#Americans
An empty bench, a sky of grayest e… A bare, bleak shed in blackest sil… Twelve years of platform, and befo… Twelve miles of prairie glimmering… North, south, east, west,—the same…
Beetling walls with ivy grown, Frowning heights of mossy stone; Turret, with its flaunting flag Flung from battlemented crag; Dungeon-keep and fortalice
O BELLS that rang, O bells that… Above the martyrs’ wilderness, Till from that reddened coast-line… The Gospel seed to cheer and bles… What are your garnered sheaves to-…
My Papa knows you, and he says yo… books; But I never read nothing you wrot… looks. So I guess you’re like me when I…
Did I ever tell you, my dears, th… That the birds of Cisseter—'Cisse… Well 'Ciren-cester’—one OUGHT t… From ‘Castra,’ or ‘Caster,’ As your Latin master
Above the bones St. Ursula owns, And those of the virgins she chape… Above the boats, And the bridge that floats,
Above the pines the moon was slowl… The river sang below; The dim Sierras, far beyond, upli… Their minarets of snow. The roaring camp-fire, with rude h…
‘The sky is clouded, the rocks are… The spray of the tempest is white… The winds are out with the waves a… And I shall not tempt the sea to-… ’The trail is narrow, the wood is…
Bunny, lying in the grass, Saw the shining column pass; Saw the starry banner fly, Saw the chargers fret and fume, Saw the flapping hat and plume,—
AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR ‘I was with Grant’—the stranger s… Said the farmer, ‘Say no more, But rest thee here at my cottage p… For thy feet are weary and sore.’
FATHER FELIPE I speak not the English well, but… She speak for me; is it not so, my… Eh, little rogue? Come, salute me… Americano.
(AN AERIAL RETROSPECT) What was it filled my youthful dre… In place of Greek or Latin themes… Or beauty’s wild, bewildering beam… Avitor!
(RE-UNION, ARMY OF THE… Well, you see, the fact is, Colon… For the farm is not half planted,… And my leg is getting troublesome,… And the doctors, they have cut and…
(MOUTH OF THE SHAFT) What I want is my husband, sir,— And if you’re a man, sir, You’ll give me an answer,— Where is my Joe?
Our window’s not much, though it f… There’s a fly in the pane that get… But it’s curious how people think… For ME to look out of the window! Why, when company comes, and they’…