Ballad of Agincourt (Michael Drayton Poems)
Fair stood the wind for FranceWhen we our sails advance,Nor now to prove our chanceLonger will tarry;But putting to the ...
Fair stood the wind for FranceWhen we our sails advance,Nor now to prove our chanceLonger will tarry;But putting to the ...
Early morning over Rouen, hopeful, high, courageous morning,And the laughter of adventure and the steepness of the stair,And the dawn ...
Star of the North! though night winds driftThe fleecy drapery of the skyBetween thy lamp and me, I lift,Yea, lift ...
Oh! wherefore come ye forth, in triumph from the North,With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red?And ...
TO get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early;Here's a good place at the corner--I must stand and ...
Songs of morning, with your breathSing the darkness now to death;Radiant river, beaming bay,Fair as Summer, shine to-day;Flying torrent, falling ...
IN Westminster's royal halls,Robed in their pontificals,England's ancient prelates stoodFor the people's right and good.Closed around the waiting crowd,Dark and ...
I'll tell of the Magna CharterAs were signed at the Barons' commandOn Runningmead Island in t' middle of t' ThamesBy ...
A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies.A last defiance to dark Death is ...
SIR ROGER TREPAN was a sensitive man, and very much moved by the war.It made him aware of a number ...
THIS is your month, the month of "perfect days,"Birds in full song and blossoms all ablaze.Nature herself your earliest welcome ...
Yes, I know I am a stranger,But when you came in that door,I just felt that I could trust you,Though ...
YORKTOWN.FROM Yorktown's ruins, ranked and still,Two lines stretch far o'er vale and hill:Who curbs his steed at head of one?Hark! ...
HARK! the Lambeth Guardians sing:Glory to the new-born King;Glory to the gun and swordThat will teach the German hordeIn a ...
As some spent gladiator, struck by Death, Whose reeling vision scarce a foe defines, For one last effort gathers all his breath, England ...
WITHIN the ancient Abbey now are gatheredFrom all the world the high estates of menTo see the Coronation of the ...
THE outrage of innocence in instances too numerous to be recorded, of the wanton barbarity of the soldiers of the ...
AN ELEGIAC POEM, On the DEATH of that celebrated Divine, and eminent Servant of JESUS CHRIST, the late Reverend, and ...
A Life TragedyA pistol shot rings round and round the world;In pitiful defeat a warrior lies.A last defiance to dark ...
An Indian Prince now Resident in England.Of late I listened to a wondrous tale From lips revered. 'Twas not of war ...
Out of the west a voice—a shudder of horror and pity; Quivers along the pulses of all the winds that blow;—Woe ...
You may roam the wide seas over, follow, meet, and cross the sun,Sail as far as ships can sail, and ...
Here dwells the good old farmer, Israel, In his ancestral home—a Puritan Who reads his Bible daily, loves his God, And lives serenely ...
Awake, arise, the hour is come,For rows and revolutions;There's no receipt like pike and drumFor crazy constitutions.Close, close the shop! ...
"Arma virumque cano."THE sun looked bright upon the morning tide:Light played the breeze along the whispering shore,And the blue billow ...
The little old ladyWas walking along the street.She carried her head high though of small stature,And although he ermine mantle ...
England! My England! can the surging seaThat lies between us tear my heart from thee?Can distant birth and distant dwelling ...
Bulwark of England, God-given Liberty!Name much malign'd, yet noble and glorious, How rarely the masses who claim thee Judge as they ought ...
What a twitter! what a tumult! what a whirr of wheeling wings!Birds of Passage hear the message which the Equinoctial ...
This Earth the king saidLooking at the ground;This England. But we driveA Sunday paradiseOf parkway, trees flow into trees and ...
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