Peter Colbiornsen (Knud Lyne Rahbek Poems)
'Fore Fredereksteen King Carl he layWith mighty host ;But Frederekshal, from day to day,Much trouble cost.To seize the sword each ...
'Fore Fredereksteen King Carl he layWith mighty host ;But Frederekshal, from day to day,Much trouble cost.To seize the sword each ...
YES, ye are few, - and they were few,Who daring storm and sea,Once raised upon old Plymouth rock"The anthem of ...
As Adam did in Paradise,To-day the primal right we claimFair mirror of the woods and skies,We give to thee a ...
O CHRISTIAN soldier! shouldst thou rueLife and its toils, as others do--Wear a sad frown from day to day,And garb ...
In evil long I took delight,Unawed by shame or fear,Till a new object struck my sight,And stopped my wild career.I ...
There is a safe and secret place,Beneath the wings divine,Reserved for all the heirs of grace;O be that refuge mine!The ...
Fair land! of chivalry the old domain,Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!Though not for thee with classic shores ...
All night in slumber deep the armies lay: But, while the eastern sky with first faint beam Yet dimly reddened; ...
AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD. Contrarius evehor orbi.--OVID, Met. lib. ii.When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense,In pity's strains, the ...
I.THE flowing night awoken from my sleepRevealed a world of glory, while I stoodWatching the hazy, creeping ocean sweepOut of ...
"NO, not in the halls of the noble and proud, Where Fashion assembles her glittering crowd, Where all is in ...
How beautiful the Earth is stillTo thee-how full of Happiness;How little fraught with real illOr shadowy phantoms of distress;How Spring ...
The soldier, when the war began, Presumed the cause was right, But didn't ask the campaign's plan; ...
See, Thaliarch mine, how, white with snow, Soracte mocks the sullen sky;How, groaning loud, the woods are bowed, And chained ...
Her unawed face, whose pose so long assumed Is touched with what reality we feel, Bends to itself and, to ...
Against mischances I have shut my ear; I will not hear the far-off coming doom Trouble the distance with the ...
Access Road Fifteen they named it this anonymous road to the Waipakihi where its brawling water becomes Tongariro. A moment's ...
How beautiful the earth is still, To thee - how full of happiness! How little fraught with real ill, Or ...
She looked to east, she looked to west, Her eyes, unfathomable, mild, That saw both worlds, came home to rest, ...
I took a contract to bury the body of blasphemous Bill MacKie, Whenever, wherever or whatsoever the manner of death ...
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
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