The Old Flag (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Have ye heard of Fort Donelson's desperate fight,Where the giant Northwest bared his arm for the right,Where thousands so bravely ...
Have ye heard of Fort Donelson's desperate fight,Where the giant Northwest bared his arm for the right,Where thousands so bravely ...
'What say I?'--not a syllable further in prose;I'm your man 'of all measures,' dear Tom,--so here goes!Here goes, for a swim ...
Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sureOn thy supporters shoulders, left past cure,Thou dasht in ruine fall by a griefs ...
THE CONVERT.Some to our Hero have a hero's nameDenied, because no father's he could claim;Nor could his mother with precision ...
THE DUMB ORATORS; OR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY.That all men would be cowards if they dare,Some men we know have ...
You that at ev'ry trifling Cross repine, And tax the Ways of Providence Divine; You that to ev'ry soft Temptation ...
"My dream had never died or lived again.As in some mystic middle state I lay;Seeing I saw not, hearing not ...
The Inammoration.ARGUMENT. O, DEUS, aut nullo caleat mihi Pectus ab Igne! Aut solo caleat Pectus ab Igne Tui! Languet ut ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
Thus it happened .... Let me mention, lest I raise an unsought quarrel, This occurred in times long vanished, in ...
The clock in the steeple struck fourteenThe day that the wedding was fixedThe couple had gone on their honeymoon firstSo ...
Hunters are fretting, and hacks in a lather, Sportsmen arriving from left and from right; Bridle-roads bringing them, see how ...
There was once a man who made a weird machine,Employing dynamite and kerosene. His subsequent destruction ...
Ye lads who wish well to the spot of your birth, The most independent and happy on earth, It rests ...
http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/types/vernal.html, http://www.vernalpool.org/ Ah, now I can support The project, the building The school, the purchase, the land A vernal pool ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
O purblind race of miserable men, How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ...
My dream had never died or lived again. As in some mystic middle state I lay; Seeing I saw not, ...
To the voters of Glen Innes 'twas O'Sullivan that went, To secure the country vote for Mister Hay. So he ...
Alas! the people now do sigh and moan For the loss of Wm. Ewart Gladstone, Who was a very great ...
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