Human Family (Maya Angelou Poems)
I note the obvious differencesin the human family.Some of us are serious,some thrive on comedy.Some declare their lives are livedas ...
I note the obvious differencesin the human family.Some of us are serious,some thrive on comedy.Some declare their lives are livedas ...
1.OH ! blow the loud Trumpet of Wellington's fame,Let the blast echo far as the Earth's widest bounds;For the sound ...
CLOUDS is under clouds and rainFor there will not come againTwo, the beloved sire and sonWhom all gifts were rained ...
'Tis the streamer of England - it floats o'er the brave-'Tis the fairest unfurled o'er the land or the wave;But ...
The starshells float above, the bayonets glisten; We bear our fallen friend without a sound; Below the waiting legions lie ...
I.Men of England, wherefore ploughFor the lords who lay ye low?Wherefore weave with toil and careThe rich robes your tyrants ...
Freemen of England! born upon an isleSteel-girt, inviolate, bred beneath a skyThat looketh down with a benignant smileUpon the ancient ...
WRITTEN EARLIER. Adieu to old England! adieu to my friends! Though fortune and fame I pursue, On thus looking around me, I cannot ...
Be glad, thou tranquil Hindostan, That God such mercy gives,—That tribe with tribe, and man with man In friendly concord lives!Rejoice, for ...
Fair Fidelia, tempt no more,I may no more thy deity adoreNor offer to thy shrine,I serve one more divineAnd farr ...
England's heart! Oh never fear The sturdy good old stock;Nothing's false or hollow here, But solid as a rock:England's heart is sound ...
So the last poem is laid flat in its place,And Crickley with Crucifix Comer leaves from my faceElizabethans and night-working ...
O England! in thine hour of need,When Faith's reward and valor's meed Is death or glory,When Faith indites, with biting brand,Clasped ...
While the whole world is filled with noise of battle,And cries from many a devastated land,While day by day our ...
A Poem: Or Extracts from the Diary of an Officer in the East.Farewell To England.TEN thousand blessings rest upon the ...
Have you seen the golfers airyPrancing forth to their vagary,Just as frisky in their gaitersAs a flock of Grecian Satyrs,Looking ...
Thou grand old Church of England! Though others raise their voice, And try to stain thy spotless name, Thou still shall be my ...
Why ist damnation to dispaire and die,When life is my true happinesse disease?My soule, my soule, thy safetye makes me ...
"Let us now praise famous men"A weary time, a dreary time, a time of hopes and fears,The weeks that pass, ...
Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King,Bidding the crop-headed Parliament swing:And, pressing a troop unable to stoopAnd see the rogues ...
When a holy black Swede, the son of Bob,With a saint at his chin and a seal at his fob,Shall ...
1. Behold the day, a cent'ry old,When fathers' cares were lifted off:No more, as chattels to be sold,On block on ...
The fells are jagged in the shining air; the windSharpens itself like a knife on the rough edges;The sky is ...
Hail! happy England! land of freemen, hail!My heart beats high to see thy shores again!Thy hearts of oak are cased ...
It seemed that it were well to kiss first earthOn landing, having traversed the narrow seas,And grasp so little, tenderly, ...
"TO-DAY, since Zeppelins are in the air,And folks glance skywards as they go their ways,Let us hark back a bit ...
1.ADIEU to old England! whose well-cultur'd valesResplendent with beauty, with plenty are crown'd,Adieu to dear England, where health's smiling galesWith ...
1.HOW soft the breeze of night is stealingAlong the smooth wave's glassy breast,It seems unto the Soul of feeling,To breathe ...
Not for passion or for power, Clean of hands, and calm of soul,England at this awful hour Bids her battle-thunders roll,That crown'd ...
I. -- Here.IT is harvest-time in England,And I see the sheaves of cornIn their lines like sentries standingRound the farm ...
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