The Irrepressible Yank (George Ade Poems)
Wherever British drumbeats sound,Unending 'round the world; Wherever in some land new-found,Our starry flag's unfurled; Where'er the sun is known ...
Wherever British drumbeats sound,Unending 'round the world; Wherever in some land new-found,Our starry flag's unfurled; Where'er the sun is known ...
By far Euphrates' stream we state, A weary band of herded slaves,And over Judah's fallen estate We wept ...
Those who say my country means Meadows, flowers and fields of wheat, Hamlets and trenches, must confessThese are her feet.The ...
From stone to bronze, from bronze to steelAlong the road-dust of the sun,Two revolutions of the wheelFrom Java to Geneva ...
Through the Steppes, see there he glances! Silent flood glad hailed by me,--Thy far distant sons do proffer Through ...
Cain and Abel were brothers born. (Koop-la! Come along, cows!) One raised cattle and one raised corn. (Koop-la! Come along! ...
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human ...
Five years later, after countless loss, deep sacrifice, of those who answered the call we are still at war still ...
One thousand more of our best and brightest our nation's treasure, spent in the streets, in the dust of that ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like ...
(Newdigate prize poem recited in the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford June 26th, 1878. To my friend George Fleming author of 'The ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Our modern ...
Glad as the weary traveller tempest-tost To reach secure at length his native coast, Who wandering long o'er distant lands ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
Too soon you wearied of our tears. And then you danced with spangled feet, Leading Belshazzar's chattering court A-tinkling through ...
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