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ACROSS the sea I heard the groans
Of nations in the intervals
Of wind and wave. Their blood and bones
Cried out in torture, crushed by …
John Underhill
John Underhill
A score of years had come and gone
Since the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth stone,
When Captain Underhill, bearing scars
From Indian am…
Inscription On A Fountain
Inscription On A Fountain
FOR DOROTHEA L. DIX.
Stranger and traveller,
Drink freely and bestow
A kindly thought on her
Who bade this fo…
Inscriptions on a Sun-Dial
Inscriptions on a Sun-Dial
For Dr Henry L Bowditch
With warning hand I mark Time's rapid
flight
From life's glad morning to it's solemn
In Remembrance Of Joseph Sturge
In Remembrance Of Joseph Sturge
In the fair land o'erwatched by Ischia's mountains,
Across the charmed bay
Whose blue waves keep with Capri's silver foun…
In The
In The
She came and stood in the Old South Church,
A wonder and a sign,
With a look the old-time sibyls wore,
Half-crazed and half-divine.
In Peace
In Peace
A track of moonlight on a quiet lake,
Whose small waves on a silver-sanded shore
Whisper of peace, and with the low winds make
Such harmon…
Immortal love, forever full
Immortal love, forever full
Immortal love, forever full,
Forever flowing free,
Forever shared, forever whole,
A never ebbing sea!
I Was A Stranger, And Ye Took Me In
I Was A Stranger, And Ye Took Me In
'Neath skies that winter never knew
The air was full of light and balm,
And warm and soft the Gulf wind blew
Th…
Hymns From The French Of Lamartine
Hymns From The French Of Lamartine
I.
'Encore un hymne, O ma lyre
Un hymn pour le Seigneur,
Un hymne dans mon delire,
Un hymne dans mon bonhe…
Hymn II
Hymn II
O HOLY FATHER! just and true
Are all Thy works and words and ways,
And unto Thee alone are due
Thanksgiving and eternal praise!
As ch…
Hymn of The Dunkers
Hymn of The Dunkers
KLOSTER KEDAR, EPHRATA, PENNSYLVANIA (1738)
SISTER MARIA CHRISTINA sings
Wake, sisters, wake! the day-star shines;
…
Hymn For The House Of Worship At Georgetown, Erected In Memory Of A
Hymn For The House Of Worship At Georgetown, Erected In Memory Of A
Mother
Thou dwellest not, O Lord of all
In temples which thy children raise;
Ou…
Hymn For The Opening Of Thomas Starr King’s House Of Worship, 1864
Hymn For The Opening Of Thomas Starr King’s House Of Worship, 1864
Amidst these glorious works of Thine,
The solemn minarets of the pine,
And awful Shast…
Howard At Atlanta
Howard At Atlanta
RIGHT in the track where Sherman
Ploughed his red furrow,
Out of the narrow cabin,
Up from the cellar's burrow,
Gathered th…
How The Robin Came
How The Robin Came
AN ALGONQUIN LEGEND.
HAPPY young friends, sit by me,
Under May's blown apple-tree,
While these home-birds in and out
Haverhill
Haverhill
1640-1890.
O river winding to the sea!
We call the old time back to thee;
From forest paths and water-ways
The century-…
Help
Help
Dream not, O Soul, that easy is the task
Thus set before thee. If it proves at length,
As well it may, beyond thy natural strength,
Fain…
Godspeed
Godspeed
Outbound, your bark awaits you. Were I one
Whose prayer availeth much, my wish should be
Your favoring trad-wind and consenting sea.
Greeting
Greeting
I spread a scanty board too late;
The old-time guests for whom I wait
Come few and slow, methinks, to-day.
Ah! who could hear my mes…
George L. Stearns
George L. Stearns
He has done the work of a true man,-Crown
him, honor him, love him.
Weep, over him, tears of woman,
Stoop manliest brows above hi…
Garibaldi
Garibaldi
In trance and dream of old, God's prophet saw
The casting down of thrones. Thou, watching lone
The hot Sardinian coast-line, hazy-hilled,…
From Snow-Bound, 11:1-40, 116-154
From "Snow-Bound," 11:1-40, 116-154
The sun that brief December day
Rose cheerless over hills of gray,
And, darkly circled, gave at noon
A sadder l…
Funeral Tree of the Sokokis
Funeral Tree of the Sokokis
Around Sebago's lonely lake
There lingers not a breeze to break
The mirror which its waters make.
The solem…