The Organist’s Dream (Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Poems)
Yes, I know I am a stranger,But when you came in that door,I just felt that I could trust you,Though ...
Yes, I know I am a stranger,But when you came in that door,I just felt that I could trust you,Though ...
Through the waning hours of moments Of the slowly dying year,I sat watching, watching, waiting For the New Dawn to appear.While the ...
Through the waning hours and moments,Of the slowly dying year,I sat watching, watching, waiting,For the New Dawn to appear.While the ...
Lay aside your pen for a moment,And listen, my dear to me,While I tell you a strange, sweet story,The sweetest ...
At the gate of the dear old homestead,With hands clasped in lingering farewell,We stood together in silence,With feelings no language ...
In the hush of the Sabbath evening,The people were wending their way,To worship in God's own temple,Where so often, they ...
1863O'er the land, a hush had fallen,Hearts Thrilled expectantly,Till from twice two million voices,Rang the glad cry, "We are free!"Then ...
'Twas eventide. Along the dusty road Two weary travelers passed with aching feetAnd heavy hearts, while each in saddened tones The story ...
(TO MY AUNT)I had a strange sweet dream long, long ago,When in my years I yet was but a child,And ...
For a time away from the tumult, Shut in from the care and the strife,Away from the gloom and the discord, That ...
Among the sick and wounded ones, This stricken soldier boy lay,With glassy eye and shortened breath; His life seemed slipping fast away.My ...
Unjust, untrue, is he who dares Upon our honor to intrude,And claims that with the sin of crime The Negro's nature is ...
The Nation's heart beat wildly, And keenly felt the coming strife;The Country's call was sounding Brave men must offer life for life.So ...
'Twas a time of fiercest conflict,Enmity and awful woe,'Twixt the North, the friend of Freedom,And the South, its bitter foe.Day ...
Again my fancy takes its flight,And soars away on thoughtful wing,Again my soul thrills with delight,And this the fancied theme, ...
We would render fitting tribute,We would add to thy great fame,We would crown thee with due honorAnd immortalize thy name.Till ...
We suffer and ye know it not,Nor yet can ever know,What depth of bitterness is ours,Or why we suffer so;--If ...
A Sower walked among his fields When Spring's fair glory filled the earth;He scattered seed with eager hand, And sowing, thought upon ...
A mighty tempest swept the Nation's courseAnd strong men sank beneath the ruthless blastAnd feared to rise amid the wreck ...
And now the sun in tinted splendor sank, The west was all aglow with crimson light;The bay seemed like a sheet ...
The rising sun had crowned the hills, And added beauty to the plain;O grand and wondrous spectacle! That only nature could explain.I ...
The Autumn leaves, rich golden-tinted leaves,Have fallen, and all barren lie the fields,For, t'is the Reaping-time, when full-grown sheavesAre gathered ...
I stood in the doorway at evening,And I looked to the hills far awayWhere the sun's last rays seemed to ...
Dunbar is dead! O Grief, thy cloud of gloomHangs o'er his race! They sorely needed him,That he should pass from ...
A sound is heard throughout our land,A moaning, yearning, pleading cry;"O mighty Arm of Right stretch forth,Crush out our hopeless ...
Like some gigantic, lofty forest tree,Shorn of its leafy garment in the storm,With roots secure deep-fastened in the earth,Where naught ...
I stand upon the haunted plain Of vanished day and year,And ever o'er its gloomy waste Some strange, sad voice I hear.Some ...
Bright glows the morn, I pace the shining sands,And watch the children, as with eager handsThey gather driftwood for the ...
From out my open window, I can seeThe rolling waves, as fierce and restlessly,They dash against the long, long stretch ...
Beneath Misfortune's dark and heavy cloud,My heart sore wounded, unsubmissive bowed,Hope after hope within me paled and died,Until indifference and ...
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