The Death of Stephen (Janet Hamilton Poems)
O power invincible of faith and love,Like angel rising to his home above,Thy heaven-lit features beam, calm, earnest grace,Firm truth, ...
O power invincible of faith and love,Like angel rising to his home above,Thy heaven-lit features beam, calm, earnest grace,Firm truth, ...
Lone dweller of the stony isle!Dost thou at fortune's caprice smile,Soars thy great mind above thy state,Serene amid the shocks ...
Hail! infant year, fresh from the womb of Time,Cradled in clouds, what shapes and shades sublimeAttend thy birth, and hover ...
"He is the freeman whom the Truth makes free;All else are slaves," I cry aloud to thee,O Garibaldi! in the ...
Ye blest celestial twain, From your bright spheres descending,He called ye not in vain, His soul's devotion tending.To liberty and truth, With burning ...
"Had I a thousand mouths, a thousand tongues,A thousand throats, inspired with brazen lungs,"I'd rouse with thunder tones the slumbering ...
"I see a people scattered like a flock,Some royal mastiff panting at their heelsWith all the savage thirst a tiger ...
I've sung of Spring, her buds and flowers, Of Summer suns and Summer roses;Of golden Autumn's dreamy skies, The wealth her bounteous ...
Ye minist'ring spirits of grace, That wait on the good and the true,To comfort, support, and solace— Earth fails us—we call upon ...
The toils, the flames, the thunders of the siege Are quench'd and hush'd. Night shrouds in funeral pallThe fallen fortress, and ...
"My boast is not that I deduce my birthFrom loins enthroned, or rulers of the earth;But higher far my proud ...
No darker record on the roll of timeWas e'er inscribed to country, age, or clime,By the red hand of war—so ...
Lady, to thee, to fortune, and to fame,I, all unknown, would yet aspiring claimA right to love thee, and admire ...
Garibaldi! Garibaldi! Bleeds and burns my heart for thee!Freedom! union for Italia! Never can be won by thee.Dipp'd in freedom's sacred fountain, Waved ...
Oh for a blast of the loudest E'er blown from the trumpet of fame!Oh for a song of the proudest E'er sung ...
On The Proposed Presentation of Guns By The People of Britain To The King of Sardinia, In Aid To Italian ...
Go spread thy strong pinions, and rear thy proud crest,Cleave the red clouds of morn with unwavering breast;Bold eagle! full ...
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