The Victory of Patience (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
Armed of the gods! Divinest conqueror! What soundless hosts are thine! Nor pomp, nor state, Nor token, to betray where ...
Armed of the gods! Divinest conqueror! What soundless hosts are thine! Nor pomp, nor state, Nor token, to betray where ...
High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam Islanded in Severn stream; The bridges from the steepled crest Cross the water east ...
WITH a bridegroom's joyous bearing, Mounts Sir Curt his noble beast, To his mistress' home repairing, There to hold his ...
The reign of King William the Second Were an uninteresting affair There's only two things that's remembered of him That's ...
I'll tell of the Battle of Hastings, As happened in days long gone by, When Duke William became King of ...
Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19th, 1836 By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their ...
Break off! Dance no more! Danger is at the door. Music is in arms. To signal war's alarms. Hark, a ...
Take heed of loving me; At least remember I forbade it thee; Not that I shall repair my unthrifty waste ...
'Tis Seasons since the Dimpled War In which we each were Conqueror And each of us were slain And Centuries ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
How should I know? The enormous wheels of will Drove me cold-eyed on tired and sleepless feet. Night was void ...
A conqueror as provident as brave, He robbed the cradle to supply the grave. His reign laid quantities of human ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
I SING of a Whistle, a Whistle of worth, I sing of a Whistle, the pride of the North. Was ...
The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods, against a stormy sky, Their giant ...
If Mary had known When she held her Babe's hands in her own Little hands that were tender and white ...
Night closed around the conqueror's way, And lightnings show'd the distant hill, Where those who lost that dreadful day Stood ...
Sublime was the warning that liberty spoke, And grand was the moment when Spaniards awoke Into life and revenge from ...
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
First was the world as one great cymbal made, Where jarring winds to infant Nature played. All music was a ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
VIII Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms, Whose chance on these defenceless dores may sease, If ever deed of ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
Captain, or colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize, If deed of honour did ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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