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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 10. BRITONS VS. BARBARIANS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rise! - they have risen: of brave aneurin ask Last Line: And everlasting deeds to burning words! | |||
RISE! -- they 'have' risen: of brave Aneurin ask How they have scourged old foes, perfidious friends: The Spirit of Caractacus descends Upon the Patriots, animates their task; -- Amazement runs before the towering casque Of Arthur, bearing through the stormy field The virgin sculptured on his Christian shield: -- Stretched in the sunny light of victory bask The Host that followed Urien as he strode O'er heaps of slain; -- from Cambrian wood and moss Druids descend, auxiliars of the Cross; Bards, nursed on blue Plinlimmon's still abode, Rush on the fight, to harps preferring swords, And everlasting deeds to burning words! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ADMONITION [TO A TRAVELLER] by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AN APRIL MORNING by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ANIMAL TRANQUILITY AND DECAY; A SKETCH by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AT FLORENCE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AT THE GRAVE OF BURNS; SEVEN YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH BUONAPARTE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH COMPOSED AT NEIDPATH CASTLE, 1803 by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH COMPOSED BY THE SEA-SIDE NEAR CALAIS [AUGUST 1802] by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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