The Pennsylvania (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
PreludeI sing the Pilgrim of a softer climeAnd milder speech than those brave men's who broughtTo the ice and iron ...
PreludeI sing the Pilgrim of a softer climeAnd milder speech than those brave men's who broughtTo the ice and iron ...
THE SAINT. Ossian, enough of this dotard theme,Lit up at the meteor--blaze of a dream,Wanton and vain as ever was fann'dBy ...
Thou hast fallen in thine armor,Thou martyr of the LordWith thy last breath crying "Onward!"And thy hand upon the sword.The ...
CHAMPION of those who groan beneathOppression's iron hand:In view of penury, hate, and death,I see thee fearless stand.Still bearing up ...
With wisdom far beyond her years,And graver than her wondering peers,So strong, so mild, combining stillThe tender heart and queenly ...
Is your heart bowed down with sorrow; Does your lot the hardest seem;Think you of a brighter morrow, Of a fairer future ...
We learnt the creed at Hungerford,We learnt the creed at Bourke;We learnt it in the good timesAnd learnt it out ...
Oh, deem not, though her spirit hath defiedScandal, and Scorn, the taunts of lying lips,That Pride hath clouded it with ...
I. LINDSAY castle's jutted forth On the wild, old sounding sea,And a gallant race of the hardy North, ...
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly ...
PROLOGUE. Woe! to the just occasion that compels My verse to satire, when my soul rebels; Must I, unskill'd her ...
"The NewsTHE NEWS! our morning, noon, evening cry, Day unto day repeats it till we die. For this the cit, ...
Ho! children of the brave,Ho! freemen of the land,That hurl'd into the graveOppression's bloody band;Come on, come on, and joined ...
'Twas but a breath--And yet the fair, good name was wilted;And friends once fond grew cold and stilted,And life was ...
The ordeal's fatal trumpet sounded, And sad pale Adelgitha came, When forth a valiant champion bounded, And slew the slanderer ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly on! ...
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