The Gypsy Girl (Ralph Hodgson Poems)
"Come, try your skill, kind gentlemen,A penny for three tries!"Some threw and lost, some threw and wonA ten-a-penny prize.She was ...
Poems about saxons (21 Poems)
Wallace: Book II (Blind Hary Poems)
Yong Wallace, fulfillit of hie curage,In prys of armys desirous and sauage,Thi Waslage may neuir be forlorn,Thi deidis ar knawin ...
Wallace: Book I (Blind Hary Poems)
(VITA NOBILISSIMI DEFENSORIS SCOTIE WILELMI WALLACE MILITIS)Book IOur antecessowris that we suld of reideAnd hald in mynde, thar nobille worthi ...
The Menologium. (Preface To The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
CHRIST WAS BORN, KING OF GLORYin midwinter, mighty prince,eternal, almighty, on the eighth day,Healer, called, heaven's ...
Dirge On The Death Of Art O’Leary (Eleanor Hull Poems)
IMy closest and dearest!From the first day I saw youFrom the top of the market-house,My eyes gave heed to you,My ...
A Riddle: A Tale (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
In Days of yore the Story goes,A subterranean Castle rose;Which rear'd its Head a wond'rous Height,The Work of some ingenious ...
The Legend of King Arthur (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Of Brutus' blood, in Brittaine borne, King Arthur I am to name;Through Christendome and Heathynesse Well knowne is ...
Appletrees (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
ISweet appletree, your branches delight me, Luxuriantly budding my pride and joy! I will put before the lord of Macreu, ...
Bourke’s Dream (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Lonely and sadly one night in November I laid down my weary head in search of reposeOn my ...
Winfreda (Eugene Field Poems)
(A BALLAD IN THE ANGLO-SAXON TONGUE)When to the dreary greenwood gloam Winfreda's husband strode that day,The fair Winfreda bode at ...
Edward The Confessor (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Here Edward king, lord of the English,sent his soul strong in truth to Christ,in God's safekeeping, his ...
Black Bonnet (Henry Lawson Poem)
A day of seeming innocence, A glorious sun and sky, And, just above my picket fence, Black Bonnet passing by. ...
TO THE DRIVING CLOUD (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Gloomy and dark art thou, O chief of the mighty Omahas; Gloomy and dark as the driving cloud, whose name ...
Puck’s Song (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
See you the ferny ride that steals Into the oak-woods far? O that was whence they hewed the keels That ...
Eddi’s Service (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
Eddi, priest of St. Wilfrid In his chapel at Manhood End, Ordered a midnight service For such as cared to ...
Embarcation (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Southampton Docks: October 1899 Here, where Vespasian's legions struck the sands, And Cendric with the Saxons entered in, And Henry's ...
Winfreda (Eugene Field Poem)
(A BALLAD IN THE ANGLO-SAXON TONGUE) When to the dreary greenwood gloam Winfreda's husband strode that day, The fair Winfreda ...
The Battle of Hastings (Marriott Edgar Poem)
I'll tell of the Battle of Hastings, As happened in days long gone by, When Duke William became King of ...
The Sycamores (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
In the outskirts of the village On the river's winding shores Stand the Occidental plane-trees, Stand the ancient sycamores. One ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
The Battle of Flodden Field (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas on the 9th of September, a very beautiful day, That a numerous English army came in grand array, And ...