Loyalty to the Flag (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
In the love of home and country and the flag of Uncle Sam,Can the loyalty be doubted of a dusky ...
In the love of home and country and the flag of Uncle Sam,Can the loyalty be doubted of a dusky ...
To Amsterdam and its Commodore,I over his pipe and his eau-de-vie,A flibote skimming the Texel shoreBrought serious news for the ...
A passel o' the boys last night-- An' me amongst 'em--kindo got To talkin' Temper'nce left an' right, An' workin' up "blue-ribbon," _hot_; An' ...
"Our poor and penniless brethren, dispersed over land and sea."--Masonic SentimentThey met in the festive hall, Lamps in their brightness shone,And ...
The President to Kingdoms, As in the Days of Old;The King to the Republic, As it had been foretold.They could not read ...
WHILE going the road to sweet Athy,Hurroo! hurroo!While going the road to sweet Athy,Hurroo! hurroo!While going the road to sweet ...
Twenty-five shots!And, out of all the spotsWhere a man could stand and shoot,You would have said, "Not there."Anywhere else it ...
THOU wilt not leave me, Love, to pine aloneUpon the dreary desert of the world.Thou wilt not, must not, nay, ...
A lawyer had a legal mouse,A naughty one they say,That took possession of his houseAnd papers ev'ry day,His books and ...
I was a Pirate once,A blustering fellow with scarlet sash,A ready cutlass and language rash;From a ship with a rum-filled ...
Lovers all are soldiers, and Cupid has his campaigns:I tell you, Atticus, lovers all are soldiers.Youth is fit for war, ...
To Britannia.Nay, all this availeth thee nothing— Thy prestige, thy power, and estate,Thy glory, honour, and riches; An enemy sits in the ...
WHEN my Armenia's name I hear, my heart with violence throbs;When all her sorrows I recall, tears flood my eyes ...
All honour to Discipline! — happy the land Whose soldiers and sailors obey,—Whose captains and colonels are strict in command,And guide ...
SO bright the sun puts forth his glorious beams,So fair the field beneath his lustre gleams,So soft the south wind ...
Tonight when I knelt down next to our cat, Zooey,And put my fingers into her clean cat's mouth,And rubbed her ...
THE hospital!The hospital on the banks of the canal,The hospital, and the month of July!They are lighting a fire in ...
I want to be a Soldier!-- A Soldier!-- A Soldier!-- I want to be a Soldier, with a sabre in my hand Or a ...
Go fight, you fools! Tear up the earth with strife And spill each others guts upon the field; Serve unto death the ...
To eastward ringing, to westward winging, o'er mapless miles of sea,On winds and tides the gospel rides that the furthermost ...
O Jerusalem, city of gold,adorned with the purple of the King;O building of highest excellencewhich is a light never darkened.Truly, ...
So many were there talking that I heardNothing at first quite plain, as I sat down;Until from this man's gibe ...
THEY fled,--for there was for the braveLeft only a dishonour'd grave.The day was lost; and his red handWas now upon ...
(Strophe)Poor World! that in wickedness liest Enthrall'd by the powers of ill,And, groaning and travailing, sighest For better and happier still,-- Lo! here ...
Come all ye friends, and citizens, Where-ever you may be,Come listen to a few kind words A friend will say to thee,Although ...
Among the sick and wounded ones, This stricken soldier boy lay,With glassy eye and shortened breath; His life seemed slipping fast away.My ...
A prisoner, condemned to confinement for life, broke out of his prison andtook to head-long flight…. After him, just on ...
"Corporal Green!" the Orderly cried; "Here!" was the answer loud and clear, From the lips of a soldier who stood near,—And "Here!" ...
Oh boy, down there, I can't believe that what they say is true!We squirrels surely cannot have an enemy in ...
I reade in Poets faigned bookes,That wise Vlysses wandring came,Where Circes through her fawning lookes,Did worke his men a spightfull ...
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