Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OCCASIONED BY THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Intrepid sons of albion! Not by you Last Line: Your country rears this sacred monument! Subject(s): Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo | ||||||||
INTREPID sons of Albion! not by you Is life despised; ah no, the spacious earth Ne'er saw a race who held, by right of birth, So many objects to which love is due: Ye slight not life -- to God and Nature true; But death, becoming death, is dearer far, When duty bids you bleed in open war: Hence hath your prowess quelled that impious crew. Heroes! -- for instant sacrifice prepared; Yet filled with ardour and on triumph bent 'Mid direst shocks of mortal accident -- To you who fell, and you whom slaughter spared To guard the fallen, and consummate the event, Your Country rears this sacred Monument! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DYNASTS: 3. ACT SIXTH by THOMAS HARDY SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 28. WATERLOO by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) EPITAPH ON TOMBSTONE ERECTED OVER MARQUIS OF ANGLESEA'S LEG by GEORGE CANNING THE RED CROSS OF ENGLAND: ENTRY OF THE MARINES by ELIZA COOK ON A DRAWING OF THE ELM-TREE; ... DUKE OF WELLINGTON STOOD by GEORGE CRABBE ON SCOTT'S 'THE FIELD OF WATERLOO' by THOMAS ERSKINE THE PASSING OF THE EMPEROR by AVERY L. GILES A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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