The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1912, Volume 6, Pages 2121-2726 |
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Page 2129
... dear Listen with a joyful ear ; With equal skill , with steady power , He governs in the fearful hour Of horrid war , or guides with ease The happier tire of honest peace . Behold the chief , who now commands , Once more to serve his ...
... dear Listen with a joyful ear ; With equal skill , with steady power , He governs in the fearful hour Of horrid war , or guides with ease The happier tire of honest peace . Behold the chief , who now commands , Once more to serve his ...
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... dear recluse ; Hill lads at dawn shall hearken the wild goose Go honking northward over Tennessee ; West from Oswego to Sault Sainte - Marie , And on to where the Pictured Rocks are hung , And yonder where , gigantic , willful , young ...
... dear recluse ; Hill lads at dawn shall hearken the wild goose Go honking northward over Tennessee ; West from Oswego to Sault Sainte - Marie , And on to where the Pictured Rocks are hung , And yonder where , gigantic , willful , young ...
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One least leaf plucked for chaffer from the bays Of their dear praise , One jot of their pure conquest put to hire , The implacable republic will require ; With clamor , in the glare and gaze of noon , Or subtly , coming as a thief at ...
One least leaf plucked for chaffer from the bays Of their dear praise , One jot of their pure conquest put to hire , The implacable republic will require ; With clamor , in the glare and gaze of noon , Or subtly , coming as a thief at ...
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... Dear Mother , burst the tyrant's chain , Maryland ! Virginia should not call in vain , Maryland ! She meets her sisters on the plain , — " Sic semper ! " ' tis the proud refrain That baffles minions back amain , Maryland ! Arise in My ...
... Dear Mother , burst the tyrant's chain , Maryland ! Virginia should not call in vain , Maryland ! She meets her sisters on the plain , — " Sic semper ! " ' tis the proud refrain That baffles minions back amain , Maryland ! Arise in My ...
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... Dear to our Saxon folk ever is he , This merry old rogue with the Saxon grit . And Kett the tanner whipped out his knife , And Watt the smith his hammer brought down , For ruth of the maid he loved better than life , And by breaking a ...
... Dear to our Saxon folk ever is he , This merry old rogue with the Saxon grit . And Kett the tanner whipped out his knife , And Watt the smith his hammer brought down , For ruth of the maid he loved better than life , And by breaking a ...
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Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 2381 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 2316 - Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war ? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ; They have left unstained what there they found, — Freedom to worship God.
Page 2479 - Nor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened: — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, — Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power...
Page 2669 - A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet.
Page 2495 - Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.
Page 2123 - My native country, thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love! I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills, My heart with rapture thrills Like that above!
Page 2124 - Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Page 2381 - We buried him darkly, at dead of night, the sods with our bayonets turning; by the struggling moonbeam's misty light, and the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast ; not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; but he lay like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him.
Page 2671 - That were so thin and sere. The upper air burst into life ! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried about ! And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between. And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge ; And the rain poured down from one black cloud ; The Moon was at its edge. The thick black cloud was cleft, and still The Moon was at its side : Like waters shot from some high crag, The lightning fell with never a jag, A river steep and...
Page 2384 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!' And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering