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 ...
George Borrow Poems on Man (14 Poems)
The Tournament (From The Old Danish) (George Borrow Poems)
Six score there were, six score and ten, From Hald that rode that day;And when they came to Brattingsborg They ...
Svend Vonved (George Borrow Poems)
Svend Vonved sits in his lonely bower;He strikes his harp with a hand of power;His harp return'd a responsive din;Then ...
Vidrik Verlandson (From The Old Danish) (George Borrow Poems)
King Diderik sits in the halls of Bern, And he boasts of his deeds of might;So many a swain in ...
Scenes (George Borrow Poems)
Observe ye not yon high cliff's brow,Up which a wanderer clambers slow,'T is by a hoary ruin crown'd,Which rocks when ...
Miscellanies (George Borrow Poems)
CANTATA.This is Denmark's holyday; Dance, ye maidens! Sing, ye men! Tune, ye harpers! Blush, ye heroes!This is Denmark's holyday.ONE VOICE.In ...
Lines To Six-Foot Three (George Borrow Poems)
A lad, who twenty tongues can talkAnd sixty miles a day can walk;Drink at a draught a pint of rum,And ...
The Suicide’s Grave (From The German) (George Borrow Poems)
The evening shadows fall upon the graveOn which I sit; it is no common heap,-Below its turf are laid the ...
From Allan Cunningham, To George Borrow, On His Proposing To Translate The ‘Kiaepe Viser’ (George Borrow Poems)
Sing, sing, my friend; breathe life againThrough Norway's song and Denmark's strain:On flowing Thames and Forth, in flood,Pour Haco's war-song, ...
The Merman (From The Old Danish) (George Borrow Poems)
Do thou, dear Mother, contrive amainHow Marsk Stig's daughter I may gain.She made him, of water, a noble steed,Whose trappings ...
The Heroes Of Dovrefeld (From The Old Danish) (George Borrow Poems)
On Dovrefeld, in Norway,Were once together seenThe twelve heroic brothersOf Ingeborg, the queen:And they were all magicians,Possest of mighty art,Who ...
Glee (George Borrow Poems)
Roseate colours on heaven's high arch Are beginning to mix with the blue and the gray,Sol now commences his wonderful ...
Thoughts On Death (From The Swedish Of C. Lohman) (George Borrow Poems)
Perhaps 't is folly, but still I feelMy heart-strings quiver, my senses reel,Thinking how like a fast stream we rangeNearer ...
The Hail-Storm (From The Norse) (George Borrow Poems)
When from our ships we bounded,I heard, with fear astounded,The storm of Thorgerd's waking,From Northern vapours breaking;With flinty masses blended,Gigantic ...