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James Jeffrey Roche

I lived from 1847-1908. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

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  • The Fight Of The General Armstrong
    Tell the story to your sons
    Of the gallant days of yore
    88 lines, 1 comment
  • The Men Of The Alamo
    To Houston at Gonzales town, ride, Ranger, for your life,
    I nor stop to say good-by to-day to home or child or wife;
    59 lines
  • The V-A-S-E
    From the madding crowd they stand apart,
    The maidens four and the Work of Art;
    34 lines
  • A Sailor's Yarn
    This is the tale that was told- to me,
    By a battered and shattered son of the sea-
    74 lines, 1 comment
  • The Constitution's Last Fight
    A Yankee ship and a Yankee crew—
    “Constitution,” where ye bound for?
    75 lines, 1 comment
  • Gettysburg
    There was no union in the land,
    Though wise men labored long
    63 lines
  • Don't
    Your eyes were made for laughter:
    Sorrow befits them not;
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • My Comrade
    THE LOVE of man and woman is as fire,
    To warm, to light, but surely to consume
    14 lines
  • Sir Hugo's Choice
    It is better to die, since death comes surely,
    In the full noontide of an honored name,
    56 lines
  • Albemarle Cushing
    Joy in rebel Plymouth town, in the spring of ‘sixty-four,
    When the \Albemarle\ down on the Yankee frigates bore,
    72 lines
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