English Poems – Page 219

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• Fontenoy

  [May 11, 1745]
  THRICE at the huts of Fontenoy the English column failed,
  And twice the lines of Saint Antoine the Dutch in vain assailed; …

  Thomas Osborne Davis

• Battle of the Baltic

  [April 2, 1801]
  OF Nelson and the north
  Sing the glorious day’s renown, …

  Thomas Campbell

• Burial of Sir John Moore

  [Corunna, Spain, January 16, 1809]
  NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
  As his corse to the rampart we hurried; …

  Charles Wolfe

• By the Alma River

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

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

• Charge of the Light Brigade

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

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• 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

• 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

• “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

• Bruce and the Spider

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

  Bernard Barton

• Bannockburn

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

  Robert Burns

• 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

• 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

• Pibroch of Donuil Dhu

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

  Sir Walter Scott

• Flodden Field

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

  Sir Walter Scott

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Nathan Hale

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

  Francis Miles Finch

• 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

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