The Voyage To Vinland: Bioern’s Beckoners (James Russell Lowell Poems)
INow Bioern, the son of Heriulf, had ill daysBecause the heart within him seethed with bloodThat would not be allayed ...
INow Bioern, the son of Heriulf, had ill daysBecause the heart within him seethed with bloodThat would not be allayed ...
Now of the hard strait of the Feinne this legend's verse shall tell:When Fionn's men had fought and won, and ...
At Carnac in Brittany, close on the bay,They show you a church, or rather the grayRibs of a dead one, ...
I LIFT these hands with iron fetters banded:Beneath the scornful sunlight and cold starsI rear my once imperial forehead brandedBy ...
(To J.S. and A.W.S.)In entering the town, where the bright riverShrinks in its white stone bed, old thoughts returnOf how ...
TWO hours, or more, beyond the prime of a blithe April day,The Northmen's mailed "Invincibles" steamed up fair Charleston Bay;They ...
_"Liberty is always won where there exists the unconquerable will to be free."_Born free, thus we resolve to live: By Heaven ...
O gallant brothers of the generous South,Foes for a day and brothers for all time!I charge you by the memories ...
WAINAMOINEN AND YOUKAHAINEN.Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel,Passed his years in full contentment,On the meadows of Wainola,On the plains of Kalevala,Singing ever wondrous ...
October 14: 1066'Gyrth, is it dawn in the sky that I see? or is all the sky blood?Heavy and sore ...
Did I ever tell you, my dears, the wayThat the birds of Cisseter--"Cisseter!" eh?Well "Ciren-cester"--one OUGHT to say,From "Castra," or ...
I know the sun shines, and the lilacs are blowing, And the summer sends kisses by beautiful May —Oh! to ...
They have met at last — as storm-clouds Meet in heaven,And the Northmen back and bleeding ...
See you the ferny ride that steals Into the oak-woods far? O that was whence they hewed the keels That ...
GIFT from the cold and silent Past! A relic to the present cast, Left on the ever-changing strand Of shifting ...
The wine-cup is circling in Almhin's hall, And its Chief, 'mid his heroes reclining, Looks up, with a sigh to ...
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