Poems

Song of the Democratic Review of It’s Birth-Day, October 1st, 1857 IF you smile at the Snn for that pride when his eye With a broad […]

Stanzas Composed While Seeing The Effect of President Buchanan’s Great Letter to the Connecticut Factionists I. YES, factionists! well may ye tremble before The hot thunderbolt […]

The American Vintagers’ Song THE Vine, the Vine! the glorious Vine That binds the beaming brow of Mirth, That sanctifies the solemn shrine, And blushes o’er […]

The Favorite Bard “Who is my favorite bard?” you ask— Well, let me think !—there’s Milton—Spenser—and Dear Shakspeare—Bryant-—Elliott-—Street— And—how they start like stars on every hand! […]

The Hand that rocks the Cradle Blessings on the hand of women! Angels guard its strength and grace, In the palace, cottage, hovel, Oh, no matter […]

The Hundredth Birth-Day of Lafayette O’er the mountain and the valley; o’er the homestead and the mast, Mighty as the sound of waters let the summons […]

The Live American I am a live American, Life’s morning on my breast; In action, action is my Heaven, But Tophet is in rest. I grapple […]

McClellan Is The Man The cruel war must have an end; I’ll tell you what we’ll do; We’ll cast our votes for “Little Mac,” We’re bound […]

Robert E. Lee The drapery of Heaven hung low In dark and gloomy shrouds; The angels used the weeping stars In pinning back the clouds. The […]

A Lover’s Complaint FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sistering vale, My spirits to attend this double voice accorded, […]