A Story Of The Sea (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Were you ever told the legend oldOf the birth of storms at sea?You should hear the tale in a Channel ...
Were you ever told the legend oldOf the birth of storms at sea?You should hear the tale in a Channel ...
BECAUSE HE had sinned and suffered, because he loved the land,And because of his wonderful sympathy, he held men's hearts ...
There was never a castle seen So fair as mine in Spain:It stands embowered in green, Crowning the gentle slopeOf a hill ...
JANUARY 18, 1856WHEN life hath run its largest roundOf toil and triumph, joy and woe,How brief a storied page is ...
Australia takes her pen in handTo write a line to you,To let you fellows understandHow proud we are of you.From ...
HE sleeps not here; in hope and prayerHis wandering flock had gone before,But he, the shepherd, might not shareTheir sorrows ...
PROUDLY, beneath her glittering dome,Our three-hilled city greets the morn;Here Freedom found her virgin home,--The Bethlehem where her babe was ...
One night two lonely women metBeside a storm-swept bay;With tears their mournful eyes were wet,Their pale lips salt with spray;They ...
Not by the valour of Belgium, nor the lightning sabre of France,Not by the thunder of Britain's Fleet, and the ...
Jeremiah x. 6.IN the dark winter of affliction's hour,When summer friends and pleasures haste away,And the wrecked heart perceives how ...
All night in slumber deep the armies lay: But, while the eastern sky with first faint beam Yet dimly reddened; ...
Accurs?d to the Medes, as to himself, That fatal hour when,--mad with fiercest hate,-- His private wrong on one man ...
Somehow I never liked you, John, your ways were crude Your smile was pharisaical, your manners rude; Although you prospered ...
Golden-throated, hath God sent thee for our comfort in the city? Sweet, sweet! singing, singing all the day. I said ...
Australia takes her pen in handTo write a line to you,To let you fellows understandHow proud we are of you.From ...
"IINTO the west of the waters on the living ocean's foam, Into the west of the sunset where the young ...
They come to ev'ry life -- sad, sunless days, With not a light all o'er their clouded skies;And thro' the ...
UPON the storm-swept beach brown broken weedsLay scattered far abroad, and as he sawThe wild, disordered strand, "Behold the law,"He ...
Australia takes her pen in hand To write a line to you, To let you fellows understand How proud we ...
A prisoner under the stars I lie, With no friend near; To-morrow they lead me forth to die, The stake ...
Sometimes I tremble like a storm-swept flower, And seek to hide my tortured soul from thee. Bowing my head in ...
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