King Cotton (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
KING COTTON looks from his window Towards the westering sun,And he marks, with an anguished horror, That his race is almost run.His ...
KING COTTON looks from his window Towards the westering sun,And he marks, with an anguished horror, That his race is almost run.His ...
MY span of life will soon be done, The passing moments say;As lengthening shadows o'er the mead Proclaim the close of day."Oh ...
Men said at vespers: "All is well!"In one wild night the city fell;Fell shrines of prayer and marts of gainBefore ...
" Hic cinis - ubique fama."Behold the mossed corner-stone dropped from the wall,And gaze on its date - but remember ...
Our fathers, in the years grown dim, reared slowly, wall by wallA holy dwelling-place for ...
The laying of the corner-stone of The Mother Church. Laus Deo, it is done! Rolled away from loving heart Is a stone. Lifted higher, ...
Glory to Thy ways 0 Lord!We praise Thy Holy Name:Sacred is the precious wordThat tells the Christian's claim.Children of the ...
Ye little think what toil it was to buildA world of men imperfect even as this,Where we conceive of Good ...
I had no God but these,The sacerdotal Trees,And they uplifted me."I hung upon a Tree."The sun and moon I saw,And ...
I.Master and Sage, greetings and health to thee,From thy most meek disciple! Deign once moreEndure me at thy feet, enlighten ...
The room is full of you!—As I came in And closed the door behind me, all at once A something ...
In the garden yonder of yews and death,There sojournethA man who toils, and has toiled for aye.Digging the dried-up ground ...
Brief life is here our portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived care: The Life that knows no ending, ...
WHAT doest thou here, fair rose, on rocky shore Opening thy pure and scented breast to blushIn these rude wilds, ...
LEAVE go my hands, let me catch breath and see;Let the dew-fall drench either side of me; Clear apple-leaves ...
The overfaithful sword returns the user His heart's desire at price of his heart's blood. The clamour of the arrogant ...
Then one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, "Speak to us of Crime and Punishment." And ...
Characters of Christ; borrowed from inanimate things in Scripture. Go, worship at Immanuel's feet, See in his face what wonders ...
v.22-27 S. M. An hosanna for the Lord's day; or, A new song of salvation by Christ. See what a ...
Is it true, Spoon River, That in the hall-way of the New Court House There is a tablet of bronze ...
The room is full of you!-As I came in And closed the door behind me, all at once A something ...
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