“Peace, With Honour.” (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
"Peace with honour," glorious, joy-lit words!Britons, lay down your arms, re-sheath your swords,For the red demon War lies foiled and ...
"Peace with honour," glorious, joy-lit words!Britons, lay down your arms, re-sheath your swords,For the red demon War lies foiled and ...
Country lovers play at loveIn a scene all laid for loving.Marriage-making stars aboveGossip and wink and look approving,While the moon ...
"Poor Tom's a-cold!" Upon his shrinking headThe pelting storm beats pitiless! On bedOf languishing, disease, and cureless painHe lies, surrounded ...
On Nineveh's proud towers the sinking sun In cloudless splendor looks; nor, through the earth, Like glory doth behold. In ...
"So was their sanctuary violated,So their fair college turned to hospital;At first with all confusion: by and bySweet order lived ...
I.Ye subjects of Britain, attend to my ...
October 14: 1066'Gyrth, is it dawn in the sky that I see? or is all the sky blood?Heavy and sore ...
Scene--Sparta. The shade of Leonidas, brought by the ministers of Pluto from the Infernal Regions at the commencement ...
1840-1861 Thrice fortunate heWho, in the palace born, has early learn'd The lore of sweet simplicity:From smiling ...
YOUTH took one summer day his lyre, And idly struck each golden wire; Just as fancy bade him play Rose ...
The face of glory and her pleasant voice, O fortunate youth, now recognize, And how much nobler than effeminate sloth ...
Fair ladies dear, and gentlemen.I thought not to be here to-day:But I'm a slave, and therefore, whenMy muse commands, I ...
Salute the august train! a scene so grand, With every tuneful band; The mighty brave, His country bound to save, ...
The New Year dawns again upon the earth,And all our land re-echoes with its mirth.From east to west, from north ...
Where are the temperance people?Well, scattered here and there:Some gathering in their produceTo show at the autumn fair;Some threshing wheat ...
There's ships that bring us cargoes, but not of our desire, Their ladings hail from all the ports 'twixt ...
When wilt Thou save the people?O God of mercy! when? Not kings and lords, but nations!Not thrones and crowns, but ...
Like so many the people of the book serve where we are ever faithful to God In the leadership even ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
So was their sanctuary violated, So their fair college turned to hospital; At first with all confusion: by and by ...
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