Poems

As I Walk These Broad, Majestic Days AS I walk these broad, majestic days of peace, (For the war, the struggle of blood finish’d, wherein, O […]

As I Watche’d The Ploughman Ploughing AS I watch’d the ploughman ploughing, Or the sower sowing in the fields–or the harvester harvesting, I saw there too, […]

As If A Phantom Caress’d Me As if a phantom caress’d me, I thought I was not alone, walking here by the shore; But the one […]

As The Time Draws Nigh As the time draws nigh, glooming, a cloud, A dread beyond, of I know not what, darkens me. I shall go […]

As Toilsome I Wander’d AS TOILSOME I wander’d Virginia’s woods, To the music of rustling leaves, kick’d by my feet, (for ’twas autumn,) I mark’d at […]

Ashes Of Soldiers Again a verse for sake of you, You soldiers in the ranks–you Volunteers, Who bravely fighting, silent fell, To fill unmention’d graves. ASHES […]

assurances I NEED no assurances–I am a man who is preoccupied, of his own Soul; I do not doubt that from under the feet, and beside […]

Bathed In War’s Perfume BATHED in war’s perfume–delicate flag! (Should the days needing armies, needing fleets, come again,) O to hear you call the sailors and […]

Beat! Beat! Drums! BEAT! beat! drums!–Blow! bugles! blow! Through the windows–through doors–burst like a ruthless force, Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation; Into the […]

Beautiful Women WOMEN sit, or move to and fro–some old, some young; The young are beautiful–but the old are more beautiful than the young.