Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Brief Biography of Laura Redden Searing
JUDY YAEGER JONES
Laura Redden Searing: A Restored Voice in American Poetry
JANE E. VALLIER
Idyls of Battle
The Red, White, and Blue
In Time of War
Left on the Battle-Field
To the Earnest Thinkers
De Profundis
The Story of Sumter
Watch-Night
The Legend of Our Victories
The Latest War News
Baker
The Snow in October
An Appeal
The Graves of Gettysburg
The Snow at Fredericksburg
The President’s Proclamation
A Greeting for a New Year
The Volunteer’s Return
My Absent Soldier
Butler’s Black Brigade
The Quiet Man
My Story
The Last Poem
Dedicatory Poems
A Farewell
Wilhelmine
Dear Mother
Thirty Years
To John Greenleaf Whittier
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
The Unveiling of the Fountain
Little Footprints
Guessing
Birthrights
Sweet Bells Jangled
Prelibatory
Lover’s Leaves
To My Rightful Readers
My Past
An After Song
The Home of the Gentians
A Rhyme of the Maple Tree
Troth-Plight
One Kiss Before We Part
Entre Nous
Two Songs of One Singer
The Door Between
Afraid
Et Tu?
You and I!
Only Her Hand
Amy at the Window
Ruse de Guerre
A Woman’s Complaint
Violets in Autumn
Which Is Best?
Breton Peasants
A Love-Song of Sorrento
A Sicilian Midnight Madrigal
Mazzini
At the Grave of Keats
Broken Off
Disarmed
An Empty Nest
With White Hands
Hail and Farewell
But Once
At Dawn
A Woman’s Questioning
At Work
Ten Years of Silence
Exorcism
Summer Morning Delights
Corrinna Confesses
The Confessional
A Nineteenth-Century Fashion
Broken Toys
Half and Half
At Odds
Snow-flowers
Seniority
At Eventide
Væ Patriæ
December in California
The Hills of Santa Cruz
The Realm of Singing