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Stephen Vincent Benet's Poetry, by title

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  • 1936
    All night they marched, the infantrymen under pack,
    But the hands gripping the rifles were naked bone
    18 lines
  • A Minor Poet
    I am a shell. From me you shall not hear
    The splendid tramplings of insistent drums,
    14 lines, 3 comments
  • Alexander VI Dines With The Cardinal Of Capua
    Next, then, the peacock, gilt
    With all its feathers. Look, what gorgeous dyes
    60 lines
  • Army Of Northern Virginia
    Army of Northern Virginia, army of legend,
    Who were your captains that you could trust them so surely?
    297 lines, 4 comments
  • Campus Sonnets: Before An Examination
    The little letters dance across the page,
    Flaunt and retire, and trick the tired eyes;
    14 lines
  • Campus Sonnets: May Morning
    I lie stretched out upon the window-seat
    And doze, and read a page or two, and doze,
    14 lines
  • Campus Sonnets: Return - 1917
    "The College will reopen Sept. —."
    `Catalogue'.
    17 lines
  • Campus Sonnets: Talk
    Tobacco smoke drifts up to the dim ceiling
    From half a dozen pipes and cigarettes,
    14 lines
  • Colors
    (For D. M. C.)
    The little man with the vague beard and guise
    15 lines
  • Dedication: To W. R. B.
    And so, to you, who always were
    Perseus, D'Artagnan, Lancelot
    12 lines
  • Difference
    My mind’s a map. A mad sea-captain drew it
    Under a flowing moon until he knew it;
    26 lines
  • Dinner In A Quick Lunch Room
    Soup should be heralded with a mellow horn,
    Blowing clear notes of gold against the stars;
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Elegy For An Enemy
    (For G. H.)
    Say, does that stupid earth
    57 lines
  • Ghosts Of A Lunatic Asylum
    Here, where men's eyes were empty and as bright
    As the blank windows set in glaring brick,
    16 lines
  • Going Back To School
    The boat ploughed on. Now Alcatraz was past
    And all the grey waves flamed to red again
    31 lines
  • Lonely Burial
    There were not many at that lonely place,
    Where two scourged hills met in a little plain.
    14 lines
  • Love In Twilight
    There is darkness behind the light -- and the pale light drips
    Cold on vague shapes and figures, that, half-seen loom
    20 lines
  • Metropolitan Nightmare
    I rained quite a lot, that spring. You woke in the morning
    And saw the sky still clouded, the streets still wet,
    99 lines, 1 comment
  • Music
    My friend went to the piano; spun the stool
    A little higher; left his pipe to cool;
    27 lines
  • Nightmare Number Three
    We had expected everything but revolt
    And I kind of wonder myself when they started thinking--
    79 lines, 1 comment
  • Nos Immortales
    Perhaps we go with wind and cloud and sun,
    Into the free companionship of air;
    14 lines
  • Poor Devil!
    Well, I was tired of life; the silly folk,
    The tiresome noises, all the common things
    24 lines
  • Portrait Of A Baby
    He lay within a warm, soft world
    Of motion. Colors bloomed and fled,
    55 lines, 1 comment
  • Portrait Of A Boy
    After the whipping he crawled into bed,
    Accepting the harsh fact with no great weeping.
    24 lines
  • Rain After A Vaudeville Show
    The last pose flickered, failed. The screen's dead white
    Glared in a sudden flooding of harsh light
    30 lines
  • Road And Hills
    I shall go away
    To the brown hills, the quiet ones,
    58 lines
  • Robert E. Lee
    The man was loved, the man was idolized,
    The man had every just and noble gift.
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • The Ballad Of William Sycamore [1790-1871]
    My father, he was a mountaineer,
    His fist was a knotty hammer;
    76 lines, 2 comments
  • The Breaking Point
    It was not when temptation came,
    Swiftly and blastingly as flame,
    35 lines
  • The City Revisited
    The grey gulls drift across the bay
    Softly and still as flakes of snow
    56 lines
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