Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT ST. HELENA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography First Line: The night encamps around thee. From afar Last Line: Of ocean kindled at the dream of pride? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) | ||||||||
The night encamps around thee. From afar The bannered hosts of outer darkness throng, And crested billows shout their battle song To greet the dreadful summoner of war. The throbbing bursts of molten thunder jar The firmament; and lo! the mountains strong Are livid with the lightning's leprous tongue, As nations smit of some malignant star! What spirit wroth, from Erebos uptorn, Is launched upon the laboring tempest wide? Is it the captive conqueror's, forlorn, His late avenging destiny defied? -- Who laughed? -- or was it but the seething scorn Of ocean kindled at the dream of pride? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BETRAND AND GOURGAUD TALK OVER OLD TIMES by EDGAR LEE MASTERS BONAPARTISME by KENNETH REXROTH AN ISLAND (SAINT HELENA, 1821) by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON ADVICE TO A RAVEN IN RUSSIA by JOEL BARLOW INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP by ROBERT BROWNING NAPEOLON'S FAREWELL; FROM THE FRENCH by GEORGE GORDON BYRON BATTLE OF THE BALTIC by THOMAS CAMPBELL HOHENLINDEN by THOMAS CAMPBELL NAPOLEON AND THE BRITISH [OR ENGLISH] SAILOR [BOY] by THOMAS CAMPBELL ANONYMOUS by JOHN BANISTER TABB |
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