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,…

Years of the modern! years of the unperform’d!Your horizon rises, I see it parting away for more august dramas;I see not America only, I see…

Year that trembled and reel’d beneath me!Your summer wind was warm enough, yet the air I breathed froze me;A thick gloom fell through the sunshine…

Year of meteors! brooding year!I would bind in words retrospective, some of your deeds and signs;I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad;I would…

World, take good notice, silver stars fading,Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching,Coals thirty-eight, baleful and burning,Scarlet, significant, hands off warning,Now and henceforth flaunt from…