Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANOTHER RUNIC ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poet's Biography First Line: At length appears the wish'd-for night Last Line: I smile in the embrace of death! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; War; Dead, The | ||||||||
AT length appears the wish'd-for Night, When my glad Soul shall take her Flight; Tremble my Limbs, my Eye-balls start, The Venom's busy at my Heart. Hark! how the solemn Sisters call, And point aloft to Odin's Hall! I come, I come, prepare full Bowls, Fit Banquet for heroic Souls: What's Life?I scorn this idle Breath, I smile in the Embrace of Death! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND A FAREWELL TO POETRY by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER A FRAGMENT OF A SATIRE by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER A PARAPHRASE ON THE 13TH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER |
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