Begone,Dull Care
...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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Categories:
roundhead, celebration, cheer up, drink,
Form: Sonnet
Sonnet 22 Battle of Marston Moor Ii
...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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Categories:
roundhead, courage, death, devotion, irony,
Form: Sonnet
And Still I Drive - Part Two
...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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Categories:
roundhead, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Sesquipedality: Edward Capern At Boscobel House
...... [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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Categories:
roundhead, history
Form: Acrostic
Vignette-Under the Greenwood Tree
...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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Categories:
roundhead, childhood, people,
Form: Narrative