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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPIGRAM, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poet's Biography First Line: Brave l-, so says a knight of the pen Last Line: Have exposed themselves fully as much as their king. Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Cowardice | |||
BRAVE L-----, so says a knight of the pen, 'Has exposed himself much at the head of his men': As his men ran away without waiting to fight, To expose himself there's to be first in the flight. Had it not been as well, when he saw his men quail, To have stay'd and expos'd himself more at their tail? Or say, is it fair, in this noblest of quarrels, To suffer the chief to engross all the laurels? No! his men, so the muse to all Europe shall sing, Have exposed themselves fully as much as their king. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GERONTION by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE COWARD by RUDYARD KIPLING PHILIP, KING OF MACEDON by ALCAEUS OF MESSENE MARTIN RELPH by ROBERT BROWNING A BALLAD OF A COWARD by JOHN DAVIDSON THE BLIND BOXER by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES TO A COWARD by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD THE COWARD by CAROLINE GILTINAN EPIGRAM: EHEU FUGACES by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM LAST LINES OF THOMAS INGOLDSBY by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM NEW-MADE HONOUR (IMITATED FROM MARTIAL) by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM |
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