Strike Hands, Young Men! (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
Strike hands, young men!We know not whenDeath or disaster comes,Mightier than battle-drumsTo summon us away.Death bids us say farewellTo all ...
Strike hands, young men!We know not whenDeath or disaster comes,Mightier than battle-drumsTo summon us away.Death bids us say farewellTo all ...
Cord. Distressed pilgrim, whose dark clouded eyesSpeak thee a martyr to love's cruelties,Whither away?Amor. What pitying voice I hear,Calls back ...
At the round earth's imagined corners blowYour trumpets, angels, and arise, ariseFrom death, you numberless infinitiesOf souls, and to your ...
Love like a Jugler, comes to play his prize,And all mindes draw his wonders to admire,To see how cunningly he ...
Prelude I SEE the boy-bard neath life's morning skies, While hope's bright cohorts guess ...
At the chill high tide of the night, At the turn of the fluctuant hours,When the waters of time ...
While about the shore of Mona those Neronian legionariesBurnt and broke the grove and altar of the Druid and Druidess,Far ...
This is the song of the wind as it cameTossing the flags of the nations to flame: _I am ...
THE midnight hour is passing-the sunrise is at handThe watchers on the mountain tops are looking o'er the land,The world ...
_And that a reply be received before midnight.__British Ultimatum_.Their Day was at twelve of the night, When the graves give ...
"FOR, O America, our country!-land Hid in the west through centuries, till men Through countless tyrannies could understand ...
Ye lords of golden argosies! And Prelate, prince, and peer;And members all of Parliament, In rich St. Stephens, ...
I am the ageless Bird of Evil Flame.Eve knew my name.With bitter tears she tried to quench the sparkOf envy ...
Not for vague honors, not for treacherous power He lived and toiled thro' this, his earthy span;But to uphold and ...
At the round earth's imagined corners blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, ...
My Triumph lasted till the Drums Had left the Dead alone And then I dropped my Victory And chastened stole ...
While about the shore of Mona those Neronian legionaries Burnt and broke the grove and altar of the Druid and ...
At the chill high tide of the night, At the turn of the fluctuant hours, When the waters of time ...
The trumpets of the four winds of the world From the ends of the earth blow battle; the night heaves, ...
I should have been a plumber fixing drains. And mending pure white bathtubs for the great Diogenes (who scorned all ...
I. GOD SEND THE REGICIDE Would that the lying rulers of the world Were brought to block for tyrannies abhorred. ...
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