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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DUNLUCE CASTLE, COUNTY OF ANTRIM, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poet's Biography First Line: O! Of the fallen most fallen, yet of the proud Last Line: Have left that planet void amid the vast. | |||
O! of the fallen most fallen, yet of the proud Proudest; sole-seated on thy tower-girt rock; Breasting for ever circling ocean's shock; With blind sea-caves for ever dinned and loud; Now sunset-gilt; now wrapt in vapoury shroud; Till distant ships -- so well thy bastions mock Primeval nature's style in joint and block -- Misdeem her ramparts, round thee bent and bowed, For thine, and on her walls, men say, have hurled The red artillery stored designed for thee: Thy wars are done! Henceforth perpetually Thou restest, like some judged, impassive world Whose sons, their probatory period past, Have left that planet void amid the vast. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BALLAD OF SARSFIELD; OR, THE BURSTING OF THE GUNS by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE DIRGE OF RORY O'MORE; 1642 by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE HUMAN LIFE by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE SORROW by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE THE SUN GOD by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE A CHARACTER by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE AN EPICUREAN'S EPITAPH by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE CARDINAL MANNING by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE COLERIDGE by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE DIOCLESIAN AT SALONA by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE |
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