The Wagoner of the Alleghanies: A Poem of the Days of Seventy-sixJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1863 - 276 pages |
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... sight . The hour went by . Before the town The ship came up ; the sails were doft ; The happy crew , alow and aloft , Sang as the anchor rattled down , - Down and down , as the windlass flew , Linking the Old World with the New . A ...
... sight . The hour went by . Before the town The ship came up ; the sails were doft ; The happy crew , alow and aloft , Sang as the anchor rattled down , - Down and down , as the windlass flew , Linking the Old World with the New . A ...
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... sight ; And he felt like a traveller in the night When the moon glides into a thunder - cloud And will no more return to sight . Out of the vessel came many a box Of Berkley's treasures manifold ; Some with iron bands and locks , Some ...
... sight ; And he felt like a traveller in the night When the moon glides into a thunder - cloud And will no more return to sight . Out of the vessel came many a box Of Berkley's treasures manifold ; Some with iron bands and locks , Some ...
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... sight ; Like those proud piles by travellers found In foreign lands , with statues crowned , Covered with all that charms the eye , While within sits Poverty , Cowering in the ancestral dust , With scarce an ember or a crust . And Wit ...
... sight ; Like those proud piles by travellers found In foreign lands , with statues crowned , Covered with all that charms the eye , While within sits Poverty , Cowering in the ancestral dust , With scarce an ember or a crust . And Wit ...
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... - gust ! They swept along the highway white , Like autumn leaves before the wind Which heralds the drowning storm behind , And round the far hill passed from sight . V. THE UNWELCOME . PROUD Berkley , while his arm 70 THE WAGONER OF.
... - gust ! They swept along the highway white , Like autumn leaves before the wind Which heralds the drowning storm behind , And round the far hill passed from sight . V. THE UNWELCOME . PROUD Berkley , while his arm 70 THE WAGONER OF.
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... sight revealed , Some sudden paces backward reeled , Like a stunned warrior on the field , And stood a moment dumb and lost , Like one who meets a midnight ghost . Then stammered , " If my sight be true , This is an honor scarcely due ...
... sight revealed , Some sudden paces backward reeled , Like a stunned warrior on the field , And stood a moment dumb and lost , Like one who meets a midnight ghost . Then stammered , " If my sight be true , This is an honor scarcely due ...
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abatis ALLEGHANIES banner beneath Berkley Hall Berkley's beside blade blood blow Brandywine brave breast breath bright Bright eyes brooklet brow bugles sound burst of joy cheek child cloud cried dared dashed door dropt Edgar esquires Esther eyes face falchion fear feet fierce fire flame flashing flowers flung flying Freedom's gazed glance glow golden hair hand harp hear heard heart Heaven hostler knew land laugh light lips looked loud loyal toast loyalist maid maiden midnight mighty hand night noble o'er pain pale patriot Perchance prest pride proud rebel rill Ringbolt rose round scarcely scene scorn seemed shade sigh sight sing Sir Hugh smile song soul sped splendor stare startled steed stirred stood strange stream sudden sweet sword thrill troop Twas twere Valley Forge vision voice wagoner wagoner's wild wind wine wing wondering word young
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Page 266 - ... that, in the language of holy writ, there was a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times had passed away;" and in a voice that re-echoed through the church like a trumpet-blast, " that there was a time to fight, and that time had now come!
Page 87 - Mid little ones who weep or wonder, And bravely speaks the cheering word, What though her heart be rent asunder, Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear The bolts of death around him rattle, Hath shed as sacred blood as e'er Was poured upon the field of battle ! The mother who conceals her grief While to her breast her son she presses, Then breathes a few brave words and brief, Kissing the patriot brow she blesses, With no one but her secret God To know the pain that weighs upon her, Sheds holy blood...
Page 86 - THE maid who binds her warrior's sash With smile that well her pain dissembles, The while beneath her drooping lash One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles, Though Heaven alone records the tear, And Fame, shall never know her story, Her heart has shed a drop as dear As e'er bedewed the field of glory...
Page 89 - He spoke of wrongs too long endured, Of sacred rights to be secured; Then from his patriot tongue of flame The startling words for Freedom came. The stirring sentences he spake Compelled the heart to glow or quake, And, rising on his theme's broad...
Page 91 - God's temple is the house of peace! " The other shouted, " Nay, not so. When God is with our righteous cause; His holiest places then are ours, His temples are our forts and towers That frown upon the tyrant foe; In this, the dawn of Freedom's day, There is a time to fight and pray...
Page 90 - Rose, as it seemed, a shoulder higher; Then swept his kindling glance of fire From startled pew to breathless choir; When suddenly his mantle wide, His hands impatient flung aside, And, lo! he met their wondering eyes Complete in all a warrior's guise. * A moment there was awful pause— When Berkley cried, "Cease, traitor, cease! God's temple is the house of peace!
Page 91 - While overhead, with wild increase, Forgetting its ancient toll of peace, The great bell swung as ne'er before; It seemed as it would never cease; And every word its ardor flung From off its jubilant iron tongue Was, "War! War! War!
Page 270 - ... by deeds of arms, according to the laws of ancient chivalry." At the third repetition of the challenge the...
Page 87 - Within its shade of elm and oak The church of Berkley Manor stood ; There Sunday found the rural folk, And some esteemed of gentle blood. In vain their feet -with loitering tread Passed mid the graves where rank is naught ; All could not read the lesson taught In that republic of the dead.
Page 88 - Where youth's gay hats with blossoms bloom; And every maid, with simple art, Wears on her breast, like her own heart, A bud whose depths are all perfume; While every garment's gentle stir Is breathing rose and lavender.