Patriotism in Poetry and Prose: Being Selected Passages from Lectures and Patriotic Readings |
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Alliance American arms army banner battle beautiful beneath blood Boker Bonhomme Richard brave breath broadside BUCHANAN READ case-shot cause cheer Colonel command country's Cumberland death deck deeds defenders devotion enemy EXTRACT father fear fell fight fire flag flame Fort Mitchell fought freedom frigate gallant glorious glory Government grave guns hand heart heaven Here's a health hero heroism honor JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Kentucky labor land Lincoln loud loyal MURDOCH'S LECTURES nation noble o'er oath ocean Olea patriotic Paul Jones peace Penn poem poet poetry prescience President rebel rebellion recitation relics Republic roar sail seem'd sentiment Serapis ship shot shout Sleeping Sentinel soldiers song soul spirit stand stars Stonewall Jackson stood strike Swear sword sympathy tears thee THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Thomas Forrest thou thunders traitors Treaty Elm Union valor vessel voice wave William Cullen Bryant William Penn words wounded
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Page 123 - But as it is easy to foresee, that from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union, to your collective...
Page 101 - And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word : " Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog ! March on !
Page 140 - The ocean old, Centuries old, Strong as youth, and as uncontrolled, Paces restless to and fro, Up and down the sands of gold. His beating heart is not at rest; And far and wide, With ceaseless flow, His beard of snow Heaves with the heaving of his breast.
Page 130 - They conquered; but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won, Then saw in death his eyelids close, Calmly as to a night's repose— Like flowers at set of sun.
Page 47 - Truth crushed to earth, shall rise again The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Page 100 - Over the mountains winding down, Horse and foot into Frederick town. Forty flags with their silver stars, Forty flags with their crimson bars, Flapped in the morning wind : the sun Of noon looked down, and saw not one.
Page 130 - Strike ! till the last armed foe expires ! Strike ! for your altars and your fires ! Strike ! for the green graves of your sires ; God, and your native land...
Page 129 - An hour passed on — the Turk awoke; That bright dream was his last; He woke — to hear his sentries shriek. "To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek!
Page 129 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Page 35 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere...