The Black Man’s Wrongs (James Madison Bell Poems)
Breathe softly on my harp, O Muse! In gentle strains now clothe its songs,Thy all inspiring force infuse, While singing of the ...
Breathe softly on my harp, O Muse! In gentle strains now clothe its songs,Thy all inspiring force infuse, While singing of the ...
"Great Mother of great Commonwealths" Men call our Mother State: And she so well has earned this name That she may challenge Fate To ...
The blast from Freedom's Northern hills, upon its Southern way,Bears greeting to Virginia from Massachusetts Bay:No word of haughty challenging, ...
During the siege of Bryan's Station, Kentucky, August 16, 1782, NicholasTomlinson and Thomas Bell, two inhabitants of the Fort, undertook ...
O the drum! There is some Intonation in thy grum Monotony of utterance that strikes the spirit dumb, As we hear Through the clear And unclouded ...
LET the haughty smile, the low defame,The heartless worldling mock;I thank my God my fathers cameOf the good old Pilgrim ...
An alarm is sounding through the land That tells of a stronger foe Than that which marched on Lexington, To strike a fatal ...
YES, ye are few, - and they were few,Who daring storm and sea,Once raised upon old Plymouth rock"The anthem of ...
TOO long mere words have thralled us. Let us think!Oh ponder, are we "free and equal" yet?That July bombast, writ ...
With cherub smile, the prattling boy,Who on the veteran's breast reclines,Has thrown aside his favorite toy,And round his tender finger ...
Before this thought the present hour recedes, As from the beach a billow backward rolls, And the great past, rich in heroic ...
APRIL 27,1861EIGHTY years have passed, and more,Since under the brave old treeOur fathers gathered in arms, and sworeThey would follow ...
HOME of the Percy's high-born race,Home of their beautiful and brave,Alike their birth and burial place,Their cradle, and their grave!Still ...
To St. John PerseOnce more the country callsFrom sleep, as from his doom,Each citizen to takeHis modest stakeWhere the sky ...
Flag of the great republic, banner of men who were free! Carried aloft for freedom in many a bloody gorge; ...
It is asserted, on the authority of an American Newspaper, that thedaughter of Thomas Jefferson, late President of the United ...
Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in ...
My country need not change her gown, Her triple suit as sweet As when 'twas cut at Lexington, And first ...
New Castle, July 4, 1878 or a hundred years the pulse of time Has throbbed for Liberty; For a hundred ...
The blast from Freedom's Northern hills, upon its Southern way, Bears greeting to Virginia from Massachusetts Bay: No word of ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
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