The Bigot Fire (John Ramsdale Poems)
Written on the occasion of George Latimer's Imprisonment in Levorott streetJail, BostonO, kindle not that bigot fire,'T will bring disunion, ...
Written on the occasion of George Latimer's Imprisonment in Levorott streetJail, BostonO, kindle not that bigot fire,'T will bring disunion, ...
Ah, bannered stars and stripes! your gloryHath paled, the blazoned folds all goryWith kindred blood hang sadly drooping;The eagle and ...
Not your martyrs anointed of heaven -The ages are red where they trod -But the Hunted - the world's bitter ...
FAREWELL! The gold we send shall be a token Of that which in our hearts is growing strong;You asked our sympathy, ...
LONG-EXPECTED one and twentyLing'ring year at last has flown,Pomp and pleasure, pride and plentyGreat Sir John, are all your own.Loosen'd ...
THE CONVERT.Some to our Hero have a hero's nameDenied, because no father's he could claim;Nor could his mother with precision ...
Now from Leander's place she rose, and found Her hair and rent robe scatter'd on the ground; Which ...
When late Protectorship was Canon-Proof,And _Cap-a-pe_ had seiz'd on _Whitehall_-Roof,And next, on _Israelites_ durst look so big,That _Tory-like_, it lov'd ...
OBSERVE that tall pale Veteran! what a lookOf shame and guilt!--who cannot read that book?Misery and mirth are blended in ...
Thus it happened .... Let me mention, lest I raise an unsought quarrel, This occurred in times long vanished, in ...
. . . party on the stage of the Earl Carroll Theatre onFeb. 23. At this party Joyce Hawley, a ...
Oh, for those days that had no doubt, When I, a simple village laddie,Sang with much glee the rhyme about ...
They must not talk....That strong and silent creature, The male of homo sapiens, bears the banWith calm aplomb. Speech is ...
Let Romanists all at Confessional kneel, Let the Jew with disgust turn from it,Let the mighty Crown Prelate ...
SHRIEKS out of smoke, a flame of dung-straw fireThat is not quenched but hath for only fruitWhat writhes and dies ...
" Go, heap against your native race Slander on slander, lie on lie; Go, trumpet in God's sacred places Your ...
(To --)HAD you lived when a tyrant KingStrove to make all the slaves of one,With Nobles and with Churchmen youHad ...
Beware! The Israelite of old, who tore The lion in his path,--when, poor and blind, He saw the blessed light ...
LONG-EXPECTED one and twenty Ling'ring year at last has flown, Pomp and pleasure, pride and plenty Great Sir John, are ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
It is full summer now, the heart of June; Not yet the sunburnt reapers are astir Upon the upland meadow ...
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