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The Chipmunk
Heart of autumn!
Weather meet,
Like to sherbert
Cool and sweet.
Stock-still I stand,
And him I see
Prying, peeping
From Beech-tree;
Crickling, crackling
Gleefully!
But, affrighted
By wee sound,
Presto! vanish--
Whither bound?
So did Baby,
Crowing mirth
E'en as startled
By some inkling
Touching Earth,
Flit (and whither?)
From our hearth!
Weather meet,
Like to sherbert
Cool and sweet.
Stock-still I stand,
And him I see
Prying, peeping
From Beech-tree;
Crickling, crackling
Gleefully!
But, affrighted
By wee sound,
Presto! vanish--
Whither bound?
So did Baby,
Crowing mirth
E'en as startled
By some inkling
Touching Earth,
Flit (and whither?)
From our hearth!
Fiction
Poetry Books
Short Stories
Poetry
- A Canticle
- A Dirge for McPherson
- A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia
- America
- An Epitaph
- Apathy And Enthusiasm
- At the Cannon's Mouth
- Aurora-Borealis
- Battle of Stone River, Tennessee
- Chattanooga
- Donelson
- Dupont's Round Fight
- Falstaff's Lament Over Prince Hal Become Henry V
- Gettysburg
- Gold in the Mountain
- Immolated
- In The Old Farm-house
- In the Pauper's Turnip-Field
- In the Turret
- Inscription for Graves
- Inscription For Marye's Heights
- Jack Roy
- Lee in the Capitol
- Look-out Mountain
- Lyon
- Magnanimity Baffled
- Malvern Hill
- Misgivings
- On a Natural Monument
- On Sherman's Men
- On the Men of Maine
- Presentation to the Authorities
- Running the Batteries
- Sheridan at Cedar Creek
- Shiloh
- Stonewall Jackson
- The Apparition
- The Armies of the Wilderness
- The Battle for the Bay
- The Battle for the Mississipppi
- The Berg (a Dream)
- The Chipmunk
- The Coming Storm
- The Conflict of Convictions
- The Cumberland
- The Eagle of the Blue
- The Enthusiast
- The Fall of Richmond
- The Fortitude of the North
- The Frenzy in the Wake
- The House-Top
- The Maldive Shark
- The March to the Sea
- The Mound by the Lake
- The Muster
- The Returned Volunteer to his Rifle
- The Scout Toward Aldie
- The Stone Fleet
- The Surrender at Appomattox
- The Temeraire
- The Victor of Antietam
- Verses
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