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... awe , The coming of the sword we saw ; We heard the nearing steps of doom , And saw the shade of things to come . In grief which they alone can feel Who from a mother's wrong appeal , With blended lines of fear and hope We cast our.
... awe , The coming of the sword we saw ; We heard the nearing steps of doom , And saw the shade of things to come . In grief which they alone can feel Who from a mother's wrong appeal , With blended lines of fear and hope We cast our.
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... Come thrilling to our hearts in vain ? To us whose fathers scorned to bear The paltry menace of a chain ; To us , whose boast is loud and long Of holy Liberty and Light Say , shall these writhing slaves of Wrong , Plead vainly for their ...
... Come thrilling to our hearts in vain ? To us whose fathers scorned to bear The paltry menace of a chain ; To us , whose boast is loud and long Of holy Liberty and Light Say , shall these writhing slaves of Wrong , Plead vainly for their ...
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... come From turbaned Turk , and scornful Russ : " Go , loose your fettered slaves at home , Then turn , and ask the like of us ! " Just God ! and shall we calmly rest , The Christian's scorn the heathen's mirth Content to live the ...
... come From turbaned Turk , and scornful Russ : " Go , loose your fettered slaves at home , Then turn , and ask the like of us ! " Just God ! and shall we calmly rest , The Christian's scorn the heathen's mirth Content to live the ...
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... comes forth The gathered wrath of God and man Like that which wasted Egypt's earth , When hail and fire above it ran . Hear ye no warnings in the air ? Feel ye no earthquake underneath ? Up - up - why will ye slumber where The sleeper ...
... comes forth The gathered wrath of God and man Like that which wasted Egypt's earth , When hail and fire above it ran . Hear ye no warnings in the air ? Feel ye no earthquake underneath ? Up - up - why will ye slumber where The sleeper ...
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... Comes the sorrowful wail of the broken of heart ; Wherever the shackles of tyranny bind , In silence and darkness , the God - given mind ; There , God speed it onward ! The bonds shall be loosened its truth will be felt the iron shall ...
... Comes the sorrowful wail of the broken of heart ; Wherever the shackles of tyranny bind , In silence and darkness , the God - given mind ; There , God speed it onward ! The bonds shall be loosened its truth will be felt the iron shall ...
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angels apple tree beneath blast blessed blood blossoms blue Bob-o'-link breath brow calm chain chee cloud cold crown curse dank and lone dark dead dream earth eyes false earth Faneuil Hall fathers fear fetters flowers Freedom Freedom's God's gone sold grave gray green hand hath hear heard heart heaven holy Katydid land laugh LE MARAIS light lips look lords of Chios Massachusetts Mexitli Moloch Mother mountain mountain band murmur night Northern Northern eagle o'er poor prayer rice-swamp dank rock rolls round shade shadow shadow fall Shadows weaving shame slave slavery Slavery's smile sold and gone song soul sound Spink stars STETHOSCOPE stolen daughters storm strife summer sunny valleys sweet little tears tell thee thine thou toil tread truth turn vale Virginia's hills voice wait wave wild winds woods wrong Ximena young
Popular passages
Page 102 - And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,
Page 49 - The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hill the goldenrod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook...
Page 41 - The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 8 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Page 49 - They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread. The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young...
Page 78 - Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink ; Never was I afraid of man; Catch me, cowardly knaves, if you can! Chee, chee, chee. Six white eggs on a bed of hay, Flecked with purple, a pretty sight! There as the mother sits all day, Robert is singing with all his might: Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink ; Nice good wife, that never goes out, Keeping house while I frolic about. Chee, chee, chee.
Page 44 - Forever. Written on thy works I read The lesson of thy own eternity. Lo! all grow old and die; but see again, How on the faltering footsteps of decay Youth presses, — ever gay and beautiful youth In all its beautiful forms.
Page 102 - Over the heads of the rebel host. Ever its torn folds rose and fell On the loyal winds that loved it well; And through the hill-gaps sunset light Shone over it with a warm good-night.
Page 50 - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.
Page 10 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.