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Drum-Taps

Name: Drum-Taps
Author: Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Drum-Taps is a collection of poetry by American poet Walt Whitman. The book, which was written during the American Civil War, was first published in 1865.

“Lo! the moon ascending!
Up from the East, the silvery round moon;
Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon;
Immense and silent moon.”

Walt Whitman book Drum-Taps

Drum-Taps. Dirge for Two Veterans
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.”

Walt Whitman book Drum-Taps

Drum-Taps. Reconciliation
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!”

Walt Whitman book Drum-Taps

Drum-Taps. Rise O Days from your fathomless Deep, 3
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“O Banner!
Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them;
You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money;
May they stand fast then? Not an hour, unless you, above them and all, stand fast.”

Walt Whitman book Drum-Taps

Drum-Taps. Song of the Banner at Daybreak
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.”

Walt Whitman book Drum-Taps

Drum-Taps. Bivouac on a Mountain-side
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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