When the Trumpet of Fame (John Pierpont Poems)
When the trump of FameLoud sounding Freedom's call, Freedom's call,Bids in Freedom's name,To fight or bravely fall, bravely fall,Bold the ...
When the trump of FameLoud sounding Freedom's call, Freedom's call,Bids in Freedom's name,To fight or bravely fall, bravely fall,Bold the ...
My youth was passing, Sire, whilst you amongThe cradle-wrappings slept; my morning-songSung o'er your pillow. Winds of heaven have thrownUs ...
The rise of nations and of menRecord tire struggles passed and won,But none may tell just where and whenThe urge ...
HERE let Compassion bend her head,And tears of tender sorrow shed,And warm enthusiasm musing tread,To pour his sighs.Let gay Prosperity ...
THIS is the place--I pray thee, friend,Leave me alone with that dread grief,Whose raven wings o'erarch the grave,Closed on a ...
As thou sittest thereSkerry-bound and fair,Mountains high around and ocean's deep before thee,On thee casts her spellSaga, that shall tellOnce ...
The Afghans have gone mad about posts and dignities;But God preserve me, from such plagues and troubles!Unto whom belongeth the ...
Man in the wombe, is but a Zoophyte, There nourish'd like a plant: But when Hee is produc'd to the day-light, Disclos'd from ...
So the last poem is laid flat in its place,And Crickley with Crucifix Comer leaves from my faceElizabethans and night-working ...
Give us, God, to Thee now turning,Fullness of joy, tears full and burning,Of will the full refining fire!Hear our prayer ...
Darling child, to thee I owe,More than others here will know;Thou hast cheered my weary days,With thy coy and winsome ...
Author of all divine Gifts, lofty, pure, and free, Temperance and truth in song sublime An offering bring to Thee! A temple, whose high ...
A warrior stood before his Master,Bruised and bleeding from the fight,Not for power, neither honor,But in battling for the right.Torn ...
Sad Relick of a blessed Soul! whose trustWe sealed up in this religious dust.O do not thy low Exequies suspectAs ...
So! the fierce acid licks the silver clean,Unwonted plain the superscription's seenRound the cleared head; the metal, virgin-bright,Shines a mild ...
Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, A dash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The ...
Some that have deeper digg'd love's mine than I,Say, where his centric happiness doth lie; I have lov'd, and got, and ...
I'LL kick your walls to bits, I'll die scratching a tunnel,If you'll give me a wall, if you'll give me ...
Con Son's streams babbleAs music from a stringed instrument.Con Son embraces the mossy boulders exposed to the sun,Sitting on these ...
Lusti yough shuld us ensue,Hys mery hart shall sure all rew.For whatsoever they do hym tell,It ys not for hym ...
'TWAS in heaven pronounced, and 'twas muttered in hell,And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell:On the confines of ...
Whoso like unto the dust, may not be prostrate at the threshold,For them, there will be no approach unto heaven ...
Verse:They were summoned from the hill-side,They were called in from the glen,And the Country found them readyAt the stirring call ...
Servant of God! thy soul's pure spring of lifeDisturb, defile not, with unholy strife;Gentle to all, as it becomes thee ...
To ende I iudge pleasure but scante Where eache others case dothe wishe and wante. ffor pleasante lyfe there fyndes smale grace Where ...
Wake now, my Soul, and humbly hearWhat thy mild Lord commands:Each word of his wil charm thine ear,Each word wil ...
Garibaldi! Garibaldi! Bleeds and burns my heart for thee!Freedom! union for Italia! Never can be won by thee.Dipp'd in freedom's sacred fountain, Waved ...
The warrior may twine round his temples the leavesOf the Laurel that Victory throws him;The Lover may smile as he ...
Night broodeth o'er the solitude sereneAs some glad mother o'er her first-born child,Pouring her gladness on the shadowy sceneIn floods ...
Baptized January ad, 1898.YE hardy folk who boldly standBetween this boy and sin,I trust you quite appreciateThe fix that you ...
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