Toussaint L’Ouverture (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
'T WAS night. The tranquil moonlight smileWith which Heaven dreams of Earth, shed downIts beauty on the Indian isle, -On ...
'T WAS night. The tranquil moonlight smileWith which Heaven dreams of Earth, shed downIts beauty on the Indian isle, -On ...
Comes on a quarrel stormy and stern, if brief,'Tween the two foe friends, this demanding whatCannot be;--who immunity shall secure'Gainst ...
In the real dark night of the soul it is always threeo'clock in the morning. F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIALL day, knowing ...
IBeyond the Northern Lights, in regions hauntedOf twilight, where the world is glacier planted,And pale as Loki in his cavern ...
We were eight fishers of the western sea,Who sailed our craft beside a barren land,Where harsh with pines the herdless ...
Goddess of Liberty! O thouWhose tearless eyes behold the chain,And look unmoved upon the slain,Eternal peace upon thy brow,-Before thy ...
1.WIDE o'er th' Atlantic wave the veil of night,Had spread its ample shade on Ocean's breast;The tropic moon, with full-orb'd ...
UNDER A FIGURE SYMBOLIZING THE CHURCHThou wast the fairest of all man-made things;The breath of heaven bore up thy cloudy ...
Not alone by generous birth (Greatly though it fashions men),Not by all the wealth of earth, Not by all the talents ten,Not ...
I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left ...
On the morning of May,Ere the children had entered my gateWith their wreaths and mechanical lay,A metal ding-dong of the ...
THE DUMB ORATORS; OR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY.That all men would be cowards if they dare,Some men we know have ...
But not all unprepared were found the Medes. With restless foot, Belesis through the night, Still to and fro had ...
Jeanne-Marie has strong hands; dark hands tanned by the summer, pale hands like dead hands. Are they the hands of ...
All night I wrestled with a memory Which knocked insurgent at the gates of thought. The crumbled wreck of years ...
(i) introduction his home in ruins his parents gone frederick seeks to reclaim his throne to the golden mountain he ...
Flames fanned by the leaders maybe a few palms greased coins to instigate the crowd to frenzy crying for his ...
And the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks Groan with continual surges; and behind ...
'Not by the justice that my father spurn'd, Not for the thousands whom my father slew, Altars unfed and temples ...
Now this particular girl During a ceremonious april walk With her latest suitor Found herself, of a sudden, intolerably struck ...
I LOOKED one night, and there the Semiramis, With all her mourning doves about her head, Sat rocking on an ...
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