Confiteor (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
The shore-boat lies in the morning light, By the good ship ready for sailing;The skies are clear, and the dawn ...
The shore-boat lies in the morning light, By the good ship ready for sailing;The skies are clear, and the dawn ...
Beneath the solemn stars that lightThe dread infinitudes of night,Mid wintry solitudes that lieWhere lonely Hecla's toweling pyreReddens an awful ...
Eighty men of Devon stood out to sweep the sea, To plough the Spanish Main, my boys, to plough ...
The goblet is sparkling with purpled-tinged wine, Bright glistens the eye of each guest,When into the hall comes the Minstrel ...
BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: —"Have mind, thou honored offspring of Healfdenegold-friend of men, now I go on this quest,sovran ...
WHERE are now the Captains Of the narrow ships of old Who with valiant souls went seeking For the Fabled ...
It was the good ship Caroline,That ploughed the Channel foam,All for the sake of England's fame,Of country, king, and home.Staunch ...
How should we praise those lads of the old Vindictive Who looked Death straight in the eyes, Till his ...
THEN sank they to sleep. With sorrow one boughthis rest of the evening, — as ofttime had happenedwhen Grendel guarded ...
Deep in the heart of the jungle, Close to the white man's grave,Where the goldfish have beards that stick out ...
Oh she tripped over Ocknell plain,And down by Bradley Water;And the fairest maid on the forest sideWas Jane, the keeper's ...
The Turks, Ossetians, Lekis, Persians,Cherkez, Ghlighvis, Didos and KistsWere ever Georgia's enemies,Assaulting her with blood-smeared fists.But soon at home domestic ...
IN grappled ships around The Victory, Three boys did England's Duty with stout cheer, While one dread truth was kept ...
My length in earth would now contain me all, All my ambitions, all my loves and hates-- Those high resolves ...
(For Warren Winslow, Dead At Sea) Let man have dominion over the fishes of the sea and the fowls of ...
Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and gast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his ...
Hold hard, Ned! Lift me down once more, and lay me in the shade. Old man, you've had your work ...
Achievin' sech distinction with his moddel tabble dote Ez to make his Red Hoss Mountain restauraw a place uv note, ...
'Twas Crisis -- All the length had passed -- That dull -- benumbing time There is in Fever or Event ...
SHORTLY AFTER THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING IN EUROPE. Let us begin and carry up this corpse, Singing together. Leave we ...
The goblet is sparkling with purpled-tinged wine, Bright glistens the eye of each guest, When into the hall comes the ...
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