The Day And The War (James Madison Bell Poems)
Sacred to the memory of the immortal Captain John Brown, the hero, saint and martyr of Harper's Ferry. The following ...
Sacred to the memory of the immortal Captain John Brown, the hero, saint and martyr of Harper's Ferry. The following ...
(1)Lying and stealing is the white man's game;For rights of God nor man he has no shame(A practice of his ...
Oh for that Spirit, whose unearthly power Once deigned to rest on Patmos' desert clime, When the dire secrets of the future ...
Harp of my soul, though thou hast hung Suspended from the willow boughTill much distorted, warped and sprung, And discord reigns within ...
Written for the Celebration of the Fourth Anniversary of President Lincoln's Emancipation ProclamationTo P. A. BELL, Esq., A PIONEER IN ...
FOR the first time, a lovely sceneEarth saw, and smiled,--A gentle form with pallid mienBending o'er a newborn child:The pang, ...
O earth, earth, earth! where wilt thou hide thy slain?How cover up the blood thy children pour in vain?The air ...
August 6th , 1875.Harp of my native landThat lived anew 'neath Carolan's master hand;Harp on whose electric chords,The minstrel Moore's ...
'Twas in the sultry summer-time, as war's red records show, When patriot armies rose to meet a fratricidal foe;When from ...
As when the sun in darkness sets, And night falls on the earth,Along the azure fields above The stars of ...
O Lady Fortune! 't is to thee I call,Dwelling at Antium, thou hast power to crownThe veriest clod with riches ...
FREEDOM'S first champion in our fettered land! Nor politician nor base citizen Could gibbet thee, nor silence, nor withstand. Thy ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
The firmament breaks up. In black eclipse Light after light goes out. One evil star, Luridly glaring through the smoke ...
To tribulations of mankind Dame Nature is indifferent; To human sorrow she is blind, And deaf to human discontent. Mid ...
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