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The Man-of-War Hawk
Yon black man-of-war-hawk that wheels in
the light
O'er the black ship's white sky-s'l, sunned
cloud to the sight,
Have we low-flyers wings to ascend to his
height?
No arrow can reach him; nor thought can
attain
To the placid supreme in the sweep of his
reign.
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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