Napoleon’s Dream (Mary Russell Mitford Poems)
I.Sweet is the English peasant's joy To watch her husband sleeping,And smile upon the blooming boy To his lov'd bosom creeping;Her finger ...
I.Sweet is the English peasant's joy To watch her husband sleeping,And smile upon the blooming boy To his lov'd bosom creeping;Her finger ...
A simple, sodded mound of earth, Without a line above it; With only daily votive flowers To prove that any love it: The token ...
'It happened in 1803,' began my old acquaintance, 'not long beforeAusterlitz. The regiment in which I was an officer was ...
For every tiny town or place God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face And see them tangled in a ...
I. Like the sweet Naiad of the Grecian's dreams,A Spirit born of Song — unseen, all-seeing—Lives deep within our dark ...
We are circling, glad of the battle: we joy in the smell of the smoke. Fight on in ...
He leads: we hear our Seaman's callIn the roll of battles won;For he is Britain's AdmiralTill setting of her sun.When ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
"A Priest in Spite of Himself" "How far is St. Helena from a little child at play!" What makes you ...
For every tiny town or place God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face And see them ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
Eagle of Austerlitz! where were thy wings When far away upon a barbarous strand, In fight unequal, by an obscure ...
PILE the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I ...
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