SEE British bards and British cut-throats made Alike immortal by a Johnson's aid! The neck with hemp, the brow with laurel bound, The pen, the pistol, equally renown'd Fame's temple reaching by a different track, Dryden on wings or Turpin on a hack! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SHELL TO THE PEARL by LOUIS UNTERMEYER EGERTON MANUSCRIPT: 104. JOPAS'S SONG by THOMAS WYATT HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; IN MEMORIAM by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON OPPORTUNITY by JOHN JAMES INGALLS THE SUICIDE by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY IMMORTALITY by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL THE TRANSLATION by MARK VAN DOREN |