Max Plowman Poems

  • 1.
    Alas! now o'er the civilised world there hangs a gloom
    For brave General Gordon, that was killed in Khartoum,
    He was a Christian hero, and a soldier of the Cross,
    And to England his death will be a very great loss.
    ...
  • 2.
    'Twas in the year of 1858, and on October the fourteenth day,
    That a fire broke out in a warehouse, and for hours blazed away;
    And the warehouse, now destroyed, was occupied by the Messrs R. Wylie, Hill & Co.,
    Situated in Buchanan Street, in the City of Glasgow.
    ...
  • 3.
    rming to my sight;
    As I gaze upon thee in the sky so high,
    A tear of joy does moisten mine eye.

    ...
  • 4.
    'Twas in the year 1715, and on the 10th of November,
    Which the people of Scotland have cause to remember;
    On that day the Earl of Mar left Perth bound for Sheriffmuir,
    At the same time leaving behind a garrison under Colonel Balfour.
    ...
  • 5.
    'Twas at the Seige of Matagarda, during the Peninsular War,
    That a Mrs Reston for courage outshone any man there by far;
    She was the wife of a Scottish soldier in Matagarda Port,
    And to attend to her husband she there did resort.
    ...
  • 6.
    I heard them say, "Her hands are hard as stone,"
    And I remembered how she laid for me
    The road to heaven. They said, "Her hair is grey."
    Then I remembered how she once had thrown
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Total 6 Poems by Max Plowman

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