The Silent Victors (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
MAY 30, 1878,Dying for victory, cheer on cheerThundered on his eager ear. --CHARLES L. HOLSTEIN.IDeep, tender, firm and true, the Nation's ...
MAY 30, 1878,Dying for victory, cheer on cheerThundered on his eager ear. --CHARLES L. HOLSTEIN.IDeep, tender, firm and true, the Nation's ...
Oh the long and dreary Winter!Oh the cold and cruel Winter!Ever thicker, thicker, thickerFroze the ice on lake and river,Ever ...
Beside a spacious beach of fine and delicate sandand at the foot of a mountain greener than a leaf,I planted ...
The Sceptics think 'twas long agoSince gods came down incognitoTo see who were their friends or foes,And how our actions ...
All night she wept the hours away,With burning cheek and throbbing head,Crying, "Alas!" and "Well-a-day!""Woe is me, for my sons ...
THE hallowed morn faint glimmering in the East,Dawns on a slumb'ring and a ransom'd world;How dearly ransom'd! wonderful the priceBy ...
Addressed to Francis Greenleaf Allison of Burlington, New Jersey.You scarcely need my tardy thanks,Who, self-rewarded, nurse and tend--A green leaf ...
FROM the house of desolation,From the doors of lamentation,I went forth into the midnight and the vistas of the moon;Where ...
The castle walls are full of eyes,And not a mouse may creep unseen.All the window slits are spies;And the towers ...
I. 1.Peace, heaven-descended maid! whose powerful voiceFrom ancient darkness call'd the morn;And hush'd of jarring elements the noise,When Chaos, from ...
'TWAS night in Babylon,--yet many a beamOf lamps, far glittering from her domes on high,Shone, brightly mingling in Euphrates' stream,With ...
Description of Peru, and of its Productions—Virtues of the People;and of their Monarch, ATALIBA —His love for ALZIRA —Their Nup-tials ...
Down the broad _Ha-Ha Wak-pa_ the band took their way to the Games at _Keoza_While the swift-footed hunters by land ran the ...
DEEP in a solitary glen,Far from the cheerful haunts of men;By poverty opprest, and taughtThe lonely task of silent thought,A ...
On the Mountains of the Prairie,On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry,Gitche Manito, the mighty,He the Master of Life, descending,On the ...
The Benedictine EchardSat by the wayside well,Where Marsberg sees the bridalOf the Sarre and the Moselle.Fair with its sloping vineyardsAnd ...
IFORLORN and white,Whorls of purity about a golden chalice,Immense the peoniesFlare and shatter their petals over my face.They slowly turn ...
From the hills of home forth looking, far beneath the tent-like spanOf the sky, I see the white gleam of ...
That some day, emerging at last from the terrifying visionI may burst into jubilant praise to assenting angels!That of the ...
A bending staff I would not break,A feeble faith I would not shake,Nor even rashly pluck awayThe error which some ...
I go beyond the commandment.'So be it. Then mine be the blame,The loss, the lack, the yearning, till life's last ...
Argument:Hark! hark!The dogs do bark;Beggars are coming to town.Some in rags,And some in tags,And some in velvet gown.The summer brooded ...
Tomorrow will be your last day here. Someone is speaking:A familiar voice, speaking again at all of us.And beyond the ...
The lily of Malud is born in secret mud.It is breathed like a word in a little dark ravineWhere no ...
(after he has been extemporizing upon the musical instrument of his invention)</i>Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I ...
I saw him in vision,--the last of that race Who were destined to vanish before the Pale-face, As the dews of the ...
Edward the king, the English king, Bestrides his tawny steed, "For I will see if Wales," said he, "Accepts my rule indeed. "Are stream ...
And the Shaman said : "Lo, now we shall show no more miracles,nor the power of God that is in ...
LO! through a shadowy valley March with measured step and tread A long array of Phantoms wan And pallid as ...
Rolling through the gloomy gorges, comes the roaring southern blast,With a sound of torrents flying, like a routed army, past,And, ...
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