By Thomas Bracken
God of Nations at Thy feet,
In the bonds of love we meet,
Hear our voices, we entreat,
God defend our free…
In the bonds of love we meet,
Hear our voices, we entreat,
God defend our free…
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- By UnknownHeyla! We have a story about the Spear-Danes, from the old days
when they were big and their kings … - By UnknownOft him anhaga are gebideð,
metudes miltse, þeah þe he modcearig
geond lagulade longe sceolde
hreran… - By Janet Loxley LewisWe have forgotten Paris, and his fate.
We have not much inquired
If Menelaus from the Trojan gate
Returning… - By Countee CullenWherein are words sublime or noble? What
Invests one speech with haloed eminence,
Makes it the sesame… - By Duane NiatumHin-Mah-Too-Yah-Lat-Ket: Thunder-rolling in-the-mountains,
never reached with his people,
the Wal-lam… - By Alan DuganBecause of the unaccountable spirit of the troops
oh we were marched as we were never marched before… - By Derek WalcottThere were still shards of an ancient pastoral
in those shires of the island where the cattle drank
… - By Patrick DurginHow do I compare the costs
Of leaving one system
Of cooperation
For another
System of cooperation?
How… - By James TateThe way to the toy store was blocked by a fallen tree
in the road. There was a policeman directing … - By Natasha Trethewey1
In which I try to decipher
the story it tells,
this syntax of monuments
flanking the old courthouse… - By Natalie ShaperoThe comet taught us how to watch the war.
The comet contended that fire
is romantic and recommended… - By Langston Hughes
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain… - By Ada LimónThe truth is, I’ve never cared for the National
Anthem. If you think about it, it’s not a good
song.… - By David HernandezI’m this tiny, this statuesque, and everywhere
in between, and everywhere in between
bony and overweight… - By Aluristawhat for the rush and bloody pain
what for the blooming and the rain
what for the quest and odyssey… - By Luljeta Lleshanaku1.
Here I rest, in South Georgia.
A few feet of evolution away
lie the graves of whale hunters, pointing… - By Margaret BurroughsVenerable black women
You of yesterday, you of today.
Black mothers of tomorrow yet to be
These lines… - By Margaret BurroughsLet it be known to all, the story
Of the glorious struggle of my people.
Let it be known that black … - By Margaret BurroughsMy children, my children, remember the day
When the Drum Major of Freedom's parade went away.
Stop crying…