The Last Adventure (Jan Struther Poems)
You think yourselves the adventurous ones, you young ones,And us becalmed, torpid, our days uneventful,Our blood stagnant, our minds' antennae ...
Poems about defenders (21 Poems)
British Volunteers (Janet Hamilton Poems)
At the call of the bugle, and the roll of the drum,With the bold front of heroes, our trained Rifles ...
God Save The Flag (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
Washed in the blood of the brave and the blooming,Snatched from the altars of insolent foes,Burning with star-fires, but never ...
The Painter Of Florence (Ernest Jones Poems)
THERE'S a mansion old 'mid the hills of the west,So old, that men know not by whom it was built;But ...
The Borough. Letter VI: Professions–Law (George Crabbe Poems)
TRADES and Professions--these are themes the Muse,Left to her freedom, would forbear to choose;But to our Borough they in truth ...
The Lady Of La Garaye – Part I (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
ON Dinan's walls the morning sunlight plays, Gilds the stern fortress with a crown of rays, Shines on the children's ...
O’Connell (Denis Florence MacCarthy Poems)
August 6th , 1875.Harp of my native landThat lived anew 'neath Carolan's master hand;Harp on whose electric chords,The minstrel Moore's ...
Latona (Albert Pike Poems)
There was a sudden stir, Ages ago, on the Ӕgean Sea. With a loud cry, as of great agony, The ...
Prologue (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
The shepherd-king of Judah's olden days,Waked his sweet harp to sing Jehovah's praise,Then this his theme was in his happy ...
The Autograph On The Soul (Adah Isaacs Menken Poems)
In the Beginning, God, the great Schoolmaster, wrote upon the white leaves of our souls the text of life, in ...
The Oak (Arthur Weir Poems)
Last of its race, beside our college There stands an Oak Tree, centuries old,Which, could it voice its stores of ...
The Plains Of Abraham (Charles Sangster Poems)
I stood upon the Plain, That had trembled when the slain,Hurled their proud defiant curses at the battle-hearted foe, ...
Story-Time (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
"TELL us a story," comes the cry From little lips when nights are ...
Graduation Song (Anton Antonovich Delvig Poems)
"ChorusSix years have flown by like a dream,Embraced by sweet silence,And already the motherland thundersIts call: go forth, sons! ...
On The Victory Over The Dutch Fleet (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
HARK! where Joy's triumphant throngArdent pour the grateful song,To Heav'n's Almighty Lord!He view'd in scorn th' insulting host,Who madly threaten'd ...
The Victories Of Peace (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
1.GONE is the tempest that cloudedThe land with its dark desolation.Out from the pall that enshroudedLeaps the new strength of ...
The Battle At Saarburg (Alfred Lichtenstein Poems)
The earth grows moldy in fog.The evening is as oppressive as lead.Electric sparks crackle and whimper all around,Breaking everything in ...
Costs not Expenses (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A fine line in the sand of import to find balance of equities costs yes, expenses no parsing subtleties of ...
A Scrap of Paper (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
"Will you go to war just for a scrap of paper?" -- Question of the German Chancellor to the British ...
Nefarious War (Li Po Poems)
Last year we fought by the head-stream of the Sang-kan, This year we are fighting on the Tsung-ho road. We ...
The Capture of Lucknow (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas near the Begum Kothie the battle began, Where innocent blood as plentiful as water ran; The Begum Kothie was ...