Hospital Duties (Anonymous Americas Poems)
Fold away all your bright-tinted dresses, Turn the key on your jewels today,And the wealth of your tendril-like tresses Braid ...
Fold away all your bright-tinted dresses, Turn the key on your jewels today,And the wealth of your tendril-like tresses Braid ...
Tis a cheerless, lonesome eveningWhen the soaking, sodden groundWill not echo to the footfallof the sentinel's dull round.God's blue star-spangled ...
MY son, at last the fateful day has come For us to part. The hours have nearly run.May God ...
A barefooted child on the crossing,Sweeping the mud away,A lady in silks and diamonds,Proud of the vain display;A beggar blind ...
Five Zouaves killed! — one thousand in all — Five from a thousand? Then he may be one.If in ...
CLICK, click! how the needles goThrough the busy fingers, to and fro--With no bright colors of berlin wool,Delicate hands today ...
There is a cap in the closet, Old, tattered, and blue—Of very slight value, It may be, to ...
Another ray of light hath fled, another Southern braveHath fallen in his country's cause and found a laureled grave—Hath fallen, ...
"The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed oflanguishing: Thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness."~ Psalm 41:3 ...
If ever I marry, I'll marry a maid; To marry a widow, I am sore afraid: ...
Away down South in the land of traitors,Rattlesnakes and alligators,Right away, come away, right away, come away.Where cotton's king and ...
On the unstained sward of the gentle slope, Full of valor and nerved by hope, The infantry sways like a ...
We're coming, we're coming, the fearless and free,Like the winds of the desert, the waves of the sea!True sons of ...
This song was composed while George Latimer, the fugitive slave, wasconfined in Leverett Street Jail, Boston, expecting to be carried ...
There's not a stately hall,There's not a cottage fair,That proudly stands on Southern soil,Or softly nestles there,But in its peaceful ...
Hunted by rebel master,Over many a hill and glade,Black Tom, with his wife and children,Found his way to our brigade.Tom ...
Ho! children of the brave,Ho! freemen of the land,That hurl'd into the graveOppression's bloody band;Come on, come on, and joined ...
I wish I was that little bird,Up in the bright blue sky,That sings and flies just where he will,And no ...
You'll tell her, won't you? Say to her I diedAs a brave soldier should - true to the last;She'll bear ...
There's an empty seat where the old folks meet, When they offer their evening prayer,And a look forlorn, for ...
No one can know the potential,Of a life that is committed to win;With courage - the challenge it faces,To achieve ...
Ye heralds of freedom, ye noble and brave,Who dare to insist on the rights of the slave,Go onward, go onward, ...
Friendship needs no studied phrases,Polished face, or winning wiles;Friendship deals no lavish praises,Friendship dons no surface smiles.Friendship follows nature's diction,Shuns ...
With muffled drums and the flag that was furledWith the cause that was lost, when the last smoke curledFrom the ...
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