From the “Commemoration Ode” (Harriet Monroe Poems)
WASHINGTONWHEN dreaming kings, at odds with swift paced time, Would strike that banner down,A nobler knight than ever writ or rhyme With ...
WASHINGTONWHEN dreaming kings, at odds with swift paced time, Would strike that banner down,A nobler knight than ever writ or rhyme With ...
A DRAMATIC LYRICCome, give me back my life again, you heavy-handed Death!Uncrook your fingers from my throat, and let me ...
A silent force marks out the course Of every man and woman, No matter what may be the lot Of creatures that are ...
Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay,The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away:Thine ...
O marvel! that All-holy God, The Lord,The glorious King by heaven and earth adored,Monarch of those bright million worlds above,And ...
Dear face-bright, glinting hair;Dear life, whose heart is mine-The thought of you is prayer,The love of you divine.In starlight, or ...
All night funereal darkness pall'd the earth; The worn--out soldiers slumbered heavily: The anxious chiefs themselves, in grave--like sleep, Till ...
First-born of the creating Voice!Minister of God's Spirit, who wast sentWaiting upon him first, what time he wentMoving about mid ...
I have been long without a home, And yearned too much for one; And scanty are the deeds of faith ...
Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhatten Bay, The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean ...
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