Love Poems – Page 2676

By the Alma River

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

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik English
Charge of the Light Brigade

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

Alfred, Lord Tennyson English
The Relief of Lucknow

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

Robert Traill Spence Lowell English
Danny Deever

“what are the bugles blowin’ for?” said Files-on-Parade.
“To turn you out, to turn you out,” the Color-Sergeant said.
“What makes you look so white, so white?” said Files-on-Parade. …

Rudyard Kipling English
“Where are the men?”

From the Welsh by Thomas Oliphant
WHERE are the men who went forth in the morning,
Hope brightly beaming in every face? …

Taliesin English
Bruce and the Spider

[About 1307]
for Scotland’s and for freedom’s right
The Bruce his part had played, …

Bernard Barton English
Bannockburn

[June 24, 1314]
SCOTS, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led; …

Robert Burns English
Song of Clan-Alpine

From “The Lady of the Lake,” Canto II.
LOUD a hundred clansmen raise
Their voices in their chieftain’s praise. …

Sir Walter Scott English
Beal’ an Dhuine

From “The Lady of the Lake,” Canto VI.
THERE is no breeze upon the fern,
No ripple on the lake, …

Sir Walter Scott English
Pibroch of Donuil Dhu

pibroch of Donuil Dhu, 1
Pibroch of Donuil,
Wake thy wild voice anew, …

Sir Walter Scott English