Abraham Coles

Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, ...

On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep Descends the solemn mystery of sleep, Toiling and climb ...

Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Myst ...

O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useles ...

True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself ...

Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of ...

Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous to ...

Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is d ...

The power to bind and loose to Truth is given: The mouth that speaks it is the mouth of Heaven, The ...

Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They ...

O most illustrious of the days of time! Day full of joy and benison to earth When Thou wast born, sw ...

None of the prophets old, So lofty or so bold! No form of danger shakes his dauntless breast; In lon ...

We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where m ...

I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as ...