Address To The Flag (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Float in the winds of heaven, O tattered Flag!Emblem of hope to all the misruled world:Thy ...
Float in the winds of heaven, O tattered Flag!Emblem of hope to all the misruled world:Thy ...
AGAINST the wooded hills it stands,Ghost of a dead home, staring throughIts broken lights on wasted landsWhere old-time harvests grew.Unploughed, ...
Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.(Divorce is nearly obsolete in England.)No ...
A FEW brief years have passed awaySince Britain drove her million slavesBeneath the tropic's fiery ray:God willed their freedom; and ...
I read the marble-lettered name, And half in bitterness I said,"As Dante from Ravenna came, Our poet came from exile-dead."And yet, had ...
We saw the ships come in,The whole sixteen !And sixteen thousand men, our kith and kin,Manned the white ships as ...
FROM glorious Nature's myriad tonguesThough songs be breathed by lips of love,And though the maiden's fingers fairAcross the thrilling harp-strings ...
Monarch of millions, yet a gentle maid, O, fair and young,— yet dignified and sage, Most glorious Queen, yet in thy glory ...
THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS.WE cross the prairie as of oldThe pilgrims crossed the sea,To make the West, as they the East,The ...
God keep Australia free,Subject to none but Thee,Ready and strong;Grant her her way to know,May she in wisdom grow,Her golden ...
The full-orbed moon her lustre shedsAnd floods the land with lambent light.The snowy ridge of distant mountsDeep quiet holds the ...
1 England, fair England! Empress isle of isles! --Round whom the loving-envious ocean plays, Girdling thy feet with silver and ...
My country, I the walls, the arches see, The columns, statues, and the towers Deserted, of our ancestors; But, ah, ...
I England, my mother, Lift to my western sweetheart ...
_ON THE EAST DEVON COAST_Lie still, old Dane, below thy heap! --A sturdy-back and sturdy-limb, Whoe'er he was, I warrant ...
In pensive thought the Holy MountUpon the star of morn does gaze,As o'er the valiant hero's graveThe star sheds soft ...
Thou who hast carried thy benignant smile To distant regions ...
The rally round the mother-land Is spreading far and near,For to every loyal Englishman That mother-land is dear.Although ...
BACK from old England, in whose courts he stoodForemost to knit by act and word the bandBetween the daughter and ...
O Mother Earth! upon thy lap Thy weary ones receiving, And o'er them, silent as a dream, Thy grassy mantle ...
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