The Burghers of Calais (Marriott Edgar Poem)
It were after the Battle of Crecy- The foe all lay dead on the ground- And King Edward went out ...
It were after the Battle of Crecy- The foe all lay dead on the ground- And King Edward went out ...
Henry the Seventh of England Wasn't out of the Royal top drawer, The only connection of which he could boast, ...
Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19th, 1836 By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their ...
So like a flower and a current of air the flow of water fleeting shadows the smile glimpsed at midnight ...
To slip into your shadow under cover of night. To follow your footsteps, your shadow at the window. That shadow ...
Break off! Dance no more! Danger is at the door. Music is in arms. To signal war's alarms. Hark, a ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
'Tis fine to see the Old World and travel up and down Among the famous palaces and cities of renown, ...
'Tis fine to see the Old World, and travel up and down Among the famous palaces and cities of renown, ...
Their Barricade against the Sky The martial Trees withdraw And with a Flag at every turn Their Armies are no ...
Step lightly on this narrow spot -- The broadest Land that grows Is not so ample as the Breast These ...
A Wife -- at daybreak I shall be -- Sunrise -- Hast thou a Flag for me? At Midnight, I ...
A something in a summer's Day As slow her flambeaux burn away Which solemnizes me. A something in a summer's ...
Our journey had advanced -- Our feet were almost come To that odd Fork in Being's Road -- Eternity -- ...
A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree -- Another -- on the Roof -- A Half a Dozen kissed the ...
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all ...
I never said I would, I only said I could do what you wished, the subtle difference should have raised ...
Where are the ships I used to know, That came to port on the Fundy tide Half a century ago, ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
The wind blew out from Bergen, from the dawning to the day There was a wreck of trees, a fall ...
1 Ye Mariners of England 2 That guard our native seas, 3 Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, 4 ...
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because the lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Today we woke up to a revolution of snow, its white flag waving over everything, the landscape vanished, not a ...
Long days, short nights, this Southern summer Fixes the mind within its timeless place. Athwart pale limbs the brazen hummer ...
The flag that hung half-mast today Seemed animate with being As if it knew for who it flew And will ...
The river stretched. It flows, idly grieves, And washes both banks. In steppe, above light clay of cliffs Rinks mourn ...
III Our sons have gone to serve the Reds to serve the Reds to risk their heads! O bitter,bitter pain, ...
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your ...
THE PUDDING MASTER OF STANLEY BASIN Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the lake promised us ...
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