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The Ravaged Villa
In shards the sylvan vases lie,
Their links of dance undone,
And brambles wither by thy brim,
Choked fountain of the sun!
The spider in the laurel spins,
The weed exiles the flower:
And, flung to kiln, Apollo's bust
Makes lime for Mammon's tower.
John Marr and Other Sailors
Sea Pieces
Poems From Timoleon
Poems From Battle Pieces
- Supplement
- The Portent
- From the Conflict of Convictions
- The March into Virginia
- Ball's Bluff
- The Stone Fleet
- The Temeraire
- A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Flight
- Malvern Hill
- Stonewall Jackson
- The House Top
- Chattanooga
- On the Photograph of a Corps Commander
- The Swamp Angel
- Sheridan at Cedar Creek
- In the Prison Pen
- The College Colonel
- The Martyr
- Rebel Color-Bearers at Shiloh
- Aurora Borealis
- The Released Rebel Prisoner
- On the Slain Collegians
- America
- Inscription
- The Fortitude of the North
- The Mound by the Lake
- On the Slain at Chickamauga
- An Uninscribed Monument
- On the Grave of A Young Cavalry Officer
- A Requiem
- Commemorative of A Naval Victory
- A Meditation
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