Meum Et Tuum: PoemsG. W. Carleton & Company,Publishers, 1877 - 200 pages |
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art thou beauty beneath bloom Bohea born bower brave breath breeze bright BROADWAY brow Castle of Air chimes clouds dead Dixie doth dream dryads earth Ernanie eyes faded fair fair lady faithless flag fling floats flow flower forever gaze gift gleam gloom glow gold golden green grew grow hand hath heart heart of flame Heaven hill hope hour Jesus of Nazareth kiss land Land-ho life's light lips live love's lover marching moon morn Nazareth passeth neath never night o'er old days pale passed poet's Pontius Pilate rill ring roam robe roses royal SABBATARIANISM shadow shore sigh sing singing bee skies smile sorrow soul Star Spangled Banner sunbeam sweet tears tell thee there's thing thou thought thrilled thro tide to-night Twas wave winds wonder Yankeedom youth
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Page 181 - Twas but the siroc's awful pause — The lull before the storm. Then men awoke, soul spoke to soul, And hand grasped hand, for woe or weal ; Then wavering hearts were turned to iron, And nerves were turned to steel. Old feuds were not, old parties died, From vale to mountain crag ; A nation's shout linked friend and foe, Our Union, and our flag ; We gave our men as freely then, As leaves from forest tree, "We gave our gold, as rivers give Their waters to the sea. Still floats on high Columbia's flag,...
Page 172 - Oh! say, does that star spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Page 182 - ... high Columbia's flag, In the gloom of the autumn day, — The blot still on her starry folds, The stain not washed away ; Fort Moultrie stands, and Charleston lives, And Freedom's sun grows pale ; . Oh ! God, whate'er thy children's doom, Let not her foes prevail. We point to Ellsworth's honored tomb, To Lyon's fall, to Baker's grave ; What say Missouri's vine-clad hills ? What answer from Potomac's wave ? What answer they ? Men ask of men Who never yet foreswore the vow ; What answer they ?...
Page 114 - Misitra, was situated at the foot of Mount Taygetus. It was six miles in circumference, the houses small and without ornament, not built close together, but divided into different villages according to the ancient manner of the Greeks. It was not surrounded by walls, till it fell under the dominion of tyrants after the time of Alexander the Great. THEBES was surrounded by a wall five miles nnd a half in circumference, having seven gates.
Page 184 - Of the hosts that went in, of the few,that came out, Of the charge for the Union, — the carnage and rout. God pity the hearts that are cleft to the core For the heroes who fell on Potomac's blue shore ! Alone by my casement, at the dead of the night, Like a blast from the battle came news of the fight; I heard not the shriek of...
Page 172 - Tis the Star- Spangled Banner! O long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave...
Page 15 - Let thy finger point forever to this golden hour. For he loves me — he hath said it — For my heart a gift hath found ; Oh ! he loves me — he hath said it — Let there be no light, nor sound, Save with love and beauty crowned.
Page 181 - ... Then wavering hearts were turned to iron, And nerves were turned to steel. Old feuds were not, old parties died, From vale to mountain crag ; A nation's shout linked friend and foe, Our Union, and our flag ; We gave our men as freely then, As leaves from forest tree, "We gave our gold, as rivers give Their waters to the sea. Still floats on high Columbia's flag, In the gloom of the autumn day, The blot still on her starry folds, The stain not washed away ; Fort Moultrie stands, and Charleston...
Page 198 - As far as the Northern States are concerned, their Government is hopelessly gone ; and if we fail, with all our conservative elements to save us, then, indeed, there will be no hope for an independent and free Republic on this continent, and the public mind will despondingly turn to the stronger and more fixed forms of the Old World.
Page 16 - ... Save with love and beauty crowned. Old Time, sweet Time, pause awhile, I pray ; Let no waning sun go down upon this happy day ; Take the shadow from thy heart, the ruin from thy breast, Lay thy fluttering wings aside, let thy soul have rest — Chisel it, in golden sunbeams, thro