When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom�d,And the great star early droop�d in the western sky in the night,I mourn�d�and yet shall mourn with ever-returning…

When I read the book, the biography famous,And is this, then, (said I,) what the author calls a man’s life?And so will some one, when…

When I peruse the conquer’d fame of heroes, and the victories of mighty generals, I do not envy the generals,Nor the President in his Presidency,…

When I heard the learn’d astronomer;When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to…

When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv’d with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a…

What weeping face is that looking from the window?Why does it stream those sorrowful tears?Is it for some burial place, vast and dry?Is it to…

What think you I take my pen in hand to record?The battle-ship, perfect-model’d, majestic, that I saw pass the offing to-day under full sail?The splendors…

What place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?Lo! I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal;And with him horse and…

What General has a good army in himself, has a good army;He happy in himself, or she happy in herself, is happy,But I tell you…

What best I see in thee,Is not that where thou mov’st down history’s great highways,Ever undimm’d by time shoots warlike victory’s dazzle,Or that thou sat’st…