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• A Danish Barrow

  On the East Devon Coast
  LIE still, old Dane, below thy heap!
  A sturdy-back and sturdy-limb, …

  Francis Turner Palgrave

• Hermann and Thusnelda

  Anonymous translation from the German
  HA! there comes he, with sweat, with blood of Romans,
  And dust of the fight all stained! Oh, never …

  Freidrich Gottlieb Klopstock

• The Battle-Song of Gustavus Adolphus

  Anonymous translation from the German
  FEAR not, O little flock! the foe
  Who madly seeks your overthrow, …

  Michael Altenburg

• Sword Song

  From the German by Charles Timothy Brooks
  SWORD, on my left side gleaming,
  What means thy bright eye’s beaming? …

  Theodor Körner

• The Trooper’s Death

  From the German by Rossiter W. Raymond
  THE WEARY night is o’er at last!
  We ride so still, we ride so fast! …

  Georg Herwegh

• Bingen on the Rhine

  A Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers,
  There was lack of woman’s nursing, there was dearth of woman’s tears;
  But a comrade stood beside him, while his life-blood ebbed away, …

  Caroline Elizabeth Sarah

• Hohenlinden

  on Linden, when the sun was low,
  All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,
  And dark as winter was the flow …

  Thomas Campbell

• Ivry

  now glory to the Lord of hosts, from whom all glories are!
  And glory to our sovereign liege, King Henry of Navarre!
  Now let there be the merry sound of music and the dance, …

  Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay

• Incident of the French Camp

  You know we French stormed Ratisbon:
  A mile or so away,
  On a little mound, Napoleon …

  Robert Browning

• The Bronze Statue of Napoleon

  Anonymous translation from the French
  THE WORK is done! the spent flame burns no more,
  The furnace fires smoke and die, …

  Auguste Barbier

• On the Warres in Ireland

  From “Epigrams,” Book IV. Epigram 6
  I PRAISED the speech, but cannot now abide it,
  That warre is sweet to those that have not try’d it; …

  Sir John Harrington

• Alfred the Harper

  Dark fell the night, the watch was set,
  The host was idly spread,
  The Danes around their watchfires met, …

  John Sterling

• Chevy-Chace

  [A modernized form of the old ballad of the “Hunting o’ the Cheviot.” Some circumstances of the battle of Otterbourne (A.D. 1388) are woven into the ballad, and the affairs of the two events are confounded. The ballad preserved in the “Percy Reliques” is probably as old as 1574. The one following…

  Anonymous

• The Douglas Tragedy

  [This ballad exists in Denmark, and in other European countries. The Scotch point out Blackhouse, on the wild Douglas Burn, a tributary of the Yarrow, as the scene of the tragedy.]
  “RISE up, rise up, now, Lord Douglas,” she says,
  “And put on your armor so bright; …

  Anonymous

• The Ballad of Agincourt

  fair stood the wind for France,
  When we our sails advance,
  Nor now to prove our chance …

  Michael Drayton

• The King to his soldiers before Harfleur

  From “King Henry V.,” Act III. Sc. 1.
  ONCE more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
  Or close the wall up with our English dead! …

  William Shakespeare

• The Cavalier’s Song

  A Steed! a steed of matchlesse speed,
  A sword of metal keene!
  All else to noble heartes is drosse, …

  William Motherwell

• Give a Rouse

  King Charles, and who ’ll do him right now?
  King Charles, and who ’s ripe for fight now?
  Give a rouse: here ’s, in hell’s despite now, …

  Robert Browning

• Naseby

  [June, 1645]
  By Obadiah Bind-Their-Kings-in-Chains-and-Their-Nobles-with-Links-of-Iron; Sergeant in Ireton’s Regiment
  O, WHEREFORE come ye forth, in triumph from the north, …

  Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay

• The Three Scars

  This I got on the day that Goring
  Fought through York, like a wild beast roaring—
  The roofs were black, and the streets were full, …

  George Walter Thornbury

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