,
    And homely garments,...

  • Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
    He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
    He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword:
          His truth is marching on.

    I have seen him in the watch-fires of...

  • Weave no more silks, ye Lyons looms,
      To deck our girls for gay delights!
    The crimson flower of battle blooms,
      And solemn marches fill the night.

    Weave but the flag whose bars to-day
      Drooped heavy o’er our early dead,
    And homely garments,...

  • Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
    He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
    He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword:
        His truth is marching on.

    I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a...