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War-lyrics and other poems

Brownell, Henry Howard (1820-1872)

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TO THE VICE-ADMIRAL, DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT.
 
THE BAY FIGHT.
 
THE RIVER FIGHT.
 
ANNUS MEMORABILIS.
 
THE BATTLE SUMMERS.
 
SUSPIRIA ENSIS.
 
DOWN!
 
WORDS THAT CAN BE SUNG
 
THE EAGLE OF CORINTH.
 
THE COLOR-BEARER.
 
A WAR STUDY.
 
BURY THEM.
 
WOOD AND COAL.
 
NIGHT-QUARTERS.
 
COMING.
 
SUMTER.
 
APRIL 19, 1775–1861.
 
ON FIRE.
 
LET US ALONE.
 
THE MARCH OF THE REGIMENT.
 
LINES
 
HEARTS OF OAK.—AN EPITAPH.
 
ON THE KILLING OF CERTAIN DOGS.
 
MR. CARLYLE'S CHIMNEY,
 
THE FALL OF AL-ACCOUB.
 
ONE WORD.
 
ONLY A WORD.
 
SOMNIA CŒLI.
 
THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTOWN.
 
HONEST ABE.
 
THE CAMP OF NOVEMBER.
 
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
 
PSYCHAURA.
 
OLD PAPERS.
 
ALL TOGETHER.
 
SUSPIRIA NOCTIS.
 
TO THE POET.
 
GONE.
 
PRESENTIMENT.
 
MIDNIGHT—A LAMENT.
 
OCCIDENTE.
 
NOVEMBER. By L. E. B.
 
MARE NON CLAUSUM.
 
THE BURIAL OF THE DANE.
 
AD NAVEM.
 
THE RETURN OF KANE.
 
AT SEA.
 
ALONE.
 
WAITING FOR THE SHIP.
 
IN ARTICULO MORTIS.
 
SONG OF THE ARCHANGELS.
 
APRÈS LA SOMMEIL.
 
THE CHANGELING.
 
TWILIGHT.
 
RAPPORT.
 
QU'IL MOURUT.
 
THE STEAM-SPIRIT.
 
LINES, KIMPOSED A BORED OF A CALIFORNY MALE-STEEMER.
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EARLY POEMS.
 
“EVEN THIS WILL PASS AWAY.”
 
PLACE DE LA REVOLUTION.
 
THE TOMB OF COLUMBUS.
 
THE SPHINX.
 
THE BOOK.
 
PHILIP THE FREED-MAN.
 
THE NURSE OF NERO.
 
THE PORTRAIT.
 
DEPARTED.
 
TO JOHN.
 
THE PASSING-BELL.
 
OBED THE SKIPPER.
 
JACK'S VISITOR.
 
DIES IRÆ.
 
TO ---
 
ÆGRI SOMNIA.
 
ANACREONTIC.
 
THE ADIEU.
 
LONG AGO.
 
NOTE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION.

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TWILIGHT.

The mountain wears an ominous frown,
In the face of the troubled sky—
The woods on his crown gloom darkly down
From their rooted hold on high—
Like the hair of a giant close shorn, I trow,
They bristle up from his shaggy brow.
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