William Gilmore Simms

Poems (7)

• Mother and Child

  The Wind blew wide the casement, and within— / It was the loveliest picture!—a sweet child …

• Song in March

  Now are the winds about us in their glee, / Tossing the slender tree; …

• The Decay of a People

  This the true sign of ruin to a race— / It undertakes no march, and day by day …

• The Grape-Vine Swing

  Lithe and long as the serpent train, / Springing and clinging from tree to tree, …

• The Lost Pleiad

  Not in the sky, / Where it was seen …

• The Shaded Water

  When that my mood is sad, and in the noise / And bustle of the crowd I feel rebuke, …

• The Swamp Fox

  We follow where the Swamp Fox guides, / His friends and merry men are we; …