Roundhead Poems - Poems about Roundhead

...Sententiousness I seriously cannot bear I cannot abide po-faced pontification Faced with which I want to pull out my hair Being more at home in a festive occasion. Flee the pessimism of the ......

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...I let a boy, a Roundhead* boy, to live... I knocked him down, and said, 'stay down my boy! You're fourteen, and your mother waits to give You letters** - HEY THEN! THAT is not a TOY!' (For he'd ......

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...Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall... But stars do not cry. Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing besides a Dragons Hill; It was here that a Roundhea......

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...... [into] the oaken box in which the hunted King was secreted.... Capern essayed to descend... - Elihu Burritt, Walks in the Black Country (1868) Suppose a poet-postman, full of good Victoria......

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...On common land,within the wood Eking a living as best they could, Betwixt Roundhead & Cavalier,they stood- These children of the new forest Adventures filled ,with youthful zest. (Frederick Ma......

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