Lincoln (John Gould Fletcher Poem)
I Like a gaunt, scraggly pine Which lifts its head above the mournful sandhills; And patiently, through dull years of ...
I Like a gaunt, scraggly pine Which lifts its head above the mournful sandhills; And patiently, through dull years of ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
Give me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the herbs ...
In a stable of boats I lie still, From all sleeping children hidden. The leap of a fish from its ...
There is a flower that Bees prefer -- And Butterflies -- desire -- To gain the Purple Democrat The Humming ...
'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I, ...
I have been spiritually poisoned by the unclean, in ignorance blessed their springs. In consequence I withered and drifted down ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
"Have you ever made a just man?" "Oh, I have made three," answered God, "But two of them are dead, ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
Comrades, many a year and day Have fled since that glorious 9th of May When we made the charge at ...
The evening passes fast away, 'Tis almost time to rest; What thoughts has left the vanished day, What feelings, in ...
From time to time, lifting his eyes, he sees The soft blue starlight through the one small window, The moon ...
we have everything and we have nothing and some men do it in churches and some men do it by ...
v.9-16 C. M. Protection from death, guard of angels, victory and deliverance. Ye sons of men, a feeble race, Exposed ...
1 COURAGE yet! my brother or my sister! Keep on! Liberty is to be subserv'd, whatever occurs; That is nothing, ...
YEAR that trembled and reel'd beneath me! Your summer wind was warm enough-yet the air I breathed froze me; A ...
GIVE me your hand, old Revolutionary; The hill-top is nigh-but a few steps, (make room, gentlemen;) Up the path you ...
FROM far Dakota's cañons, Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the lonesome stretch, the silence, Haply to-day a ...
for J.L.D. Why should we do this? What good is it to us? Above all, how can we do such ...
There is much in life that makes me sorry as I journey down life's way. And I seem to see ...
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
Bring flowers to strew His way, Yea, sing, make holiday; Bid young lambs leap, And earth laugh after sleep. For ...
1 COME, my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; Have you your pistols? have you your ...
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
When I give up the helm I know that the time has come for thee to take it. What there ...
O purblind race of miserable men, How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ...
Such, such is Death: no triumph: no defeat: Only an empty pail, a slate rubbed clean, A merciful putting away ...
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