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Henry Timrod
(1828 - 1867)
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77 poems of Henry Timrod
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Shall the Spring dawn, and she still clad in smiles,
And with an unscathed brow,
Rest in the strong arms of her palm-crowned isles,
As fair and free as now?
We know not; in t...
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Henry Timrod (1828-1867), U.S. poet. Charleston (l. 37-44). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford Universit...
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''Calm as that second summer which precedes
The first fall of the snow,
In the broad sunlight of heroic deeds,
The City bides the foe.''
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Henry Timrod (1828-1867), U.S. poet. Charleston (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University ...
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''What if, both mad and blinded in their rage,
Our foes should fling us down their mortal gage,
And with a hostile step profane our sod!
We shall not shrink, my brothers, but go forth''
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Henry Timrod (1828-1867), U.S. poet. Ethnogenesis (l. 36-39). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford Univers...
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''Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,
Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;
Though yet no marble column craves
The pilgrim here to pause.''
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Henry Timrod (1828-1867), U.S. poet. Sleep sweetly in your humble graves (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. ...
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''Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!
There is no holier spot of ground
Than where defeated valor lies,
By mourning beauty crowned!''
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Henry Timrod (1828-1867), U.S. poet. Sleep sweetly in your humble graves (l. 17-20). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed...
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Hath not the morning dawned with added light?
And shall not evening call another star
Out of the infinite regions of the night,
To mark this day in Heaven? At last, we are
A nation...
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Henry Timrod (1828-1867), U.S. poet. Ethnogenesis (l. 1-6). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford Universit...
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To doubt the end were want of trust in God,
Who, if he has decreed
That we must pass a redder sea
Than that which rang to Miriam's holy glee,
Will surely raise at need
A Moses...
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Henry Timrod (1828-1867), U.S. poet. Ethnogenesis (l. 81-86). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford Univers...
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