Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN CAROLINE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON First Line: Star of england! Brunswick's pride! Last Line: The volume closed -- and all was blank! Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England | ||||||||
Star of England! Brunswick's pride! Thou hast suffer'd, droop'd, and died! Adversity, with piercing eye, Bade all her arrows round thee fly; She marked thee from thy cradle-bed, And plaited thorns around thy head! -- As the moon, whom sable clouds Now brightly shows -- now darkly shrouds -- So envy, with a serpent's eye, And slander's tongue of blackest dye, On thy pure name aspersions cast, And triumph'd o'er thy fame at last! But each dark tale of guilt and shame Shall darker fly to whence it came! A stranger in a foreign land, Oppress'd beneath a tyrant's hand, She drank the bitter cup of woe, And read Fate's black'ning volume through! The last, the bitterest drop was drank, The volume closed -- and all was blank! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN ODE FOR THE NEW YEAR AS IT WAS SUNG BEFORE HIS MAJESTY by LAWRENCE EUSDEN A DREAM by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON A SONG (1) by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON A SONG (2) by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON A SONG (IN IMITATION OF THE SCOTCH) by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON A VIEW OF DEATH by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON ALONZO AND IMANEL by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON AMERICA by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON AMERICAN POETRY; A FRAGMENT by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON |
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