Edinburgh After Flodden (William Edmondstoune Aytoun Poems)
I.News of battle!-news of battle!Hark! 'tis ringing down the street:And the archways and the pavementBear the clang of hurrying feet.News ...
I.News of battle!-news of battle!Hark! 'tis ringing down the street:And the archways and the pavementBear the clang of hurrying feet.News ...
I.The Rhine is running deep and red,The island lies before-'Now is there one of all the hostWill dare to venture ...
ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF CULLODENTake away that star and garter-Hide them from my aching sight:Neither king nor prince shall tempt ...
It was upon an April morn,While yet the frost lay hoar,We heard Lord James's bugle-hornSound by the rocky shore.Then down ...
Place me once more, my daughter, where the sunMay shine upon my old and time-worn head,For the last time, perchance. ...
COME hither, Evan Cameron!Come, stand beside my knee:I hear the river roaring downTowards the wintry sea.There 's shouting on the ...
In the silence of my chamber,When the night is still and deep,And the drowsy heave of oceanMutters in its charmed ...
Sound the fife, and cry the slogan-Let the pibroch shake the airWith its wild triumphal music,Worthy of the freight we ...
I.'Wilt not lay thee down in quiet slumber?Weary dost thou seem, and ill at rest;Sleep will bring thee dreams in ...
Do not lift him from the bracken,Leave him lying where he fell-Better bier ye cannot fashion:None beseems him half so ...
I.'Lift me without the tent, I say,-Me and my ottoman,-I'll see the messenger myself!It is the caravanFrom Africa, thou sayest,And ...
On the holy mount of Ida,Where the pine and cypress grow,Sate a young and lovely woman,Weeping ever, weeping low.Drearily throughout ...
I.Come listen to another song,Should make your heart beat high,Bring crimson to your forehead,And the lustre to your eye;-It is ...
'Danube, Danube! wherefore com'st thouRed and raging to my caves?Wherefore leap thy swollen watersMadly through the broken waves?Wherefore is thy ...
I.There is a cloud before the sun,The wind is hushed and still,And silently the waters runBeneath the sombre hill.The sky ...
It was a Moorish maiden was sitting by a well,And what the maiden thought of, I cannot, cannot, tell,When by ...
Why look the distant mountainsSo gloomy and so drear?Are rain clouds passing o'er them,Or is the tempest near?No shadow of ...
I am Constantine Kanaris:I, who lie beneath this stone,Twice into the air in thunderHave the Turkish galleys blown.In my bed ...
Fhairshon had a son,Who married Noah's daughter,And nearly spoiled ta FloodBy trinking up ta water:Which he would have done,I at ...
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