 | 1863 - 804 pages
...splashing. • "All quiet along the Potomac to-night." No round save the rush of the river: While soft-Jails the dew on the face of the dead, The Picket's off duty forever. ROBERT W. FOLSOM. The other hero alluded to by the cor respondent of the Mercury, 'is thus de bcribed... | |
 | Sir William Howard Russell - Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 - 1861 - 1102 pages
...looked like a ride—" Ha ! Mary, good-live ! " And the life-blood U ebbing and pla>Ling. All quiet along the Potomac to-night ! No sound save the rush of the river ; While »oft falls the dew on the faco of the dead— The picket's off duty forever! E. B ' In respect to... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1843 - 260 pages
...like a rifle — ' ' Ha ! Mary, good-bye ! ' ' And the life-blood is ebbing and plashing. 9. All quiet along the Potomac to-night, No sound save the rush...soft falls the dew on the face of the dead — The picket 's off duty forever. 1 FICK'?T. A guard posted at some distance from an army to secure the camp... | |
 | William Wyndham Malet - Southern States - 1863 - 354 pages
...like a rifle — " Ha ! — Mary, good-bye !" And the life-blood is ebbing and plashing. All quiet along the Potomac to-night, No sound save the rush...soft falls the dew on the face of the dead — The picket off duty for ever ! On Ascension-day, 29th May, I went early, before 7 AM, to the church of... | |
 | John Henry Hayward - American poetry - 1863 - 410 pages
...good-by !" _ And the life-blood is ebbing and plashing. All quiet along the Potomac to-night, ]STo sound save the rush of the river; While soft falls...face of the dead— The picket's off duty forever! EB THEEE IS NO SEPULCHEE. TIGHT AT CAMP ALLEGHANY, VA. ? DECEMBER 13TH, '61. THERE is no sepulchre... | |
 | John Henry Hayward - American poetry - 1864 - 418 pages
...looked like a rifle — " Ha ! Mary, good-by !" And the life-blood is ebbing and plashing. All quiet along the Potomac to-night, No sound save the rush...face of the dead — The picket's off duty forever ! EB THERE IS NO SEPULCHRE. FIGHT AT CAMP ALLEGHANY, VA., DECEMBER 13TH, '61. THERE is no sepulchre... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1864 - 364 pages
...looked like a rifle — " Ha ! MART, good-by ! " And the life-blood is ebbing and plashing. All quiet along the Potomac to-night, — No sound save the...soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, — The picket 's off duty forever. BY MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. " And I saw heaven opened, and beheld a... | |
 | Frank Moore - History - 1864 - 354 pages
...good-by !" And the life-blood is ebbing and plashing. All quiet along the Potomac to-night, — Kb sound save the rush of the river; While soft falls...face of the dead, — The picket's off duty forever. THE HOLY. WAR. BY MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. " And I saw heaven opened, and "beheld a -white horse... | |
 | United States - 1864 - 356 pages
...good-by !" And the life-blood is ebbing and 'plashing. All quiet along the Potomac to-night, — ]STo sound save the rush of the river ; While soft falls...face of the dead, — The picket's off duty forever. "THE LAST BEOADSIDE." BY ELIZABETH T. POKTER BEACH, The following lines were written upon hearing of... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...looked like a rifle — " Ha ! Mary, good-bye ! " And the life-blood is ebbing and plashing. All quiet along the Potomac to-night, No sound save the rush...face of the dead — The Picket's off duty forever 1 LX. A PASTOKAL. BY AJ MUNBY. I sat with Doris, the Shepherd maiden ; Her crook was laden with wreathed... | |
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And the life-blood is ebbing and plashing. 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. 
