Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT FLODDEN; A FRAGMENT, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go sit old cheviot's crest below Last Line: Earth's mountain billows come. Subject(s): Flodden Field, England | ||||||||
Go sit old Cheviot's crest below, And pensive mark the lingering snow In all his scaurs abide, And slow dissolving from the hill In many a sightless, soundless rill, Feed sparkling Bowmont's tide. Fair shines the stream by bank and lea, As wimpling to the eastern sea She seeks Till's sullen bed, Indenting deep the fatal plain, Where Scotland's noblest, brave in vain, Around their monarch bled. And westward hills on hills you see, Even as old Ocean's mightiest sea Heaves high her waves of foam, Dark and snow-ridged from Cutsfeld's wold To the proud foot of Cheviot roll'd, Earth's mountain billows come. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LAMENT FOR FLODDEN [FIELD] by JEAN ELLIOT (1727-1805) MARMION: CANTO 1. INTRODUCTION by WALTER SCOTT MARMION: CANTO 1. THE CASTLE by WALTER SCOTT MARMION: CANTO 2. INTRODUCTION by WALTER SCOTT MARMION: CANTO 2. THE CONVENT by WALTER SCOTT MARMION: CANTO 3. INTRODUCTION by WALTER SCOTT MARMION: CANTO 3. THE HOSTEL, OR INN by WALTER SCOTT MARMION: CANTO 4. INTRODUCTION by WALTER SCOTT MARMION: CANTO 5. THE COURT by WALTER SCOTT BORDER BALLAD [OR MARCH, OR SONG], FR. THE MONASTERY by WALTER SCOTT GATHERING SONG OF DONALD [OR, DONUI DHU] THE BLACK by WALTER SCOTT |
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