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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GREAT CAPTAIN, GLORIOUS IN OUR WARS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
Subject(s): U.s. - History
Subject(s): U.s. - History
Great Captain, glorious in our wars -
No meed of praise we hold from him
About his brow we wreathe the stars
The coming ages shall not dim.
The cloud-sent man! Was it not he
That from the hand of adverse fate
Snatched the white flower of victory ?
He spoke no word, but saved the State,
Yet History, as she brooding bends
Above the tablet on her knee.
The impartial stylus half suspends,
And fain would blot the cold decree
The iron hand and sleepless care
That stayed disaster scarce availed
To serve him when he came to wear
The civic laurel: there he failed."
Who runs may read; but nothing mars
That nobler record unforgot.
Great Captain, glorious in our wars -
All else the heart remembers not.
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