Margaret Tudor (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
_PROTHALAMION_1503Love who art above us all,Guard the treasure on her way,Flower of England, fair and tall,Maiden-wise and maiden-gay,As her northward ...
_PROTHALAMION_1503Love who art above us all,Guard the treasure on her way,Flower of England, fair and tall,Maiden-wise and maiden-gay,As her northward ...
The throstle now in English lanes Bids Summer strew her dear delights. . . .But we, intent on cricket gains, ...
Ye may tell me of flowers bright and gay,Blooming in Eastern lands away,And of climes beyond the beautiful sea,Where all ...
Follow, follow, you who sicken where the throngs pulsate and thicken, Leave your doubting and your dreaming and your ...
_There are no ghosts in America._There are no ghosts, you say, To haunt her blaze of light;No shadows in her ...
'Lads, you're wanted, go and help,'On the railway carriage wallStuck the poster, and I thoughtOf the hands that penned the ...
_ON THE EAST DEVON COAST_Lie still, old Dane, below thy heap! --A sturdy-back and sturdy-limb, Whoe'er he was, I warrant ...
The British Empire has a flag that flies throughout the WorldAnd no power on earth can pull it downIt stands ...
BROAD level fields, and hedges thick with trees, A calm still evening dropping fitful rain, And hawthorns loaded with their ...
I.AT threescore years and five aroused anew To rule in India, forth a soldier went On whose bright-fronted ...
I don't know who Saint Mawes was, but he surely can't have beenA stiff old stone gazebo on a carved ...
The old flag's flying from the rampart, The old flag's blown upon the breeze,And the old shame's blotted from ...
When a simple English maiden, Nested warm in Wilmicote,Sang forth like a lark uprising Heavenward with its morning ...
On its being inserted in the Papers, that the K** had killed Forty-seven Boars with his own Hand.God prosper long ...
Ye lords of golden argosies! And Prelate, prince, and peer;And members all of Parliament, In rich St. Stephens, ...
Hurra! for the Highlands! she stern Scottish Highlands;The home of the clansman, the brave, and the free,Where the clouds love ...
August 7: 1645Cold blue cloud on the hill-tops,Cold buffets of hill-side rain:--As a bird that they hunt on the mountains,The ...
"ITHERE was a rover from a western shore, England! whose eyes the sudden tears did drown, Beholding the white cliff ...
COME now--to the gates of that palace advance,Built by Louis Eleventh, "the Nero of France;"And tell how he suffered the ...
There's a wind up and a sighing along the waterside,And we're homeward bound at last on to-night's full tide:Round the ...
As I was a-walking on Chilbolton Down,I saw an old farmer there driving to town,A-jogging to market behind his old ...
In revolutionary France, (During that bloody scene,)Whose head cut off and heart torn out.With brutal rage were shown about,First ...
July 2: 1644O, summer-high that day the sunHis chariot drove o'er Marston wold:A rippling sea of amber wheatThat floods the ...
Too good for the knacker, too poor for the lurry!Let him go to the army that buys in a hurry!Too ...
Last nite I dreamed of T.S. Eliotwelcoming me to the land of dreamSofas couches fog in EnglandTea in his digs ...
Beware! The sword of England Is in your hand to keep:Look that it be not tarnished Nor pilfered in your ...
I"There was war in Heaven" (Rev. xii. 7)Surely 'twas hell, not heaven, where first was war, Where first infernal ...
AN INVOCATION.I. HAIL Goddess of the heaven-reflecting eyes, Divine Athena! thou whose sweet breath blew The message of the Gods ...
Half across the world to westward there's a harbour that I know,Where the ships that load with lumber and the ...
Dark, dark, lay the drifters, against the red west, As they shot their long meshes of steel overside; And the ...
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