21) 96. The Challenge of the Guns by A. N. Field. Clarke, George Herbert, ed.
1917. A Treasury of War Poetry
...unto thee across the narrow sea, But from the loneliest vale in the last land s heart The sad-eyed watching mother sees her sons depart. 5 And freighted full the...
22) 98. German Prisoners by Joseph Lee. Clarke, George Herbert, ed. 1917. A
Treasury of War Poetry
...was all to smite and slay, To spit upon you—tread you neath my feet. But when I saw how each sad soul did greet 5 My gaze with no sign of defiant frown, How from...
23) 791. Evangeline. A Tale of Acadie. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1909-14.
English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman. The Harvard Classics
...and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their...
24) 119. Sixty-fifth Sonnet. William Shakespeare. 1909-14. English Poetry I:
From Chaucer to Gray. The Harvard Classics
...SINCE brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger...
25) 141. Follow your Saint. Thomas Campion. 1909-14. English Poetry I: From
Chaucer to Gray. The Harvard Classics
...FOLLOW your saint, follow with accents sweet! Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet! There, wrapt in cloud of sorrow, pity move, And tell the ravisher of...
26) 671. A Toccata of Galuppi's. Robert Browning. 1909-14. English Poetry III:
From Tennyson to Whitman. The Harvard Classics
...OH Galuppi, Baldassare, this is very sad to find! I can hardly misconceive you; it would prove me deaf and blind; But although I take your meaning, tis with such...
27) 723. Song. Christina Georgina Rossetti. 1909-14. English Poetry III: From
Tennyson to Whitman. The Harvard Classics
...WHEN I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me 5 With showers and dewdrops...
28) 592. Sonnets from the Portuguese. XV. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 1909-14.
English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald. The Harvard Classics
...ACCUSE me not, beseech thee, that I wear Too calm and sad a face in front of thine; For we two look two ways, and cannot shine With the same sunlight on our brow...
29) 350. Kindred by George Sterling. Monroe, Harriet, ed. 1917. The New Poetry:
An Anthology
...born like me to die, Confront a little the eternal Naught And watch our isolated sun decline— Sad for his evanescence, even as I?...
30) 16. Sweet William's Ghost. Traditional Ballads. 1909-14. English Poetry I:
From Chaucer to Gray. The Harvard Classics
...sung, A wat a man to bed were gone, Clark Sanders came to Margret s window, With mony a sad sigh and groan. Are ye sleeping, Margret, he says, 5 Or are ye waking,...
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