A Lament For Flodden (Jane Elliot Poems)
I've heard them lilting at our ewe-milking, Lasses a' lilting before dawn o' day;But now they are moaning on ilka green ...
English Poems (766 Poems)
The Veery (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
THE MOONBEAMS over Arno's vale in silver flood were pouring, When first I heard the nightingale a long-lost love deploring. So passionate, ...
England’s Heart (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
England's heart! Oh never fear The sturdy good old stock;Nothing's false or hollow here, But solid as a rock:England's heart is sound ...
Letters In The Trenches (Patrick MacGill Poems)
The post comes to us nightly, we hail the post with glee -For now we're not as many as once ...
Hindi (Raghuvir Sahay Poems)
We were fightinga language battle to change society.But the question of Hindi is no longer simply a question ofHindi-we have ...
Song of the Sailor Boy (Eliza Cook Poems)
Cheer up, cheer up, my mother dear!Ah! Why do you sit and weep?Do you think that he who guards me ...
Aik Ladka (Ibne Insha Poems)
Aik chota sa ladka tha main jin dinoo.nAik mailey main pohancha humakta howaJee machalta tha aik aik shaiy per magarjaib ...
Now to be Still and Rest (P H B Lyon Poems)
Now to be still and rest, while the heart remembersAll that is learned and loved in the days of long ...
Wet Weather (Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Poems)
IT is the English in me that loves the soft, wet weather-- The cloud upon the mountain, the mist upon the ...
Auf Weidersehen (James Russell Lowell Poems)
SUMMERThe little gate was reached at last, Half hid in lilacs down the lane;She pushed it wide, and, as she past,A ...
To Certain Comrades (E.S. and J.H.) (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Living we loved you, yet withheld our praisesBefore your faces.And though our spirits had you high in honour!After the English ...
The Standard-Bearer (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
I"How can I tell," Sir Edmund said, "Who has the right or the wrong o' this thing? Cromwell stands for the people's ...
Epilogue. (Half-A-Dozen Ballads About Australia) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.Friend, one last word before we part,—One kindly word from heart to heart:Where'er to distant climes you roam,To seek and ...
The Incense Bearers (Ivor Gurney Poems)
To the London Metropolitan PoliceToward the sun the drenched May-hedges liftWhite rounded masses like still ocean drift,And days fills with ...
Canadians (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
With arrows on their quarters and with numbers on their hoofs,With the trampling sound of twenty that re-echoes in the ...
Britannia (Henry De Vere Stacpoole Poems)
Men deemed her changed, and lo! At word of war unveiled,She stands, as long ago, She stood when Nelson sailed.The sea wind ...
Arms And The Man – The Old Dominion (James Barron Hope Poems)
Midway between the orange and the snows As some fair planet rounds up from the sea, Eldest of all, the Central Power ...
From A Flemish Graveyard (January, 1915) (Iolo Aneurin Williams Poems)
A year hence may the grass that wavesO'er English men in Flemish graves,Coating this clay with green of peaceAnd softness ...
Reservoirs (R S Thomas Poems)
There are places in Wales I don't go:Reservoirs that are the subconciousOf a people, troubled far downWith gravestones, chapels, villages ...
Ghazal (Ghalib Mirza Asadullah Khan Poems)
Rahye Ab Aysi jagha Chal kar Jeha'N koi Na Ho,Humsukhen Koi Na Ho Aur humzaba'N koi Na Ho.Baydero Diwar Sa ...
Our Mother Tongue (Jose Rizal Poems)
IF truly a people dearly loveThe tongue to them by Heaven sent,They'll surely yearn for libertyLike a bird above in ...
To G. G. (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
AN AUTOGRAPH.Graceful in name and in thyself, our riverNone fairer saw in John Ward's pilgrim flock,Proof that upon their century-rooted ...
A Poor French Sailor’s Scottish Sweetheart (William Johnson Cory Poems)
I CANNOT forget my Joe,I bid him be mine in sleep;But battle and woe have changed him soThere 's nothing ...
The Crowns (John Freeman Poems)
Cherry and pear are white,Their snows lie sprinkled on the land like lightOn darkness shed.Far off and nearThe orchards toss ...
A Saxon Song (Victoria Sackville-West Poems)
Tools with the comely names,Mattock and scythe and spade,Couth and bitter as flames,Clean, and bowed in the blade,--A man and ...
To The Prussians Of England (Ivor Gurney Poems)
When I remember plain heroic strengthAnd shining virtue shown by Ypres pools,Then read the blither written by knaves for foolsIn ...
Robert Gordon! (Louis David Riel Poems)
Robert Gordon!I beg your pardon for so having kept you waiting after some poor verses of mine. You know, my ...
An English Soldier (John William Streets Poems)
He died for love of race: because the bloodOf Northern freeman swell'd his veins: aroseTrue to tradition that like mountain ...
English Hills (John Freeman Poems)
O that I wereWhere breaks the pure cold lightOn English hills,And peewits rising cry,And gray is all the sky.Or at ...
Keats (Lizette Woodworth Reese Poems)
An English lad, who, reading in a book,A ponderous, leathern thing set on his knee,Saw the broad violet of the ...