Alnwick Castle (Fitz-Greene Halleck Poems)
HOME of the Percy's high-born race,Home of their beautiful and brave,Alike their birth and burial place,Their cradle, and their grave!Still ...
HOME of the Percy's high-born race,Home of their beautiful and brave,Alike their birth and burial place,Their cradle, and their grave!Still ...
On one fine but fatal morning in the early Eocene, Lo, a brawny Bloke set out to dig a hole:First ...
The Grenadiers of Austria are proper men and tall; The Grenadiers of Austria have scaled the city wall; They have ...
The heat haze veiled the distant hills, the white clouds floated high,Drifting in slow content across the blue Australian sky;And ...
Perched on a dead volcanic pile,Now charted as a submerged peak,Near to a moon-washed coral isle,A hundred leagues from Mozambique,Three ...
Friend, by the way you hump yourself you're from the States, I know, And born in old Mizzourah, where the ...
'A Lyttl Sooth Sermun.' If, on December 31, When the old year is nearly run, And night is nearing twelve ...
In Burke's Saloon, among the crowd,I heard Bill Brewster boasting loud,Boasting loud and boasting longA lot of longshore stiffs among.And ...
Throughout Australian History no tongue or pen can tell Of such preconcerted treachery — there is no parallel ...
Come all ye wild colonials And listen to my tale;A story of bushrangers' deeds I will to you unveil.'Tis of ...
Who sees him walk the street, can scarce forbearTo question thus his friend, What prig goes there?So much hath Nature, ...
Our sergeant-major is Bandy Burke,Of course he couldn't affordTo take a commission - he does the workAnd the credit goes ...
(For the Rev. John J. Burke, C. S. P.) There was a murkier tinge in London's air As if the ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
KIND Sir, I've read your paper through, And faith, to me, 'twas really new! How guessed ye, Sir, what maist ...
WHEN Guilford good our pilot stood An' did our hellim thraw, man, Ae night, at tea, began a plea, Within ...
FINTRY, my stay in wordly strife, Friend o' my muse, friend o' my life, Are ye as idle's I am? ...
I Blessed be this place, More blessed still this tower; A bloody, arrogant power Rose out of the race Uttering, ...
I What shall I do with this absurdity - O heart, O troubled heart - this caricature, Decrepit age that ...
The First. My great-grandfather spoke to Edmund Burke In Grattan's house. The Second. My great-grandfather shared A pot-house bench with ...
My boy's come back; he's here at last; He came home on a special train. My longing and my ache ...
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