We severed in autumn early,    Ere the earth was torn by the plough;    The wheat and the oats and the barley    Are ripe for the harvest now.    We sunder�d…

No. I     I�ve something of the bull-dog in my breed,    The spaniel is developed somewhat less;    While life is in me I can fight and bleed,    But never…

    The sword slew one in deadly strife;    One perish�d by the bowl;    The third lies self-slain by the knife;    For three the bells may toll,    I loved her better…

   With short, sharp, violent lights made vivid,    To southward far as the sight can roam,    Only the swirl of the surges livid,    The seas that climb and the…

    White steeds of ocean, that leap with a hollow and wearisome roar    On the bar of ironstone steep, not a fathom�s length from the shore,    Is there…

    Hold hard, Ned! Lift me down once more, and lay me in the shade.    Old man, you�ve had your work cut out to guide    Both horses, and…

As related by Sergeant Leigh on the night he got his captaincy at the Restoration.     I�ll tell you a story; but pass the �jack�,    And let…

�You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet,    Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone?    Of two such lessons, why forget    The nobler and the manlier one?�     –    Byron.     One line of…

    Through the lattice rushes the south wind, dense    With fumes of the flowery frankincense    From hawthorn blossoming thickly;    And gold is shower�d on grass unshorn,    And poppy-fire on shuddering…

   On the hill they are crowding together,    In the stand they are crushing for room,    Like midge-flies they swarm on the heather,    They gather like bees on the…