The Death-Raven (From The Danish Of Oehlenslaeger) (George Borrow Poems)
The silken sail, which caught the summer breeze,Drove the light vessel through the azure seas;Upon the lofty deck, Dame Sigrid ...
The silken sail, which caught the summer breeze,Drove the light vessel through the azure seas;Upon the lofty deck, Dame Sigrid ...
Six score there were, six score and ten, From Hald that rode that day;And when they came to Brattingsborg They ...
Svend Vonved sits in his lonely bower;He strikes his harp with a hand of power;His harp return'd a responsive din;Then ...
King Diderik sits in the halls of Bern, And he boasts of his deeds of might;So many a swain in ...
The woods were in leaf, and they cast a sweet shade;Among them walk'd Helga, the beautiful maid.The water is dashing ...
A sultry eve pursu'd a sultry day;Dark streaks of purple in the sky were seen,And shadows half conceal'd the lonely ...
May Asda is gone to the merry green wood;Like flax was each tress on her temples that stood;Her cheek like ...
Fair Agnes alone on the sea-shore stood,Then rose a Merman from out the flood:"Now, Agnes, hear what I say to ...
How lovely art thou in thy tresses of foam, And yet the warm blood in my bosom grows chill,When yelling ...
So hot shines the sun upon Nile's yellow stream, That the palm-trees can save us no more from his beam;Now ...
On Dovrefeld, in Norway,Were once together seenThe twelve heroic brothersOf Ingeborg, the queen:And they were all magicians,Possest of mighty art,Who ...
Perhaps 't is folly, but still I feelMy heart-strings quiver, my senses reel,Thinking how like a fast stream we rangeNearer ...
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