The Bay-Fight (Henry Howard Brownell Poems)
Three days through sapphire seas we sailed, The steady Trade blew strong and free,The Northern Light his banners paled,The Ocean Stream ...
Three days through sapphire seas we sailed, The steady Trade blew strong and free,The Northern Light his banners paled,The Ocean Stream ...
WOULD you hear of the River-Fight?It was two of a soft spring night;- God's stars looked down on all,And all was ...
THEY glare-those stony eyes! That in the fierce sun-rays Showered from these burning skies, Through untold centuriesHave kept their sleepless and unwinking gaze. ...
(CONGRESS, 1860-61) Stand strong and calm as Fate! not a breath of scorn or hate-- Of taunt for the base, or of ...
Old John Brown lies a-moldering in the grave, Old John Brown lies slumbering in his grave-- But John Brown's soul is marching ...
Blue gulf all around us,Blue sky overhead —Muster all on the quarter,We must bury the dead! It is but a Danish ...
"All we ask is to be let alone."As vonce I valked by a dismal svamp,There sot an Old Cove in ...
As vonce I valked by a dismal swamp,There sot an old cove in the dark and damp,And at everybody as ...
The wind of an autumn midnight Is moaning around my door-- The curtains wave at the window, The carpet lifts on the floor. There ...
World, are thou 'ware of a storm? Hark to the ominous sound; How the far-off gales their battle form, And the great sea-swells ...
Reading, and reading--little is the gain Long dwelling with the minds of dead men leaves. List rather to the melancholy rain, Drop--dropping from ...
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