Famous Strong Arm Poems by Famous Poets

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A Waltz-Quadrille

...d back and forth to the music’s rhyme
We moved together, and all the time
I knew you were going away.

The fold of your strong arm sent a thrill
From heart to brain as we gently glided
Like leaves on the wave of that waltz-quadrille;
Parted, met, and again divided –
You drifting one way, and I another,
Then suddenly turning and facing each other,
Then off in the blithe chasse.
Then airily back to our places swaying,
While every beat of the music seemed saying
That you were go...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler


Custer

...or their country's safety, and the sake
Of tortured captives moaning in alarm
The Indian must be made to fear the law's strong arm.


XIV.

A noble vengeance burned in Custer's breast, 
But, as he led his army to the crest, 
Above the wigwams, ready for the charge
He felt the heart within him, swelling large
With human pity, as an infant's wail
Shrilled once again above the wintry gale.
Then hosts of murdered children seemed to rise; 
And shame his halting thought with sad ac...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Douglass

...dissension swarm, 
And Honour, the strong pilot, lieth stark, 
Oh, for thy voice high-sounding o'er the storm, 
For thy strong arm to guide the shivering bark, 
The blast-defying power of thy form, 
To give us comfort through the lonely dark....Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul

Douglass

...dissension swarm,
And Honor, the strong pilot, lieth stark,
Oh, for thy voice high-sounding o'er the storm,
For thy strong arm to guide the shivering bark,
The blast-defying power of thy form,
To give us comfort through the lonely dark.
...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul

Mentana. {1}

...
 (VICTOR HUGO TO GARIBALDI.) 
 
 ("Ces jeunes gens, combien étaient-ils.") 
 
 {LA VOIX DE GUERNESEY, December, 1868.} 


 I. 
 
 Young soldiers of the noble Latin blood, 
 How many are ye—Boys? Four thousand odd. 
 How many are there dead? Six hundred: count! 
 Their limbs lie strewn about the fatal mount, 
 Blackened and torn, eyes g...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor


Song of Myself

...ed and unmarried children ride home to their Thanksgiving dinner; 
The pilot seizes the king-pin—he heaves down with a strong arm; 
The mate stands braced in the whale-boat—lance and harpoon are ready; 
The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches;
The deacons are ordain’d with cross’d hands at the altar; 
The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel; 
The farmer stops by the bars, as he walks on a First-day loafe, and looks at the
 oa...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Father's Curse

...gs, yet bear a different crown; 
 And should some impious hand upon thy head 
 Heap wrongs and insult, with thine own strong arm 
 Thou canst avenge them! God avenges mine! 
 
 FREDK. L. SLOUS. 


 




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by Hugo, Victor

To a Contemporary Bunkshooter

...YOU come along. . . tearing your shirt. . . yelling about
Jesus.
Where do you get that stuff?
What do you know about Jesus?
Jesus had a way of talking soft and outside of a few
bankers and higher-ups among the con men of Jerusalem
everybody liked to have this Jesus around because
he never made any fake passes and everything
he said went and he helped the s...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl

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