In midnight sleep, of many a face of anguish,Of the look at first of the mortally wounded – of that indescribable look;Of the dead on…

In former songs Pride have I sung, and Love, and passionate, joyful Life,But here I twine the strands of Patriotism and Death. And now, Life,…

In cabin’d ships, at sea,The boundless blue on every side expanding,With whistling winds and music of the waves – the large imperious waves – In…

I will take an egg out of the robin’s nest in the orchard,I will take a branch of gooseberries from the old bush in the…

I was looking a long while for a clue to the history of the past for myself, and for these chants – and now I…

I thought I was not alone, walking here by the shore,But the one I thought was with me, as now I walk by the shore,As…

I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame;I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men,…

I sing the Body electric;The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;They will not let me off till I go with…

I saw old General at bay;(Old as he was, his grey eyes yet shone out in battle like stars;)His small force was now completely hemm’d…

I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches;Without any companion it grew there, uttering joyous…