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CONTENTS.
Drum-Taps............................................ | 5 |
Shut not your doors to me proud Libraries............ | 8 |
Cavalry crossing a ford.............................. | 8 |
Song of the Banner at Day-Break...................... | 9 |
By the bivouac's fitful flame........................ | 16 |
1861................................................. | 17 |
From Paumanok starting I fly like a bird............. | 18 |
Beginning my studies................................. | 18 |
The Centenarian's Story.............................. | 19 |
Pioneers! O Pioneers!................................ | 25 |
Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither..... | 30 |
The Dresser.......................................... | 31 |
When I heard the learn'd Astronomer.................. | 34 |
Rise O Days from your fathomless deeps............... | 35 |
A child's amaze...................................... | 37 |
Beat! beat ! drums !................................. | 38 |
Come up from the fields, father...................... | 39 |
City of ships........................................ | 41 |
Mother and babe...................................... | 41 |
Vigil strange I kept on the fled one night........... | 42 |
Bathed in war's perfume.............................. | 43 |
A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown | 44 |
Long, too long, O land............................... | 45 |
A sight in camp in the day-break grey and dim........ | 46 |
A farm picture....................................... | 46 |
Give me the splendid silent sun...................... | 47 |
Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice.............. | 49 |
Did you ask dulcet rhymes from me?................... | 50 |
Year of meteors...................................... | 51 |
The Torch............................................ | 52 |
Years of the unperform'd............................. | 53 |
Year that trembled and reel'd beneath me............. | 54 |
The Veteran's vision................................. | 55 |
O tan-faced Prairie-boy.............................. | 56 |
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Camps of green.......................................... | 57 |
As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods................. | 58 |
Hymn of dead soldiers................................... | 59 |
The ship................................................ | 60 |
A Broadway pageant...................................... | 61 |
Flag of stars, thick-sprinkled bunting.................. | 65 |
Old Ireland............................................. | 66 |
Look down fair moon..................................... | 66 |
Out of the rolling ocean, the crowd..................... | 67 |
World, take good notice................................. | 67 |
I saw old General at bay................................ | 68 |
Others may praise what they like........................ | 68 |
Solid, ironical, rolling orb............................ | 68 |
Hush'd be the camps to-day.............................. | 69 |
Weav in, weave in, my hardy soul........................ | 69 |
Turn, O Libertad........................................ | 70 |
Bivonac on a mountain side.............................. | 70 |
Pensive on her dead gazing, I heard the mother of all... | 71 |
Not youth pertains to me................................ | 72 |
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