Love Poems – Page 2845
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“O, breathe not his name”
Robert Emmet / O, BREATHE not his name! let it sleep in the shade, / Where cold and unhonored his relics are laid; … -
Charles XII.
From “The Vanity of Human Wishes” / ON what foundations stands the warrior’s pride, / How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide: … -
Napoleon
From the French from Fraser’s Magazine / “Tu domines notre âge; ange ou démon, qu’importe!” / ANGEL or demon! thou—whether of light … -
On the Monument erected to Mazzini at Genoa
Italia, mother of the souls of men, / Mother divine, / Of all that served thee best with sword or pen, … -
Washington
[From “Under the Elm,” read at Cambridge, July 3, 1875, on the Hundredth Anniversary of Washington’s taking Command of the American Army.] / BENEATH our consecrated elm / A century ago he stood, … -
Daniel Webster
When, stricken by the freezing blast, / A nation’s living pillars fall, / How rich the storied page, how vast, … -
William Lloyd Garrison
“Some time afterward, it was reported to me by the city officers that they had ferreted out the paper and its editor; that his office was an obscure hole, his only visible auxiliary a negro boy, and his supporters a few very insignificant persons of all colors.” / —Letter of H. G. OTIS. / IN a sm… -
“What constitutes a state?”
WHAT constitutes a state? / Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, / Thick wall or moated gate; … -
“Breathes there the man?”
From “The Lay of the Last Minstrel,” Canto VI. / BREATHES there the man with soul so dead / Who never to himself hath said, … -
My Country
There is a land, of every land the pride, / Beloved by Heaven o’er all the world beside, / Where brighter suns dispense serener light, …
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