Ballad. (Henry Alford Poems)
Rise, sons of merry England, from mountain and from plain; Let each light up his spirit, let none unmoved remain; The morning ...
Rise, sons of merry England, from mountain and from plain; Let each light up his spirit, let none unmoved remain; The morning ...
WITH A COPY OF "THE SUPERNATURALISM OF NEW ENGLAND."Dear Sister! while the wise and sageTurn coldly from my playful page,And ...
Suggested by an engraving of the midnight prayer-meeting held in the saloon of the Ocean Steamer "London," which foundered a ...
1.OH ! sweet is the Harp of the Mountain,Whose music is borne on the gale;And sweet is the murmuring fountain,Whose ...
Here in this isleThe summer still lingers,And Autumn's brown fingers So busy the while With the leaves in the north; Are scarcely put ...
With younger men he takes his stand, To the recruiting-sergeant nigh,Sees others chosen: lifts a hand In hopes to catch the unwilling ...
The North-east Trade blows and you cross the LineAnon. There Neptune boards your bark to shaveAll the green-horns. Miss Fanny ...
In trance and dream of old, God's prophet sawThe casting down of thrones. Thou, watching loneThe hot Sardinian coast-line, hazy-hilled,Where, ...
They tell of horrors on another shore, Injustice, thraldom, chains and goads and whips, And human-nature smothered to the lipsIn selfwrung seas ...
They know us not in England yet, their pens are overbold;We're seen in fancy pictures that are fifty years too ...
In days long ago, when old England was young,Her bows were the toughest that ever were strung,And fearless and frank ...
The sea is calm to-night.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;—on the French coast the lightGleams and ...
As Columbia's brave scions, in anger array'd, Once defy'd a proud monarch and built a new nation;'Gainst their brothers of Britain ...
A mouth. Can blow or breathe, be a funnel, or Hello. A grass blade or a cut. A question seated. And a proud bird's neck. Shallow mitten ...
A black-sheep, from England, who worked on the run -Riding where the stockmen ride -He sat by the hut when ...
MEN who die for EnglandNever die in vain.Dying conquerors, dying masters,Dying firm 'mid fierce disasters. England's every son Dying duty doneGives the ...
England's cliffs are white like milk, But England's fields are green;The grey fogs creep across the moors, But warm suns stand between.And ...
Listen, my children, and you shall hearThe midnight activities of Whats-his Name,Scarcely a general now known to fameCan tell you ...
I'm greedy by nature, and often in vainHave lingered too long o'er the succulent hare,Accepting the jelly, ignoring the pain,Intent ...
Christian England! where so longFreedom's trumpet, clear and strong,Still has stirr'd the patriot song— Down with foreign priestcraft!England! Truth's own island-nest,Pure ...
Now a whole year has waxed and waned and whitenedOver the mounds that marked the grim advance;The winter snows have ...
In Bordighera's groves of palmI linger at the close of day,And watch, beyond the ocean's calm,A range of mountains far ...
Sweetly float o'er town and tower Strains that mark the dawning hour; Soothing, as it glides along, Yon fair stream with tinkling song; Over ...
The roaming sheep, forbidden to roam far,Were stayed within the shadow of his eye.The sheep-dog on that unseen shadow's edgeMoved, ...
Dark night along England's coast.Up from their ships come the swarming foemen;Harold Sigurd heads their host;Swordsmen and spearmen shouting to ...
His eyes are bright and eager, with the brightnessof the sun,(England, he gives them you)His hands are strong for climbing ...
I would hope for the children of West HamWooden-frame houses, square with some-sort stuffCrammed in to keep the wind away ...
Since, Sir, on the Alphabet, lately 'tis grownThe Fashion to spread our Wit about Town,My Horn--book once more I shall ...
There's the same old coaching stable that was used by Cobb and Co.,And the yard the coaches stood in more than ...
We willed it not. We have not lived in hate,Loving too well the shires of England thrownFrom sea to sea ...
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