Love Poems – Page 2846
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Father and Mother Tongue
Our Father Land! and wouldst thou know / Why we should call it Father Land? / It is that Adam here below … -
East, West, Home ’s Best
From “The Traveller” / AS some lone miser visiting his store, / Bends at his treasure, counts, recounts it o’er; … -
Rule, Britannia
From “Alfred,” Act II. Sc. 5. / WHEN Britain first, at Heaven’s command, / Arose from out the azure main, … -
The Bowman’s Song
From “The White Company” / WHAT of the bow? / The bow was made in England: … -
The Roast Beef of Old England
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food, / It ennobled our hearts, and enrichèd our blood; / Our soldiers were brave, and our courtiers were good. … -
The Snug Little Island
Daddy Neptune, one day, to Freedom did say, / If ever I lived upon dry land, / The spot I should hit on would be little Britain! … -
The Jacobite on Tower Hill
He tripped up the steps with a bow and a smile, / Offering snuff to the chaplain the while, / A rose at his button-hole that afternoon— … -
“God save the king”
God save our gracious king! / Long live our noble king! / God save the king! … -
Veteran and Recruit
He filled the crystal goblet / With golden-beaded wine: / “Come, comrades, now, I bid ye— … -
The Private of the Buffs
Or, the British Soldier in China / [“Some Seiks, and a private of the Buffs, 1 having remained behind with the grog carts, fell into the hands of the Chinese. On the next day they were brought before the authorities and ordered to perform Kotou. The Seiks obeyed, but Moyse, the English soldier, d…
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