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…

Recorders ages hence!Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior I will tell you what to say of me;Publish my name and hang…

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 of the…

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 race;)Race henceforth owning no…

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, the…

Proud music of the storm!Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies!Strong hum of forest tree-tops! Wind of the mountains!Personified dim shapes! you hidden…

Primeval my love for the woman I love,O bride! O wife! more resistless, more enduring than I can tell, the thought of you!Then separate, as…

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 western sky in the…

A batter’d, wreck’d old man,Thrown on this savage shore, far, far from home,Pent by the sea, and dark rebellious brows, twelve dreary months,Sore, stiff with…

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