Chapter 2 POEMS OF WAR

Thick-Sprinkled Bunting 3

Beat! Beat! Drums! 4

City of Ships 6

A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown 7

Come Up From the Fields Father 9

A Twilight Song 12

A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 14

Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me 16

First O Songs for a Prelude 17

Song of the Banner at Daybreak 21

The Dying Veteran 31

The Wound-Dresser 32

Dirge for Two Veterans 37

From Far Dakota's Ca?ons 39

Old War-Dreams 41

Delicate Cluster 42

To a Certain Civilian 43

Adieu to a Soldier 44

Long, Too Long America 45