Ethel Lynn Beers Quotes

Ethel Lynn Beers was an American poet best known for her patriotic and sentimental Civil War poem "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight". Wikipedia

✵ 13. January 1827 – 11. October 1879

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Ethel Lynn Beers Quotes

“All quiet along the Potomac to-night,
No sound save the rush of the river,
While soft falls the dew on the face of the dead—
The picket ’s off duty forever.”

Ethel Lynn Beers

"All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" (first published in Harper's Weekly on November 30, 1861 under the title The Picket Guard).

“Calmer than midnight's deepest bush
Is the sun-bright Summer nooning,
With its cloudy shadows seeking rest,
That fall on the hillside swooning.
Great Night with its solemn starry eyes,
Over Day's gate asks us whither We go,
what our password is,
To the camp beyond the river. …”

Ethel Lynn Beers

"Noonday Rest" (1869; published in All Quiet Along the Potomac and Other Poems, 1879).

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