Love Poems – Page 2780
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Ivry
[1590] / now glory to the Lord of hosts, from whom all glories are! / And glory to our sovereign liege, King Henry of Navarre! … -
Incident of the French Camp
You know we French stormed Ratisbon: / A mile or so away, / On a little mound, Napoleon … -
The Bronze Statue of Napoleon
Anonymous translation from the French / THE WORK is done! the spent flame burns no more, / The furnace fires smoke and die, … -
On the Warres in Ireland
From “Epigrams,” Book IV. Epigram 6 / I PRAISED the speech, but cannot now abide it, / That warre is sweet to those that have not try’d it; … -
Alfred the Harper
Dark fell the night, the watch was set, / The host was idly spread, / The Danes around their watchfires met, … -
Chevy-Chace
[A modernized form of the old ballad of the “Hunting o’ the Cheviot.” Some circumstances of the battle of Otterbourne (A.D. 1388) are woven into the ballad, and the affairs of the two events are confounded. The ballad preserved in the “Percy Reliques” is probably as old as 1574. The one following… -
The Douglas Tragedy
[This ballad exists in Denmark, and in other European countries. The Scotch point out Blackhouse, on the wild Douglas Burn, a tributary of the Yarrow, as the scene of the tragedy.] / “RISE up, rise up, now, Lord Douglas,” she says, / “And put on your armor so bright; … -
The Ballad of Agincourt
[1415] / fair stood the wind for France, / When we our sails advance, … -
The King to his soldiers before Harfleur
[1415] / From “King Henry V.,” Act III. Sc. 1. / ONCE more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; … -
The Cavalier’s Song
A Steed! a steed of matchlesse speed, / A sword of metal keene! / All else to noble heartes is drosse, …
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