Poems by Amanda Theodocia Jones

PRELUDE I If earth's lost youth thou hast revived in dreams,
Hast set swift sails and m...

June 27, 1862. INSCRIBED TO THE GALLANT PENNSYLVANIA RESERVES. The battle's last, long ...

I We two waited on the deck--
All around us rolled the sea;
Helpless, on our reeling wreck, ...

At last the dread cloud that hung over the gorges
Has sailed to the west and extinguished the su...

Awake, little daughter, awake!
The sad moon is weaving her shroud;
The pale, drooping lily-...