Ever to be    Land of the free,    Hold up your banner of light to the eye,    High! High!    Let its folds fly,    Blessing the earth and rejoicing the sky.     Ever…

 ‘Tis here we invade the valley,    Away from the realms of breath,    And, in most successful sally,    We enter the gates of death;    So, stand in the last line…

 Foiled on the field with his dead boys around him,    All waiting for Earth to recover her own,    Fortune hath missed him, but Glory hath found him,    While…

Inscribed to Dennis F. Burke, last Commander of the Irish Brigade, at Gettysburg.     THE SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH.     “Why come ye to this mountain, lads,    In…

 The Blue Eye will do if the courting is through    And the way of the marriage is sunny,    And it helps in the fun till the sweet…

Bird of the summering North,    Whither away?    Fly you so gaily forth    Simply to stay    Nested in northern bowers    Till the late flushing flowers    Turn in October hours    Ashen and gray?     Bear,…

 I have loved you all my days,    Betsie Brown,    And I’ll never cease to praise    Betsie Brown;    Still must I break love’s tie,    To act a patriot part,    But I’ll yield…

Thou art mighty,    Babylon!    Thou art haughty,    Babylon!    Haughty, mighty,    Babylon!    Through thy streets the bats shall fly,    O’er thy ruins owls shall cry,    All thy chivalry shall die,    Babylon!     Golden-godded    Babylon!    Idol-curs�d    Babylon!    Idol-curs�d, golden-godded,    Babylon!    All thy gods…

You felons on trial in courts; You convicts in prison-cells, you sentenced assassins, chain�d and hand-cuff�d with iron; Who am I, too, that I am not on…

Yet, yet, ye downcast hours, I know ye also;Weights of lead, how ye clog and cling at my ankles!Earth to a chamber of mourning turns,…