The First Battle of Ypres (Margaret Louisa Woods Poems)
Grey field of Flanders, grim old battle-plain,What armies held the iron line round Ypres in the rain,From Bixschoote to Baecelaere ...
Poems about battle-plain (21 Poems)
A Prize Poem (Henry Timrod Poems)
A fairy ringDrawn in the crimson of a battle-plain —From whose weird circle every loathsome thing And sight and sound of ...
The Legend Of The Iron Cross (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
Twilight o'er the East is stealing, And the sun is in the vale: 'T is a fitting moment, stranger, To relate a wondrous ...
The Battle Autumn of 1862 (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
Under the orchard boughs, That drop red leaves like coals into the grass. The golden arrows of the sunset fall; And on the ...
Storm-Fragments (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE storm had raved its furious soul away;O'er its wild ruins Twilight, spectral, gray,Stole like a nun, 'midst wounded men ...
Australia (John Laurence Rentoul Poems)
SHE rose amid the Nations, tall and fair, The wide South seas kissed at her garment hem, Lights of new ...
Anna (Victor James Daley Poems)
The pale discrowned stacks of maize, Like spectres in the sun,Stand shivering nigh Avonaise, Where all is dead and gone.The sere leaves ...
Hymns and Odes for Charity Occasions XII (John Pierpont Poems)
Not with a conqueror's songThy courts, O God, we throng,For battles gained;No cannon's sulphurous throat,No trumpet, gives its note,No banners ...
A Thought On War (John Critchley Prince Poems)
'Tis strange, profanely strange, but men will stand Upon some spot of blighted happiness,Where the Omnipotent's mysterious hand Has fallen with disaster ...
The Abencerrage : Canto I. (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
Lonely and still are now thy marble halls,Thou fair Alhambra! there the feast is o'er;And with the murmur of thy ...
War And Peace-A Poem (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
"THOU, bright Futurity! whose prospect beams, In dawning radiance on our day-light dreams; Whose lambent meteors and ethereal forms Gild ...
Stanzas To the Memory Of George III (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
'Among many nations was there no King like him.' -Nehemiah, xiii, 26. 'Know ye not that there is a ...
The Sword Of The Tomb : A Northern Legend (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
Voice of the gifted elder time!Voice of the charm and the Runic rhyme!Speak! from the shades and the depths disclose,How ...
In Memoriam (David J. Ryan, C.S.A.) (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Thou art sleeping, brother, sleeping In thy lonely battle grave;Shadows o'er the past are creeping,Death, the reaper, still is reaping,Years ...
The Messenger (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
She rose up in the early dawn,And white and silently she movedAbout the house. Four men had goneTo battle for ...
The Soldier’s Shroud (Achsa Sprague Poems)
HE lay upon the battle-field,His forehead to the sky,The death-damp in his matted hair,And dim his glazing eye;Embalmed within his ...
Books For The People (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Let there be light. Light to the darkened mindBear, like the sun, the world's wide circle round,Bright messengers ...
The Captive Knight (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
The prisoned thrush may brook the cage,The captive eagle dies for rage. Lady of the Lake. 'Twas a trumpet's pealing ...
Smoking Away (Francis Miles Finch Poems)
Floating away like the fountains' spray,Or the snow-white plume of a maiden,The smoke-wreaths rise to the starlit skiesWith blissful fragrance ...
Lay His Sword By His Side (Thomas Moore Poems)
Lay his sword by his side -- it hath served him too well Not to rest near his pillow below; ...
Song of the Battle Eve (Thomas Moore Poems)
(Time -- the Ninth Century) To-morrow, comrade, we On the battle-plain must be, There to conquer, or both lie low! ...