Beechenbrook – IX (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
When fierce and fast-thronging calamities rush Resistless as destiny o'er us, and crush The life from the quivering heart till we feel Like ...
When fierce and fast-thronging calamities rush Resistless as destiny o'er us, and crush The life from the quivering heart till we feel Like ...
My mug is broken, my heart is sad! What woes can fate still hold in store!The friend I cherished a thousand ...
Clouds black with thunder o'er the Southern states;North, East and West a sickening fear;The Union on the dark laps of ...
Two armies covered hill and plain, Where Rappahannock's watersRan deeply crimsoned with the stain Of battle's recent slaughters.The summer clouds lay pitched ...
She calmly brought his sabre bright,Tempered with death;And, girding him, her all, aright,She spoke with eyes of kindling lightMore than ...
The drummer with his drumShouting "Come! heroes, come!Forward march, nigher, higher!When the veterans turned pale,And the bullets fell like hail,In ...
Ye shall say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave,That their light canoes have vanish'd From off the crested ...
See, where the morning's beamPurples the Cedar stream,Long lines of bayonets gleam, Fiercely and bright arrayed.Tramp, tramp, with step so true,As ...
And so to-day--they lay him away-- the boy nobody knows the name of-- the buck private--the unknown soldier-- the doughboy ...
"Glide, river, gently to the sea; Sing dirges low and tender;Bear partings oft breathed near to thee, By patriot truth-defenders;Waft ...
Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like ...
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
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