A Test Of Love (James Ephraim McGirt Poems)
The land of Avia, lovely is the scene,Clothed every evening in a silvery sheen;The rippling brook and birds make music ...
The land of Avia, lovely is the scene,Clothed every evening in a silvery sheen;The rippling brook and birds make music ...
One cold wet winter eveningI was hurrying to my home,I passed a drunkard lying in the mire;The sleet was falling ...
'Tis a colored captain's story'Twas told to Uncle Sam,He was mustered out because the war was o'er;He'd borne his honor ...
Around the glowing fireside of the nationA vacant chair no one can ever fill;Death came, and stole from it a ...
Pray, listen brethren, while I speak,I speak of loving father Browne;In vain another you may seek,Yet not another can be ...
A warrior stood before his Master,Bruised and bleeding from the fight,Not for power, neither honor,But in battling for the right.Torn ...
I'll ne'er forget the day,When I was young and gay,A rolling 'round the floor in Tennessee;From th' cotton field so ...
The spirit of the oak am I,With head uplifted to the sky,Though hail and storm beat in my face,Through weal ...
'Twas in a park beneath a tree,Upon a rustic seat;The evenings when the sun was low,Edith and I would meet.'Twas ...
Blame not the poet who daily seeks the woods;Call him not idle, thy verdict may be wrong,For there he meets ...
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