The Southern war poetry of the Civil War

by Esther Parker Ellinger

“Beyond my dingy window-pane,

This beaming Sunday morn,”—

Sunny South: (R. B. B., 109.)

“To arms, to arms and old Abe shall see,

That we have a Southern Confederacy,”—

Surrender of the A. N. Va., April 10, 1865: By Florence Anderson, Kentucky. (Amaranth.)

“Have we wept till our eyes were dim with tears,

Have we borne the sorrows of four long years,”—

Sweethearts and the War: (R. R.)

“Oh, dear! it’s shameful, I declare,