Book/Printed Material The Cuban martyrs and other poems.
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Image 1 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. MffiKXlMtmHI LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 00DE7fit341bfi#- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 2 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, l^^^p- I^ftow l^i ^f3 I UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 9 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. ^u%m fr^%S AND OTHER POEMS. BY. CHARLES STEPHENSON. 9 Another yet! ye gods I ll hear no more. The artless Helicon I hoast is yonth. ROCK ISLAND THE UNION PRINTING COMPANY. 1874.- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 10 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. 7^ 2. ?i^ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by Chaklks Stephenson, in the oflSce of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 11 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. TO Captain Mayne Reid, WHOSE GENIUS IS EqUALLED ONLY BY HIS NOBILITY OF CHAR- ACTER, AND WHOSE WORKS FIRST TEMPTED ME INTO THE PATHS OF LITERATURE, CZ^^THIS WORK IS DEDI CA TED...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 12 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. TO THE CRITICS. |g| 0 you look to the Canada thistle To find the perfume of the rose Do you look to a tin penny whistle For the music an opera knows...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 13 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. ERRATA. Although this department is generally superflous, 1 cannot in justice to mj-self allow the man} mistakes produced by careless proof-reading, to go uncorrected. The last word but one of the preface...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 14 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems.- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 15 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. CONTENTS. To THE Critics, 4 Preface, 7 The Cuban Martyrs, 9 RosiTA, 23 To A Christian, 40 The Bride of the Mattabessat, 41 Beware of the Stainless, 56 Pi jTURES, 57 Heaven,...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 16 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. Onward, 135 Dreams of Childhood, 137 Millenium, 139 A Lament, 140 God Always Helps the Poor, 142 To Ella, 145 To A Friend, 149 To A Lady, 150 Thouohts Suggested by Child...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 17 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. THE CUBAN MARTYRS. Rebellion foul, dishonoring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft hath stained The holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal ever lost or gained. How many a spirit, born...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 18 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. The Cuban Alartyrs. Where Nature, like a poet s dream, Her rainbow banner hath unfurled, And blushing earth, and glowing skies Unite to form the paradise The Eden of this western world....- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 19 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. The Cuban Martyrs. And not one vapory cloudlet skims Athwart the azure sky Fair as he shone when man was born, And earth to being sprung, (Ere sin had taught mankind to...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 20 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. The Cuban Martyis. To see such scenes below Sure must perdition s hosts be sad That earth such scenes may know Sure not the slightest taint of death Pollutes these sparkling bowers,...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 21 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. The Cuban Martyrs. 13 Low crouched upon the dungeon floor, In dire suspense they wait, While through the silence, dread, profound. Each anxious heart-throb s solemn sound Comes like the tick of...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 22 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. 14 The Cuban Martyrs. IV. And why must fall that patriot crew, The young, the fair, the brave, the true. Souls formed by God to dare and do, With warm hearts beating...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 23 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. The Cuban Martyrs. 15 And then twas writ in Fate s decree That all our worshipped liberty Should be compelled to bend the knee To Slavery s brutal rod, Until the scourge...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 24 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. 1 6 The Cuban Martyrs. Look backward through the files of time, Through every age and every clime, And gaze on every hellish crime That stains fair History s page Go read...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 25 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. The Cuban Martyrs ly And groaning History will exclaim In tones of horror, fear and shame, To glut a Spaniard s hate. Then come to Cuba s Isle once more, And see...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 26 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. The Cuban Martyrs. Think not it brings you liberty, Tis but your dying knell. Slow file they forth by ten and ten, With haughty step and lordly mien, Sure never nobler souls...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 27 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. The Cuban Martyrs, iq By tens the prisoners file, For there it is they re doomed to fall, For their loved native Isle. With fettered limb and bandaged eye They wait the...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 28 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. The Cuban Martyrs. And are there now no more No. Of that hapless number, all Beneath yon iron prison wall Lie weltering in their gore.* Of all those noble hopes and powers,...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 29 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. The Cuban Martyrs. 21 IX. Deep as the darkest pall of night, Let s draw the curtain o er Freedom and Justice, Truth and Right, Fly to your shrines once more Such...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 30 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. 2 2 The Cuban Martyrs. There Freedom must be quenched in blood; There mercy is unknown And Right and Justice ne er have stood Around a Spanish ihrone. Go, Mercy, and in...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 31 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. ROSITA A Heart Experience. ^es, the dream at last is over I can see my folly now See the folly that could blind me into loving such as thou! For I loved...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 32 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. 24 Rosita. As up through the starless heavens shine the rays of north- ern light. And besides, my heart was foolish, and knew not the ways of love, And I gazed on...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 33 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. Rosita. 25 In a place where outward beauty clothes none but the good and true Thou wouldst be a stranger to them they would shrink from thine embrace As the life-plant when...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 34 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. 26 Rosita. So I gazed upon thy features, saw that they were fair and bright, But saw not the heart behind them, blacker than the noon of night. I was young, and...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 35 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. Rosita. 27 O the hour when first I saw thee it was long and long ago; When the trees were void of verdure, and the earth was robed in snow, And the...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 36 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. 28 Rosita. All I am, and all I shall be, unto thee my heart hath given; I am thine, and thine forever, thine for earth, and thine for heaven. As the .^olian...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 37 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. Rosita. 20 O how cold the joys of angels in their pearly gates above, To him whose soul has reveled in the primal kiss of love. Through my soul that kiss went...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 38 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. 30 Rosita. Thrilling us with keenest pleasure, piercing us with deep- est pains. Even now that touch of passion through my being throbs and thrills, As a lover s lute will echo...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 39 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. Rosita. 31 Had been quenched in all its brightness in the depths of Lethe s stream; For the dreary hours that followed— O, how dark theyWe been to me. And but made...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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Image 40 of The Cuban martyrs and other poems. 32 Rosita. And it put tome the question, Art thou really then so blind? Thou art loving a deceiver, one whose only care for thee Is of thy most cherished feelings to...- Contributor: Stephenson, Charles
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