George Walter Thornbury

Poems (3)

• The Jacobite on Tower Hill

  He tripped up the steps with a bow and a smile, / Offering snuff to the chaplain the while, …

• The Jester’s Sermon

  The Jester shook his hood and bells, and leaped upon a chair; / The pages laughed, the women screamed, and tossed their scented hair; …

• The Three Scars

  This I got on the day that Goring / Fought through York, like a wild beast roaring— …