The Wagoner of the Alleghanies: A Poem of the Days of Seventy-sixJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1863 - 276 páginas |
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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 Edgar esquires Esther eyes face falchion fear feet field 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 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 warrior wild wind wine wing wondering word young
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Página 82 - Out of the North the wild news came, Far flashing on its wings of flame, Swift as the boreal light which flies At midnight through the startled skies. And there was tumult in the air, The fife's shrill note, the drum's loud beat, And through the wide land everywhere The answering tread of hurrying feet...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 92 - Who dares" — this was the patriot's cry, As striding from the desk he came, — "Come out with me, in Freedom's name, For her to live, for her to die?
Página 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...
Página 266 - In the language of holy writ there is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is also a time to fight, and that time has now come.
Página 270 - ... by deeds of arms, according to the laws of ancient chivalry." At the third repetition of the challenge the...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 89 - The Lord of hosts shall arm the right !" 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...