Love Poems – Page 2830

• The Cavalier’s Song

  A Steed! a steed of matchlesse speed, / A sword of metal keene! / All else to noble heartes is drosse, …

  by William Motherwell

• Give a Rouse

  King Charles, and who ’ll do him right now? / King Charles, and who ’s ripe for fight now? / Give a rouse: here ’s, in hell’s despite now, …

  by Robert Browning

• Naseby

  [June, 1645] / By Obadiah Bind-Their-Kings-in-Chains-and-Their-Nobles-with-Links-of-Iron; Sergeant in Ireton’s Regiment / O, WHEREFORE come ye forth, in triumph from the north, …

  by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay

• The Three Scars

  This I got on the day that Goring / Fought through York, like a wild beast roaring— / The roofs were black, and the streets were full, …

  by George Walter Thornbury

• Fontenoy

  [May 11, 1745] / THRICE at the huts of Fontenoy the English column failed, / And twice the lines of Saint Antoine the Dutch in vain assailed; …

  by Thomas Osborne Davis

• Battle of the Baltic

  [April 2, 1801] / OF Nelson and the north / Sing the glorious day’s renown, …

  by Thomas Campbell

• Burial of Sir John Moore

  [Corunna, Spain, January 16, 1809] / NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, / As his corse to the rampart we hurried; …

  by Charles Wolfe

• By the Alma River

  [September 20, 1854] / WILLIE, fold your little hands; / Let it drop,—that “soldier” toy; …

  by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

• Charge of the Light Brigade

  [October 25, 1854] / HALF a league, half a league, / Half a league onward, …

  by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• The Relief of Lucknow

  [September 25, 1857] / O, THAT last day in Lucknow fort! / We knew that it was the last; …

  by Robert Traill Spence Lowell

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