Classic and Contemporary Poetry
KING EDWARD VII, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB First Line: He died in harness': the impending stroke Last Line: Makes time obey him while he holds command. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens | ||||||||
"He died in harness": the impending stroke Shook not his nerve nor his high courage broke. Calmly he faced the sure descent of fate Heeding it not for customed cares of State; Thrust anxious looks, imploring hands, aside, Worked as he always worked; then sank and died. Firm thoughts should dwell in Kings: yet in the hour When nature warns them of the date of power, How many at her awful voice have quailed, Ere life has languished, ere the breath has failed! Such weakness was not his: "no thought infirm Altered his cheek" beneath his closing term. No haughtier epitaph can Caesar claim Than to be known in all his acts the same: The Semper Idem on life's battlefield, And in death's last assault untaught to yield: Who, though upon time's boundary he stand, Makes time obey him while he holds command. | 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 FOR THE INVESTITURE by CECIL DAY LEWIS ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971 by NORMAN DUBIE L,ENVOI: IN OUR TIME by ERNEST HEMINGWAY VASHTI by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON LINES ON CARMEN SYLVA by EMMA LAZARUS TO CARMEN SYLVA (QUEEN OF ROUMANIA) by EMMA LAZARUS AMONG THE LAKES by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB AN EPITAPH (AFTER THE GREEK EPIGRAMS) by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB |
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