From “The River-Fight” (Henry Howard Brownell Poems)
WOULD you hear of the River-Fight?It was two of a soft spring night;- God's stars looked down on all,And all was ...
WOULD you hear of the River-Fight?It was two of a soft spring night;- God's stars looked down on all,And all was ...
Sing the song of noisy Ninny - hang the Muses - spit it out!(Tuneful Nine ye needn't help me - ...
The burly driver at my side,We slowly climbed the hill,Whose summit, in the hot noontide,Seemed rising, rising still.At last, our ...
LADY, I loved you all last year,How honestly and well --Alas! would weary you to hear,And torture me to tell;I ...
Straight A's on arithmetic quizzes, your cheek gets groundinto the concrete down here, Sir. Thank Youfor sending only Your smallest ...
Far off (no matter whether east or west,A real country, or one made in jest,Nor yet by modern Mandevilles disgraced,Nor ...
The summer sun is sinking redBeneath the "Mountains Blue"And thou upon thy dying bed,Art laid, alas too true,Thornton,The slaves are ...
Dame Charity one day was tiredWith nursing of her children three,-So might you beIf you had nursed and nursed so ...
A CHILDModel of thy parent dear,Serious infant worth a fear:In thy unfaultering visage wellPicturing forth the son of Tell,When on ...
With many a tear, and sigh of fond regretWe left thee Thornton, in thy foreign grave,Even where the wide, and ...
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