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 ...
Tis a cheerless, lonesome eveningWhen the soaking, sodden groundWill not echo to the footfallof the sentinel's dull round.God's blue star-spangled ...
There was a rose-bush in a garden growing,Its tender leaves unfolding day by day;The sun looked-on, and his down-goingLeft it ...
Was it a lie that they told me,Was it a pitiless hoax?A sop for my soul and its longingOnly to ...
Is it parting with the roundnessOf the smoothly moulded cheek?Is it losing from the dimplesHalf the flashing joy they speak?Is ...
I wish I were where Helen lies; Night and day on me she cries; Oh that I were ...
I am a poor tiler in simple array, And get a poor living, but eightpence a day, ...
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, ...
I wish I was that little bird,Up in the bright blue sky,That sings and flies just where he will,And no ...
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