St. John. 1647 (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
"To the winds give our banner!Bear homeward again!"Cried the Lord of Acadia,Cried Charles of Estienne;From the prow of his shallopHe ...
"To the winds give our banner!Bear homeward again!"Cried the Lord of Acadia,Cried Charles of Estienne;From the prow of his shallopHe ...
Off Highway 106At Cherrylog Road I enteredThe '34 Ford without wheels,Smothered in kudzu,With a seat pulled out to runCorn whiskey ...
There was a curious quiet for a spaceDirectly following: and in the faceOf one rapt listener pulsed the flush and ...
Thou hast fallen in thine armor,Thou martyr of the LordWith thy last breath crying "Onward!"And thy hand upon the sword.The ...
Not your martyrs anointed of heaven -The ages are red where they trod -But the Hunted - the world's bitter ...
Not for passion or for power, Clean of hands, and calm of soul,England at this awful hour Bids her battle-thunders roll,That crown'd ...
DEAD! my wayward boy--_my own_-- Not _the Law's!_ but _mine_--the good God's free gift to me alone, Sanctified by motherhood. "Bad," you say: Well, ...
and I sit by the stoveand try to catch time red-handedthe delicate ripple of curtainsthe phosphorescence of wallsbooks dancingon the ...
On Tampa's hights gray rose the battlements:A summer's day had gone out in the west;The conflagration in the elementsWas ended, ...
When the morning board with the rests of the feast Was set, and the martial kin- The vassals in chief ...
Their strength had fed on this when Death's white arms Came sleeved in vapors and miasmal dew, Curling across the ...
Let me sit down for a minute, sirThere's a milestone in my bootAnd list to the tale how my hearthstone ...
Mr Blades, the butcher, was a large and beefy man,"Best him at a cattle deal," 'twas said, "no other can.' ...
Who's she, that one in your arms? She's the one I carried my bones to and built a house that ...
Their strength had fed on this when Death's white arms Came sleeved in vapors and miasmal dew, Curling across the ...
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