Love Poems – Page 2832

• Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument

  April 19, 1836 / BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, / Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, …

  by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Warren’s Address

  STAND! 1 the ground ’s your own, my braves! / Will ye give it up to slaves? / Will ye look for greener graves? …

  by John Pierpont

• Nathan Hale

  TO 1 drum-beat and heart-beat / A soldier marches by: / There is color in his cheek, …

  by Francis Miles Finch

• Song of Marion’s Men

  OUR 1 band is few, but true and tried, / Our leader frank and bold; / The British soldier trembles …

  by William Cullen Bryant

• The Dance

  [Published soon after the surrender of Cornwallis] / CORNWALLIS led a country dance, / The like was never seen, sir, …

  by Anonymous

• In State

  I. / O Keeper of the Sacred Key, / And the Great Seal of Destiny, …

  by Forceythe Willson

• Brother Jonathan’s Lament for Sister Caroline

  [March 25, 1861, South Carolina having adopted the Ordinance of Secession] / SHE has gone,—she has left us in passion and pride— / Our stormy-browed sister, so long at our side! …

  by Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Jonathan to John

  It don’t seem hardly right, John, / When both my hands was full, / To stump me to a fight, John,— …

  by James Russell Lowell

• The Countersign

  Alas! the weary hours pass slow, / The night is very dark and still, / And in the marshes far below …

  by Anonymous

• Civil War

  “rifleman, shoot me a fancy shot / Straight at the heart of yon prowling vidette; / Ring me a ball in the glittering spot …

  by Charles Dawson Shanly

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