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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

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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