Song Of America (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
And now, when poets are singing Their songs of olden days, And now, when the land is ringing With sweet ...
And now, when poets are singing Their songs of olden days, And now, when the land is ringing With sweet ...
Fire! Fire! Fire! the cry rang out on the night air,The roving winds caught it up, and the very heavens ...
The gate was thrown open, I rode out alone,More proud than a monarch who sits on a throne.I am but ...
We were a baker's dozen in the house—six women and six menBesides myself; and all of us had knownThose benefits ...
The world has crowned a thousand kings:But destiny has keptHer weightiest hour of kingly powerTo offer England's son.The rising bell ...
A little time agone, a few brief years,And there was peace within our beauteous borders;Peace, and a prosperous people, and ...
Into the world's most high and holy placesMen carry selfishness, and graft and greed.The air is rent with warring of ...
I saw them sitting in the shade;The long green vines hung over,But could not hide the gold-haired maidAnd Earl, my ...
I: BLINDWhen first the shadows fell, like prison bars,And darkness spread before me, like a pall,I cried out for the ...
Where are the temperance people?Well, scattered here and there:Some gathering in their produceTo show at the autumn fair;Some threshing wheat ...
When the first sere leaves of the year were falling,I heard, with a heart that was strangely thrilled,Out of the ...
I heard such a curious storyOf Santa Claus. Once, so they say,He set out to find what people were kind,Before ...
Batter in the home place,That was nobly done;Try and get the first base—Run! Run! RUN!Ah, there, short stop, will you ...
There is a certain castle that is beautiful and fair,And plants, and birds, and pretty things, fill every room and ...
Sometimes I wish the railroads all were torn out, The ships all sunk among the coral strands. I am so ...
Ho! ho! Father Death! I have won you another!Another grand soul I have ruined and taken;I, who am licensed by ...
The Truth Teller lifts the curtain,And shows us the people's plight;And everything seems uncertain,And nothing at all looks right.Yet out ...
There was a boy named Grumble Tone, who ran away to sea."I'm sick of things on land," he said, "as ...
There are two kinds of people on earth to-day; Just two kinds of people, no more, I say.Not the sinner ...
We are younger in years! Yes, that is true;But in some things we are older than you.For instance, you sometimes ...
You may thrill with the speed of your thoroughbred steed,You may laugh with delight as you ride the ocean,You may ...
Do you want to peep into Bedlam Town?Then come with me, when the day swings down,Into the cradle, whose rockers ...
If you saw a lionNot within a cage,Would you tease and fret himTill he roared in rage?Would you tempt his ...
In India's land one listens aghastTo the people who scream and bawl;For each caste yells at a lower caste,And the ...
Before this scarf was faded, What hours of mirth it knew; How gayly it paraded From smiling eyes to view. ...
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