Love Poems – Page 2677

Flodden Field

[September, 1513]
From “Marmion,” Canto VI.
A MOMENT then Lord Marmion stayed, …

Sir Walter Scott English
The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee

[About 1688]
to the lords of convention ’t was Claverhouse spoke,
“Ere the king’s crown shall fall, there are crowns to be broke; …

Sir Walter Scott English
Liberty Tree

in a chariot of light from the regions of day,
The Goddess of Liberty came;
Ten thousand celestials directed the way, …

Thomas Paine English
Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument

April 19, 1836
BY the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, …

Ralph Waldo Emerson English
Warren’s Address

STAND! 1 the ground ’s your own, my braves!
Will ye give it up to slaves?
Will ye look for greener graves? …

John Pierpont English
Nathan Hale

TO 1 drum-beat and heart-beat
A soldier marches by:
There is color in his cheek, …

Francis Miles Finch English
Song of Marion’s Men

OUR 1 band is few, but true and tried,
Our leader frank and bold;
The British soldier trembles …

William Cullen Bryant English
The Dance

[Published soon after the surrender of Cornwallis]
CORNWALLIS led a country dance,
The like was never seen, sir, …

Anonymous English
In State

I.
O Keeper of the Sacred Key,
And the Great Seal of Destiny, …

Forceythe Willson English
Brother Jonathan’s Lament for Sister Caroline

[March 25, 1861, South Carolina having adopted the Ordinance of Secession]
SHE has gone,—she has left us in passion and pride—
Our stormy-browed sister, so long at our side! …

Oliver Wendell Holmes English