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• Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine

  A Warrior so bold, and a virgin so bright,
  Conversed as they sat on the green;
  They gazed on each other with tender delight: …

  Matthew Gregory Lewis

• The Broken Pitcher

  It was a Moorish maiden was sitting by a well,
  And what that maiden thought of, I cannot, cannot tell,
  When by there rode a valiant knight, from the town of Oviedo— …

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun

• The Ballad of Guibour

  From the Provençal by Harriet Waters Preston
  From “Calendau”
  AT Arles in the Carlovingian days, …

  Frédéric Mistral

• The Glove and the Lions

  King Francis was a hearty king, and loved a royal sport,
  And one day, as his lions fought, sat looking on the court.
  The nobles filled the benches, with the ladies in their pride, …

  Leigh Hunt

• The Glove

  (Peter Ronsard loquitur)
  “HEIGHO,” yawned one day King Francis,
  “Distance all value enhances! …

  Robert Browning

• Louis XV.

  The King with all his kingly train
  Had left his Pompadour behind,
  And forth he rode in Senart’s wood …

  John Sterling

• Hervé Riel

  On the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety-two,
  Did the English fight the French—woe to France!
  And the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter through the blue, …

  Robert Browning

• Napoleon and the British Sailor

  I Love contemplating—apart
  From all his homicidal glory—
  The traits that soften to our heart …

  Thomas Campbell

• How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix

  I Sprang to the stirrup, and Joris and he;
  I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three;
  “Good speed!” cried the watch as the gatebolts undrew, …

  Robert Browning

• Mort D’Arthur

  SO all day long the noise of battle rolled
  Among the mountains by the winter sea;
  Until King Arthur’s Table, man by man, …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Godiva

  I waited for the train at Coventry;
  I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge,
  To watch the three tall spires: and there I shaped …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• The Canterbury Pilgrims

  From “The Canterbury Tales: Prologue”
  WHAN that Aprille with hise shourès soote 1
  The droghte of March hath percèd to the roote, …

  Geoffrey Chaucer

• Lord Lovel

  Lord Lovel he stood at his castle gate,
  Combing his milk-white steed;
  When up came Lady Nancy Belle, …

  Anonymous

• Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale

  Come, listen to me, you gallants so free,
  All you that love mirth for to hear,
  And I will tell you of a bold outlaw, …

  Anonymous

• The Greenwood Shrift

  George Iii. and a Dying Woman in Windsor Forest
  OUTSTRETCHED beneath the leafy shade
  Of Windsor forest’s deepest glade, …

  Robert

• The Revenge

  A Ballad of the Fleet
  I.
  AT Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Jock Johnstone, the Tinkler

  “o, Came ye ower by the Yoke-burn Ford,
  Or down the King’s Road o’ the cleuch? 1
  Or saw ye a knight and a lady bright, …

  James Hogg

• Lord Ullin’s Daughter

  A Chieftain, to the Highlands bound,
  Cries, “Boatman, do not tarry!
  And I ’ll give thee a silver pound, …

  Thomas Campbell

• Marmion and Douglas

  From “Marmion,” Canto VI.
  NOT far advanced was morning day,
  When Marmion did his troops array …

  Sir Walter Scott

• Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu

  From “The Lady of the Lake,” Canto V.
  “I AM by promise tried
  To match me with this man of pride: …

  Sir Walter Scott

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