Battle Song (Patrick Barrington Poems)
There's havoc on the staircase where the guests come streaming,Shirt-fronts shining and tiaras gleaming,Frail folk shuddering and stout folk steaming ...
There's havoc on the staircase where the guests come streaming,Shirt-fronts shining and tiaras gleaming,Frail folk shuddering and stout folk steaming ...
Let us honour the gods of the household alway, Love ever the hearth and its graces,The spot where serenely and cheerfully ...
Hark! how the merry bells ring jocund round,And now they die upon the veering breezeAnon they thunder loudFull on the ...
Bred in distant woods, the clownBrings all his country airs to town;The odd address, with awkward grace,That bows with half-averted ...
To every class we have a School assign'd,Rules for all ranks and food for every mind:Yet one there is, that ...
Muse of my Spenser, who so well could singThe passions all, their bearings and their ties;Who could in view those ...
Nobody knew why it should be so;Nobody knew or wanted to know. It might have been checked had but someone ...
_Hark! Hark!The dogs do bark!It's the socialists come to town,None in rags and none in tags,Swaggering up and down_.Sunday morning,And ...
Aye, but she?Your other sister and my other soulGrave Silence, lovelierThan the three loveliest maidens, what of her?Clio, not you,Not ...
Here when the cloudless April days begin,And the quaint crows flock thicker day by day,Filling the forests with a pleasant ...
That's him!! The authentic, identical beast! The Unionist tiger, full brother to "Sosh"!I know by the prowl of him.Hark to ...
As an American traveler I have to remember not to get actionably mad about the way things are around here. ...
Now goes under, and I watch it go under, the sunThat will not rise again.Today has seen the setting, in ...
They could not tell me who should be my lord, But I could read from every word they said The ...
Behold, my child, this touching scene, The golfer on the golfing-green; Pray mark his legs' uncanny swing, The golf-walk is ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
Were I - who to my cost already am One of those strange, prodigious creatures, man - A spirit free ...
Bred in distant woods, the clown Brings all his country airs to town; The odd address, with awkward grace, That ...
(For Paula)THE GRIP of the ice is gone now. The silvers chase purple. The purples tag silver. They let out ...
AS in their flight the birds of song Halt here and there in sweet and sunny dales, But halt not ...
Aye, but she? Your other sister and my other soul Grave Silence, lovelier Than the three loveliest maidens, what of ...
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