Our Yankee Girls (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
LET greener lands and bluer skies,If such the wide earth shows,With fairer cheeks and brighter eyes,Match us the star and ...
LET greener lands and bluer skies,If such the wide earth shows,With fairer cheeks and brighter eyes,Match us the star and ...
Lo! where he crouches by the cleugh's dark side,Eyeing the farmer's lowing herds afar;Impatient watching till the Evening StarLead forth ...
Vessels of heavenly medicine! may the breezeAuspicious waft your dark green forms to shore;Safe may ye stem the wide surrounding ...
Sleep softly in your ocean bed,You who could grandly die !Our fathers, who at Shiloh bled,Accept your company.O sons of ...
WHEN fallen man from Paradise was driven, Forth to a world of labour, death, and care; Still, of his native ...
Ah, Needwood! I, whose early voiceTaught thy shrill echoes to rejoice;I, who first pour'd the sylvan songThy glades, thy banks, ...
'Tis morn.An individualistic cockProclaims the fact.The dissipated cat sneaks home forlorn.'Tis time to get up and act!'Tis eight o'clock!The stern ...
He came when tyranny was ripe, a torchThat lit the darkened avenue of hope,He came from cabin, ragged, poor, and ...
MY countrymen! why languish Like outcasts of the earth,And drown in tears of anguish The glory of your ...
'Tis twilight dim; the musing dreamer sitsBefore his hearth, the sunset on his brow,And thus he ponders ere the birth ...
The fairest action of our human lifeIs scorning to revenge an injury;For who forgives without a further strife,His adversary's heart ...
FROM him did forty million serfs, endow'dEach with six feet of death-due soil, receiveRich freeborn lifelong land, whereon to sheaveTheir ...
[This Cantata was written for Prince Frederick of Gotha, and set to music by Winter, the Prince singing the part ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
I would I were a careless child, Still dwelling in my highland cave, Or roaming through the dusky wild, Or ...
I My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have ...
NO Spartan tube, no Attic shell, No lyre Æolian I awake; 'Tis liberty's bold note I swell, Thy harp, Columbia, ...
YE Irish lords, ye knights an' squires, Wha represent our brughs an' shires, An' doucely manage our affairs In parliament, ...
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
Oh for the swords of former time! Oh for the men who bore them, When, arm'd for Right, they stood ...
There are sounds of mirth in the night-air ringing, And lamps from every casement shown; While voices blithe within are ...
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