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 ...
Just a few miles from Manila Bay,Near the close of a summer's day,When the sun was flooding with gold the ...
A few miles from Manila BayJust at the close of a summer day,The sun had stained as gold the west,Our ...
Around the glowing fireside of the nationA vacant chair no one can ever fill;Death came, and stole from it a ...
Among the dear old friends we people cherishWithin the highest portals of our hearts,The name that sounds as dear as ...
Upon a battlefield, when the smoke had cleared away,I saw a woman strolling 'mong the dead;It was a mother, feeble, ...
Dear father Browne, the great, the good,The noble leader of our race;With task complete his spirit fledTo he'ven its final ...
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 ...
In reading books from Adam's time,And studying lives we call sublime,I see so many stained with sin-Virtue alone can make ...
'Twas in a park beneath a tree,Upon a rustic seat;The evenings when the sun was low,Edith and I would meet.'Twas ...
The world is a race-course;Man is a charioteer;In him there is a soul;Ambition is the steedBy which he is drawn,Over ...
Love! O passion! O woman!Return what thou hast stole:Ambition, heart, and treasure,O free the weary soul.Loose thy suffering victim;Unbar the ...
Ye men of Cuba, patriots all,Pray! mourn for your leader! place crape on the wall;Go tell the young children that ...
The summer's gone;I stand in ice and sleet.Where art thou gone?Pray tell-I wish to seek.I seek the woods,Where once an ...
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