Who Follow The Flag (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
PHI BETA KAPPA ODEHARVARD UNIVERSITYJune 30, 1910IAll day long in the city's canyon-street, With its populous cliffs alive on either side, I ...
Poems about bondmen (21 Poems)
The Black Man’s Wrongs (James Madison Bell Poems)
Breathe softly on my harp, O Muse! In gentle strains now clothe its songs,Thy all inspiring force infuse, While singing of the ...
Emancipation (James Madison Bell Poems)
Harp of my soul, though thou hast hung Suspended from the willow boughTill much distorted, warped and sprung, And discord reigns within ...
A Poem (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
Written for the Celebration of the Fourth Anniversary of President Lincoln's Emancipation ProclamationTo P. A. BELL, Esq., A PIONEER IN ...
Massachusetts (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The blast from Freedom's Northern hills, upon its Southern way,Bears greeting to Virginia from Massachusetts Bay:No word of haughty challenging, ...
Expostulation (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
OUR fellow-countrymen in chains!Slaves, in a land of light and law!Slaves, crouching on the very plainsWhere rolled the storm of ...
A Wedding In War-Time (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
Our God who made two lovers in a garden, And smote them separate and set them free, Their four eyes wild for ...
Ode (Henry Theodore Tuckerman Poems)
Shroud the banner! rear the cross! Consecrate a nation's loss; Gaze on that majestic sleep; Stand beside the bier to weep; Lay the gentle ...
Hymn For The First of August (John Pierpont Poems)
Where Britannia's emerald islesGem the Caribbean sea,And an endless summer smiles,Lo! the negro thrall is free!Yet not on Columbia's plains,Hath ...
The Jubilee Singers (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
VOICE of a people suffering long,The pathos of their mournful song,The sorrow of their night of wrong!Their cry like that ...
Robert G. Shaw (Henrietta Cordelia Ray Poems)
When War's red banners trailed along the sky,And many a manly heart grew all aflameWith patriotic love and purest aim,There ...
Grace (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
How much, preventing God! how much I oweTo the defenses thou hast round me set:Example, custom, fear, occasional slow,These scorned ...
Rape Of Florida: Canto I: Invocation (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
The poet hath a realm within, and throne,And in his own soul singeth his lament.A comer often in the world ...
Super Flumina Babylonis (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee,That for ages of agony hast endured, ...
The Black Regiment (George Henry Boker Poems)
Dark as the clouds of even,Ranked in the western heaven,Waiting the breath that liftsAll the dread mass, and driftsTempest and ...
In Tyrannos (Alfred Gibbs Campbell Poems)
ITyrants! your doom is nigh:Short is your reign:Your bondmen's wailing cryTo Heaven againHath risen, and the Infinite GodWhom ye have ...
In Memory of Harriet Beecher Stowe (George Hannibal Temple Poems)
Honor the worthy dead, Strew flowers on her bier,And to the memory of a friend, O lend a tender tear!Upon ...
Continued (George Meredith Poems)
How smiles he at a generation rankedIn gloomy noddings over life! They pass.Not he to feed upon a breast unthanked,Or ...
Southern Mansion (Arna Bontemps Poem)
Poplars are standing there still as death And ghosts of dead men Meet their ladies walking Two by two beneath ...
Massachusetts To Virginia (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The blast from Freedom's Northern hills, upon its Southern way, Bears greeting to Virginia from Massachusetts Bay: No word of ...
Super Flumina Babylonis (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee, That for ages of agony hast endured, and ...