Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS ON THE DISCOVERY OF BOTANY BAY BY CAPTAIN COOK: 2, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poet's Biography First Line: There were but two, and we were forty! Yet Last Line: With faithful blood, as pure as any ever shed. Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Cook, James (1728-1779) | ||||||||
The Second Attempt, Opposed by Two of the Natives "There were but two, and we were forty! Yet," The Captain wrote, "that dauntless couple throve, And faced our wildering faces; and I said 'Lie to awhile!' I did not choose to let A strife go on of little worth to us. And so unequal! But the dying tread Of flying kinsmen moved them not: for wet With surf and wild with streaks of white and black The pair remained." -- O stout Caractacus! 'Twas thus you stood when Caesar's legions strove To beat their few, fantastic foemen back -- Your patriots with their savage stripes of red! To drench the stormy cliff and moaning cove With faithful blood, as pure as any ever shed. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNETS ON THE DISCOVERY OF BOTANY BAY BY CAPTAIN COOK: 1 by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL SONNETS ON THE DISCOVERY OF BOTANY BAY BY CAPTAIN COOK: 3 by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL SONNETS ON THE DISCOVERY OF BOTANY BAY BY CAPTAIN COOK: 4 by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL FIVE VISIONS OF CAPTAIN COOK, SELS. by KENNETH SLESSOR CAPTAIN COOK'S LAST VOYAGE; ROLAND PENROSE by RONALD STUART THOMAS A DEATH IN THE BUSH by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL A HYDE PARK LARRIKIN by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL A SPANISH LOVE SONG by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL ACHAN by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL AFTER MANY YEARS by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL |
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