Hero (Paul Engle Poems)
II have heard the horn of Roland goldly screamingIn the petty Pyrenees of the inner earAnd seen the frightful Saracens ...
II have heard the horn of Roland goldly screamingIn the petty Pyrenees of the inner earAnd seen the frightful Saracens ...
Achilles came from Homer's Jove-like brain, Pavilioned 'mid his ships where Thetis trod; But he whose image dominates this plain Came from the ...
In trance and dream of old, God's prophet sawThe casting down of thrones. Thou, watching loneThe hot Sardinian coast-line, hazy-hilled,Where, ...
When Peter Wanderwide was youngHe wandered everywhere he would:All that he approved was sung,And most of what he saw was ...
Do you remember an Inn, Miranda?Do you remember an Inn?And the tedding and the spreading of the straw for a bedding,And ...
Oh, weep for Moncontour! Oh! weep for the hour,When the children of darkness and evil had power,When the horsemen of ...
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
We mix from many lands, We march for very far; In hearts and lips ...
There was a sudden stir, Ages ago, on the Ӕgean Sea. With a loud cry, as of great agony, The ...
Day of the cloud in fleets! O dayOf wedded white and blue, that sailImmingled, with a footing rayIn shadow-sandals down ...
The Troubadour o'er many a plainHath roamed unwearied, but in vain.O'er many a rugged mountain-scene And forest wild his track ...
Francesca.Crush'd and throng'd are all the places In our amphitheatre,'Midst a sea of swarming faces I can yet distinguish her;Dost ...
It was the dead midnight; No star was in the sky; The struggling moon shed a troubled light As she ...
Some one in Cairo—Cairo, if you please!—Reports that Britain is arranging Peace.There's been a meeting in the Pyrenees'.(The tale's from ...
Was it the warm winds down from the Pyrenees Or maybe Poseidon's breath off the Mediterranean That stirred the Spanish ...
We miss a Kinsman more When warranted to see Than when withheld of Oceans From possibility A Furlong than a ...
When Peter Wanderwide was young He wandered everywhere he would: All that he approved was sung, And most of what ...
Do you remember an Inn, Miranda? Do you remember an Inn? And the tedding and the bedding Of the straw ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
We mix from many lands, We march for very far; In hearts and lips and hands Our staffs and weapons ...
'Twas in the year of 1808, and in the autumn of the year, Napoleon resolved to crush Spain and Portugal ...
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