King Ryence’s Challenge (Thomas Percy Poems)
As it fell out on a Pentecost day,King Arthur at Camelot kept his court royall,With his faire queene dame Guenever ...
As it fell out on a Pentecost day,King Arthur at Camelot kept his court royall,With his faire queene dame Guenever ...
The great King Arthur made a royal feast,And held his Royal Christmas at Carlisle,And thither came the vassals, most and ...
Beautiful lily, dwelling by still rivers, Or solitary mere,Or where the sluggish meadow-brook delivers Its waters to the weir!Thou laughest at the ...
Part the FirstMery it was in the grene forestAmonge the leves grene,Wheras men hunt east and west,Wyth bowes and arrowes ...
ACT II.--At Eisenach.SCENE I. A Room in the LANDGRAVE'S Palace. FREDERICK THE GRAVE and HENRY SCHNETZEN.LANDGRAVE.Who tells thee of my ...
FauconshaweTo fetch clear water out of the spring The little maid Margaret ran;From the stream to the castle's western ...
NOW Robin Hood, Will Scadlock and Little JohnAre walking over the plain,With a good fat buck which Will ScadlockWith his ...
When shawes been sheene, and shradds full fayre,And leeves both large and longe,Itt is merry, walking in the fayre forrest,To ...
Adressed To Mrs. S.C. ChoateA Persian lady we're informed—This happened long, long years beforeThe Christian era ever dawned,A thousand years, ...
When Phoebus had melted the sickles of ice,With a hey down, &c.And likewise the mountains of snow,Bold Robin Hood he ...
Oh she tripped over Ocknell plain,And down by Bradley Water;And the fairest maid on the forest sideWas Jane, the keeper's ...
Oh, for the honest, blithesome times Of bosky Sherwood long ago, When Allen trolled ...
Too good for the knacker, too poor for the lurry!Let him go to the army that buys in a hurry!Too ...
Gather ye, galloping cross-country riders, Saddle your horses and arm for the right;Show now the scoffers and fireside deriders ...
Where have you been, Gilly, where have you been?Shooting at a mark with the lads upon the green?Or out on ...
In Memory of one of the Writer's Family who was a Volunteer during the War with Napoleon In a ferny ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
Beneath an old wall, that went round an old Castle, For many a year, with brown ivy o'erspread; A neat ...
The friar had said his paternosters duly And scourged his limbs, and afterwards would have slept; But with much riddling ...
"Where 'ave you been this week or more, 'Aven't seen you about the war'? Thought perhaps you was at the ...
To-day the woods are trembling through and through With shimmering forms, that flash before my view, Then melt in green ...
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