A Crimean Thought. (Henry Alford Poems)
Again those heavy tidings. On the breeze Laden with death, they come. A thousand more Stiff on the sod of Tauris: yon ...
Liberty & Freedom Poems (2444 Poems)
Crispus Attucks (Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Poems)
The Nation's heart beat wildly, And keenly felt the coming strife;The Country's call was sounding Brave men must offer life for life.So ...
English, Scots, And Irishmen (John Mayne Poems)
ENGLISH, SCOTS, and IRISHMEN,All that are in VALOUR'S ken!Shield your KING: and flock agen Where his sacred Banners fly!Now's the day, ...
The Freed Islands (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
A FEW brief years have passed awaySince Britain drove her million slavesBeneath the tropic's fiery ray:God willed their freedom; and ...
Female Picture of a Country Life (Joanna Baillie Poems)
Even now methinksEach little cottage of my native valeSwells out its earthen sides, upheaves its roof,Like to a hillock moved ...
The Armory (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
A home for the brave, the warm, the true,Who love the old and who love the new:Whose blood has so ...
Neutral: To the Humanity of America (Harold Begbie Poems)
When men are told in years ahead How Fury forced the Belgian doorAnd ravished maids, struck children dead, And fired the houses ...
Morris Island (William Gilmore Simms Poems)
Oh! from the deeds well done, the blood well shedIn a good cause springs up to crown the landWith ever-during ...
The Ark (Noah Calwell W Cannon Poems)
Dear brothers and sisters, we love one another,And have done, for years that have gone;How often we've met him in ...
At Liberty’s Feet (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
Goddess, slow-born of the ages Liberty, light-giving soul!Raised, looking seaward, gigantic in sheen of bronze,What dost thou see in the ...
Only Serpents (Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev Poems)
Only serpents let their skin be fallenAnd a soul — all grown up and old.We, alas, change an eternal soul,Leaving ...
America (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
New England first a wilderness was foundTill for a continent 'twas destin'd roundFrom feild to feild the savage monsters runE'r ...
Elegy On A Young Thrush, (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
WHICH ESCAPED FROM THE WRITER'S HAND, AND FAL-LING DOWN THE AREA OF A HOUSE, COULD NOTBE FOUND.MISTAKEN Bird, ah whither ...
To The Thirty-Ninth Congress (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
O PEOPLE-CHOSEN! are ye notLikewise the chosen of the Lord,To do His will and speak His word?From the loud thunder-storm ...
Song of the Brown Sea Rat (Hamish Maclaren Poems)
Now we are the rodent mariners,As nobody needs be told,For there's no mistaking our nautical airs,Our rolling eyes and bold;And ...
The Pelican Island (James Montgomery Poems)
Light as a flake of foam upon the wind,Keel-upward from the deep emerged a shell,Shaped like the moon ere half ...
Torto Volitans Sub Verbere Turbo Quem Pueri Magno In Gyro Vacua Atria Circum Intenti Ludo Exercent (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
Of pearies and their origin I sing:How at the first great Jove the lord of airImpelled the planets round the ...
Hymn On Solitude (James Thomson Poems)
Hail, mildly pleasing Solitude,Companion of the wise and good,But from whose holy piercing eyeThe herd of fools and villains fly.Oh! ...
Love And Liberty (Horace Smith Poems)
The linnet had flown from its cage away,And flitted and sang in the light of day--Had flown from the lady ...
King Cotton (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
KING COTTON looks from his window Towards the westering sun,And he marks, with an anguished horror, That his race is almost run.His ...
Jack Roy (Herman Melville Poems)
Kept up by relays of generations youngNever dies at halyards the blithe chorus sung;While in sands, sounds, and seas where ...
A Boy’s Aspiration (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
I was four yesterday: when I'm quite old,I'll have a cricket-ball made of pure gold;I'll carve the roast meat, and ...
To A Young Man Under Sentence Of Death For Forgery (Janet Little Poems)
FROM HIS MISTRESS.IN awful solitude, in direful chains,Where deep despair and sad reflection reigns,If yet thy breast another's woes can ...
The Price Of Victory (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
"A VICTORY! —a victory!" Is flashed across the wires;Speed, speed the news from State to State, Light up the signal fires!Let all ...
Virginia (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Thy soil, Virginia! is all hallowed ground, Made such by steps of patriots; thy high fame,Alway unto our ears, a glorious ...
Africa For The Africans (Marcus Mosiah Garvey Poems)
Say! Africa for the Africans,Like America for the Americans:This the rallying cry for a nation,Be it in peace or revolution.Blacks ...
Forty (Henry Cuyler Bunner Poems)
IN the heyday of my years, when I thought the world was young,And believed that I was old-at the very ...
To Alan Seeger: (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
SEEGER, whose soul, with animated lyre Wak'd the dull dreamer to a manlier fire; Whose martial voice, by martial deeds sustain'd, Denounc'd the ...
Free Men Of God (John Oxenham Poems)
Free men of God, the New Day breaksIn golden gleams across the sky;The darkness of the night is past,This is ...
The Nemesis Of Nations (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Deep in earth's caverned heart, I see her now--The Nemesis of Nations. Stern she sitsHer monumental throne. The hush of ...