Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TWO OLD KINGS, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poet's Biography First Line: In ruling well what guerdon? Life runs low Last Line: Heroic hearts, upon our lonely way. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers | ||||||||
IN ruling well what guerdon? Life runs low, As yonder lamp upon the hour-glass lies, Waning and wasted. We are great and wise, But love is gone, and Silence seems to grow Along the misty road where we must go. From summits near the morning star's uprise Death comes, a shadow from the northern skies, As, when all leaves are down, thence comes the snow. Brother and king, we hold our last carouse. One loving-cup we drain, and then farewell. The night is spent. The crystal morning ray Calls us, as soldiers laurell'd on our brows, To march undaunted, while the clarions swell, Heroic hearts, upon our lonely way. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BOTHWELL: PART 4 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN IN PHARAOH'S TOMB by HAYDEN CARRUTH JUSTICE LISTENS AT THE GATES OF BEAUTY by AIME CESAIRE FOR THE INVESTITURE by CECIL DAY LEWIS ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971 by NORMAN DUBIE MY SISTER, THE QUEEN by EDWARD FIELD L,ENVOI: IN OUR TIME by ERNEST HEMINGWAY VASHTI by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON NUPTIAL SONG by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN |
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