War Poetry of the SouthFront matterReading editionChapter navigation209 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterWilliam Gilmore Simms, LL. D.Preface.Ethnogenesis.George H. Miles, of Baltimore.You Can Never Win Them Back.The Southern Cross.December 20, 1860.The New Star.Tyrtæus.--Charleston Mercury.The Southern Republic.Charleston Courier.Charleston Mercury.Tyrtæus.--Charleston Mercury.The Oath of Freedom.The Battle-Cry of the South.Charleston Mercury.Seventy-Six and Sixty-One.Virginia to Winfield Scott.Nay, Keep the Sword.Coercion: A Poem for Then and Now.A Cry to Arms.Jackson, The Alexandria Martyr.The Martyr of Alexandria.The Blessed Union--Epigram.The Fire of Freedom.Hymn to the National Flag.Charleston Mercury.Our Faith in '61.Wouldst Thou Have Me Love Thee.Enlisted To-Day.My Maryland.The Boy-Soldier.The Good Old Cause.Manassas.Virginia.Respectfully dedicated to the War-Clergy of the United States.Charleston Mercury.Marching to Death.Charleston.Charleston."Ye Men of Alabama!"Nec Temere, Nec Timide.Dixie.The Old Rifleman.Charleston Mercury.Kentucky, She Is SoldSonnet--The Ship of State."In His Blanket on the Ground."The Mountain Partisan.The Cameo Bracelet.Zollicoffer.BeauregardSouth Carolina.Carolina.My Mother-Land.Joe Johnston.Over the River.The Confederacy.President Davis.The Rifleman's "Fancy Shot.""All Quiet Along the Potomac To-Night."Delivered at the opening of the new theatre at Richmond.The Battle of Richmond.The Guerillas: A Southern War-Song.A Farewell to Pope.On Reading a Proclamation for Public Prayer.Battle of Belmont.Vicksburg--A Ballad.Published Originally in the Southern Field and Fireside,The Two Armies.The Legion of Honor.Clouds in the West.Georgia, My Georgia!Song of the Texas Rangers.By----Boone.First Published in the New Orleans Delta, about September 1, 1861.Tell the Boys the War Is Ended."The Southern Cross."A Parliamentary Debate.Close the Ranks.The Sea-Kings of the South.The Return.Our Christmas Hymn.Written for the Charleston Courier in 1863.Air--Bonnie Blue FlagChristmas.A Prayer for Peace.(Heard after Pelham Died.)First published in the Wilmington Journal, April 25, 1864.From the Rapidan--1864.Song of Our Glorious Southland.Sonnet.Charleston Courier.They Cry Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace.Charleston Mercury.Missing.Charleston Mercury.Jackson.Charleston Mercury.F. Y. Rockett.--Memphis Appeal.John Pelham."Ye Batteries of Beauregard."Published in the Granada Picket.The Right above the Wrong.Carmen Triumphale.Charleston Mercury.The Unknown Dead.Ode--"Do Ye Quail?"Ode--"Our City by the Sea."The Lone Sentry.To My Soldier Brother.Written in Exile.The Salkehatchie.Ode (so-called) on a Lite Melancholy Accident in the Shenandoah Valley (so-called.)Carolina.Bu Paul H. Hayne.Cleburne.The Texan Marseillaise.O, Tempora! O, Mores!Our Departed Comrades.Published in the Montgomery Advertiser, January, 1863.The Angel of the Church.Ode--"Shell the Old City! Shell!"Andrew Jackson's Address to the People of New Orleans.War-Waves.Old Moultrie.Only One Killed.Land of King Cotton.[1]Air--Red, White, and Blue.If You Love Me.The Cotton Boll.April 7th, 1863.Fort Wagner.Sumter in Ruins.Morris Island.Promise of Spring.Spring.Richmond Senitnel.Of Our Right-Revered Father in God, Leonidas Polk, Lieutenant-General Confederate States Army."Stonewall" Jackson"Stonewall" Jackson.