The Prophecy Of Famine (Charles Churchill Poems)
A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, ESQ. Nos patriam fugimus.--VIRGIL.When Cupid first instructs his darts to flyFrom the sly ...
Poems about thane (21 Poems)
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 ...
Caesar To Egbert (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
1 England, fair England! Empress isle of isles! --Round whom the loving-envious ocean plays, Girdling thy feet with silver and ...
Beowulf (Episode 28-30) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
HASTENED the hardy one, henchmen with him,sandy strand of the sea to treadand widespread ways. The world's great candle,sun shone ...
Beowulf (Episode 24) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: —"Lo, now, this sea-booty, son of Healfdene,Lord of Scyldings, we've lustily brought thee,sign of glory; ...
Beowulf (Episode 13) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
MANY at morning, as men have told me,warriors gathered the gift-hall round,folk-leaders faring from far and near,o'er wide-stretch ed ways, ...
Beowulf (Episode 32) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
THAT way he went with no will of his own,in danger of life, to the dragon's hoard,but for pressure of ...
Beowulf (Episode 16) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
AND the lord of earls, to each that camewith Beowulf over the briny ways,an heirloom there at the ale-bench gave,precious ...
Beowulf (Episode 25) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
UNDER harness his heart then is hit indeedby sharpest shafts; and no shelter availsfrom foul behest of the hellish fiend. ...
Beowulf (Episode 26) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: —"Lo, we seafarers say our will,far-come men, that we fain would seekHygelac now. We here ...
Beowulf (Episode 38) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
I HAVE heard that swiftly the son of Weohstanat wish and word of his wounded king, —war-sick warrior, — woven ...
Beowulf (Episode 19) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
THEN sank they to sleep. With sorrow one boughthis rest of the evening, — as ofttime had happenedwhen Grendel guarded ...
Beowulf (Episode 03) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
THUS seethed unceasing the son of Healfdenewith the woe of these days; not wisest menassuaged his sorrow; too sore the ...
Genesis BK VIII (Caedmon Poems)
(ll. 389-400) "But now we suffer throes of hell, fire anddarkness, bottomless and grim. God hath thrust us out into ...
Beowulf (Episode 20) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
HROTHGAR spake, helmet-of-Scyldings: —"Ask not of pleasure! Pain is renewedto Danish folk. Dead is Aeschere,of Yrmenlaf the elder brother,my sage ...
Beowulf (Episode 05) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
STONE-BRIGHT the street: it showed the wayto the crowd of clansmen. Corselets glistenedhand-forged, hard; on their harness brightthe steel ring ...
The Swan-Neck (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Evil sped the battle playOn the Pope Calixtus' day;Mighty war-smiths, thanes and lords,In Senlac slept the sleep of swords.Harold Earl, ...
The Haymakers’ Song (Alfred Austin Poems)
HERE'S to him that grows it, Drink, lads, drink! That lays it in and mows it, Clink, jugs, clink! To ...
61. Second Epistle to J. Lapraik (Robert Burns Poems)
WHILE new-ca'd kye rowte at the stake An' pownies reek in pleugh or braik, This hour on e'enin's edge I ...
Theoden (J. R. R. Tolkien Poems)
From dark Dunharrow in the dim morning With thane and captain rode Thengel's son: To Edoras he came, the ancient ...