The Beauteous Terrorist (Sir Henry Parkes Poems)
Soft as the morning's pearly light,Where yet may rise the thunder-cloud,Her gentle face was ever brightWith noble thought and purpose ...
Soft as the morning's pearly light,Where yet may rise the thunder-cloud,Her gentle face was ever brightWith noble thought and purpose ...
THE terrible wind, the dangerous storm, iswrestling with a ship on the ocean ; it is tryingto break her, but ...
IIt was my lot of late to travel farThrough all America's domain,A willing, gray-haired servitorBearing the Fiery Cross of righteous ...
THE LITTLE-NECK CLAMA modern verse-sequence, showing how a native American subject, strictly realistic, may be treated in various manners adapted ...
O pupils of Gaza . . .Teach us . . .A little of what you haveFor we have forgotten . ...
OH, Magdeberg the town!Fair maids thy beauty crown,Thy charms fair maids and matrons crown;Oh, Magdeburg the town!Where all so blooming ...
Who is obsessed by religionHe is blindHe only kills and gets killed.Even an atheist is blessedBecause he doesn't have the ...
She dwells by Great Kenhawa's side, In valleys green and cool;And all her hope and all her pride Are in the village ...
IBeautiful and radiant, just like then, is the spring,Cold of morning, but as the days open upFurther, the eternal light ...
Now mute indeed are tongue and heart:love shies away, joy stands apart.Neglected by its leaders and defeated,the country was subdued ...
O my Lord and my God, I have trusted in Thee.O my dear Jesus, no liberate me.In shackle and chain, ...
It is the eve of battle; ...
Fling out the Anti-slavery flagOn every swelling breeze;And let its folds wave o'er the land,And o'er the raging seas,Till all ...
By myself walking,To myself talking,When as I ruminateOn my untoward fate,Scarcely seem IAlone sufficiently,Black thoughts continuallyCrowding my privacy;They come unbidden,Like ...
She dwells by Great Kenhawa's side, In valleys green and cool; And all her hope and all her pride Are ...
[For a fine account of the fearful sack of Magdeburg, by Tilly, in the year 1613, see SCHILLER's History of ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple ...
Oh when I think of my long-suffering race, For weary centuries despised, oppressed, Enslaved and lynched, denied a human place ...
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