America In 1863: Her “Voice Is Still For War” (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Still beyond the wild AtlanticWeeping Peace, dishevelled, frantic,Shrieking, flies from shore to shore,Hearing still the cannons roar—Seeing through the skies ...
Still beyond the wild AtlanticWeeping Peace, dishevelled, frantic,Shrieking, flies from shore to shore,Hearing still the cannons roar—Seeing through the skies ...
Thou frigid tyrant, dark and stern November!We shrink before thee, and shall long rememberThy levin fires, untimely thunder volleys,That in ...
Ye batteries of Beauregard!Pour hail from Moultrie's wall;Bid the shock of your deep thunderOn their fleet in terror fall;Rain your ...
Dear friends, let me to you relate A plan that I begot of yore,A plan to conquer, extirpate Slaveholding now ...
At Kangaroo Gully in 'Fifty-twoThe rush and the scramble was reckless and rough;'Three ounces a dish and the lead running ...
So that soldierly legend is still on its journey,— That story of Kearny who knew not to yield!'Twas the day ...
In a wood they call Rouge BouquetThere is a new-made grave today,Built by never a spade nor pickYet covered with ...
The watchfires died away from the bivouac on the hill,And o'er the mountain-tops the dawn crept cold and slow,And in ...
Bold Torres, the sailor, came and went,with his swarthy, storm-worn band,he saw Saavedra's Isle to north-to south a loom of ...
What wonder that I should be dreaming Out here in the garden to-day?The light through the leaves is streaming,—Paulina ...
I SUNG the rain, and said it would be fair: Lo! while the sun, though still with visage veil'd,Descends apace, ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
HAS auld Kilmarnock seen the deil? Or great Mackinlay 1 thrawn his heel? Or Robertson 2 again grown weel, To ...
As some brave admiral, in former war, Deprived of force, but pressed with courage still, Two rival fleets appearing from ...
Chloe, In verse by your command I write. Shortly you'll bid me ride astride, and fight: These talents better with ...
WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long, And my head on the pillow ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
North Country, filled with gesturing wood, With trees that fence, like archers' volleys, The flanks of hidden valleys Where nothing's ...
Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, ...
'Twas at the disastrous battle of Maiwand, in Afghanistan, Where the Berkshires were massacred to the last man; On the ...
Success to Colonel Baden-Powell and his praises loudly sing, For being so brave in relieving Mafeking, With his gallant little ...
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