The Battle Rainbow (John Reuben Thompson Poems)
The warm, weary day, was departing--the smile Of the sunset gave token the tempest had ceased;And the lightning yet fitfully gleamed ...
The warm, weary day, was departing--the smile Of the sunset gave token the tempest had ceased;And the lightning yet fitfully gleamed ...
This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling,Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms;But front their silent pipes no ...
To eastward ringing, to westward winging, o'er mapless miles of sea,On winds and tides the gospel rides that the furthermost ...
Once the Emperor Charles of Spain, With his swarthy, grave commanders,I forget in what campaign,Long besieged, in mud and rain, Some old ...
Not from Mars and not from ThorComes the war, the welcome war,Many months we waited forTo free us from the ...
He lighted his keen, sure-working brainAs an engine is fired; and, starred and arrayed,He sped in joy to the surging ...
Loudly roared the English cannon, loudly thundered back our own,Pouring down a hail of iron from their battlements of stone,Giving ...
They say that 'war is hell,' the 'great accursed,'The sin impossible to be forgiven;Yet I can look beyond it at ...
I heard the football of the hail;The armies of the skyWere coming down amid the gale,And rank on rank marched ...
This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms; But front their silent ...
And your sunny years with a gracious wife Have brought you a daughter dear. "I watched her to-day; a more ...
Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, Free, ...
I Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, ...
O Music hast thou only heard The laughing river, the singing bird, The murmuring wind in the poplar-trees,-- Nothing but ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
The sea runs back against itself With scarcely time for breaking wave To cannonade a slatey shelf And thunder under ...
I asked if I should pray. But the Brahmin said, 'pray for nothing, say Every night in bed, 'I have ...
'Twas in the year of 1746, and in April the 14th day, That Prince Charles Stuart and his army marched ...
'Twas on the 9th of September, a very beautiful day, That a numerous English army came in grand array, And ...
'Twas in the year 1815, and on the 18th day of June, That British cannon, against the French army, loudly ...
'Twas in the year 1762 that France and Spain Resolved, allied together, to crush Britain; But the British Army sailed ...
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