In Iowa, Where the Plan for an Attack on Harper’s Ferry Was Explained and Adopted (Edward W Williams Poems)
Dear friends, let me to you relate A plan that I begot of yore,A plan to conquer, extirpate Slaveholding now ...
Dear friends, let me to you relate A plan that I begot of yore,A plan to conquer, extirpate Slaveholding now ...
A settler in the olden times went forthWith four of his most bold and trusted menInto the wilderness-went forth to ...
Because thou wast most delicate, A woman fair for men to see, The earth did compass thy estate, Thou didst ...
A pure sweet life, that came upon our earth,Stay'd for a space, and then went back to heaven.I know not ...
On her bed of protracted and lingering sickness. ONCE again, long silent lyre,Sound beneath this weary finger,Speak--but breathe with holy ...
1. HAWKSHAW 3rd Trinity. 5. KINGLAKE 3rd Trinity. 2. PIGOTT Corpus. ...
"SEE'ST thou yon lily in its blooming pride, Its snowy bosom op'ning to the view, Surcharg'd with gems of bright ...
To what bright world afar didst thou belong, Thou whose pure soul seemed not of mortal birth?From what fair clime ...
I honour all trees well; but, best of all,I love those scarred old veterans, proud and tall, Gazing ...
The snow falls soft and thick. My cedar bough Sways up and down, and scratches on the glass. The wind ...
When, to despoil my native France, With flaming torch and cruel swordAnd boisterous drums her foeman comes, I curse him ...
A golden maid whose golden voice Calls to the northern lands,Of riches she has had her choice.Twin treasures to make ...
OH! Lindorf! oh, Lindorf! for ever adieu! Thy heart beats no longer tumultuous for me,Fair Laura has robb'd me ...
Doth negro claim existence nowWho meek to unjust laws would bowWithout a protest on his brow,And call himself a man?Doth ...
'TIS done! the Despot's reign is o'er,The kingdoms freed, shall groan no moreBeneath his impious sway;Who, rais'd by the Almighty's ...
Bring to me white roses, roses, pinks, and lavender, Sweet stock and gillyflowers, poppies mauve and red, Bee-flowers and mignonette, ...
I saw, one sultry night above a swamp,The darkness throbbing with their golden pomp!And long my dazzled sight did they ...
IN the tavern of my heart Many a one has sat before, Drunk red wine and sung a stave, And, ...
I O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, ...
TO all that love the far and blue: Whether, from dawn to eve, on foot The fleeing corners ye pursue, ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
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