We've rode and fought and ate and drunk as rations* come to hand, Together for a year and more around this stinkin' land: Now you are goin' home again, but we must see it through....
The overfaithful sword returns the user His heart's desire at price of his heart's blood. The clamour of the arrogant accuser Wastes that one hour we needed to make good....
Neither the harps nor the crowns amused, nor the cherubs' dove-winged races, Holding hands forlornly the Children wandered beneath the Dome, Plucking the splendid robes of the passers-by, and with pitiful! faces...
... At the close of a winter day, Their anchors down, by London town, the Three Great Captains lay; And one was Admiral of the North from Solway Firth to Skye,...
Legate, I had the news last night, my cohort ordered home By ships to Portus Itius and thence by road to Rome. I've marched the companies aboard, the arms are stowed below:...
The first time that Peter denied his Lord He shrank from the cudgel, the scourge and the cord, But followed far off to see what they would do, Till the cock crew, till the cock crew,...
I was Lord of Cities very sumptuously builded. Seven roaring Cities paid me tribute from far. Ivory their outposts were,the guardrooms of them gilded, And garrisoned with Amazons invincible in war. ...
Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands, A thousand mills roar through me where I glean All races from all lands.
Valour and Innocence Have latterly gone hence To certain death by certain shame attended. Envy, ah! even to tears!, The fortune of their years Which, though so few, yet so divinely ended. ...
Life's all getting and giving, I've only myself to give. What shall I do for a living? I've only one life to live. End it? I'll not find another. Spend it? But how shall I best?...
Love's fiery chariot, Delia, take Which Vulcan wrought for Venus' sake. Wings shall not waft thee, but a flame Hot as my heart, as nobly tame: Lit by a spark, less bright, more wise...
The Cities are full of pride, Challenging each to each, This from her mountain-side, That from her burdened beach. They count their ships full tale, Their corn and oil and wine,...
When that with meat and drink they had fulfilled Not temperately but like him conceived In monstrous jest at Meudon, whose regale Stands for exemplar of Gargantuan greed,...