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Warren's Address to the American Soldiers Stand! the ground’s your own, my braves! Will ye give it up to slaves? Will ye look for greener graves? Hope ye mercy still? What ’s the mercy despots feel? Hear it in that battle-peal! Read it on yon bristling steel! Ask it,—ye who... Poet: John Pierpont	Address to the Ocean O Thou vast Ocean! ever-sounding Sea! Thou symbol of a drear immensity! Thou thing that windest round the solid world Like a huge animal, which, downward hurled From the black clouds, lies weltering and alone, Lashing and writhing till its strength be gone... Poet: Bryan Waller Procter	Address to the Mummy at Belzoni’s Exhibition And thou hast walked about (how strange a story! In Thebes’s streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are... Poet: Horace Smith	Warren’s Address STAND! 1 the ground ’s your own, my braves! Will ye give it up to slaves? Will ye look for greener graves? Hope ye mercy still? What ’s the mercy despots feel? Hear it in that battle-peal! Read it on yon bristling steel! Ask it... Poet: John Pierpont
Address to the Toothache My curse upon thy venomed stang, That shoots my tortured gums alang; An’ through my lugs gies mony a twang, Wi’ gnawing vengeance! Tearing my nerves wi’ bitter pang, Like racking engines. When fevers burn, or ague freezes,... Poet: Robert Burns