--A Dirge.Beaufort.The Empty Sleeve.The Cotton-Burners' Hymn.Reading the List.His Last Words.Weldon Railroad, August 21, 1864.April 14, 1861.Savannah."Old Betsy."Awake--Arise!General Albert Sidney Johnston.Eulogy of the Dead.The Beaufort Exile's Lament.Somebody's Darling.Fell at the Head of His Division, Feb. 6th, 1865, Ætat XXXIII.Captives Going Home.The Heights of Mission Ridge."Our Left at Manassas."After Southey's "March to Moscow."Turner Ashby.Captain Latane.The Men."A Rebel Soldier Killed in the Trenches before Petersburg, Va., April 15, 1865."Battle of Hampton Roads.Is This a Time to Dance?"The Maryland Line.""Sic Jurat."Charleston Mercury."Stonewall" Jackson's Way.The Silent March.Air--There is rest for the weary.The Southern Homes in Ruin."Rappahannock Army Song."The Soldier in the Rain.My Country."After the Battle."What the Heart of a Young Girl Said to the Dead Soldier.Ye Cavaliers of DixieSong of Spring, (1864.)"What the Village Bell Said."The Tree, the Serpent, and the Star.Southern War HymnThe Battle Rainbow.Mortally wounded--"The Brigade must not know, sir."Dirge for Ashby.Sacrifice.Written in 1864.Grave of A. Sydney Johnston."Not Doubtful of Your Fatherland."Only a Soldier's Grave.The Guerilla Martyrs."Libera Nos, O Domine!"The Knell Shall Sound Once More.Gendron Palmer, of the Holcombe LegionMumford, the Martyr of New Orleans.The Foe at the Gates.--Charleston.Savannah Fallen.Bull Run.--A Parody.Written in the Prison of Fort Delaware, Del., on Hearing of the Surrender of General Lee.Doffing the Gray.In the Land Where We Were DreamingBallad--"Yes, Build Your Walls."The Lines Around Petersburg.Fadette.--Memphis Appeal.Bowing Her Head.The Confederate FlagA. J. Requier.Beginning of this editionNext chapter →William Gilmore Simms, LL. D.All chapters and sections (209)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsWilliam Gilmore Simms, LL. D.Preface.Ethnogenesis.George H. Miles, of Baltimore.You Can Never Win Them Back.The Southern Cross.December 20, 1860.The New Star.Tyrtæus.--Charleston Mercury.The Southern Republic.Charleston Courier.Charleston Mercury.Tyrtæus.--Charleston Mercury.The Oath of Freedom.The Battle-Cry of the South.Charleston Mercury.Seventy-Six and Sixty-One.Virginia to Winfield Scott.Nay, Keep the Sword.Coercion: A Poem for Then and Now.A Cry to Arms.Jackson, The Alexandria Martyr.The Martyr of Alexandria.The Blessed Union--Epigram.The Fire of Freedom.Hymn to the National Flag.Charleston Mercury.Our Faith in '61.Wouldst Thou Have Me Love Thee.Enlisted To-Day.My Maryland.The Boy-Soldier.The Good Old Cause.Manassas.Virginia.Respectfully dedicated to the War-Clergy of the United States.Charleston Mercury.Marching to Death.Charleston.Charleston."Ye Men of Alabama!"Nec Temere, Nec Timide.Dixie.The Old Rifleman.Charleston Mercury.Kentucky, She Is SoldSonnet--The Ship of State."In His Blanket on the Ground."The Mountain Partisan.The Cameo Bracelet.Zollicoffer.BeauregardSouth Carolina.Carolina.My Mother-Land.Joe Johnston.Over the River.The Confederacy.President Davis.The Rifleman's "Fancy Shot.""All Quiet Along the Potomac To-Night."Delivered at the opening of the new theatre at Richmond.The Battle of Richmond.The Guerillas: A Southern War-Song.A Farewell to Pope.On Reading a Proclamation for Public Prayer.Battle of Belmont.Vicksburg--A Ballad.Published Originally in the Southern Field and Fireside,The Two Armies.The Legion of Honor.Clouds in the West.Georgia, My Georgia!Song of the Texas Rangers.By----Boone.First Published in the New Orleans Delta, about September 1, 1861.Tell the Boys the War Is Ended."The Southern Cross."A Parliamentary Debate.Close the Ranks.The Sea-Kings of the South.The Return.Our Christmas Hymn.Written for the Charleston Courier in 1863.Air--Bonnie Blue FlagChristmas.A Prayer for Peace.