Men (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Man is a creature of a thousand whims;The slave of hope and fear and circumstance.Through toil and martyrdom a million ...
Man is a creature of a thousand whims;The slave of hope and fear and circumstance.Through toil and martyrdom a million ...
I had rather write one word upon the rockOf ages than ten thousand in the sand.The rock of ages! lo ...
Once Satan and a monk went on a "drunk,"And Satan struck a bargain with the monk,Whereby the Devil's crew was ...
[Written for and read at the Camp Fire of the G.A.R. Department ofMinnesota, National Encampment of the Grand Army of ...
Call me not back, O cold and crafty world:I scorn your thankless thanks and hollow praise.Wiser than seer or scientist--contentTo ...
On they ride--on they ride--Only three hundred,--Ride the brave Body-Guard,From the "Prairie Scouts" sundered:Two thousand riflemen,Ambushed on either side,The signal ...
Float in the winds of heaven, O tattered Flag!Emblem of hope to all the misruled world:Thy ...
Poet"Why this fever--why this sighing?--Why this restless longing--dyingFor--a something--dreamy something,Undefined, and yet defyingAll the pride and power of manhood?"O these ...
Hark, the storm is raging high; Beat the breakers on the coast,And the wintry waters cry Like the wailing of a ghost.On ...
Our columns are broken, defeated, and fled;We are gathered, a few from the flying and dead,Where ...
Away, away, o'er the bounding sea My spirit flies like a gull;For I know my Mary is watching for me, And the ...
Mount to horse--mount to horse; Forward, Battalion!Gallop the gallant force; Down with Rebellion!Over hill, creek and plain Clatter the fearless--Dash away--splash away-- Led by ...
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