Crispus Attucks (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
Negro Patriot-Killed In Boston, March 5,!770.WHERE shall we seek for a hero, and where shall we find a story?Our laurels ...
Negro Patriot-Killed In Boston, March 5,!770.WHERE shall we seek for a hero, and where shall we find a story?Our laurels ...
What hast thou seen, with thy shining eye, Thou Needle, so subtle and keen?--"I have been in Paradise, stainless and fair.And ...
The hills are clad in purple and in gold, The ripened maize is gathered in the shock,The frost has kissed the ...
With anxious eyes and dry, expectant lips,Within the sculptured stoa by the sea,All day she waited while, like ghostly ships,Long ...
Now the third and fatal conflict for the Persian throne was done,And the Moslem's fiery valor had the crowning victory ...
Tis not because fierce swords are flashing there, With license and a reckless scorn of life, When for some petty gaud upstarts ...
Resplendent as on that great morn he rose, When, from the inmost depth of heaven's immense, The bright eternal solitude ...
What holy rites Mohammed's laws ordain,What various duties bind his faithful train,—What pious zeal his scatter'd tribes unitesIn fix'd observance ...
I 'T is the middle of night on the Greenfield farm And the creatures are huddled to keep them from ...
WHAT bishop of Rochester rather would die,Than with Henry 's supremacy basely comply?What martyr of Antioch yields up his breath,By ...
Mother of musings, Contemplation sage, Whose grotto stands upon the topmost rock Of Teneriffe; 'mid the tempestuous night, On which, ...
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