Love Poems – Page 2837
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The Murder
From “Macbeth,” Act II. Sc. 2. / SCENE in the Castle. Enter LADY MACBETH. / LADY MACBETH.—That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold, … -
The Sack of Baltimore
[Baltimore is a small seaport in the barony of Carbery, in South Munster. It grew up around a castle of O’Driscoll’s, and was, after his ruin, colonized by the English. On the 20th of June, 1631, the crews of two Algerine galleys landed in the dead of the night, sacked the town, and bore off into… -
The Rose and the Gauntlet
Low spake the knight to the peasant-girl: / “I tell thee sooth, I am belted earl; / Fly with me from this garden small, … -
The Young Gray Head
Grief hath been known to turn the young head gray,— / To silver over in a single day / The bright locks of the beautiful, their prime … -
High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire
[Time, 1571] / the OLD mayor climbed the belfry tower, / The ringers ran by two, by three; … -
Rizpah
17— / i. / wailing, wailing, wailing, the wind over land and sea— … -
The Dream of Eugene Aram
’t Was in the prime of summer time, / An evening calm and cool, / And four-and-twenty happy boys … -
In the Engine-Shed
Through air made heavy with vapors murk, / O’er slack and cinders in heaps and holes, / The engine-driver came to his work, … -
Revelry of the Dying
[Supposed to be written in India, while the plague was raging, and playing havoc among the British residents and troops stationed there.] / WE meet ’neath the sounding rafter, / And the walls around are bare; … -
The Drummer-Boy’s Burial
All day long the storm of battle through the startled valley swept; / All night long the stars in heaven o’er the slain sad vigils kept. / O, the ghastly upturned faces gleaming whitely through the night! …
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