• I
    the sun had set;
    The leaves with dew were wet:
    Down fell a bloody dusk
    On the woods, that second of May,
    Where Stonewall’s corps, like a beast of prey,
    Tore through, with angry tusk.

    “They’ve trapped us, boys!”
    Rose from our flank a voice.
    With a rush of steel and smoke
    On came the rebels straight,
    Eager...

  • [October 25, 1854]
    HALF a league, half a league,
      Half a league onward,
    All in the valley of Death
      Rode the six hundred.
    “Forward, the Light Brigade!
    Charge for the guns!” he said;
    Into the valley of Death
      Rode the six hundred.

    “Forward, the Light Brigade!”
    Was there a man dismayed?
    Not though the...

  •                               PROLOGUE TO GENERAL HAMLEY


                       

                      Our birches yellowing and from each

                          The light leaf falling fast,

                      While squirrels from our fiery beech

                          Were bearing off the mast,
    ...