Albery Allson Whitman at Old Poetry

I lived from 1851-1901. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

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Custar's Last Ride

Forth on the fatal morn,
Proud as the waves of Horn

60 lines, 3 comments
An Idyl Of The South

Part I. THE OCTOROON
Hail! land of the palmetto and the pine,

1882 lines
The Old Sac Village

Ye who read in musty volumes
Pages worn of Backwoods Times,

195 lines
Rape Of Florida: Canto IV

Gazing upon the toiling seas,
In gloomy rows the silent captives sate;

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Rape Of Florida: Canto II

The trump of fame is but the thunder's tone
Borne off forever, dying on the wind.

1020 lines
The Lute Of Afric's Tribe

To the memory of Dr. J. McSimpson, a colored Author of Anti-Slavery Ballads. Written for the Zanesville, O., Courier.

63 lines
Rape Of Florida: Canto III

On Tampa's hights gray rose the battlements:
A summer's day had gone out in the west;

602 lines
Death Of Pashepaho

Lo! the old Sac village slumbered
In the basin of the Wabash,

68 lines
Stonewall Jackson

Defiant in the cannon's mouth,

75 lines
Saville In Trouble

Sing muse! of Saville and the direful day
When beauty fell, to ruthless hands a prey;

569 lines

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