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Children Of The War

© Katharine Lee Bates

SHRUNKEN little bodies, pallid baby faces,

Eyes of staring terror, innocence defiled,

Not to an angel but a friend
He turned at the day's bitter end.
It was so comforting to feel
Some one was near, to see him kneel
By the deep shell-hole's edge: to know
He was not left to the fierce foe.

A Letter

© John Greenleaf Whittier

'TIS over, Moses! All is lost!
I hear the bells a-ringing;
Of Pharaoh and his Red Sea host
I hear the Free-Wills singing.*

She Was A Phantom Of Delight

© William Wordsworth

She was a Phantom of delight

When first she gleamed upon my sight;

Content, To My Dearest Lucasia

© Katherine Philips

Content, the false World's best disguise,
The search and faction of the Wise,
Is so abstruse and hid in night,
That, like that Fairy Red-cross Knight,
Who trech'rous Falshood for clear Truth had got,
Men think they have it when they have it not.

The Kings

© Louise Imogen Guiney

A man said unto his Angel:
"My spirits are fallen low,
And I cannot carry this battle:
O brother! where might I go?

The Joy if Church Fellowship Rightly Attended

© Edward Taylor

In heaven soaring up, I dropped an ear
On earth: and Oh, sweet melody:
And listening, found it was the saints who were
Encroached for Heaven that sang for joy.
For in Christ's coach they sweetly sing,
As they to glory ride therein.

Aspiration

© Archibald Lampman

Yet we perchance, for all that flesh and mind
Of many ills be marked with many a trace,
Shall find this life more sweet more strangely kind,
Than they of that dim-hearted earthly race,
Who creep firm-nailed upon the earth's hard face,
And hear nor see not, being deaf and blind.

Sonnet On An Edelweiss

© Frances Anne Kemble

Where huge rock buttresses bear up the clouds,

With all their floating reservoirs of rain;

Written In The Mountains Of The Tyrol

© Richard Monckton Milnes

A Heart the world of men had bound and sealed
With shameful stamp and miserable chain,
Here, mother Nature, is to Thee revealed,
Open to Thee; oh! be it not in vain.

Light

© Ted Hughes

Eyes laughing and childish
Ran among flowers of leaves
And looked at light's bridge
Which led from leaf, upward, and back down to leaf.

Elmer Brown

© James Whitcomb Riley

Awf'lest boy in this-here town
Er anywheres is Elmer Brown!
He'll mock you--yes, an' strangers, too,
An' make a face an' yell at you,--
"_Here's_ the way _you_ look!"

The Foe

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

My foe did strike me, Lord, I am not meek,

I cannot turn to him the other cheek,

We Talk Of Taxes, And I Call You Friend

We talk of taxes, and I call you friend;

Well, such you are,but well enough we know

The Truce of Piscataqua

"Let your ears be opened wide!
He who speaks has never lied.
Waldron of Piscataqua,
Hear what Squando has to say!

A Poet's Sonnet

If I should quit thee, sacrifice, forswear,
To what, my art, shall I give thee in keeping?
To the long winds of heaven? Shall these come sweeping
My songs forgone against my face and hair?

Victory

Oh, perfect from the ultimate height of living,
Lightly we turned, through wet woods blossom-hung,
Into the open. Down the supernal roads,
With plumes a-tossing, purple flags far flung,
Rank upon rank, unbridled, unforgiving,
Thundered the black battalions of the Gods.