A Tulip Garden (Amy Lowell Poem)
Guarded within the old red wall's embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry Wheels ...
Guarded within the old red wall's embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry Wheels ...
The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful little explosions and trails of sparks up the back of the chimney. ...
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
When the wars of the world seemed ended, and silent the distant drum, Ten years ago in Australia, I wrote ...
Where the string At some point, Was umbilical jazz, Or perhaps, In memory, A long lost bloody cross, Buried in ...
'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead? She 'as ships on ...
This 'appened in a battle to a batt'ry of the corps Which is first among the women an' amazin' first ...
When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear, ("It's all one," says the Sapper), The Lord He created ...
I am heaping the bones of the old mother To build us a hold against the host of the air; ...
The pockets of our greatcoats full of barley... No kitchens on the run, no striking camp... We moved quick and ...
To Jenny came a gentle youth From inland leazes lone; His love was fresh as apple-blooth By Parrett, Yeo, or ...
To fight aloud, is very brave -- But gallanter, I know Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Woe ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Comrades, many a year and day Have fled since that glorious 9th of May When we made the charge at ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
What have the cavalry done? Cantered and trotted about, Routin' the enemy out, Causin' the beggars to run! And we ...
I ain't a timid man at all, I'm just as brave as most, I'll take my chance in open fight ...
There's a soldier that's been doing of his share In the fighting up and down and round about. He's continually ...
Oh the airman's game is a showman's game, for we all of us watch him go With his roaring soaring ...
My most respected comrades of posterity! Rummaging among these days' petrified crap, exploring the twilight of our times, you, possibly, ...
Ye sons of Mars, come join with me, And sing in praise of Sir Herbert Stewart's little army, That made ...
It was on the 21st of March in the year of 1801, The British were at their posts every man; ...
'Twas in the year of 1808, and in the autumn of the year, Napoleon resolved to crush Spain and Portugal ...
'Twas in the year of 1849, and on the 20th of February, Lord Gough met and attacked Shere Sing right ...
Ye Sons of Great Britain! come join with me And King in praise of the gallant British Armie, That behaved ...
'Twas in the year 1715, and on the 10th of November, Which the people of Scotland have cause to remember; ...
'Twas in the year 1815, and on the 18th day of June, That British cannon, against the French army, loudly ...
Ye sons of Germany, your noble Emperor William now is dead. Who oft great armies to battle hath led; He ...
'Twas at the disastrous battle of Maiwand, in Afghanistan, Where the Berkshires were massacred to the last man; On the ...
'Twas in the year of 1897, and on the 22nd of June, Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee in London caused a ...
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