“The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still” (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
The rank stench of those bodies haunts me stillAnd I remember things I'd best forget.For now we've marched to a ...
The rank stench of those bodies haunts me stillAnd I remember things I'd best forget.For now we've marched to a ...
The righteste course in lyfe to keepe Is not to presse alwayes to runne With sayles vppe hoyste in the mayne deepe, Nor ...
In the lusty, fresshe moneth of mayWhen the byrdes reioyse, euery glad speryteWith theyr venerien voyces, i the dawne of ...
July: ?gloga Septima. Thomalin & Morrell.Thomalin.IS not thilke same a goteheard prowde, that sittes on yonder bancke, Whose straying heard ...
It feel about the Lammas tide,When the muir-men win their hay,The doughty Douglas bound him to rideInto England, to drive ...
When Troy towne had, for ten yeeres 'past',Withstood the Greekes in manfull wise,Then did their foes encrease soe fast,That to ...
There is a vale in the Flemish land, A vale once fair to see,Where under the sweep of the ...
Someone has written a song about "Tray,"But no one has courage to write about Skye;So methinks I will rhyme, in ...
Shipmates o' mine, are you sleeping fair an' sound, Mates fair an' foul, friend an' foe,Lyin' where lost ships ...
Thus Ioue, myne owne maystresses allTo (Chryst) I comende you, that sytteth on hyeUnto whom my prayers, I (Offre) shallThat ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
This fell when dinner-time was done -- 'Twixt the first an' the second rub -- That oor mon Jock cam' ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Like to the rowling of an eye, Or like a starre shott from the skye, Or like a hand upon ...
Says Bauldy MacGreegor frae Gleska tae Hecky MacCrimmon frae Skye: "That's whit I hate maist aboot fechtin' -- it makes ...
Said President MacConnachie to Treasurer MacCall: "We ought to have a piper for our next Saint Andrew's Ball. Yon squakin' ...
CANTO IIII To sinfull house of Pride, Duessa guides the faithfull knight, Where brothers death to wreak Sansjoy doth chalenge ...
OCTOBER: Ægloga DecimaPIERCE & CUDDIE Cuddie, for shame hold up thy heavye head, And let us cast with what delight ...
SO oft as I her beauty doe behold, And therewith doe her cruelty compare: I maruaile of what substance was ...
Friends of humanity, of high and low degree, I pray ye all come listen to me; And truly I will ...
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