Poems

Portals WHAT are those of the known, but to ascend and enter the Unknown? And what are those of life, but for Death?

Prayer Of Columbus IT was near the close of his indomitable and pious life–on his last voyage when nearly years of age–that Columbus, to save his […]

President Lincoln’s Burial Hymn When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the […]

Primeval My Love For The Woman I Love PRIMEVAL my love for the woman I love, O bride! O wife! more resistless, more enduring than I […]

Proud Music Of The Storm PROUD music of the storm! Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies! Strong hum of forest tree-tops! Wind of […]

Quicksand Years QUICKSAND years that whirl me I know not whither, Your schemes, politics, fail–lines give way–substances mock and elude me; Only the theme I sing, […]

Race Of Veterans RACE of veterans! Race of victors! Race of the soil, ready for conflict! race of the conquering march! (No more credulity’s race, abiding-temper’d […]

Reconciliation Word over all, beautiful as the sky! Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost; That the hands […]

Recorders Ages Hence RECORDERS ages hence! Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior–I will tell you what to say of me; Publish my […]

Respondez! RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed–the price is paid–the title is settled beyond recall Let every one answer! let those who sleep be waked! let […]