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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ETHELSTAN: RUNILDA'S CHANT, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the wild gannet's bath Last Line: Steeds of the ocean! Subject(s): Aethelstan, King Of England (d. 939); Athelstan, King Of England (d. 939) | |||
O'er the wild gannet's bath Come the Norse coursers! O'er the whale's heritance Gloriously steering! With beaked heads peering, Deep-plunging, high-rearing, Tossing their foam abroad, Shaking white manes aloft, Creamy-neck'd, pitchy-ribb'd, Steeds of the ocean! O'er the Sun's mirrors green Come the Norse coursers! Trampling its glassy breadth Into bright fragments! Hollow-back'd, huge-bosom'd, Fraught with mail'd riders, Clanging with hauberks, Shield, spear, and battleaxe, Canvas-wing'd, cable-rein'd, Steeds of the Ocean! O'er the Wind's ploughing-field Come the Norse coursers! By a hundred each ridden, To the bloody feast bidden, They rush in their fierceness And ravine all round them! Their shoulders enriching With fleecy-light plunder, Fire-spreading, foe-spurning, Steeds of the Ocean! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FALLEN STAR by GEORGE DARLEY THE FLOWER OF BEAUTY by GEORGE DARLEY THE GAMBOLS OF CHILDREN by GEORGE DARLEY THE LOVELINESS OF LOVE by GEORGE DARLEY A RURAL RETREAT; ENTER OF SALISBURY WITH A BOX by GEORGE DARLEY A VILLAGE BLACKSMITH by GEORGE DARLEY ETHELSTAN: SCENE by GEORGE DARLEY HUNDRED-GATED THEBES by GEORGE DARLEY LAY OF THE FORLORN by GEORGE DARLEY LINES, FR. NEPENTHE by GEORGE DARLEY |
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