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 I forbid you, maidens a',That wear gowd on your hair,To come or gae by Carterhaugh,For young Tam Lin is ...
Oh! he's nothing but a soldier,But he's coming here tonight,For I saw him pass this morning,With his uniform so bright.He ...
A barefooted child on the crossing,Sweeping the mud away,A lady in silks and diamonds,Proud of the vain display;A beggar blind ...
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 ...
God rest you merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ our Saviour Was born upon ...
Through Goshen Hollow, where hemlocks grow, Where rushing rills, with flash and flow, Are over the rough rocks falling; Where ...
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 ...
Another ray of light hath fled, another Southern braveHath fallen in his country's cause and found a laureled grave—Hath fallen, ...
Who are the men that clamor mostAgainst the war, its cause and cost,And who Jeff Davis sometimes toast? The Copperheads.Who, ...
Why stands she near the auction stand,That girl so young and fair;What brings her to this dismal place,Why stands she ...
Children of the glorious dead,Who for freedom fought and bled,With her banner o'er you spread,On to victory.Not for stern ambition's ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ye spirits of the free,Can ye forever seeYour brother manA yoked and scourged slaveChains dragging to his grave,And raise no ...
When Aurelia first I courted, She had youth and beauty too, Killing pleasures when she sported, ...
'Twas but a breath--And yet the fair, good name was wilted;And friends once fond grew cold and stilted,And life was ...
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