Nor - could I bring within my visual scope The great localities old stories boast - Would I forget thee, Troas! whose first hope Of travel pointed to thy lonely coast; How would my quicken'd fancy reproduce Th' incessant brazen flash of Homer's war, And heroes moving quick their ground to choose, With spear-tops burning like the autumn star, Along that sullen sea-board! till, at length, Mine ear should thrill, my startled pulses bound, When from the trench those two grand voices rose - And each involved in th' other, swept their foes Before them, like a storm - the wrath and strength Of God and man conspiring to the sound! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IMMORTALITY [OR, VERSE] by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR BITTERNESS by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 90 by PHILIP SIDNEY THE MAIDEN CITY by CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH TONNA THE TRAVAIL OF PASSION by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS LOVE'S CHANGE by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 10. THE RAILWAY BOOM, 1845 by T. BAKER |