News Has Come (Maironis Poems)
"News has just come in from Prussia: Saddle up your horse!Knights are heading for our country With a mighty force.Don't you worry, ...
"News has just come in from Prussia: Saddle up your horse!Knights are heading for our country With a mighty force.Don't you worry, ...
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
Too long have Tyranny and Power combined,To sway, with iron sceptre, o'er mankind;Long has Oppression worn th' imperial robe,And Rapine's ...
What is the German's fatherland? Is it Prussia, or the Swabian's land? Is it ...
By permission of the great Esquire Hall Being assembled here this day Unanimously bleating all For Him that's far away. ...
You were weeping in the night, said the Emperor, "Weeping in your sleep, I am told.""It was nothing but a ...
Doughty Budrys the old, Lithuanian bold,He has summoned his lusty sons three."Your chargers stand idle, now saddle and bridleAnd out ...
Though I've travelled far in distant lands- Russia, Prussia and Runcorn Sands- Back to my hometown I feel I want ...
Upon Earth's lap there lay a pleasant land,With mountain, wood, and river beautified,And city-dotted. For the pleasant landThe icy North ...
WHEN within that silken-curtained room, The dear Husband of our State lay dying, All the land was shrouded with that ...
Long has been the pilgrimage, Oh son of my begetting;Weary through the centuries and o'er the deserts wide;Myriad the altars ...
JANUARY 18 , 1816. BEFORE thine Altar, God of Peace,Thy grateful people bend:Thou bid'st again fell carnage cease,And War's dread ...
Think of it, think of it over the waterThousands of men to-day march on to death,Think how the sun shines ...
Plod on, poor frozen Fritzes,Plod on, poor frozen frau:You who invented blitzesAre in the business now.Your Ribbentrops, your PapensGave you ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
Good Father!. 'Twas an eve in middle June, And war was waged anew By great Napoleon, who for years had ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
Let Dew, house of Dew rejoice with Xanthenes a precious stone of an amber colour. Let Round, house of Round ...
TO mute and to material things New life revolving summer brings; The genial call dead Nature hears, And in her ...
This book is not about heroes. English Poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about ...
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