Poems

Ode To The Confederate Dead Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirs without recollection; In the […]

A Wreath of Immortelles Judge Sawyer, whom in vain the people tried To push from power, here is laid aside. Death only from the bench could […]

Adair Welcker, Poet The Swan of Avon died–the Swan Of Sacramento’ll soon be gone; And when his death-song he shall coo, Stand back, or it will […]

Alone (In bad company) In contact, lo! the flint and steel, By sharp and flame, the thought reveal That he the metal, she the stone, Had […]

An Inscription For a Statue of Napoleon A conqueror as provident as brave, He robbed the cradle to supply the grave. His reign laid quantities of […]

Another Way I lay in silence, dead. A woman came And laid a rose upon my breast, and said, “May God be merciful.” She spoke my […]

Decalogue Thou shalt no God but me adore: ‘Twere too expensive to have more. No images nor idols make For Roger Ingersoll to break. Take not […]

Egotist Megaceph, chosen to serve the State In the halls of legislative debate, One day with his credentials came To the capitol’s door and announced his […]

Elegy The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o’er the lea; The wise man homewards plods; I only stay To […]

Freedom Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every wind, indeed, that blows I hear her yell. She screams whenever monarchs meet, […]