On The Blessings Of Christianity, (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
Being diffused among the Inhabitants of Africa.1.As the mild lustre of the rising day,Thro' morn's grey twilight sheds a living ...
Being diffused among the Inhabitants of Africa.1.As the mild lustre of the rising day,Thro' morn's grey twilight sheds a living ...
My harp soon ceases; but I here allege Its strings are in my heart and tremble there: My Song's last strain shall ...
A sight like this, who can unmov'd survey?Impartial Muse, can'st thou with--hold thy Lay?See the freed Captives hail their native ...
"Had I a thousand mouths, a thousand tongues,A thousand throats, inspired with brazen lungs,"I'd rouse with thunder tones the slumbering ...
Tolling, tolling, tolling! All the bells of the land! Lo, the patriot martyr Taketh his journey grand! Travels into the ages, Bearing a hope how ...
AT an open window sitting,On this day of mirth and glee,'Cross a flow'ry vista flitting,Many passing forms I see.Ah! lovely ...
O storied vale of MerrimacRejoice through all thy shade and shine,And from his century's sleep call backA brave and honored ...
Though I can't afford a hunter -more's the pity,I love a rousing gallop like the rest!-Every morning as I travel ...
Do not tie my wings, Says the honey-bee; Do not bind my wings, Leave them glad and free. If I fly abroad, If I keep ...
She lay upon a bank, the favourite hauntOf the spring wind in its first sunshine hour,For the luxuriant strawberry blossoms ...
THE Monarchs of Europe, who prattle of peace,Shall cease, from this night, to calumniate Greece,The Moslems repent that they roused ...
O for that sweet, untroubled rest That poets oft have sung!--The babe upon its mother's breast, The bird upon its young,The heart ...
1630ALL overgrown with bush and fern,And straggling clumps of tangled trees,With trunks that lean and boughs that turn,Bent eastward by ...
THE QUARRY whence thy form majestic sprung Has peopled earth with grace,Heroes and gods that elder bards have sung, A bright and ...
Cease, O my spirit, cease this endless yearning!Idly thou seekest; gone is it, past hoping,That golden treasure: thine own sweet ...
THESE were my friends; Strachey, you did not know them,For they were simple, unaspiring men ;No ordinary wind of chance ...
A soldier boy lay dreamingIn his lonely prison cell,While the stars above were gleaming,And their lustre on him fell.His dreams ...
RUNNIN' SCARED — RUNNIN' SCAREDyou're goin' nowhererunnin' with your eyes closedthinkin' to ease your heavy loadRUNNIN' SCAREDlisten to the echoes ...
_"Liberty is always won where there exists the unconquerable will to be free."_Born free, thus we resolve to live: By Heaven ...
Oh boy, down there, I can't believe that what they say is true!We squirrels surely cannot have an enemy in ...
Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light,Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write.While freedom's cause her anxious breast alarms,She flashes ...
I seem to see the old tree stand, Its sturdy, giant form A spectacle remembered, and A pilgrim-shrine for all the land Before it ...
Out of the pregnant darkness, where from fire To glimmering fire the watchword leaps, The dirge floats up from those who build ...
Hang up the harp! I hear them say,Nor sing again an Afric lay.The time has passed; we would forget--And sadly ...
"I see a people scattered like a flock,Some royal mastiff panting at their heelsWith all the savage thirst a tiger ...
"GREAT peace in Europe! Order reignsFrom Tiber's hills to Danube's plains!"So say her kings and priests; so sayThe lying prophets ...
O'er a small suburban borough Once an eagle used to fly,Making observations thorough From his station in the sky,And presenting the appearance Of ...
Hail! United States of Africa-free!Hail! Motherland most bright, divinely fair!State in perfect sisterhood united,Born of truth; mighty thou shalt ever ...
Air — "Drummer Boy of Waterloo"Young Henry was as faithful boyAs ever stood on the American soil,And he did enlist, ...
I LOVE the old melodious laysWhich softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase,Sprinkling our ...
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