Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ANOTHER RUNIC ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER



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ANOTHER RUNIC ODE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At length appears the wish'd-for night
Last Line: I smile in the embrace of death!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; War; Dead, The


AT length appears the wish'd-for Night,
When my glad Soul shall take her Flight;
Tremble my Limbs, my Eye-balls start,
The Venom's busy at my Heart.
Hark! how the solemn Sisters call,
And point aloft to Odin's Hall!
I come, I come, prepare full Bowls,
Fit Banquet for heroic Souls:
What's Life?—I scorn this idle Breath,
I smile in the Embrace of Death!





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