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War Poetry of the South

by William Gilmore Simms

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  1. 1Dedication — Note
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Ethnogenesis
  4. 4God Save the South
  5. 5You Can Never Win Them Back
  6. 6The Southern Cross
  7. 7South Carolina
  8. 8The New Star
  9. 9The Irrepressible Conflict
  10. 10The Southern Republic
  11. 11The Fate of the Republics
  12. 12The Voice of the South
  13. 13The Oath of Freedom
  14. 14The Battle-Cry of the South
  15. 15Sonnet
  16. 16Seventy-Six and Sixty-One
  17. 17“Reddato Gladium”
  18. 18Nay, Keep the Sword
  19. 19Coercion: A Poem for Then and Now
  20. 20A Cry to Arms
  21. 21Jackson, the Alexandria Martyr
  22. 22The Martyr of Alexandria
  23. 23The Blessed Union — Epigram
  24. 24The Fire of Freedom
  25. 25Hymn to the National Flag
  26. 26Sonnet — Moral of Party
  27. 27Our Faith in ’61
  28. 28Wouldst Thou Have Me Love Thee
  29. 29Enlisted To-Day
  30. 30My Maryland
  31. 31The Boy-Soldier
  32. 32The Good Old Cause
  33. 33Manassas
  34. 34Virginia
  35. 35The War-Christian’s Thanksgiving
  36. 36Sonnet
  37. 37Marching to Death
  38. 38Charleston
  39. 39“Ye Men of Alabama!”
  40. 40Nec Temere, Nec Timide
  41. 41Dixie
  42. 42The Old Rifleman
  43. 43Battle Hymn
  44. 44Kentucky, She Is Sold
  45. 45Sonnet — The Ship of State
  46. 46“In His Blanket on the Ground”
  47. 47The Mountain Partisan
  48. 48The Cameo Bracelet
  49. 49Zollicoffer
  50. 50Beauregard
  51. 51South Carolina
  52. 52Carolina
  53. 53My Mother-Land
  54. 54Joe Johnston
  55. 55Over the River
  56. 56The Confederacy
  57. 57President Davis
  58. 58The Rifleman’s “Fancy Shot”
  59. 59Address
  60. 60The Battle of Richmond
  61. 61The Guerillas: A Southern War-Song
  62. 62A Farewell to Pope
  63. 63Sonnet
  64. 64Battle of Belmont
  65. 65Vicksburg — A Ballad
  66. 66A Ballad of the War
  67. 67The Two Armies
  68. 68The Legion of Honor
  69. 69Clouds in the West
  70. 70Georgia, My Georgia!
  71. 71Song of the Texas Rangers
  72. 72Kentucky Required to Yield Her Arms
  73. 73Tell the Boys the War Is Ended
  74. 74England’s Neutrality
  75. 75Close the Ranks
  76. 76The Sea-Kings of the South
  77. 77The Return
  78. 78Our Christmas Hymn
  79. 79Charleston
  80. 80Gathering Song
  81. 81Christmas
  82. 82A Prayer for Peace
  83. 83The Band in the Pines
  84. 84At Fort Pillow
  85. 85From the Rapidan — 1864
  86. 86Sonnet
  87. 87Hospital Duties
  88. 88They Cry Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace
  89. 89Ballad — “What! Have Ye Thought?”
  90. 90Missing
  91. 91Ode-“Souls of Heroes”
  92. 92Jackson
  93. 93Captain Maffit’s Ballad of the Sea
  94. 94Melt the Bells
  95. 95John Pelham
  96. 96“Ye Batteries of Beauregard”
  97. 97“When Peace Returns”
  98. 98The Right Above the Wrong
  99. 99Carmen Triumphale
  100. 100The Fiend Unbound
  101. 101The Unknown Dead
  102. 102Ode — “Do Ye Quail?”
  103. 103Ode — “Our City by the Sea”
  104. 104The Lone Sentry
  105. 105To My Soldier Brother
  106. 106Sea-Weeds
  107. 107The Salkehatchie
  108. 108The Broken Mug
  109. 109Carolina
  110. 110Our Martyrs
  111. 111Cleburne
  112. 112The Texan Marseillaise
  113. 113O, Tempora! O, Mores!
  114. 114Our Departed Comrades
  115. 115No Land Like Ours
  116. 116The Angel of the Church
  117. 117Ode — “Shell the Old City! Shell!”
  118. 118War-Waves
  119. 119Old Moultrie
  120. 120Only One Killed
  121. 121Land of King Cotton
  122. 122If You Love Me
  123. 123The Cotton Boll
  124. 124The Battle of Charleston Harbor
  125. 125Fort Wagner
  126. 126Sumter in Ruins
  127. 127Morris Island
  128. 128Promise of Spring
  129. 129Spring
  130. 130Chickmauga — “The Stream of Death”
  131. 131In Memoriam
  132. 132“Stonewall” Jackson
  133. 133“Stonewall” Jackson — A Dirge
  134. 134Beaufort
  135. 135The Empty Sleeve
  136. 136Reading the List
  137. 137His Last Words
  138. 138Charge of Hagood’s Brigade
  139. 139Carolina
  140. 140Savannah
  141. 141“Old Betsy”
  142. 142Awake — Arise!
  143. 143General Albert Sidney Johnston
  144. 144Eulogy of the Dead
  145. 145The Beaufort Exile’s Lament
  146. 146Somebody’s Darling
  147. 147John Pegram
  148. 148Captives Going Home
  149. 149The Heights of Mission Ridge
  150. 150“Our Left at Manassas”
  151. 151On to Richmond
  152. 152Turner Ashby
  153. 153Captain Latane
  154. 154The Men
  155. 155Battle of Hampton Roads
  156. 156Is This a Time to Dance?
  157. 157“The Maryland Line”
  158. 158The Virginians of the Shenandoah Valley
  159. 159Sonnet — The Avatar of Hell
  160. 160“Stonewall” Jackson’s Way
  161. 161The Silent March
  162. 162Pro Memoria
  163. 163The Southern Homes in Ruin
  164. 164“Rappahannock Army Song”
  165. 165The Soldier in the Rain
  166. 166My Country
  167. 167“After the Battle”
  168. 168Our Confederate Dead
  169. 169Ye Cavaliers of Dixie
  170. 170Song of Spring, (1864.)
  171. 171“What the Village Bell Said”
  172. 172The Tree, the Serpent, and the Star
  173. 173Southern War Hymn
  174. 174The Battle Rainbow
  175. 175Stonewall Jackson
  176. 176Dirge for Ashby
  177. 177Sacrifice
  178. 178Sonnet
  179. 179Grave of A. Sydney Johnston
  180. 180“Not Doubtful of Your Fatherland”
  181. 181Only a Soldier’s Grave
  182. 182The Guerilla Martyrs
  183. 183“Libera Nos, o Domine!”
  184. 184The Knell Shall Sound Once More
  185. 185Gendron Palmer, of the Holcombe Legion
  186. 186Mumford, the Martyr of New Orleans
  187. 187The Foe at the Gates — Charleston
  188. 188Savannah Fallen
  189. 189Bull Run — A Parody
  190. 190“Stack Arms”
  191. 191Doffing the Gray
  192. 192In the Land Where We Were Dreaming
  193. 193Ballad — “Yes, Build Your Walls”
  194. 194The Lines Around Petersburg
  195. 195All Is Gone
  196. 196Bowing Her Head
  197. 197The Confederate Flag
  198. 198Ashes of Glory

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