Chicago Exposition Ode (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
Columbia, all hail!May thy banner ne'er be furledTill Liberty, with her beauteous rays,Enlighten all the world.Columbia, to theeFrom every clime ...
Columbia, all hail!May thy banner ne'er be furledTill Liberty, with her beauteous rays,Enlighten all the world.Columbia, to theeFrom every clime ...
The earth was young, the world was fair,And balmy breezes filled the air,Nature reposed in solitude,When God pronounced it "very ...
'Twas sunset's hour, the glorious dayHad in its beauty passed away;The sun had bathed in golden dyesThis Southern land of ...
'Twas a cloudless morn and the sun shone bright,And dewdrops sparkled clear;And the hills and the vales of this Western ...
Ah! the year is slowly dying,And the wind in tree-top sighing,Chant his requiem.Thick and fast the leaves are falling,High in ...
O, insatiable monster! Could'st thou notIn pity turn aside thy venomed shaftFrom her my gifted, darling friend?Has sympathy within thy ...
Oh! waves in the sunlight gleaming,Oh! billows with ceaseless roar,Bring back to this aching heart of mine,The laddie you bore ...
I'm sitting by the hearthstone now,And my heart is lone and drear;It seems as though the autumn blastHad left its ...
Oh! surely 'tis a theme sublimeThat stirs my soul to-day;Awake then, muse nor slumber more,Till sung the wondrous lay.My song ...
Come, let us join this festal lay—Hurra, Hurra,Come, let us join this festal lay,And let our anthems all be gay,And ...
Bright and beautiful art thou,Autumn flowers crown thy brow,Golden-rod and Aster blue,Russet leaf with crimson hue.Half stripped branches waving by,Softly ...
Bird of the woodland, sing me a song,Fain would I list to thee, all the day long.Out from thy cosy ...
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