Caleb’s Vision (Alfred Gibbs Campbell Poems)
Caleb went, as was his custom, On a quiet Sunday morn,To the house of prayer and worship, Thither by devotion ...
Caleb went, as was his custom, On a quiet Sunday morn,To the house of prayer and worship, Thither by devotion ...
When on the earth had settled moral night,And darkness reigned where once shone Sinai's light;When superstitious rites usurped the placeWhere ...
Hard at their oars the fishers toiled,But adverse winds their labors foiled;Torn into shreds, their useless sailStreamed out upon the ...
looked from the mountain height, and sawRapine assume the robes of law!Justice I saw driven out apace,While Robbery climbed to ...
Suggested By The Christiana (Pa.) Treason Trials.Treason? yes, make it treason, if ye will;Build up your gallows, and your victims ...
Wake not again the cannon's thundrous voice,Nor to the breeze throw out the stars and stripes;'Tis not the time to ...
IAnother life from Life's Fountain,Hath flowed through thy life into being,And entered a deathless existence.The sun may go down in ...
Earth hath no true reality;Its brightest gems doth time corrode;Decay is marked on all we see,And Life is but a ...
Written during the passage of the funeral procession in New York, April 25th, 1865.Ah! our dead President! Bear him to ...
Slavery shall not reign for aye,Though exalted to the sky;Even now the doom is nigh,For a just God reigns on ...
O god! look down and see Outraged Humanity'Neath the Oppressor's rod! Give ear, O God,To the despairing cries Which ever ...
Abbie Hutchinson, Of Trenton, N.J. Died August, 1854.Were death a never-ending sleep, And the dark grave life's final goal,Well might ...
Beneath this mound her hallowed ashes lie; In this dark grave her weary form reposes,And all of her which death ...
What! boast of Freedon, while ye bind Three millions of our race in chains,Whom ye have doomed to every kind ...
ITyrants! your doom is nigh:Short is your reign:Your bondmen's wailing cryTo Heaven againHath risen, and the Infinite GodWhom ye have ...
Whence, O my soul! and wherefore, art thou come?Mysterious inmost! tell me what art thou?Where in the by-gone ages was ...
Dost thou ever feel a longingFor a purer, happier land,Where no vexing sorrows throngingRound thy pathway ever stand?Dost thou feel ...
Do they not greatly err, who hold That He who made the human soul Will not its destinies controlFor final ...
Swing up the traitor! Let him die!Truth, honor and sincerityAre treason to Virginia's laws,Are fatal to Virginia's cause,And he who ...
If you find a man who does not receiveThe doctrines you have been taught to believe, Spare him not! Cry ...
Jesus, give me of Thy spirit, Make me meek and mild like Thee;Let me all Thy grace inherit, All Thy ...
Shall Virginia sleep onTill her liberties are gone?Shall the plottings of her foesGo unchecked beneath her nose?Can she, unresisting, seeWomen ...
Thou hast taught us, Lord, that whereTwo or three are met for prayer,Thou wilt certainly be there!As we meet, O ...
II know that I shall die;But wherefore should I sigh?Did sighing e'er abateInevitable fate?The grave is dark and drear;But what ...
Addressed To Abraham M. And Gertrude N. HutchinsonA circle of happy angels In the beauteous Spirit-Land,Have chosen your little darling ...
Our Father! when we wake and see The glories of the morn arise,And midnight shadows swiftly flee Before the day-king's ...
Eighteen hundred and eighty-two,Pass along; we have done with you.Your record is sealed and laid away,Not to be opened till ...
O love, descend and with celestial fireDissolve my iciness of soul! Dispel,With thy supernal light, the clouds which hangLike phantoms ...
Ho! preachers of His Gospel whoSalvation came to bring,Rest from your labors for awhile,And join our gathering!Ye servants of the ...
Sons of Freedom, rise once more'Gainst a foe upon our shore,Deadlier than all foes of yore; Down with Slavery!Slavery's hounds ...
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