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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Subject: VISIGOTHS Matches Found: 6 ALARIC IN ITALY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heard ye the gothic trumpet's blast Last Line: The guardian of his dust forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Alaric, King (370-410); Visigoths LAMENT OF DON RODRIGO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The hosts of don rodrigo were scattered in dismay Last Line: O death, why now so slow art thou %why fearest thou to smite? Variant Title(s): The Lamentation Of Don Roderic Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Roderick, King Of The Visigoths (d. 711); Spain PENITENCE OF DON RODERICK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was when the king rodrigo had lost his realm of spain Last Line: Washed from offence, his spirit hence to god its flight hath taken Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Repentance; Roderick, King Of The Visigoths (d. 711); Sin THE BUSH THAT BURNED, by LOIS MOYLES Poem Text First Line: He stood beside a bush that burned Last Line: Softly and sweetly speaking to me. Subject(s): Goths; Roderick, King Of The Visigoths (d. 711) THE GRAVE OF ALARIC, by AUGUST PLATEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On busento's grassy banks a muffled chorus echoes nightly Last Line: Onward roll, busento's waves, and bear them to the farthest ocean! Alternate Author Name(s): Maximilian, Karl August Georg; Platten Hallermund, Graf Von Subject(s): Alaric, King (370-410); Graves; Visigoths; Tombs; Tombstones THE VISION OF DON RODERICK, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lives there a strain, whose sounds of mounting fire Last Line: I strike my red-cross flag, and bind my skiff to land. Subject(s): Roderick, King Of The Visigoths (d. 711); Spain - History |
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