Patriotism poems

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Patriotism

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

Is the tree living I once thought dead?

Mo chraoibhin aoibhinn O,

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Patriotism

© Edgar Albert Guest

I think my country needs my vote,

I know it doesn't need my throat,

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Everywhere In America

© Edgar Albert Guest

Not somewhere in America, but everywhere to-day,

Where snow-crowned mountains hold their heads,

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Don Juan: Canto The Sixteenth

© George Gordon Byron

The antique Persians taught three useful things,

  To draw the bow, to ride, and speak the truth.

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The Panama Canal

© Edgar Albert Guest

ABOVE it flies the flag we love,

Within it is the blood we gave;

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The Human Tragedy ACT IV

© Alfred Austin

Personages:
  Gilbert-
  Miriam-
  Olympia-
  Godfrid.

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Pippa Passes: Part III: Evening

© Robert Browning


Mother
If there blew wind, you'd hear a long sigh, easing
The utmost heaviness of music's heart.

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To Go Or Not To Go

© Anonymous

[Dedicated to the Exempts]


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Patriotism.

© Robert Crawford

We die for home and country; dying thus,
The welfare of our land shall live with us.

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The Roman: A Dramatic Poem

© Sydney Thompson Dobell

SCENE I.
A Plain in Italy-an ancient Battle-field. Time, Evening.
Persons.-Vittorio Santo, a Missionary of Freedom. He has gone out, disguised as a Monk, to preach the Unity of Italy, the Overthrow of Austrian Domination, and the Restoration of a great Roman Republic.--A number of Youths and Maidens, singing as they dance. 'The Monk' is musing.
Enter Dancers.

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Patriotism

© Robert Fuller Murray

There was a time when it was counted high
To be a patriot-whether by the zeal
Of peaceful labour for the country's weal,
Or by the courage in her cause to die:

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The Flag On The Farm

© Edgar Albert Guest

We've raised a flagpole on the farm

  And flung Old Glory to the sky,

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Patriotism 2: Nelson, Pitt, Fox

© Sir Walter Scott

TO mute and to material things

New life revolving summer brings;

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To Good Guys Dead

© Ernest Hemingway

They sucked us in;

King and country,

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M'Fingal - Canto IV

© John Trumbull


"For me, before that fatal time,
I mean to fly th' accursed clime,
And follow omens, which of late
Have warn'd me of impending fate.

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M'Fingal - Canto III

© John Trumbull


By this, M'Fingal with his train
Advanced upon th' adjacent plain,
And full with loyalty possest,
Pour'd forth the zeal, that fired his breast.

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M'Fingal - Canto II

© John Trumbull


"T' evade these crimes of blackest grain
You prate of liberty in vain,
And strive to hide your vile designs
In terms abstruse, like school-divines.

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In Former Songs.

© Walt Whitman

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IN former songs Pride have I sung, and Love, and passionate, joyful Life,
But here I twine the strands of Patriotism and Death.

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On An Icicle That Clung To The Grass Of A Grave

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

I.
Oh! take the pure gem to where southerly breezes,
Waft repose to some bosom as faithful as fair,
In which the warm current of love never freezes,

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L'Envoi

© James Russell Lowell

Whether my heart hath wiser grown or not,

In these three years, since I to thee inscribed,