Vision Of Columbus – Book 8 (Joel Barlow Poems)
And now the Angel, from the trembling sight,Veil'd the wide world-when sudden shades of nightMove o'er the ethereal vault; the ...
And now the Angel, from the trembling sight,Veil'd the wide world-when sudden shades of nightMove o'er the ethereal vault; the ...
Sweetly the voice of long departed timeComes o'er the soul, and in its whispers bringsVisions of glory, mighty deeds sublime,And ...
This above all remember: they will be very brave men,And you will be facing them. You must not despise them.I ...
Whether my heart hath wiser grown or not,In these three years, since I to thee inscribed,Mine own betrothed, the firstlings ...
WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF A FRIEND.On page of thine I cannot traceThe cold and heartless commonplace,A statue's fixed and ...
"O dearest mother! tell me, pray, Why are the dew-drops gone so soon?Could they not stay till close of day,To sparkle ...
An honest man with noble mind, With heart sincere, true, and refined, Who lives for God and all mankind, Who cares for rich ...
O ye in power, thus placed to ministerTo every pressing local, social claim,Of those who gave you this authority,Trusting you ...
There is no nobler labour for mankindThan to instruct and elevate the mind,To pour into the eager ears of youthThe ...
Whites alone upon the jury in a number of the states,Thus they crush a helpless Negro with their prejudicial hates;Legal ...
Once more to visit a distracted world, The spirit of sweet Peace comes trembling down,As war's ensanguined flag is newly furled, And ...
In the love of home and country and the flag of Uncle Sam,Can the loyalty be doubted of a dusky ...
Fresh from piano, school, and books, A happy girl with rosy looks Young Plowman wooed and won; despite Her pretty, pouting prejudice, Her deep ...
Down in history we find it and in grandest works of art,How the men on fields of battle play so ...
Matilda Maud Mackenzie frankly hadn't any chin,Her hands were rough, her feet she turned invariably in;Her general form was German,By ...
(Reprinted from "The Political Nursery," midsummer number, 1898)AT midnight Death dismissed the chancellor,But left the soul of Bismarck on his ...
Far from the ignoble strife of Man's tavern you areThe wine-cup adorning the sky's assemblage you areThe jewel which should ...
How strangely blind is prejudice, the Negro's greatest foe!It never fails to see the wrong but naught of good can ...
You, no doubt, have heard the story told of Charleston by the sea,How they persecute a Negro when a man ...
Why do people sit in darkness as regards the Negro race?Why so ignorant are nations of conditions in the case?'Tis ...
DEATH:For my dagger is bathed in the blood of the brave,I come, care-worn tenant of life, from the grave,Where Innocence ...
Among the sick and wounded ones, This stricken soldier boy lay,With glassy eye and shortened breath; His life seemed slipping fast away.My ...
I bow at the feet of my teacher Marpa.And sing this song in response to you.Listen, pay heed to what ...
I read your testimony and I thoughthere is the man perfected that I knewand reverenced next him who gave me ...
AWAKE, O Gratitude! nor let the tearsOf selfish Sorrow smother up thy voice,When it should speak of a departed friend.A ...
The cause with learn'd investigation fraught,Behold at length to this tribunal brought,No fraud your penetrating eyes can cheat,None here can ...
Oh! why those narrow rules extol? These but restrain from ill, True virtue lies in strength of soul And energy of will. To all ...
Prejudice with venom smote every word and act;Snuffed was the light of knowledge from your view.Unbefriended martyr, sole object of ...
I am tired of limited poetryOf well behaved verseOf public servant poetry with time clock card, protocols and expressions of ...
IN Scottish garb, and shepherd's humble guise,At length the Roscius met these longing eyes.Anxious to judge if fashion or if ...
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