Thomas Buchanan Read

Poems (5)

• Drifting

  my soul to-day / Is far away, …

• Lines to a Blind Girl

  Blind as the song of birds, / Feeling its way into the heart, …

• Sheridan’s Ride

  [September 19, 1864] / UP from the South at break of day, …

• The Brave at Home

  The Maid who binds her warrior’s sash / With smile that well her pain dissembles, …

• The Closing Scene

  Within his sober realm of leafless trees / The russet year inhaled the dreamy air; …