Poems

“The Liberty Bell” A sound like a sound of thunder rolled, And the heart of a nation stirred— For the bell of Freedom, at midnight tolled, […]

Death Song of the Little Manitou of Flowers I. I LAY me down upon the leaves, And bind my brow with flowers That were my beautiful […]

Epitaphs ALL reverence unto Epitaphs, For high or for the lowly, Whenever they on graves are writ By Truth, and so made holy. Such make, in […]

Hymn For the Metropolitan Obsequies of General Worth, November 25th, 1857. I. Oh, well may the muffled drum be rolled, And the Star-Flag wrapped around him; […]

Hymn of the Moon to the Sun I. THRoUGH the desolate aisles of my shadowy caves, On my mountains that must but for thee tower dim, […]

Hymn of the Sun FIRST VOICE. Listen. !—The Lord is still at musical motion in all the worlds. And look far o’er the terrible Void—how Mazzaroth […]

In the Memory of the Heroic Captain Herndon Lost In The Wreck Of The “Central America” (Inscribed To Mrs. W. B. Magruder of Washingtom City.) I. […]

Last Words of Washington –So had the hero lain all night, With folded arms, and large white brow serene, Like the calm stature of a deity, […]

Launch of a Russian Corvette From an American Shipyard O WELL may a gladness illumine each brow, And a triumph fr~m heart to heart leap, While […]

Ode On The Birthday of Charles Wesley I. O ENGLAND, through thy lovely vales And emerald hills how many now In memory of the poet-priest With […]