France To Columbia (Abner Cosens Poems)
Columbia, my sister, Republic great and free, When Liberty was threatened I looked in vain ...
Columbia, my sister, Republic great and free, When Liberty was threatened I looked in vain ...
Flag of the great republic, banner of men who were free! Carried aloft for freedom in many a bloody gorge; ...
Ignoble hate, defeating its own ends!The act that meant dishonor, working glory!Could any mausoleum built by handsLift his sweet memory ...
In the rain in the rain in the rain in the rain in Spain.Does it rain in Spain?Oh yes my ...
"I pledge allegiance to the flag"— "They dragged him naked "Through the muddy streets, "A feeble-minded black boy! "And the ...
There's a good time coming in the golden by-and-by: And I wish, oh, how I wish that it would come!There's ...
On a table With the sunlight coming in, A mat, irregularly placed, with many curves within it; A napkin somewhat ...
There was a moment when of you A splendid hope I had to tell,Believing "Here is one man who ...
Tell me ye King-craft of to-day Where is Athens, who made men free; Then sank into stupor by the way, ...
There by the window in the old housePerched on the bluff, overlooking miles of valley,My days of labor closed, sitting ...
After all, One country, brethren! We must rise or fall With the Supreme Republic. We must be The makers of ...
Above the din of commerce, above the clamor and rattleOf labor disputing with riches, of Anarchists' threats and groans,Above the ...
Do you think that odes and sermons,And the ringing of church bells,And the blood of old men and young men,Martyred ...
In Mem. L. N. L. Ob. MCMXXXIINoble beyond degreeIn a democracy:Slight woman whose spent graceBanishes their visionTo the thin trackless ...
A glorious vision burst On Europe's dazzled sight, Upon that day when first Columbia sprang to light; --When ...
Lincoln?He was a mystery in smoke and flagsSaying yes to the smoke, yes to the flags,Yes to the paradoxes of ...
'We are 'ere met togetherin this momentous hower,Ter lick th' bankers' dirty bootsan' keep the Bank in power.'We are 'ere ...
As to democracy, fellow citizens,Are you not prepared to admitThat I, who inherited riches and was to the manor born,Was ...
The roar and rush of life sweeps on;Still shines the sun as once it shone:Men reap and sow and live ...
These coins that jostle on my hand do own No single image: each name here and date Denoting in man's ...
Night is the true democracy. When dayLike some great monarch with his train has passed.In regal pomp and splendor to ...
If thou, Columbia, dost from this, thy son-- The condor beak and python eyes--recoil, Bethink thee of the years that ...
Out of me unworthy and unknown The vibrations of deathless music; 'With malice toward none, with charity for all.' Out ...
The workers of Kembla, those leaders of men,Those leaders of deed as in thought.They challenged the might of the pound ...
They sucked us in;King and country,Christ AlmightyAnd the rest.Patriotism,Democracy,Honor—Words and phrases,They either bitched or killed us.(Ernest Hemingway)
In far-off RabaulI died for democracy.Better I fell in Mississippi.(Dudley Randall)
Now, with the wars of the world begun, they'll listen to you and me, Now while the frightened nations run ...
"Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam." The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows ...
I. Reference to a Passage in Plutarch's Life of Sulla The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the ...
While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire And protest, only a bubble in ...
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