The Fight Of The General Armstrong (James Jeffrey Roche Poems)
Tell the story to your sonsOf the gallant days of yoreWhen the brig of seven gunsFought the fleet of seven ...
Tell the story to your sonsOf the gallant days of yoreWhen the brig of seven gunsFought the fleet of seven ...
To Houston at Gonzales town, ride, Ranger, for your life,I nor stop to say good-by to-day to home or child ...
Joy in rebel Plymouth town, in the spring of 'sixty-four,When the Albemarle down on the Yankee frigates bore,With the saucy ...
A Yankee ship and a Yankee crew-Constitution, where ye bound for?Wherever, my lad, there's fight to be had,Acrost the Western ...
This is the tale that was told to me,By a battered and shattered son of the sea-To me and my ...
To Amsterdam and its Commodore,I over his pipe and his eau-de-vie,A flibote skimming the Texel shoreBrought serious news for the ...
It is better to die, since death comes surely,In the full noontide of an honored name,Than to lie at the ...
There was no union in the land,Though wise men labored longWith links of clay and ropes of sandTo bind the ...
In the gloomy ocean bed Dwelt a formless thing, and said,In the dim and countless eons long ago, "I will build a ...
From the madding crowd they stand apart,The maidens four and the Work of Art;And none might tell from sight aloneIn ...
Shall we, the storm-tossed sailors, weepFor those who may not sail again;Or wisely envy them, and keepOur pity for the ...
Oh, if the world were mine, Love,I'd give the world for thee!Alas! there is no sign, Love,Of that contingency.Were I ...
THE LOVE of man and woman is as fire,To warm, to light, but surely to consumeAnd self-consuming die. There is ...
Your eyes were made for laughter:Sorrow befits them not;Would you be blithe hereafter,Avoid the lover's lot.The rose and lily blendedPossess ...
The net of law is spread so wide,No sinner from its sweep may hide.Its meshes are so fine and strong,They ...
I'd rather be handsome than homely;I'd rather be youthful than old;If I can't have a bushel of silverI'll do with ...
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