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Title: The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems

Author: H. L. Gordon

Release Date: February 28, 2005 [EBook #15205]

Language: English

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THE FEAST OF THE VIRGINS

AND OTHER POEMS

BY

H.L. GORDON

_I had rather write one word upon the rock
Of ages, than ten thousand in the sand._

Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1891 by H.L. GORDON in
the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.C.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Address to the Flag
A Million More
An Old English Oak
Anthem
Betzko
Beyond
Byron and the Angel
Change
Charge of the "Black-Horse"
Charge of Fremont's Body-Guard
Charity
Chickadee
Christmas Eve [Illustrated]
Daniel
Do They Think of Us?
Dust to Dust
Fame
Fido
Gettysburg: Charge of the First Minnesota
Heloise
Hope
Hurrah for the Volunteers!
Isabel
Lines on the Death of Captain Coats
Love will Find
Mauley [Illustrated]
Men
Minnetonka [Illustrated]
Mrs. McNair
My Dead
My Father-Land
My Heart's on the Rhine
Night Thoughts
New Years Address, 1866 [Illustrated]
O Let Me Dream the Dreams of Long Ago
Only a Private Killed
On Reading President Lincoln's Letter
Out of the Depths
Pat and the Pig
Pauline [Illustrated]
Poetry
Prelude--The Mississippi
Sailor Boy's Song
Spring [Illustrated]
Thanksgiving
The Devil and the Monk [Illustrated]
The Draft
The Dying Veteran
The Feast of the Virgins [Illustrated]
The Legend of the Falls [Illustrated]
The Minstrel
The Old Flag
The Pioneer [Illustrated]
The Reign of Reason
The Sea-Gull [Illustrated]
The Tariff on Tin [Illustrated]
To Mollie
To Sylva
Twenty Years Ago [Illustrated]
Wesselenyi [Illustrated]
Winona [Illustrated]

PREFACE

At odd hours during an active and busy life I have dallied with the
Muses. I found in them, in earlier years, rest from toil