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• Freedom of the Mind

  Written While in Prison for Denouncing the Domestic Slave-Trade
  HIGH walls and huge the body may confine,
  And iron gates obstruct the prisoner’s gaze, …

  William Lloyd Garrison

• The Present Crisis

  When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth’s aching breast
  Runs a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from east to west,
  And the slave, where’er he cowers, feels the soul within him climb …

  James Russell Lowell

• The Little Cloud

  AS 1 when, on Carmel’s sterile steep,
  The ancient prophet bowed the knee,
  And seven times sent his servant forth …

  John Howard Bryant

• Brown of Ossawatomie

  John Brown OF OSSAWATOMIE spake on his dying day:
  “I will not have to shrive my soul a priest in Slavery’s pay;
  But let some poor slave-mother whom I have striven to free, …

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Words for the “Hallelujah Chorus”

  John Brown’s body lies a-moldering in the grave,
  John Brown’s body lies slumbering in his grave—
  But John Brown’s soul is marching with the brave, …

  Henry Howard Brownell

• John Charles Frémont

  THY 1 error, Frémont, simply was to act
  A brave man’s part, without the statesman’s tact,
  And, taking counsel but of common sense, …

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Heroes

  The Winds that once the Argo bore
  Have died by Neptune’s ruined shrines,
  And her hull is the drift of the deep-sea floor, …

  Edna Dean Proctor

• A Holy Nation

  Let Liberty run onward with the years,
  And circle with the seasons; let her break
  The tyrant’s harshness, the oppressor’s spears; …

  Richard Realf

• Battle of the Angels

  From “Paradise Lost,” Book VI.
  THE ARRAY
  NOW went forth the morn, …

  John Milton

• The Destruction of Sennacherib

  From “Hebrew Melodies”
  THE ASSYRIAN came down like the wolf on the fold,
  And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; …

  Lord Byron

• The School of War

  From “Tamburlaine”
  TAMBURLAINE.—But now, my boys, leave off and list to me,
  That mean to teach you rudiments of war: …

  Christopher Marlowe

• Catiline to the Roman Army

  From “Catiline,” Act V. Sc. 2.
  SOUND all to arms! (A flourish of trumpets.)
  Call in the captains,—(To an officer.) …

  George Croly

• Caractacus

  Before proud Rome’s imperial throne
  In mind’s unconquered mood,
  As if the triumph were his own, …

  Bernard Barton

• Sempronius’ Speech for War

  From “Cato,” Act II. Sc. 1.
  MY voice is still for war.
  Gods! can a Roman senate long debate …

  Joseph Addison

• The Death of Leonidas

  It was the wild midnight,—
  A storm was on the sky;
  The lightning gave its light, …

  George Croly

• Song of the Greeks

  AGAIN to the battle, Achaians!
  Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance;
  Our land,—the first garden of Liberty’s-tree,— …

  Thomas Campbell

• Harmosan

  Now the third and fatal conflict for the Persian throne was done,
  And the Moslem’s fiery valor had the crowning victory won.
  Harmosan, the last and boldest the invader to defy, …

  Richard Chenevix Trench

• Battle Scene

  From the Spanish by John Ormsby
  From “The Cid”
  THEN cried my Cid—“In charity, as to the rescue—ho!” …

  Anonymous

• The Lord of Butrago

  From the Spanish by John Gibson Lockhart
  “YOUR horse is faint, my King, my Lord! your gallant horse is sick,—
  His limbs are torn, his breast is gored, on his eye the film is thick; …

  Anonymous

• Hakon’s Defiance

  From the Danish by Sir Frank C. Lascelles
  From “Hakon Jarl”
  [Olaf Trygvesön from Ireland is trying to introduce Christianity, and reclaim his father’s kingdom, in Norway, and has invaded the realm of Earl Hakon, a formidable heathen usurper, who, after defeat in battle, unsuccessfully attempts to…

  Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger

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