Invocation (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
Goddess of Liberty! O thouWhose tearless eyes behold the chain,And look unmoved upon the slain,Eternal peace upon thy brow,-Before thy ...
Goddess of Liberty! O thouWhose tearless eyes behold the chain,And look unmoved upon the slain,Eternal peace upon thy brow,-Before thy ...
Be pleased, O Lord, to take a people's thanksThat Thine avenging sword has spared our ranks-That Thou hast parted from ...
Of life's elixir I had writ, when sleep(Pray Heaven it spared him who the writing read!)Settled upon my senses with ...
As Death was a-riding out one day,Across Mount Carmel he took his way,Where he met a mendicant monk,Some three or ...
You may say if you please, Johnny Bull, that our girlsAre crazy to marry your dukes and your earls;But I've ...
Judge Sawyer, whom in vain the people triedTo push from power, here is laid aside.Death only from the bench could ...
I dreamed I stood upon a hill, and, lo!The godly multitudes walked to and froBeneath, in Sabbath garments fitly clad,With ...
I lay in silence, dead. A woman cameAnd laid a rose upon my breast, and said,'May God be merciful.' She ...
Megaceph, chosen to serve the StateIn the halls of legislative debate,One day with his credentials cameTo the capitol's door and ...
The Swan of Avon died-the SwanOf Sacramento'll soon be gone;And when his death-song he shall coo,Stand back, or it will ...
Thy flesh to earth, thy soul to God,We gave, O gallant brother;And o'er thy grave the awkward squadFired into one ...
GOD dreamed-the suns sprang flaming into place,And sailing worlds with many a venturous race.He woke-His smile alone illumined space.(Ambrose Bierce)
'Twas a Venerable Person, whom I met one Sunday morning,All appareled as a prophet of a melancholy sect;And in a ...
What! "Out of danger?" Can the slighted DameOr canting Pharisee no more defame?Will Treachery caress my hand no more,Nor Hatred ...
As sweet as the look of a loverSaluting the eyes of a maidThat blossom to blue as the maidIs ablush ...
Twas a sick young man with a face ungayAnd an eye that was all alone;And he shook his head in ...
That land full surely hastens to its endWhere public sycophants in homage bendThe populace to flatter, and repeatThe doubled echoes ...
How blest the land that counts among Her sons so many good and wise, To execute great feats of tongue ...
O Liberty, God-gifted-- Young and immortal maid-- In your high hand uplifted, The torch declares your trade. Its crimson menace, ...
Words shouting, singing, smiling, frowning-- Sense lacking. Ah, nothing, more obscure than Browning, Save blacking. (Ambrose Bierce)
Once I seen a human ruin In a elevator-well. And his members was bestrewin' All the place where he had ...
Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see, And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as ...
A conqueror as provident as brave, He robbed the cradle to supply the grave. His reign laid quantities of human ...
The pig is taught by sermons and epistles To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles. (Ambrose Bierce)
The rimer quenches his unheeded fires, The sound surceases and the sense expires. Then the domestic dog, to east and ...
In contact, lo! the flint and steel, By sharp and flame, the thought reveal That he the metal, she the ...
Thou shalt no God but me adore: 'Twere too expensive to have more. No images nor idols make For Roger ...
The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homewards ...
Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every wind, indeed, that blows I hear her yell. ...
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