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1810 (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'erweening statesmen have full long relied Last Line: To labour and to prayer, to nature, and to heaven. Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars | ||||||||
O'ERWEENING Statesmen have full long relied On fleets and armies, and external wealth: But from 'within' proceeds a Nation's health; Which shall not fail, though poor men cleave with pride To the paternal floor; or turn aside, In the thronged city, from the walks of gain, As being all unworthy to detain A Soul by contemplation sanctified. There are who cannot languish in this strife, Spaniards of every rank, by whom the good Of such high course was felt and understood; Who to their Country's cause have bound a life Erewhile, by solemn consecration, given To labour and to prayer, to nature, and to heaven. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE AT [OR AFTER] CORUNNA by CHARLES WOLFE STANZAS ON THE THREATENED INVASION, 1803 by THOMAS CAMPBELL THE CONFLAGRATION OF MOSCOW by CALEB C. COLTON MASQUE TO COMMEMORATE THE SPIRIT OF THE WARS OF LIBERATION by GERHART HAUPTMANN THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL IL Y A CNET ANS by GEORGE MEREDITH A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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