Nor - could I bring within my visual scope The great localities old stories boast - Would I forget thee, Troas! whose first hope Of travel pointed to thy lonely coast; How would my quicken'd fancy reproduce Th' incessant brazen flash of Homer's war, And heroes moving quick their ground to choose, With spear-tops burning like the autumn star, Along that sullen sea-board! till, at length, Mine ear should thrill, my startled pulses bound, When from the trench those two grand voices rose - And each involved in th' other, swept their foes Before them, like a storm - the wrath and strength Of God and man conspiring to the sound! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOULS LAKE by ROBERT STUART FITZGERALD THE FADELESS CANVAS by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN A HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY by JOHN BYROM OLD VERMONT ROADS by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY THERE IS A MAN ON THE CROSS by ELIZABETH CHENEY (1859-) GLAD YOUTH by CALISTA BARKER CLARK THE WORLD NOT OUR REST, &C by MARIA FRANCES CECILIA (MADAN) COWPER |