Charlestown Poems - Poems about Charlestown

... 18th April 1775 on the strong big-boned mare 'Brown Beauty' may have been her name borrowed from John Larkin a very good horse of Narragansett Pacer fame a copper-bottomed silversmith ......

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...Whitewashed cottages and circling gulls The crest of a wave hits the beach as it rolls Evening shadows hang, on old harbour walls Be quick! We’ll get home before darkness falls. ......

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...I wanted to write & testify, one-time suicidal Dr. Anil Deo, is reborn during second half-century on earth! Yes, Jesus is real to me, to revive hope and the desire to live or write, or preach ... whe......

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...General Cornwallis of Great Britain faced a problem that he couldn’t resolve, he’d won at Camden, they’d captured Charlestown, but still the southern colonies wouldn’t fall. Instead he faced a ......

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...Back in seventeen eighty-one The revolution hit hard times, Britain had taken Charlestown And at Camden had crushed the lines Of General Horatio Gates, Leaving nobody to resist, Except the Sw......

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...Only silence dresses her rigging now To the call of the bosun’s whistle Her hatches now stand locked and secure Where long past sailors once lingered She is the last of the old frigates Moored i......

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...May I lift sorrow from your sunken chest Hold your weary frown at valor’s behest I wish these words we could have shared My opportunity…tears from your despair How many brethren did you lose th......

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