Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WATERLOO, by AUBREY DE VERE Poet's Biography First Line: Why have the mighty lived - why have they died? Subject(s): Waterloo | ||||||||
WHY have the Mighty lived-why have they died? Is it ever, thus, with idle wreck to strew Fields such as thine, remorseless Waterloo? Hopeless the lesson! Vainly hath ever cried Stern Fate to man -"So perish human pride! " Still must the Many combat for the Few: Still must the noblest blood fair earth bedew: Tyrants, slaves, freemen, mouldering side by side! On such a day the World was lost, and won, By Pompey at Pharsalia: such a day Saw glorious Hannibal a fugitive: So faded ' neath the Macedonian Sun Persia's pale star: so empire passed away From Harold's brow, but He disdained to live! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DYNASTS: 3. ACT SIXTH by THOMAS HARDY SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 28. WATERLOO by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) EPITAPH ON TOMBSTONE ERECTED OVER MARQUIS OF ANGLESEA'S LEG by GEORGE CANNING THE RED CROSS OF ENGLAND: ENTRY OF THE MARINES by ELIZA COOK ON A DRAWING OF THE ELM-TREE; ... DUKE OF WELLINGTON STOOD by GEORGE CRABBE ON SCOTT'S 'THE FIELD OF WATERLOO' by THOMAS ERSKINE THE PASSING OF THE EMPEROR by AVERY L. GILES TO THE MEMORY OF SIR HENRY ELLIS, WHO FELL ... WATERLOO by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS |
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