John Jay Chapman Poems on Life Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

Go fight for Freedom, Warriors of the West!At last the word is spoken: Go!Lay on for Liberty. 'Twas at her ...

(After Ronsard)YE caverns, and ye rillsThat from the beetling hillsDown every rocky wallGlide, gleam, and fall;Ye woods and streams around,Where ...

BEHOLD, the harvest is at hand;And thick on the encircling hillsThe sheaves like an encampment stand,Making a martial fairy-landThat half ...

LIFE seems belittled when a great man dies;The age ...

THE earth is damp: in everythingI taste the bitter breath of pallid spring.Hark! In the air a fanning sound,Like distant ...

AGAIN we gather here,Beneath the aegis of a sacred name,To hold our feast, and with our altar-flameSignal the passage of ...

(Lines read at the dinner given to its members upon their retirement)HAPPY the man who with steadfast devotionWalks through the ...

WHEN we all lived togetherIn the farm among the hills,And the early summer weatherHad flushed the little rills;And Jack and ...

PAST happiness dissolves. It fades away,Ghost-like, in that dim attic of the mindTo which the dreams of childhood are consigned.Here, ...

John Jay Chapman Poems on Life (9 Poems)