The Patriotic League (Henry Lawson Poems)
BEHOLD! the biased foes of Right Are conscious of their danger,They're startled by the dawning light, So very long a stranger.And fearing ...
BEHOLD! the biased foes of Right Are conscious of their danger,They're startled by the dawning light, So very long a stranger.And fearing ...
Suppose, my little lady,Your doll should break her head,Could you make it whole by cryingTill your eyes and nose are ...
endless corridorsthe convent's interior gardenworn stairsdoors, white wardsnumbing coldfetters the feet, the handspersistently hiddeneyes full of fearwith my last ounce ...
To Original MusicThe people in this nation, Have kept for many years,February twenty-second, That day we love it dear.It's our forefather's birthday, Brave, ...
All ye nations, pause a moment! listen to the Negro's voice,Coming up from all vocations where his life has made ...
Break forth in song, ye trees,As, through your tops, the breezeSweeps from the sea!For, on its rushing wings,To your cool ...
"Rejoice, o people! Old and youngPraise God today, and praise the king!'Tis Saint George's Day," the sheep gave tongueAs they ...
Without a bed we now sleep soundAnd take our meals upon the ground;And though the blazing atmosphereMust dreadful to the ...
The gallows in my garden, people say,Is new and neat and adequately tall;I tie the noose on in a knowing ...
After the Christmas, with the help of Christ, I will never stop ifI am alive; I will go to the ...
My old flame, my wife!Remember our lists of birds?One morning last summer, I droveby our house in Maine. It was ...
First the teacher called the roll, Clos't to the beginnin', "Addeliney Bowersox!" Set the school a-grinnin'. Wintertime, and stingin'-cold When the session took up-- Cold as ...
THERE is blood on the face of the earth-It reeks through the years, and is red:Where Truth was slaughtered at ...
Starre of the Senate, light of all the land, Truths cheese supporter, piller of aduice, Mishaps preuenter, leader of the band, Out of ...
YE cannot add by any pile ye raise,One jot or tittle to the statesman's fame;That the world knows; to the ...
Tune--Luther's Chorale'Ein' feste burg ist unser Gott'IOf old our City hath renown.Of God are her foundations,Wherein this day a King ...
Joy is a trick in the air; pleasure is merelycontemptible, the dangledCarrot the ass follows to market or precipice;But limitary ...
LO, the gods of Vice and Mammon from their pinnacles are hurledBy the workers' new religion, which is oldest in ...
Once I wrote a little poem which I thought was very fine,And I showed the printer's copy to a critic ...
I.Heark, faire one, how what e're here isDoth laugh and sing at thy distresse;Not out of hate to thy reliefe,But ...
I heard from people after the shootings. PeopleI knew well or barely or not at all. Largelythe same message: how ...
Everywhere, throughout the world, I am become dishonoured and humiliatedHouse by house, my dissoluteness, and my profligacy, are manifest grown.That ...
Break forth in song, ye trees!As through your tops the breezeSweeps from the sea!For, on its rushing wings,To your cool ...
Come, happy people! Oh come let us tellThe story of Washington and Lincoln!History's pages can never excelThe story of Washington ...
Your late kind Gift let me restore;For I must never wear it more.My Mother cries, ``What's here to do?``A Crimson ...
In his fifth year the son, deep in the backseatof his father's Ford and the mysteriumof time, holds time in ...
Back once again in wild, wet MonaghanExiled from thought and feeling,A mean brutality reigns:It is really a horrible position to ...
LIFE of Ages, richly poured,Love of God, unspent and free,Flowing in the Prophet's wordAnd the People's liberty!Never was to chosen ...
O my God, my righteous God.Not you, in heaven apart,but you, who are within me, God -within my soul and ...
Although in her every indication, the aim is something elseIf she shows her affection(with me) , then different suspicion arisesOh ...
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