Costanza (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
She knelt in prayer. A stream of sunset fellThro' the stain'd window of her lonely cell,And with its rich, deep, ...
She knelt in prayer. A stream of sunset fellThro' the stain'd window of her lonely cell,And with its rich, deep, ...
'Twas in the sultry summer-time, as war's red records show, When patriot armies rose to meet a fratricidal foe;When from ...
"Once more 'twas spring! The meadow-lark gave noteAbout his grassy nest, and builders hummed Old songs while sod on sod ...
Gyved and chained in his father's home, He toiled 'neath a conqueror's rule;Bowed to the earth in the land of ...
Italia! in thy bleeding heart, I thought, e'en hope was dead;That from thy scarred and prostrate form, The spark of ...
Flag of the great republic, banner of men who were free! Carried aloft for freedom in many a bloody gorge; ...
Forth on the fatal morn,Proud as the waves of HornRode the cavalier;Followed by gallant men,Far in a rocky glenTo disappear."Halt!" ...
NO better Dog e'er kept his Master's Door Than honest Snarl, who spar'd nor Rich nor Poor; But gave the ...
ACROSS the broad Campagna fell The softly dropping rain, Obscured the hills I love so well, And blotted out the ...
No tread of armed men; No lightning-flash, and then The thunder's roar! No life-blood ebbing fast; No bugle's rallying blast; ...
762The Whole of it came not at once-'Twas Murder by degrees-A Thrust-and then for Life a chance-The Bliss to cauterize-The ...
NOW, rallying once if ne'er again, With flag at half-mast flown, A people in dire need and strain Mans Tyra's ...
An anniversary Of a moment (if many hours can be but a moment) When pain brought a common numbing A ...
NO better Dog e'er kept his Master's Door Than honest Snarl, who spar'd nor Rich nor Poor; But gave the ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
The Whole of it came not at once -- 'Twas Murder by degrees -- A Thrust -- and then for ...
The trumpets of the four winds of the world From the ends of the earth blow battle; the night heaves, ...
Where the sea gulls sleep or indeed where they fly Is a place of different traffic. Although I Consider the ...
"But it isn't playing the game," he said, And he slammed his books away; "The Latin and Greek I've got ...
'Twas in the year 1762 that France and Spain Resolved, allied together, to crush Britain; But the British Army sailed ...
How did you feel, you libertarians, Who spent your talents rallying noble reasons Around the saloon, as if Liberty Was ...
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