The Dons of Spain (Henry Lawson Poem)
The Eagle screams at the beck of trade, so Spain, as the world goes round, Must wrestle the right to ...
The Eagle screams at the beck of trade, so Spain, as the world goes round, Must wrestle the right to ...
The boy cleared out to the city from his home at harvest time -- They were Scots of the Riverina, ...
The centuries found me to nations unknown - My people have crowned me and made me a throne; My royal ...
Fire lighted; on the table a meal for sleepy men; A lantern in the stable; a jingle now and then; ...
I long for the streets but the Lord knoweth best, For there I am never a saint; There are lovable ...
The Channel fog has lifted - And see where we have come! Round all the world we've drifted, A hundred ...
There's many a schoolboy's bat and ball that are gathering dust at home, For he hears a voice in the ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
Sing, O Song of Hiawatha, Of the happy days that followed, In the land of the Ojibways, In the pleasant ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
So long as 'neath the Kalka hills The tonga-horn shall ring, So long as down the Solon dip The hard-held ...
You are not beaten. The simple music rises up, children's voices in the air, sound floating out across the land ...
Foundered March 24. 1878 1 The Eurydice-it concerned thee, O Lord: Three hundred souls, O alas! on board, Some asleep ...
when you step out of the wood and go first time to school you have to be so specially careful ...
IN Collins Street standeth a statute tall, A statue tall, on a pillar of stone, Telling its story, to great ...
"What do you think The bravest drink Under the sky?" "Strong beer," said I. "There's a place for everything, Everything, ...
Even the bravest that are slain Shall not dissemble their surprise On waking to find valor reign, Even as on ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
There is a flower that Bees prefer -- And Butterflies -- desire -- To gain the Purple Democrat The Humming ...
Facts by our side are never sudden Until they look around And then they scare us like a spectre Protruding ...
Bless God, he went as soldiers, His musket on his breast -- Grant God, he charge the bravest Of all ...
We grow accustomed to the Dark -- When light is put away -- As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
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 ...
O KENMURE'S on and awa, Willie, O Kenmure's on and awa: An' Kenmure's lord's the bravest lord That ever Galloway ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
O HAD each Scot of ancient times Been, Jeanie Scott, as thou art; The bravest heart on English ground Had ...
Shall the Harp then be silent, when he who first gave To our country a name, is withdrawn from all ...
Hot August noon: already on that day Since sunrise through the Wiltshire downs, most sad Of mouth and eye, he ...
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