Poems by George Borrow
Miscellanies
... A VOICE. But, hark! what sobbing and what mournful notes ...
The Suicides Grave (From The German)
... Home from their labourhark! they cease their song, ...
Fridleif and Helga
... "My best belov'd friend thou didst boast to have slain, ...
The Heddybee Spectre
... First tell them all - then stab the groom- ...
Vidrik Verlandson (From The Old Danish)
... Ill hew thee, Giant, Ill hew thee as small ...
Ode (From The Gaelic)
... Or, like the moon, mong the stars shining, ...
Waldemars Chase
... When they saw that a fresh-slaughterd mermaid was thrown ...
From Allan Cunningham, To George Borrow, On His Proposing To Translate The Kiaepe Viser
... Oer Englands strength, through Scotlands cold, ...
The Violet-Gatherer (From The Danish Of Oehlenslaeger)
... Trembledfaulterdgaspdand died! ...
The Tournament (From The Old Danish)
... Take both the shield ropes, take them straight, ...
Elvir-Shades
... Bright gleam'd the lake's broad sheet of liquid blue, ...
Lines To Six-Foot Three
... Which neer from honours path would start, ...
National Song (From The Danish Of Evald)
... Fly! said the foe, t is Fortunes rule, ...
Svend Vonved
... "Should'st thou send three, and twenty times three, ...
Sadness
... Through the reeds that skirt the pool, ...