William Gilmore Simms Away Poems

  • 1.
    WE follow where the Swamp Fox guides,
    His friends and merry men are we;
    And when the troop of Tarleton rides,
    We burrow in the cypress tree.
    ...
  • 2.
    Where dwells the spirit of the Bard--what sky
    Persuades his daring wing,--
    Folded in soft carnation, or in snow
    Still sleeping, far o'er summits of the cloud,
    ...
  • 3.
    NOW are the winds about us in their glee,
    Tossing the slender tree;
    Whirling the sands about his furious car,
    March cometh from afar;
    ...
  • 4.
    I.
    Our city by the sea,
    As the rebel city known,
    With a soul and spirit free
    ...
  • 5.
    I.

    HAST thou a song for a flower,
    Such as, if breathed in its ear,
    ...
  • 6.
    THIS the true sign of ruin to a race-
    It undertakes no march, and day by day
    Drowses in camp, or, with the laggard-s pace,
    Walks sentry o-er possessions that decay;
    ...
Total 6 Away Poems by William Gilmore Simms

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