MANNAHATTA MY city's fit and noble name resumed, Choice aboriginal name, with marvellous beauty, meaning, A rocky founded island - shores where ev...
PAUMANOK SEA-BEAUTY! stretch'd and basking! One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious commerce, steamers, sails, And one the Atlantic&...
FROM MONTAUK POINT I STAND as on some mighty eagle's beak, Eastward the sea absorbing, viewing, (nothing but sea and sky,) The tossing waves, the ...
TO THOSE WHO'VE FAIL'D To those who've fail'd, in aspiration vast, To unnam'd soldiers fallen in front on the lead, To calm, devot...
A CAROL CLOSING SIXTY-NINE A CAROL closing sixty-nine - a résumé - a repetition, My lines in joy and hope continuing on the same, Of ye,...
THE BRAVEST SOLDIERS BRAVE, brave were the soldiers (high named to-day) who lived through the fight; But the bravest press'd to the front and fell...
A FONT OF TYPE THIS latent mine - these unlaunch'd voices - passionate powers, Wrath, argument, or praise, or comic leer, or prayer devout, (Not n...
AS I SIT WRITING HERE As I sit writing here, sick and grown old, Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities, Ungracious glooms, ach...
Where has Maid Quiet gone to, Nodding her russet hood? The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood. O how could I be so calm When s...
When the flaming lute-thronged angelic door is wide; When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay; Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thor...