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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A ROUNDHEAD'S RALLYING SONG, by ALFRED NOYES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful is the battle Last Line: We whose armour is the armour of the lord! Variant Title(s): The Rally Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - Civil War; Liberty; English Civil War | |||
I HOW beautiful is the battle, How splendid are the spears, When our banner is the sky And our watchword Liberty, And our kingdom lifted high above the years. II How purple shall our blood be, How glorious our scars, When we lie there in the night With our faces full of light And the death upon them smiling at the stars. III How golden is our hauberk, And steel, and steel our sword, And our shield without a stain As we take the field again, We whose armour is the armour of the Lord! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BATTLE OF THE KEGS by FRANCIS HOPKINSON TWO HISTORIES by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB THE SOUL OF BRITAIN by HENRY CHAPPELL ON THE BELFRY TOWER; A SKETCH by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON FALKLAND AT NEWBURY, 1643 by FREDERICK JOHN FARGUS AN ELEGY ON SIR CHARLES LUCAS AND SIR GEORGE LISLE by HENRY KING (1592-1669) AN ELEGY UPON THE MOST INCOMPARABLE KING CHARLES THE FIRST by HENRY KING (1592-1669) THE JEWISH SOLDIER (1) by ALICE LUCAS THE SIN OF DAVID by STEPHEN PHILLIPS MOUNTAIN LAUREL by ALFRED NOYES |
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