The Gag (John Pierpont Poems)
Ho! children of the granite hillsThat bristle with the hackmatack,And sparkle with the crystal rillsThat hurry toward the Merrimack,Dam up ...
Ho! children of the granite hillsThat bristle with the hackmatack,And sparkle with the crystal rillsThat hurry toward the Merrimack,Dam up ...
To the Emerald Isle, where our kindred are dwelling,And where the remains of our forefathers sleep,Our eyes turn to-day, with ...
Break forth in song, ye trees,As, through your tops, the breezeSweeps from the sea!For, on its rushing wings,To your cool ...
Break forth in song, ye trees!As through your tops the breezeSweeps from the sea!For, on its rushing wings,To your cool ...
"The Plague! the Plague! bring out your dead."Through all the land the cryRang shrilly forth. "We bring our dead!"Was murmured ...
To Thee, beneath whose eyeEach circling centuryObedient rolls,Our nation, in its prime,Looked with a faith sublime,And trusted, in "the timeThat ...
Strike from that laborer's limbs his chain!In the fierce sun the iron burns!By night, it fills his dreams with pain;By ...
Break ye the bread, and pour the wine,As ye have seen your Master do;This body and this blood of mineIs ...
With banner and with badge we come,An Army true and strong,To fight against the hosts of rum,And this shall be ...
When in the light of faith divineWe look on things below,Honor, and gold, and sensual joy,How vain and dang'rous too.The ...
We praise thee—if one rescued soul,While the past year prolonged its flight,Turned shuddering, from the poisonous bowl,To health, and liberty, ...
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