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Table of Contents: Cover Page Dedication Introduction "America" "Christmas Hymn" "Lines on the Death of J. Quincy Adams" "To Cinque" "New Year's Hymn" "To A.H." "Love" "How Long" "The Arch Apostate" "The Misanthropist" "A Hymn" "Yes! strike again that sounding string" "To -------" "Prayer of the Oppressed" "To S.A.T." "Delusive Hope" "To M.E.A." "A Hymn" "Self-Reliance" "Ode for the Fourth of July" "Midnight Musings" "Ode to Music" "Stanzas for the First of August" "The North Star" (text of all poems) |
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FROM bright West Indies’ sunny seas, Comes, borne upon the balmy breeze, The joyous shout, the gladsome tone, Long in those bloody isles unknown; Bearing across the heaving wave The song of the unfettered slave.
No charging squadrons shook the ground, |
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No cannon, with tremendous sound, The noble patriot’s cause maintained: No furious battle-charger neighed, No brother fell by brother’s blade.
None of those desperate scenes of strife,
'T was moral force which broke the chain,
And from those islands of the sea, |
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Telling th’ oppressed, where’er they roam, Those islands now are freedom’s home.
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