The Battle Of Cressy (Peter John Allan Poems)
Drawn up in three divisions, soon as the English foundThat the Frenchmen were advancing, they started from the ground,Alarm'd, and burning in ...
Drawn up in three divisions, soon as the English foundThat the Frenchmen were advancing, they started from the ground,Alarm'd, and burning in ...
A LEGEND OF 1516.WHAT time o'er gory lands and threatening seasFair fortune, wearied, fled the Genoese--What time from many a ...
IAt the gate of the West I stand,On the isle where the nations throng.We call them "scum o' the earth";Stay, ...
Is all discovery made?Is the hand of Conquest stayed?Are all the heroes dead, all epics told?Is Fame's grand tower no ...
I.FOUR hundred years ago a tangled wasteLay sleeping on the west Atlantic's side;Their devious ways the Old World's millions tracedContent, ...
ST. STEPHEN'S cloistered hall was proudIn learning's pomp that day,For there a robed and stately crowdPressed on in long array.A ...
Spake one upon the vessel's prow, before The sinking sun had kissed the glittering seas: "'Twas here Columbus with his GenoeseSteered his ...
At midnight, in his guarded tent,The Turk was dreaming of the hourWhen Greece, her knee in suppliance bent,Should tremble at ...
Follow the pictured forms that Vandyck drew,One life-wide lesson thou mayst learn;Each happy gift, each perfect work and true,Thou to ...
I like a 'cavalier Frances'And a Catalonian dame;The courtesy of the Genoese,And Castilian dignity;The Provence songs my ears to please,And ...
The Genoese his world's horizon scanned;Fools scoffed him, savants laughed and bishops bannedWith Columbus perished all their ancient ways,Old forms ...
1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Our modern ...
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
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