The Home Book of Verse: American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 2 |
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... battle fights , And frames the march of Swedish drum , Disputes with princes , laws , and rights , What's done and past tells mortal wights , And what's to come . Ale , that the plowman's heart up - keeps And equals it with tyrants ...
... battle fights , And frames the march of Swedish drum , Disputes with princes , laws , and rights , What's done and past tells mortal wights , And what's to come . Ale , that the plowman's heart up - keeps And equals it with tyrants ...
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... BATTLE was a soldier bold , And used to war's alarms ; But a cannon - ball took off his legs , So he laid down his arms ! Now as they bore him off the field , Said he , " Let others shoot , For here I leave my second leg , And the Forty ...
... BATTLE was a soldier bold , And used to war's alarms ; But a cannon - ball took off his legs , So he laid down his arms ! Now as they bore him off the field , Said he , " Let others shoot , For here I leave my second leg , And the Forty ...
Page 2198
... battle - shroud , And gory sabres rise and fall , Like shoots of flame on midnight's pall ; Then shall thy meteor - glances glow , And cowering foes shall sink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death ...
... battle - shroud , And gory sabres rise and fall , Like shoots of flame on midnight's pall ; Then shall thy meteor - glances glow , And cowering foes shall sink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death ...
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... BATTLE MONUMENT , APRIL 19 , 1836 By the rude bridge that arched the flood , Their flag to April's breeze unfurled , Here once the embattled farmers stood , And fired the shot heard round the world . • The foe long since in silence ...
... BATTLE MONUMENT , APRIL 19 , 1836 By the rude bridge that arched the flood , Their flag to April's breeze unfurled , Here once the embattled farmers stood , And fired the shot heard round the world . • The foe long since in silence ...
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... BATTLE - HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC MINE eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord ; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored ; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword ; His truth ...
... BATTLE - HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC MINE eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord ; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored ; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword ; His truth ...
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Alfred Tennyson battle beneath blood blow blue Bonnie Dundee bonny boys brave breath cheer Clinton Scollard Cremona cried Danny Deever dark dark Rosaleen dead dear death deep doth dream drink dust earth England eyes face fair father fear fell fight flame frae George Gordon Byron glory grave gray green Gunga Din hand hath head hear heard heart heaven Henry Wadsworth Longfellow hill Judas Iscariot King kiss lady land Lars Porsena light lips live looked Lord loud merry moon morning mother ne'er never night o'er Osawatomie pray ride ring roar rose round sail Samian wine ship shore sing sleep smile song soul sound stars stood sweet sword tears tell thee There's thine things thou turned Twas voice waves wild wind wine young young Beichan