fe^4 ^LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. |lm P Z. ~ ^Up. i *M£e f UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. c. lofJo. A' Southern Fbices: Poems \ BY WM. H. HOLCOMBE, M. D. PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. 1872. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. LIPPINCOTT S PRESS, PHILADELPHIA. Contents PAGE DEDICATION 7 PRELUDE 9 SOUTHERN VOICES. SONGS THAT LIVE FOR EVER 15 THE PEACEMAKER 16 STONEWALL JACKSON 17 THE SURRENDER 18 THE POOR CONFEDERATE 20 PHANTASMAGORIA 22 PASSING AWAY 23 TRAMPLED TO DEATH 24 GONE FOR EVER 25 VINDICATION 26 THE SOUTHERN MOTHER 27 HOW LONG, O LORD ? 29 WEARY 30 THE WAYS OF GOD 31 PERHAPS IN US 32 i* 5 6 Contents. PAGE THE SENTINEL AT ARLINGTON 33 TRANSITIONAL 34 LOSING TO FIND 36 CLAD IN WHITE 37 UNION 39 LONGSTREET 40 RECONSTRUCTED 41 FREE 42 WILL SHINE AGAIN . . 43 ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT E. LEE 44 WRONG 46 THE BURIAL 47 INEVITABLE 49 THE FUTURE 50 BEREAVED. BEREAVED 55 THE DEAD SOUL. THE DEAD SOUL 73 PERSONS AND THINGS. MONTAGUE THE PILOT 85 THE DUKES REVENGE 87 DEATH OF GENERAL CHARLES LEE 89 Contents. 7 PAGE LITTLE LUCY 92 TO SWEDENBORG 94 THE OLD MUSICIAN 95 UNDER THE CHERRY TREE 97 ORLEANNA 98 FAREWELL, O SEA ! 100 CHILDREN AT PLAY 102 THE HUNTERS HORN 104 BEFORE AND AFTER THE BATTLE 105 MUSIC ALL THE DAY 107 THE OLD COUNTRY CHURCH 109 MARIE. MARIE 119 ETHEREA. NOCTURNE 127 SEA VOICES 130 THE ANGEL OF MORNING 131 LISTENING 132 SPIRITUAL VISION 133 THIS HUMAN SOUL 136 STREAMLET SPEAKS 138 ROSEBUD AND SUNBEAM 139 INMOST 140 Contents. PAGE PHANTASIES 141 SUBSTANCE AND SHADOW . . . . 143 NATURE CONSOLING 145 VOICELESS . . . . 147 RECEDING ANGELS 148 IN THE DEPTHS 150 O SEA-BREEZE . . . . '. 151 DESCENSUS AVERNI 152 THE STRANGE SONG 155 GOD IN THE GARDEN 156 LET ME GO ! 158 THE TWO FIGURES 159 NEW THANATOPSIS 160 Dedication. TO ADA My one sweet child! my soid's delight ! I bring these songs to thee. Thy love, thy beauty, day and night Are spirit-songs to me. For all such music from thy birth This small return is given : These, these are but the songs of earth, While thine come down from heaven. New Orleans, September, 187 1. Prelude. Disdain us not, kindly heart of Man ! — Us unregarded poets of the earth, The little songsters, singing, as we can, Our eager melodies of little worth. We feel the pangs the greatest poets feel, The loves, the sympathies, the woes, the wrongs : What we with faltering measures half reveal, They blazon to the world in golden songs. The mocking-bird in high imperial notes Showers his passion o'er the moonlit groves ; Obscurer warblers, with less tuneful throats, Find listeners also for their happy loves. When the great sun withdraws his flaming sphere, And his long trains of amber light expire, Some little star, to heart and memory dear, Steals softly forth and strikes its silver fire. ■'..l//«i Southern Voices.