The Ancient Banner (Anonymous Americas Poems)
In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left,The bosom of his Father, and assumedA servant's form, though he had reigned a king,In ...
In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left,The bosom of his Father, and assumedA servant's form, though he had reigned a king,In ...
O, praise an' tanks! De Lord he come To set de people free; An' massa tink it day ob ...
MY son, at last the fateful day has come For us to part. The hours have nearly run.May God ...
Quick, fly to the covert, thou hunted of men!For the bloodhounds are baying o'er mountain and glen;The riders are mounted, ...
It is asserted, on the authority of an American Newspaper, that thedaughter of Thomas Jefferson, late President of the United ...
CLICK, click! how the needles goThrough the busy fingers, to and fro--With no bright colors of berlin wool,Delicate hands today ...
Rebels! 't is a holy name! The name our fathers bore,When battling in the cause of Right,Against the tyrant ...
Away down South in the land of traitors,Rattlesnakes and alligators,Right away, come away, right away, come away.Where cotton's king and ...
We're coming, we're coming, the fearless and free,Like the winds of the desert, the waves of the sea!True sons of ...
You go, my son, to the battle-field To repel the invading foe; 'Mid its fiercest conflicts never yield Till death ...
This song was composed while George Latimer, the fugitive slave, wasconfined in Leverett Street Jail, Boston, expecting to be carried ...
Who are the men that clamor mostAgainst the war, its cause and cost,And who Jeff Davis sometimes toast? The Copperheads.Who, ...
Our flag is proudly floating On the land and on the main,Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom! Beneath it ...
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 ...
Our grateful carts with joy o'erflow,Hurra, Hurra, Hurra,We hail the Despot's overthrow,Hurra, Hurra, Hurra,No more he'll raise the gory lash,And ...
Come all ye true friends of the nation,Attend to humanity's call;Come aid the poor slave's liberation,And roll on the liberty ...
I am an Abolitionist!I glory in the name:Though now by Slavery's minions hiss'd And covered o'er with shame,It is a ...
As I strayed from my cot at the close of the day,I turned my fond gaze to the sky;I beheld ...
Feebly the bondman toiled,Sadly he wept—Then to his wretched cotMournfully crept;How doth his free-born soulPine 'neath his chain!Slavery! Slavery!Dark is ...
Is there a man that never sighedTo set the prisoner free?Is there a man that never prizedThe sweets of liberty?Then ...
Ye heralds of freedom, ye noble and brave,Who dare to insist on the rights of the slave,Go onward, go onward, ...
The night is dark, and keen the air,And the Slave is flying to be free;His parting word is one short ...
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