A Poem (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
Written for the Celebration of the Fourth Anniversary of President Lincoln's Emancipation ProclamationTo P. A. BELL, Esq., A PIONEER IN ...
Written for the Celebration of the Fourth Anniversary of President Lincoln's Emancipation ProclamationTo P. A. BELL, Esq., A PIONEER IN ...
How long, oh gracious God! how long Shall power lord it over right?The feeble, trampled by the strong, Remain in slavery's gloomy ...
In vain thou bid'st me strike the lyre, And sing a song of mirth and glee,Or, kindling with poetic fire, Attempt some ...
"Since he miscalled the morning star,Nor man, nor fiend hath fallen so far."— ByronWhen gathered in the courts above, Before Jehovah's ...
America, it is to thee,Thou boasted land of liberty, —It is to thee I raise my song,Thou land of blood, ...
I love the man whose lofty mind On God and its own strength relies;Who seeks the welfare of his kind, And dare ...
There's music wheresoe'er we roam —'T is heard in ocean's crested foam,And in the billows' deafening roar,Which madly burst upon ...
The gloomy night has cast a shroud Upon the dwelling-place of men;Hushed are the voices of the crowd, And silence reigns o'er ...
The great, the good, the just, the true, Has yielded up his latest breath;The noblest man our country knew, Bows to the ...
Another year has passed away,And brings again the glorious dayWhen Freedom from her slumber woke,And broke the British tyrant's yoke ...
Approaching night her mantle flings O'er plain and valley, rock and glen,When borne away on fancy's wings, Imagination guides my pen.I soar ...
From bright West Indies' sunny seas, Comes, borne upon the balmy breeze,The joyous shout, the gladsome tone, Long in those bloody isles ...
All hail! thou truly noble chief, Who scorned to live a cowering slave;Thy name shall stand on history's leaf, Amid the mighty ...
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