(Heard after Pelham Died.)First published in the Wilmington Journal, April 25, 1864.From the Rapidan--1864.Song of Our Glorious Southland.Sonnet.Charleston Courier.They Cry Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace.Charleston Mercury.Missing.Charleston Mercury.Jackson.Charleston Mercury.F. Y. Rockett.--Memphis Appeal.John Pelham."Ye Batteries of Beauregard."Published in the Granada Picket.The Right above the Wrong.Carmen Triumphale.Charleston Mercury.The Unknown Dead.Ode--"Do Ye Quail?"Ode--"Our City by the Sea."The Lone Sentry.To My Soldier Brother.Written in Exile.The Salkehatchie.Ode (so-called) on a Lite Melancholy Accident in the Shenandoah Valley (so-called.)Carolina.Bu Paul H. Hayne.Cleburne.The Texan Marseillaise.O, Tempora! O, Mores!Our Departed Comrades.Published in the Montgomery Advertiser, January, 1863.The Angel of the Church.Ode--"Shell the Old City! Shell!"Andrew Jackson's Address to the People of New Orleans.War-Waves.Old Moultrie.Only One Killed.Land of King Cotton.[1]Air--Red, White, and Blue.If You Love Me.The Cotton Boll.April 7th, 1863.Fort Wagner.Sumter in Ruins.Morris Island.Promise of Spring.Spring.Richmond Senitnel.Of Our Right-Revered Father in God, Leonidas Polk, Lieutenant-General Confederate States Army."Stonewall" Jackson"Stonewall" Jackson.--A Dirge.Beaufort.The Empty Sleeve.The Cotton-Burners' Hymn.Reading the List.His Last Words.Weldon Railroad, August 21, 1864.April 14, 1861.Savannah."Old Betsy."Awake--Arise!General Albert Sidney Johnston.Eulogy of the Dead.The Beaufort Exile's Lament.Somebody's Darling.Fell at the Head of His Division, Feb. 6th, 1865, Ætat XXXIII.Captives Going Home.The Heights of Mission Ridge."Our Left at Manassas."After Southey's "March to Moscow."Turner Ashby.Captain Latane.The Men."A Rebel Soldier Killed in the Trenches before Petersburg, Va., April 15, 1865."Battle of Hampton Roads.Is This a Time to Dance?"The Maryland Line.""Sic Jurat."Charleston Mercury."Stonewall" Jackson's Way.The Silent March.Air--There is rest for the weary.The Southern Homes in Ruin."Rappahannock Army Song."The Soldier in the Rain.My Country."After the Battle."What the Heart of a Young Girl Said to the Dead Soldier.Ye Cavaliers of DixieSong of Spring, (1864.)"What the Village Bell Said."The Tree, the Serpent, and the Star.Southern War HymnThe Battle Rainbow.Mortally wounded--"The Brigade must not know, sir."Dirge for Ashby.Sacrifice.Written in 1864.Grave of A. Sydney Johnston."Not Doubtful of Your Fatherland."Only a Soldier's Grave.The Guerilla Martyrs."Libera Nos, O Domine!"The Knell Shall Sound Once More.Gendron Palmer, of the Holcombe LegionMumford, the Martyr of New Orleans.The Foe at the Gates.--Charleston.Savannah Fallen.Bull Run.--A Parody.Written in the Prison of Fort Delaware, Del., on Hearing of the Surrender of General Lee.Doffing the Gray.In the Land Where We Were DreamingBallad--"Yes, Build Your Walls."The Lines Around Petersburg.Fadette.--Memphis Appeal.Bowing Her Head.The Confederate FlagA. J. Requier.Edited By◇William Gilmore Simms, LL. D. →