Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for;But you, a new brood, native, athletic,…

O to make the most jubilant poem!Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of Death.O full of music! full of manhood,…

You just maturing youth! You male or female!Remember the organic compact of These States,Remember the pledge of the Old Thirteen thenceforward to the rights, life,…

Come, my tan-faced children,Follow well in order, get your weapons ready;Have you your pistols? have you your sharp edged axes?Pioneers! O pioneers! For we cannot…

Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves,As Souls only understand Souls.

Pensive, on her dead gazing, I heard the Mother of All,Desperate, on the torn bodies, on the forms covering the battle-fields gazing;(As the last gun…

Pensive and faltering,The words, the dead, I write;For living are the Dead;(Haply the only living, only real,And I the apparition – I the spectre.)

Wild, wild the storm, and the sea high running,Steady the roar of the gale, with incessant undertone muttering,Shouts of demoniac laughter fitfully piercing and pealing,Waves,…

Singing my days,Singing the great achievements of the present,Singing the strong, light works of engineers,Our modern wonders, (the antique ponderous Seven outvied,)In the Old World,…

Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice,Be not dishearten’d – Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet;Those who love each other shall become invincible…