Poems about dragoon (19 Poems)
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Uncle Ned’s Tales: How The Flag Was Saved (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
‘TWAS a dismal winter’s evening, fast without came down the snow,But within, the cheerful fire cast a ruddy, genial glowO’er our pleasant little parlor, that was then my mother’s pride.There she sat beside the glowing grate, my sister by her … Continue reading
An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq. Burleigh, May 14, 1689 (Matthew Prior Poems)
Sir,As once a twelvemonth to the priest,Holy at Rome, here Antichrist,The Spanish king presents a jennetTo show his love, — that’s all that’s in it;For if his Holiness would thumpHis reverend bum ‘gainst horse’s rump,He might be ‘quipp’d from his … Continue reading
My Very Particular Friend (Maria Smith Abdy Poems)
Are you struck with her figure and face? How lucky you happened to meetWith none of the gossipping race, Who dwell in this horrible street!They of slanderous hints never tire; I love to approve and commend,And the lady you so much admire, Is my … Continue reading
Lines On The Death Of William Sotheby, Esq (Joanna Baillie Poems)
LEARNING and fancy were combinedTo stimulate his manly mind;Open, generous and acute,Steady of purpose, in pursuitArdent and hopeful; all the whileIn child-like ignorance of guile.There are who say that envy lurks concealedWhere genius strives, by slightest traits revealed,A truth, if … Continue reading
At Fort Pillow (James Ryder Randall Poems)
You shudder as you think uponThe carnage of the grim report –The desolation when we wonThe inner trenches of the fort.But there are deeds you may not knowThat scourge the pulses into strife;Dark memories of deathless woePointing the bayonet and … Continue reading
The Emperor’s Bird’s-Nest. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Once the Emperor Charles of Spain, With his swarthy, grave commanders,I forget in what campaign,Long besieged, in mud and rain, Some old frontier town of Flanders. Up and down the dreary camp, In great boots of Spanish leather,Striding with a measured tramp,These Hidalgos, … Continue reading
The Mathematician in Love (William John Macquorn Rankine Poems)
I. A mathematician fell madly in loveWith a lady, young, handsome, and charming:By angles and ratios harmonic he stroveHer curves and proportions all faultless to prove.As he scrawled hieroglyphics alarming. II. He measured with care, from the ends of a … Continue reading
Prayer Before Birth (Louis MacNeice Poems)
I am not yet born; O hear me.Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or theclub-footed ghoul come near me. I am not yet born, console me.I fear that the human race may with tall walls … Continue reading
Turner Ashby (John Reuben Thompson Poems)
To the brave all homage render! Weep, ye skies of June!With a radiance pure and tender, Shine, O saddened moon;“Dead upon the field of glory!”—Hero fit for song and story— Lies our bold dragoon. Well they learned, whose hands have slain him, Braver, knightlier … Continue reading
Art And Politics (Carl Michael Bellman Poems)
Good servant Mollberg, what’s happened to thee, Whom without coat and hatless I see? Bloody thy mouth–and thou’rt lacking a tooth! Where have you been, brother?–tell me the truth. … Continue reading
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