 | Richard Grant White - American poetry - 1866 - 368 pages
...the rebel armies some of "the finest fighting material" the rebel Commissioner of Exchange ever saw. And the day that comes with a cloudy dawn In golden...evening skies Together they followed the cattle home. Harpers' Magazine. ON PICKET DUTY. WITHIN a green and shadowy wood, Circled with spring, alone I stood... | |
 | Richard Grant White - American poetry - 1866 - 352 pages
...Loosely swang in the idle air The empty sleeve of army blue ; And worn and pale, from the crisping hair, Looked out a face that the father knew ; For Southern...sometimes yawn, And yield their dead unto life again ; * * Yet there are twelve thousand nine hundred and nineteen graves of Union soldiers at the one rebel... | |
 | Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - Readers - 1866 - 204 pages
...army blue ; And worn and pale, from the crisping hair, Looked out a face that the father knew;— . And yield their dead unto life again; And the day that comes with a cloudy dawn For Southern prisons will sometimes yawn, In golden glory at last may wane. The great tears sprang... | |
 | Benjamin W. Atwell - Elocution - 1867 - 106 pages
...will sometimes yawn, And yield their dead unto life again ; Aud that day that comes with a cloudy dawn The great tears sprang to their meeting eyes ; For...evening skies Together they followed the cattle home. SELECTIONS IN DIALOGUES. I. A SCENE FROM "AS YOU LIKE IT." The DUKE (with Attendants), JAQUES and TOUCHSTONE.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...Loosely swung in the idle air The empty sleeve of army blue ; And worn and pale, from the crisping hair, 2 ; Fortheheart must speak when the lipsare. dumb; And under the silent evening skies Together they followed... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...Loosely swung in the idle air The empty sleeve of army blue ; And worn and pale, from the crisping hair, + BC pBC +B d umb ; And under the silent evening skies Together they followed the cattle home. ANONYMOUS. THE BATTLE... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1872 - 542 pages
...the idle air The empty sleeve of army blue ; Ai.d worn and pale, from the crisping hair, Looked oat a face that the father knew. For Southern prisons...their meeting eyes ; For the heart must speak when tho lips are dumb : And under the silent evening skies Together they followed the cattle home. UNDER... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...Loosely swung in the idle air The empty sleeve of army blue ; And worn and pale, from the crisping hair, et the pleasure. Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed...vain : Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice conies with a cloudy dawn In golden glory at last may «-one. The great tears sprang to their meeting... | |
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... saw them coming one by one, — Brindle, Ebony, Speckle, and Bess, Shaking their horns in the evening wind ; Cropping the buttercups out of the grass, — But who was it following close behind ? Loosely swung in the idle air The empty sleeve of army... 
