The Brus Book IV (John Barbour Poems)
In Rawchryne leve we now the kingIn rest foroutyn barganyng,And off his fayis a quhile speke weThat ...
In Rawchryne leve we now the kingIn rest foroutyn barganyng,And off his fayis a quhile speke weThat ...
In Scotia's isle much lov'd Dalkeith,How have I wish'd to seeIts ancient spire, each lowly cot,As it was wont to ...
The music's done. Be quiet, Mr. Durie!Your bell and whistle put me in a fury!Don't ring up yet, sir--I've a word ...
Two Yankee maids of simple mien, And earnest, high endeavour, Come sailing to the land of France, To escape the winter weather. When first ...
Again I hear that creaking step!--He's rapping at the door!--Too well I know the boding soundThat ushers in a bore.I ...
MY friend he was; my friend from all the rest;With childlike faith he oped to me his breast;No door was ...
I SAID 'The dark deed matters nought,And this green gown becomes her well;For phrase and rhyme oft hide the thought,As ...
I.BEYOND the years the answer lies,Beyond where brood the grieving skiesAnd Night drops tears.Where Faith rod-chastened smiles to riseAnd doff ...
The Moutaines hie the blustryng wids The fluds: ye Rocks wtstadThe Cities strong, the Canons shot, & threatning Cheiftains had.The ...
Forth to his study the sculptor goesIn a mood of lofty mirth:"Now shall the tongues of my carping foesConfess what ...
Adieu to kindred hearts and home, To pleasure, joy, and mirth,A fitter foot than mine to roam Could scarcely tread ...
Close your eyes, my love, let me make you blind; They have taught you to see Only a mean arithmetic ...
I was saddened just to hear the bitter rancour in his voice, a sour hostility aloof of commonsense, and ranks ...
1 To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings, 2 Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun, 3 For my mean ...
Oh, I was born a lyric babe (That last word is a bore - It's only rhyme is astrolabe," Whose ...
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
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