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My old pilot friends, the Balsirs, Johnny Cole, Ira Smith, William White, and my young ferry friend,
—everything so white, so marbly pure and dazzling, yet soft—the White House of future poems, and of dreams
One Delaware soldier, William H.
Williams, aged 21, 3d Virginia cavalry.
White, however, is the prevailing color.
in toward land; The great steady wind from west and west-by-south, Floating so buoyant, with milk-white
, I was refresh'd by the storm; I watch'd with joy the threatening maws of the waves; I mark'd the white
Then to the third—a face nor child, nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory: Young man
NOT alone our camps of white, O soldiers, When, as order'd forward, after a long march, Footsore and
WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-six
in toward land; The great steady wind from west and west-by-south, Floating so buoyant, with milk-white
, I was refresh'd by the storm; I watch'd with joy the threatening maws of the waves; I mark'd the white
Then to the third—a face nor child, nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory: Young man
NOT alone our camps of white, O soldiers, When, as order'd forward, after a long march, Footsore and
WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-six
And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white
Or white-domed capitol with majestic figure surmounted, or all the old high-spired cathedrals, That little
again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced
and still in the coffin—I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the
The White House by Moonlight — . 24.—A spell of fine soft weather.
—everything so white, so marbly pure and dazzling, yet soft—the White House of future poems, and of dreams
There are fires in large stoves, and the prevailing white of the walls is reliev'd by some ornaments,
Williams, age 21, 3d Va. Cavalry.
Father, John Williams, Millensport, Ohio. 9–10.