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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BLENHEIM, SELECTION, by JOHN PHILIPS Last Line: Of drums, o'ercame their groans. Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, John+(1) | |||
NOW from each van The brazen instruments of death discharge Horrible flames, and turbid streaming clouds Of smoke sulphureous; intermixed with these Large globous irons fly, of dreadful hiss, Singeing the air, and from long distance bring Surprising slaughter; on each side they fly By chains connexed, and with destructive sweep Behead whole troops at once; the hairy scalps Are whirled aloof, while numerous trunks bestrow Th' ensanguined field; with latent mischief stored Show'rs of grenadoes rain, by sudden burst Disploding murd'rous bowels, fragments of steel, And stones, and glass, and nitrous grain adust. A thousand ways at once the shivered orbs Fly diverse, working torment and foul rout With deadly bruise, and gashes furrowed deep. Of pain impatient, the high-prancing steeds Disdain the curb, and, flinging to and fro, Spurn their dismounted riders; they expire Indignant, by unhostile wounds destroyed. Thus through each army death in various shapes Prevailed; here mangled limbs, here brains and gore Lie clotted; lifeless some: with anguish these Gnashing, and loud laments invoking aid, Unpitied and unheard; the louder din Of guns, and trumpets' clang, and solemn sound Of drums, o'ercame their groans. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A WAR SONG TO ENGLISHMEN by WILLIAM BLAKE THE LAND OF NOD by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON MAD BLAKE by WILLIAM ROSE BENET RHYME OF THE DUCHESS MAY by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE STREET OF THE MANY LITTLE LOVERS by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT THE OLD HOUSE AND THE APPLETREE by VIDA B. BUTCHER ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN BY LORD KNOWLES: THE GARDENER SPEAKS by THOMAS CAMPION |
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