The Baffled Knight, Or Lady’s Policy (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
There was a knight was drunk with wine,A riding along the way, sir;And there he met with a lady fine,Among ...
There was a knight was drunk with wine,A riding along the way, sir;And there he met with a lady fine,Among ...
QUEEN of inventive thought, thy dreamsHave mark'd the colour of my fate;Still lend thy lightly quivering beams,Guide me through wilds ...
Where wail the waters in their flawA spectre wanders to and fro, And evermore that ghostly shoreBemoans the heir of ...
May 16: 1568Blow from the North, thou bitter North wind,Blow over the western bay,Where Nith and Eden and Esk run ...
_Deere Chryste, let not the cheere of earth, To fill our hearts with heedless mirth This holy Christmasse time; ...
IThe secret of the House of SetIs hidden in my sevenfold veil;For I am he that doth begetThe Rood, and ...
If all the grief and woe and bitterness,All dolour, ill and every evil chanceThat ever came upon this grieving worldWere ...
THE centuries of bloodshedAre past, those cruel years;But there is still one countryWhose mountains drip with tears,Whose river-banks are blood-stained,Whose ...
"YOU tell me, fair one, that you ne'er can love, And seem with scorn to mock the dangerous fire; But ...
When he, that shepherd false, 'neath Phrygian sails, Carried his hostess Helen o'er the seas,In fitful slumber Nereus hush'd the ...
Had I a land that I might call my home,I would be glad;But I'm compelled this cruel world to roamWith ...
"AND what is life? A fleeting shade, A cheerless, beamless, frozen glade, A span too short for joy to smile, ...
Where wail the waters in their flaw A spectre wanders to and fro, And evermore that ghostly shore Bemoans the ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
The moon is full this winter night; The stars are clear, though few; And every window glistens bright, With leaves ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
O young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best; And ...
But therewith the sun rose upward and lightened all the earth, And the light flashed up to the heavens from ...
I HOLD that when a person dies His soul returns again to earth; Arrayed in some new flesh-disguise Another mother ...
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