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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT MAGNOLIA CEMETERY, by HENRY TIMROD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep sweetly in your humble graves Last Line: By mourning beauty crowned! Variant Title(s): Ode Sung On The Occasion Of Decorating The Graves - Charleston;decoration Day At Charleston;magnolia Cemetery Ode;ode For Decoration Day;hymn For Memorial Day;ode On Decorating The Graves;magnolia Cemetery;lines;ode At Magnolia Cemetery;ode Sung At Magnolia Cemetery Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Charleston, South Carolina; Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; United States - History; Graveyards; Confederacy | |||
SLEEP sweetly in your humble graves, -- Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause! Though yet no marble column craves The pilgrim here to pause, In seeds of laurel in the earth The blossom of your fame is blown, And somewhere, waiting for its birth, The shaft is in the stones! Meanwhile, behalf the tardy years Which keep in trust your stories tombs, Behold! your sisters bring their tear, And these memorial blooms. Small tributes! but your shades will smile More proudly on these wreaths to-days, Then when some cannon-moulded pile Shall over look this bay. Stoop, angels, hither from the skies! There is no holier spot of ground Than where defeated valor lies, By mourning beauty crowned! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG by ANNIE CHAMBERS KETCHUM THE CONQUERED BANNER by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN ODE TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE BEAUREGARD by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD VIRGINIA - THE WEST by WALT WHITMAN THE JACKET OF GREY by CAROLINE AUGUSTA BALL |
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