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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON SCOTT'S 'THE FIELD OF WATERLOO', by THOMAS ERSKINE First Line: On waterloo's ensanguined plain Last Line: Fell half so flat as walter scott. Alternate Author Name(s): Erskine Of Restormel, 1st Baron Subject(s): Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo | |||
ON Waterloo's ensanguined plain Lie tens of thousands of the slain; But none, by sabre or by shot, Fell half so flat as Walter Scott. | 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 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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