WITH REFERENCE TO A SPEECH OF HENRY VIII'S, 'LET US GOA-HUNTING', WHEN QUEEN ANNA'S EXECUTION WAS ACCOMPLISHED When the Tower gun announc'd Queen Anna's death, And straight the king proclaimed a hunting day, He dream'd not how that signal, and the breath Of those brief words, would never fleet away. He dream'd not how the booming of that gun Would be a deathless pulse through space and time, And his own royal voice be drifted on With all its scorn. The motion of a crime Soon meets the sorrowing angels; but, if true That nature has this sin-recording force, Each nobler act and utterance takes its course Through the same air, and is immortal too. And every deed of love and breath of prayer Shall make its own memorial current there. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THREE GATES [OF GOLD] by ELIZABETH DAYTON A TIME TO TALK by ROBERT FROST SONG OF THE SILENT LAND by JOHANN GAUDENZ VON SALIS-SEEWIS HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER THE RAGGED WOOD by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS COMPANION OF QUIET by JOSEPH AUSLANDER TRAVELLING GIPSIES by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE |