President Lincoln’s Proclamation Of Freedom (Frances Ellen Watkins Poems)
IT shall flash through coming ages; It shall light the distant years; And eyes now dim with sorrow ...
IT shall flash through coming ages; It shall light the distant years; And eyes now dim with sorrow ...
Men of Cleveland, had a vultureSought a timid dove for preyWould you not, with human pity, Drive the gory bird ...
A rock, for ages, stern and high, Stood frowning 'gainst the earth and sky, And never bowed his haughty crest ...
Onward to her destination, O'er the stream that Hannah sped,When a cry of consternation Smote and chilled our hearts with ...
Very soon the Yankee teachersCame down and set up school;But, oh! how the Rebs did hate it, —It was agin' ...
Make me a grave where'er you will,In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill; Make it among earth's humblest graves,But ...
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 ...
Two little children sit by my side, I call them Lily and Daffodil; I gaze on them with a mother's ...
My mother's kiss, my mother's kiss,I feel its impress now;As in the bright and happy daysShe pressed it on my ...
They shall see Him in the crimson flush Of morning's early light, In the drapery of sunset, Around the couch ...
We may sigh o'er the heavy burdens Of the black, the brown and white; But if we all clasped hands ...
Sweet star, of seraph brightness, That for a transient day Shed o'er our souls such lightness, ...
Too frail to soar — a feeble thing — It fell to earth with fluttering wing; But God, who watches ...
Out in the cold mid the dreary night,Under the eaves of homes so bright:Snowflakes falling o'er mother's graveWill no one ...
They heard the South wind sighingA murmur of the rain;And they knew that Earth was longingTo see them all again.While ...
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 sale began-young girls were there, Defenseless in their wretchedness,Whose stifled sobs of deep despair Revealed their anguish and distress.And ...
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 ...
We would see Jesus; earth is grand,Flowing out from her Creator's hand.Like one who tracks his steps with light,His footsteps ...
Build me a house, said the Master, "But not on the shifting sand, Mid the wreck and roar of tempests, ...
Of course, I don't know very muchAbout these politics,But I think that some who run 'em,Do mighty ugly tricks.I've seen ...
Thank God for little children, Bright flowers by earth's wayside, The dancing, joyous lifeboats Upon life's stormy tide. Thank God ...
The prison-house in which I live Is falling to decay, But God renews my spirit's strength, Within these walls of ...
God bless our native land, Land of the newly free, Oh may she ever stand For truth and liberty. God ...
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