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*Robert Browning, [http://browning.classicauthors.net/DramaticLyrics/DramaticLyrics2.html Cavalier Tunes: Give a Rouse] | *Robert Browning, [http://browning.classicauthors.net/DramaticLyrics/DramaticLyrics2.html Cavalier Tunes: Give a Rouse] | ||
*Robert Browning, [http://browning.classicauthors.net/DramaticLyrics/DramaticLyrics1.html Cavalier Tunes: Boot and Saddle] | *Robert Browning, [http://browning.classicauthors.net/DramaticLyrics/DramaticLyrics1.html Cavalier Tunes: Boot and Saddle] | ||
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Revision as of 16:00, July 14, 2007
The Cavaliers were royalists or supporters of King Charles I in the English Civil War (1642-1651).
Robert Browning wrote three imaginative poems entitled "Cavalier Lyrics." They are: "Marching Along," "Give a Rouse," and "Boot and Saddle." He was writing two centuries after the event, and the poems are written in a spirit of fun, but he tried to capture what he thought was the spirit of the cavaliers. They are short, rhythmic, and well-suited for reading aloud... with feeling. "Marching Along" begins:
- Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King,
- Bidding the crop-headed Parliament swing:
- And, pressing a troop unable to stoop
- And see the rogues flourish and honest folk droop,
- Marched them along, fifty-score strong,
- Great-hearted gentlemen, singing this song.
External links
- Robert Browning, Cavalier Tunes: Marching Along
- Robert Browning, Cavalier Tunes: Give a Rouse
- Robert Browning, Cavalier Tunes: Boot and Saddle