Poems

Wayfarer of Earth Up, heart of mine, Thou wayfarer of Earth! Of seed divine, Be mindful of thy birth. Though the flesh faint Through long-endured constraint […]

April 20, 1864 Three years ago to-day We raised our hands to heaven, And on the rolls of muster Our names were thirty-seven; There were just […]

Sambo’s Right To Be Kilt Some tell me ’tis a burnin’ shame To make the naygers fight, And that the trade of bein’ kilt Belongs but […]

Soon We’ll Have The Union Back Good people all, both great and small, I sing a tale of pity, My hand I fling across the string, […]

The Same Canteen There are bonds of all sorts in this world of ours, Fetters of friendship and ties of flowers, And true lover’s knots, I […]

A Letter From the Trenches to a School Friend I have not brought my Odyssey With me here across the sea; But you’ll remember, when I […]

All the Hills and Vales Along All the hills and vales along Earth is bursting into song, And the singers are the chaps Who are going […]

Barbury Camp We burrowed night and day with tools of lead, Heaped the bank up and cast it in a ring And hurled the earth above. […]

Expectans Expectavi From morn to midnight, all day through, I laugh and play as others do, I sin and chatter, just the same As others with […]

Rooks There where the rusty iron lies, The rooks are cawing all the day. Perhaps no man, until he dies, Will understand them, what they say. […]