Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET TO BRITAIN, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Halt! Shoulder arms! Recover! As you were! Last Line: Pounding them into mummy. Shoulder, hoop! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): England; Soldiers; Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852); English; Wellington, Duke Of | ||||||||
HALT! Shoulder arms! Recover! As you were! Right wheel! Eyes left! Attention! Stand at ease! O Britain! O my country! Words like these Have made thy name a terror and a fear To all the nations. Witness Ebro's banks, Assaye, Toulouse, Nivelle, and Waterloo, Where the grim despot muttered -- Sauve qui peut! And Ney fled darkling. -- Silence in the ranks! Inspired by these, amidst the iron crash Of armies, in the centre of his troop The soldier stands -- unmovable, not rash -- Until the forces of the foeman droop; Then knocks the Frenchmen to eternal smash, Pounding them into mummy. Shoulder, hoop! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WARDEN OF THE CINQUE PORTS (THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON) by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON ON HEARING HIM MISPRAISED by MATTHEW ARNOLD DON JUAN: CANTO 9 by GEORGE GORDON BYRON LAST WORDS: NAPOLEON AND WELLINGTON by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH ON A DRAWING OF THE ELM-TREE; ... DUKE OF WELLINGTON STOOD by GEORGE CRABBE WELLINGTON by BENJAMIN DISRAELI LORD WELLINGTON AND THE MINISTERS by THOMAS MOORE REINFORCEMENTS FOR LORD WELLINGTON by THOMAS MOORE BOTHWELL: PART 4 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN |
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