Edwin and Eltrada, a Legendary Tale (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
Where the pure Derwent's waters glide Along their mossy bed,Close by the river's verdant side, A castle rear'd its head.The antient pile ...
Where the pure Derwent's waters glide Along their mossy bed,Close by the river's verdant side, A castle rear'd its head.The antient pile ...
Army of Northern Virginia, army of legend,Who were your captains that you could trust them so surely?Who were your battle-flags?Call ...
IBLUE as blossom of the myrtleSmiled the steadfast eyes of OlafOn the host of ships that harriedHis enraged, gold-glittering Dragon,Snared ...
XVISoon was the prey out of their hands recovered,By step and step the Frenchmen gan retire,Till on a little hill ...
I marvel if my heart, Hath any room apart,Built secretly its mystic walls within; With subtly warded key. Ne'er yielded unto me--Where even ...
ENDLESSLY fell her chestnut flowers,Faint snow throughout the honeyed dark;The myrtle spread his boughs to drinkDeep draughts of salt from ...
That you would come tonightSomeone has revealed, it seems, andUpon the hill of meetingThe barrier is warded well;Swiftly hasten you ...
The twenty-fifth had come; Peru awoke;One cry for freedom from her green hills broke,From her wide plains and valleys; and ...
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child;And she was the fairest of all flesh ...
Young Shechem all the night impatient lay;And sought with eager eyes the breaking day;With ardent longings waits the promis'd hour,And ...
O WIFE, wife, wife! As if the sacred name Could weary one with saying! Once again Laying against my brow ...
UNDER harness his heart then is hit indeedby sharpest shafts; and no shelter availsfrom foul behest of the hellish fiend. ...
THEN sank they to sleep. With sorrow one boughthis rest of the evening, — as ofttime had happenedwhen Grendel guarded ...
HROTHGAR spake, helmet-of-Scyldings: —"Ask not of pleasure! Pain is renewedto Danish folk. Dead is Aeschere,of Yrmenlaf the elder brother,my sage ...
THEN Hrothgar went with his hero-train,defence-of-S cyldings, forth from hall;fain would the war-lord Wealhtheow seek,couch of his queen. The King-of-Glor ...
A FOOLISH creature full of fears, He trembled for his fate, And stood aghast to feel the earth Swing round ...
"I SAW the constellated matin choir Then when they sang together in the dawn,- The morning stars of this first ...
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child; And she was the fairest of all ...
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