The Day And The War (James Madison Bell Poems)
Sacred to the memory of the immortal Captain John Brown, the hero, saint and martyr of Harper's Ferry. The following ...
Sacred to the memory of the immortal Captain John Brown, the hero, saint and martyr of Harper's Ferry. The following ...
THROUGH the long hall the shuttered windows shedA dubious light on every upturned head;On locks like those of Absalom the ...
Dark Isle of Mourning—aptly art thou named, For thou hast been the cause of many a tear; For deeds of treacherous strife ...
Float in the winds of heaven, O tattered Flag!Emblem of hope to all the misruled world:Thy ...
The man in righteousness arrayed, A pure and blameless liver, Needs not the keen Toledo blade, Nor venom-freighted quiver. What ...
If aught on earth my soul can fire, 'Tis the deception of a liar Who with soft smoothness of the tongue, Has promises ...
(THE GRAVEYARD OF SPOON RIVER. TWO VOICES ARE HEARD BEHIND A SCREEN DECORATED WITH DIABOLICAL AND ANGELIC FIGURES IN VARIOUS ...
O Erin! thou broad-spreading valley--thou well-watered land of freshstreams,When I gaze on thy hills greenly sloping, where the light of ...
A Chief Of The Indian Tribes, The Tuscaroras.On Looking At His Portrait By WeirCOOPER, whose name is with his country's ...
I do not fear thee, Death!I have a bantering thought!—though I am toldThou art inflexible, and stern, and bold;And that ...
AIR--_"Gramachree."_ There is a pang for every heart, A tear for every eye; There is a ...
I am a river flowing from God's seaThrough devious ways. He mapped my course for me;I cannot change it; mine ...
(Oscar Wilde.) I gazed upon thee desolate and heard Thine anguished cry when fell the iron gin ...
One said: "I have seen, from cliffs of doom,The seven hells flame up in flowerLike a million upas trees that ...
Yes, thou art like the blasting breath,Of that wild desert wind,Which leaves, in its career of death,No living thing behind;Ne'er ...
O masks and metamorphoses of Ahab, Native Son I The icy evil that struck his father down and ravished his ...
I cannot spare water or wine, Tobacco-leaf, or poppy, or rose; From the earth-poles to the Line, All between that ...
Deep in the desert's misery, far in the fury of the sand, there stands the awesome Upas Tree lone watchman ...
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