Rape Of Florida: Canto IV (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
Gazing upon the toiling seas,In gloomy rows the silent captives sate;And as the ship rode off before the breeze,They murmured ...
Gazing upon the toiling seas,In gloomy rows the silent captives sate;And as the ship rode off before the breeze,They murmured ...
On Tampa's hights gray rose the battlements:A summer's day had gone out in the west;The conflagration in the elementsWas ended, ...
The poet hath a realm within, and throne,And in his own soul singeth his lament.A comer often in the world ...
Sing muse! of Saville and the direful dayWhen beauty fell, to ruthless hands a prey;And life a sacrifice to savage ...
In bloom gemm'd depths, where Sylvan branches meetAbove dim paths, that thread a still retreat;Where light on tip-toe shy, steals ...
Awake, my muse, ye goodly sights among,The land of Boone and Kenton claims my song.Thro' other scenes our lovers take ...
A tall brave man of gray three score,The sable columns rode before,The knightliest of the knightly throng,The bravest of the ...
Fort Dearborn is a strong and goodly place,And o'er the frontier looks with valiant faceTo greet the hostile tread of ...
The idle winds at dawn that strayedThro' wavy depths of joyous shade,The early chirp of breeze-swung boughs,The carol of the ...
Freedom, thy son is dead!Once more the solemn treadOf the long, slow cortege echoes to throbsOf a nation's heart, and ...
Defiant in the cannon's mouth, ...
Columbia!O, happy State!And truly greatExemplar of the free!Thou first-born light of Western SkiesAnd cynosure of wond'ring eyes,We hail to thee!Thou ...
Canadian farmers came oft to the little green cottage,To see their new neighbors and hear them tell over their troubles.The ...
The shepherd-king of Judah's olden days,Waked his sweet harp to sing Jehovah's praise,Then this his theme was in his happy ...
Ye who read in musty volumesPages worn of Backwoods Times,Of the red man and the white man,In the thrilling days ...
When the Stabber's speech had ended,And his presents all were gathered,And his pipe the chiefs had all smoked,Four young chiefs ...
To town one day rode Solon Stiles,O'er weary roads and rocky miles,And thro' long lanes, whose dusty breath,Did nearly smother ...
Pashepaho heard the young menTill their lofty words had ended,And in accents stern, thus answered:"For your presents, I am thankful.By ...
The laughter of sleigh bells was heard on the lips of the snow stormAll day long, and passers were scarcely ...
When Science, trembling in the lengthened shadeOf monster superstitions, and menacedBy raving Bigotry, a dream embracedOf prosperous worlds by mortal ...
Where the dark ash upward towereth,And the maple drops her brown shade,And the rough oak spreads his broad arms,And the ...
Lo! the old Sac village slumberedIn the basin of the Wabash,And the doorway of the vallies,Like some brown old matron ...
To the memory of Dr. J. McSimpson, a colored Author of Anti-Slavery Ballads. Written for the Zanesville, O., Courier.When Israel ...
England, cannot thy shores boast bards as great,And hearts as good as ever blest a State?When arts were rude and ...
Who flees the regions of the lower mind,Where these distempers breathe on every wind:Infectious dogmatisms, noxious hate,Old snarly spleen, and ...
'Twas in the long ago,'Twas in the age of woodsOf Young America,That moving, rattling, slowTowards the Western plain,A single settler's ...
Away thro' the blue distant hills,Thou windest, deserted old Road;By farm houses brown and gray millsAnd log huts, the woodman's ...
Strike! Strike! Stop! Stop! What mean these shouts that rise — This great commotion throughout all the land,That chills the ...
Sweet vale of the Sussex! the pride of the Queen,Whose life has a reign of beneficence been;The flow'r of Britana's ...
Forth on the fatal morn,Proud as the waves of HornRode the cavalier;Followed by gallant men,Far in a rocky glenTo disappear."Halt!" ...
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