Poems

I Saw In Louisiana A Live Oak Growing I SAW in Louisiana a live-oak growing, All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the […]

I Saw Old General At Bay I SAW old General at bay; (Old as he was, his grey eyes yet shone out in battle like stars […]

I Sing The Body Electric I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will not let […]

I Sit And Look Out I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; I hear secret […]

I Thought I Was Not Alone I THOUGHT I was not alone, walking here by the shore, But the one I thought was with me, as […]

I Was Looking A Long While I WAS looking a long while for a clue to the history of the past for myself, and for these […]

I Will Take An Egg Out Of The Robin’s Nest I WILL take an egg out of the robin’s nest in the orchard, I will take […]

In Cabin’d Ships At Sea IN cabin’d ships, at sea, The boundless blue on every side expanding, With whistling winds and music of the waves–the large […]

In Former Songs IN former songs Pride have I sung, and Love, and passionate, joyful Life, But here I twine the strands of Patriotism and Death. […]

In Midnight Sleep IN midnight sleep, of many a face of anguish, Of the look at first of the mortally wounded–of that indescribable look; Of the […]