To Canaan (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
A PURITAN WAR SONGWHERE are you going, soldiers,With banner, gun, and sword?We 're marching South to CanaanTo battle for the ...
A PURITAN WAR SONGWHERE are you going, soldiers,With banner, gun, and sword?We 're marching South to CanaanTo battle for the ...
Prophet of God, arise and takeWith thee the words of wrath divine, The scourge of Heaven, to shake O'er yon apostate shrine.Where ...
AND DESTRUCTION OF PHARAOH.Ah! short-sighted monarch, dost thou think to pursueThe Israel of God, and recapture them too?Hast thou so ...
From conquest Jephtha came, with faltering stepAnd troubled eye: His home appears in view;He trembles at the sight. Sad he forbodes, ...
VOICE of a people suffering long,The pathos of their mournful song,The sorrow of their night of wrong!Their cry like that ...
Far otherwise, within the Median camp, Had passed the changeful night. In dreamless sleep, Three portions had gone by: but, ...
Yet once more, Harp of prophecy, once moreFondly I come soliciting thine aid;By whose celestial minstrelsy inspiredThe saintly Enoch walk'd ...
By this, sad Hero, with love unacquainted,Viewing Leander's face, fell down and fainted.He kissed her and breathed life into her ...
{Bonduca the British queen, taking occasion from a defeat of the Romans to impeach their valor, is rebuked by Caratac.}Queen ...
I.IN yonder dark and narrow lodging,There rests a patriot's body,Which, after many a slip and dodging,Death took in safe custody.II.What ...
A sound of woe in Salem! — mournful criesRose from her dwellings — youthful cheeks were pale,Tears flowing fast from ...
When Science, trembling in the lengthened shadeOf monster superstitions, and menacedBy raving Bigotry, a dream embracedOf prosperous worlds by mortal ...
In Vision are the centuries rolled back; The dead Past lives again. I breathe the air Of the young world; ...
The citron groves their fruit and flowers were strewing Around a Moorish palace, while the sigh Of low ...
NIGHT-BLUE skies of thine,Egypt, and thy dead who may not rest,Who with wide eyesStand staring in the darkness of the ...
SOUND the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!JEHOVAH has triumph'd! His people are free Sing, for the pride of the ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Here let us linger at will and delightsomely hearken Music aeolian of wind in the boughs of pine, Timbrel of ...
To God our strength sing loud, and clear, Sing loud to God our King, To Jacobs God, that all may ...
IT was the Winter wilde, While the Heav'n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature in aw to ...
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