Hymns and Odes I (John Pierpont Poems)
On the birth-day of Time, the young monarch of lightWith his beams waked from slumber the virgin creation;—So, dispelling the ...
On the birth-day of Time, the young monarch of lightWith his beams waked from slumber the virgin creation;—So, dispelling the ...
1.OH ! blow the loud Trumpet of Wellington's fame,Let the blast echo far as the Earth's widest bounds;For the sound ...
One dreamer, when our English soldiers trodBut yesterday the welcoming fields of France,Saw war-gaunt shadows gathering stare askanceUpon those levies ...
Why do they do it? I dunno, Sez Digger Smith. "Yeh got me beat.Some uv the yarns yeh 'ear is ...
Napoleon made his Marshals out of mud,And Cromwell's Ironsides were mostly tanner,But nowadays our officers have blood,And lots of cash, ...
Hark to the guns, one a penny, two a penny, hotcross buns,Cannons and shells, Bombardier Wells, Looting and shooting, and ...
From where the City's seething tide Rolls on unceasing, day by day,To yonder soaring dome aside A little turn, a ...
Wellington.HERE, where the surges of a world of seaBreak on our bastioned walls with league-long sweep,Four fair young queens their ...
With reverence and submission due,Kind sir those words are sent to you,And with them a good wish too,Long may you ...
(OMNIBUS WICCAMICIS)The green and grey and purple day is barred with clouds of dun,From Ypres city smouldering before the setting ...
O'ER the vast deep, what storms arise,And mighty billows bound,In seeming contest with the skies,Destruction dealing round!Yet mightier He who ...
The grasshopper Wellington comes to land.The hand on the levers is not my hand.Mine are more struck to earth and ...
The great Duke of WellingtonReduced himself to a skellington.He reached seven stone two,And then - Waterloo!(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
Good Father!. 'Twas an eve in middle June, And war was waged anew By great Napoleon, who for years had ...
Sam Small had retired from the Army, In the old Duke of Wellington's time, So when present unpleasantness started, He ...
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in ...
The years become you as Oxford becomes you, As you became Oxford through the protest years; From Magdalen's grey gargoyles ...
The Maoris are a mighty race -- the finest ever known; Before the missionaries came they worshipped wood and stone; ...
Beautiful city of Glasgow, with your streets so neat and clean, Your stateley mansions, and beautiful Green! Likewise your beautiful ...
'Twas in the year 1815, and on the 18th day of June, That British cannon, against the French army, loudly ...
While History's Muse the memorial was keeping Of all that the dark hand of Destiny weaves, Beside her the Genius ...
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