Then and Now (Frances Ellen Watkins Poems)
Build me a nation, said the Lord. The distant nations heard the word, Build me a nation true and strong, ...
Build me a nation, said the Lord. The distant nations heard the word, Build me a nation true and strong, ...
When the frost-king clothed the forests In a flood of gorgeous dyes, Death called little dark-browed Martha ...
A SONG. Come to me when I'm dying; Gaze on my wasted form, Tired with so ...
He lifted up his pleading eyes, And scanned each cruel face, Where cold and brutal cowardice Had left its evil ...
Moses sought again the presence of the king:And Pharaoh's brow grew dark with wrath,And rising up in angry haste, he ...
Methinks I hear those tuneful chimes, Borne on the breath of morn, Proclaiming to the silent world ...
From Rome's palaces and villas Gaily issued forth a throng; From her humbler habitations Moved a human tide along. Haughty ...
There are flowers that never wither, There are skies that never fade, There are trees that cast ...
I'm tired, I'm tired of life, brother! Of all that meets my eye; And my weary spirit ...
Maceo dead! a thrill of sorrow Through our hearts in sadness ran When we felt in one sad hour That ...
It shall be a royal mansion, A fair and beautiful thing,It will be the presence-chamber Of thy Saviour, Lord and ...
Outcast from her home in SyriaIn the lonely, dreary wild;Heavy hearted, sorrow stricken,Sat a mother and her child.There was not ...
He stood beside his dying child, With a dim and bloodshot eye; They'd won him ...
I had a dream, a varied dream:Before my ravished sightThe city of my Lord arose,With all its love and light.The ...
Onward to her destination, O'er the stream that Hannah sped,When a cry of consternation Smote and chilled our hearts with ...
Well, one morning real earlyI was going down the street,And I heard a stranger askingFor Missis Chloe Fleet.There was something ...
Life was trembling, faintly trembling On the bondman's latest breath, And he felt the chilling pressure Of the cold, hard ...
He stood before my heart's closed door, And asked to enter in; But I had barred the passage o'er By ...
My mother's kiss, my mother's kiss,I feel its impress now;As in the bright and happy daysShe pressed it on my ...
Do you see this grain of sandLying loosely in my hand?Do you know to me it broughtJust a simple loving ...
Let me make the songs for the people, Songs for the old and young; Songs to stir like a battle-cry ...
The dying words of Goethe."Light! more light! the shadows deepen, And my life is ebbing low, Throw the windows widely ...
The conies had their hiding-place, The wily fox with stealthy tread A covert found, but Christ, the Lord, Had not ...
God bless our native land, Land of the newly free, Oh may she ever stand For truth and liberty. God ...
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