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 ...
A barefooted child on the crossing,Sweeping the mud away,A lady in silks and diamonds,Proud of the vain display;A beggar blind ...
Quick, fly to the covert, thou hunted of men!For the bloodhounds are baying o'er mountain and glen;The riders are mounted, ...
Was it a lie that they told me,Was it a pitiless hoax?A sop for my soul and its longingOnly to ...
It is asserted, on the authority of an American Newspaper, that thedaughter of Thomas Jefferson, late President of the United ...
If ever I marry, I'll marry a maid; To marry a widow, I am sore afraid: ...
Come join the Abolitionists,Ye young men bold and strong.And with a warm and cheerful zeal,Come help the cause along;O that ...
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 ...
I pity the slave mother, careworn and weary,Who sighs as she presses her babe to her breast;I lament her sad ...
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 ...
Fling out the Anti-slavery flagOn every swelling breeze;And let its folds wave o'er the land,And o'er the raging seas,Till all ...
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 wish I was that little bird,Up in the bright blue sky,That sings and flies just where he will,And no ...
As I strayed from my cot at the close of the day,I turned my fond gaze to the sky;I beheld ...
Ye spirits of the free,Can ye forever seeYour brother manA yoked and scourged slaveChains dragging to his grave,And raise no ...
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, ...
Go, go, thou that enslav'st me,Now, now thy power is o'er;Long, long have I obeyed thee,I'm not a slave any ...
What mean ye that ye bruise and bindMy people, saith the Lord,And starve your craving brother's mind,Who asks to hear ...
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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