Lead Soldiers (Amy Lowell Poem)
The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful little explosions and trails of sparks up the back of the chimney. ...
The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful little explosions and trails of sparks up the back of the chimney. ...
One day old Trooper Campbell Rode out to Blackman's Run, His cap-peak and his sabre Were glancing in the sun. ...
So I sit and write and ponder, while the house is deaf and dumb, Seeing visions "over yonder" of the ...
There's many a schoolboy's bat and ball that are gathering dust at home, For he hears a voice in the ...
There is a fork in a branch of an ancient, enormous maple, one of a grove of such trees, where ...
When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East 'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast, ...
Yearly, with tent and rifle, our careless white men go By the Pass called Muttianee, to shoot in the vale ...
Now Tomlinson gave up the ghost in his house in Berkeley Square, And a Spirit came to his bedside and ...
The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is ...
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently ...
In Italy, where this sort of thing can occur, I had a vision once - though you understand It was ...
In the mid August, in the second year of my First Polar Expedition, the snow and ice of winter almost ...
The tightness and the nilness round that space when the car stops in the road, the troops inspect its make ...
Not fear. Maybe, out there somewhere, the possibility of fear; the wall that might tumble down, because it's for sure ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Though loth to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot leave My buried thought For the priest's cant, Or ...
Between Rita and my eyes There is a rifle And whoever knows Rita Kneels and plays To the divinity in ...
Here on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time Close to the gardens of broken ...
Captain AJ Shout, VC, MC, MID (& bar), who died at Gallipoli of wounds and was posthumously awarded the VC, ...
It happened by Bretton Wood (although that wasn't it's real name) and I recall a clear, grey dawn and the ...
LO here a little volume, but great Book A nest of new-born sweets; Whose native fires disdaining To ly thus ...
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by, As if they loved to breast the breeze ...
Deprived of his enemy, shrugged to a standstill horrible Henry, foaming. Fan their way toward him who will in the ...
1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is ...
1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is ...
In early morning twilight, raw and chill, Damp vapours brooding on the barren hill, Through miles of mire in steady ...
We'd found an old Boche dug-out, and he knew, And gave us hell, for shell on frantic shell Hammered on ...
'Twas in the year of 1878, and. the winter had set in, Lord Roberts and the British Army their march ...
Ye Sons of Great Britain, pray list to me, And I'll tell ye of a great victory. Where the British ...
In spring and summer winds may blow, And rains fall after, hard and fast; The tender leaves, if beaten low, ...
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