To the Nile

The Quaker Widow

WALT WHITMAN

From Song of Myself

From Faces

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

From Starting from Paumanok.

I Hear It Was Charged against Me.

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

Pioneers! O Pioneers

Cavalry Crossing a Ford

Come up from the Fields, Father

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night

A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest and the Road Unknown

Spring

I Know Not Why, but All This Weary Day

PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE

The Mocking-Birds

A Little While I Fain Would Linger Yet

POEMS OF THE CIVIL WAR

The Heart of Louisiana (by Harriet Stanton)

Dixie (by Albert Pike)

Maryland! My Maryland (by James R. Randall)

Baltimore (by B. Rush Plumly)

The Stars and Stripes (by Thomas Williams)

Ohio Fair and Free (by G. W. Y.)

After the Battle of Bull Run

Battle-Hymn of the Republic (by Julia Ward Howe)

Stonewall Jackson's Way (by John W. Palmer)

From The Song of the Rebel (by John Esten Cook)

An Incident of the War (by M. W. M.).

Calvary-Song (by Elbridge J. Cutler)

Sheridan's Ride (by Thomas Buchanan Read)

The High Tide at Gettysburg (by Will Henry Thompson)

WILLIAM MORRELL

FROM

NEW-ENGLAND

Those well seene Natives in grave Natures hests
All close designes conceale in their deepe brests;
What strange attempts so ere they doe intend
Are fairely usherd in till their last ende;
Their well advised talke evenly conveyes
Their acts to their intents, and nere displayes
Their secret projects by high words or light
Till they conclude their end by fraud or might.
No former friendship they in minde retaine,
If you offend once or your love detaine.

They're wondrous cruell, strangely base and viled,
Quickly displeasd and hardly reconcild;

Stately and great, as read in Rules of state;

Incensd, not caring what they perpetrate.

Whose hayre is cut with greeces, yet a locke

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Is left, the left side bound up in a knott.

Their males small labour but great pleasure know,

Who nimbly and expertly draw the bow;
Traind up to suffer cruell heate and cold,

Or what attempt so ere may make them bold;

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Of body straight, tall, strong, mantled in skin
Of Deare or Bever, with the hayre-side in;

An Otter skin their right armes doth keepe warme,
To keepe them fit for use and free from harme.
A Girdle set with formes of birds or beasts
Begirts their waste, which gently gives them ease.
Each one doth modestly binde up his shame,
And Deare-skin Start-ups reach up to the same;
A kinde of Pinsen keeps their feete from cold,
Which after travels they put off, up-fold.

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Themselves they warme, their ungirt limbes they rest,

In straw and houses like to sties. Distrest

With Winters cruell blasts, a hotter clime

They quickly march to; when that extreame time

Is over, then contented they retire

To their old homes, burning up all with fire:
Thus they their ground from all things quickly cleare,
And make it apt great store of Corne to beare.

ANONYMOUS

FROM

THE WHOLE BOOKE OF PSALMES

23 A PSALME OF DAVID

The Lord to mee a shepheard is,
want therefore shall not I.
Hee in the folds of tender-grasse

doth cause mee downe to lie:
To waters calme me gently leads,
Restore my soule doth hee:
he doth in paths of righteousnes

for his names sake leade mee.

Yea, though in valley of deaths shade

I walk, none ill I 'le feare;

because thou art with mee, thy rod

and staffe my comfort are.

For mee a table thou hast spread

in presence of my foes:

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