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…

What am I, after all, but a child, pleas’d with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over;I stand apart to hear,…

Weave in! weave in, my hardy life!Weave yet a soldier strong and full, for great campaigns to come;Weave in red blood! weave sinews in, like…

We two, how long we were fool’d!Now transmuted, we swiftly escape, as Nature escapes;We are Nature, long have we been absent, but now we return;We…

We two boys together clinging,One the other never leaving,Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,Arm’d and…