WITH REFERENCE TO A SPEECH OF HENRY VIII'S, 'LET US GOA-HUNTING', WHEN QUEEN ANNA'S EXECUTION WAS ACCOMPLISHED When the Tower gun announc'd Queen Anna's death, And straight the king proclaimed a hunting day, He dream'd not how that signal, and the breath Of those brief words, would never fleet away. He dream'd not how the booming of that gun Would be a deathless pulse through space and time, And his own royal voice be drifted on With all its scorn. The motion of a crime Soon meets the sorrowing angels; but, if true That nature has this sin-recording force, Each nobler act and utterance takes its course Through the same air, and is immortal too. And every deed of love and breath of prayer Shall make its own memorial current there. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE AMERICAN FOREST GIRL by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS PEGGY, FR. THE GENTLE SHEPHERD by ALLAN RAMSAY THE MASTER by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE QUEEN FORGETS by GEORGE STERLING IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 14 by ALFRED TENNYSON THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 2 by MARK AKENSIDE FAMILIAR EPISTLE TO A LITTLE BOY by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM |