The Soldier’s Battle (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
November 5: 1854 In the solid sombre mist And the drizzling dazzling shower They may mass them as they list, ...
November 5: 1854 In the solid sombre mist And the drizzling dazzling shower They may mass them as they list, ...
A WALL, a bastion,A living forehead with its slow whorl of hairAnd a bull's large, sombre, glancing eyeAnd glistening, adhesive ...
No more old England will they see—Those men who've died for you and me.So lone and cold they lie; but ...
There is a cap in the closet, Old, tattered, and blue—Of very slight value, It may be, to ...
_AT SENNEN_Thrice-blest, alone with Nature!--here, where gray Belerium fronts the spraySmiting the bastion'd crags through centuries flown, While, 'neath the ...
THE slender moon and one pale star, A rose leaf and a silver beeFrom some god's garden blown afar, Go ...
What though the foe exultant carouses in the keep,His hirelings on the parapets to jeer our pennants torn?The fight began ...
To-night the winds begin to rise And roar from yonder dropping day: The last ...
To-day's house makes to-morrow's road; I knew these heaps of stoneWhen they were walls of grace and might,The country's ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
NOW, rallying once if ne'er again, With flag at half-mast flown, A people in dire need and strain Mans Tyra's ...
(roundel: variation of the rondeau consisting of three stanzas of three lines each, linked together with but two rhymes and ...
In my line, my blood, there pulses, course through my veins the blood of those hardy souls, the first Pilgrims, ...
It was Christmas Day in the trenches In Spain in Penninsular War, And Sam Small were cleaning his musket A ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
To-night the winds begin to rise And roar from yonder dropping day: The last red leaf is whirl'd away, The ...
Sweet is the dew that falls betimes, And drops upon the leafy limes; Sweet Hermon's fragrant air: Sweet is the ...
I O THOU, that sit'st upon a throne, With harp of high majestic tone, To praise the King of kings; ...
'Twas in the year of 1857 and on the 14th of September That the Sepoy rebels at Delhi were forced ...
After seeing at Boston the statue of Robert Gould Shaw, killed while storming Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, at the ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
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