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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE VIRGINIANS OF THE VALLEY, by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR Poet's Biography First Line: The knightliest of the knightly race Last Line: But not a knight asleep. Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History; Virginia (state) | |||
THE knightliest of the knightly race That, since the days of old, Have kept the lamp of chivalry Alight in hearts of gold; The kindliest of the kindly band That, rarely hating ease, Yet rode with Spotswood round the land, And Raleigh round the seas; Who climbed the blue Virginian hills Against embattled foes, And planted there, in valleys fair, The lily and the rose; Whose fragrance lives in many lands, Whose beauty stars the earth, And lights the hearths of happy homes With loveliness and worth. We thought they slept! -- the sons who kept The names of noble sires, And slumbered while the darkness crept Around their vigil fires; But aye the "Golden Horseshoe" knights Their old Dominion keep, Whose foes have found enchanted ground, But not a knight asleep. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FIELD GUIDE TO SOUTHERN VIRGINIA by FORREST GANDER TO THE VIRGINIAN VOYAGE [1611] by MICHAEL DRAYTON VIRGINIA - THE WEST by WALT WHITMAN MASSACHUSETTS TO VIRGINIA by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER AT RICHMOND by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER LIFE IN THE AUTUMN WOODS by PHILIP PENDLETON COOKE TO MASTER GEORGE SANDYS TREASURER FOR THE ENGLISH COLONY IN VIRGINIA by MICHAEL DRAYTON LORD DUNMORE'S PETITION TO THE LEGISLATURE OF VIRGINIA by PHILIP FRENEAU OUR LEFT' by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR A BATTLE BALLAD TO GENERAL J.E. JOHNSTON by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR |
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