The Portrait (John Pierpont Poems)
Why does the eye, with greater pleasure, restOn the proud oak, in vernal honors drest,When sultry gales, that to his ...
Why does the eye, with greater pleasure, restOn the proud oak, in vernal honors drest,When sultry gales, that to his ...
Years roll along; and, as they glide awayIn silent lapse, on every New-Year's day'T is claimed by custom that we ...
"If the pulpit be silent, whenever or wherever there may be a sinner, bloody with this guilt, within the hearing ...
Ho! children of the granite hillsThat bristle with the hackmatack,And sparkle with the crystal rillsThat hurry toward the Merrimack,Dam up ...
Star of the North! though night winds driftThe fleecy drapery of the skyBetween thy lamp and me, I lift,Yea, lift ...
The Liberty Bell—the Liberty Bell—The Tocsin of Freedom and Slavery's knell,That a whole long year has idle hung,Again is wagging ...
Lift up, lift up the standard,And plant it near the well!And, gathered underneath its folds,A choral anthem swell!The anthem that ...
Hark! 'tis the children of Washington, pouringThe full tide of song to the conqueror's praise,Whose brows our young eagle, triumphantly ...
Servants of God most high,Who on his word rely,By ancient seers and holy prophets spoken—That all the chains that gallThe ...
To the Emerald Isle, where our kindred are dwelling,And where the remains of our forefathers sleep,Our eyes turn to-day, with ...
Two hundred years!—two hundred years!How much of human power and pride,What glorious hopes, what gloomy fears,Have sunk beneath their noiseless ...
We sing the praise of Water;Come, every son and daughterOf Freedom's land!With such a theme before us,With God's great shield ...
Break forth in song, ye trees,As, through your tops, the breezeSweeps from the sea!For, on its rushing wings,To your cool ...
When the trump of FameLoud sounding Freedom's call, Freedom's call,Bids in Freedom's name,To fight or bravely fall, bravely fall,Bold the ...
Break forth in song, ye trees!As through your tops the breezeSweeps from the sea!For, on its rushing wings,To your cool ...
Where Britannia's emerald islesGem the Caribbean sea,And an endless summer smiles,Lo! the negro thrall is free!Yet not on Columbia's plains,Hath ...
With thy pure dews and rains,Wash out, O God, the stains,From Afric's shore;And, while her palm trees bud,Let not her ...
Day of glory! welcome day!Freedom's banners greet thy ray;See! how cheerfully they playWith thy morning breeze,On the rocks where pilgrims ...
O, is not this a holy spot!'T is the high place of Freedom's birth!God of our fathers! is it notThe ...
Sons of Liberty, arise!Who your country's glory prize,Spread your banner to the skies!Wake from apathy!Join the Washingtonian Band,Firmly to your ...
Let the trump of FameNow to their memory swell,Who, in Freedom's name,Fought and bravely fell!On the heroes moved,With death on ...
My country! 'tis of thee,Sweet land of liberty—Of thee I sing,Land where my fathers died;Land of the pilgrim's pride;From every ...
From the mountain top and valley,See! the banner streaming high!While the sons of freedom rally,To the widow's lonely cry.Sisters weeping,Bid ...
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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