Torres Vedras (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
1810As who, while erst the Achaians wall'd the shore, Stood Atlas-like before,A granite face against the Trojan sea Of foes ...
1810As who, while erst the Achaians wall'd the shore, Stood Atlas-like before,A granite face against the Trojan sea Of foes ...
So now the horses of Aiakides, off wide of the war-ground,Wept, since first they were ware ...
"Heigh me! brazen of front, thou glutton for plunder, how can one,Servant here to thy mandates, ...
Bibber besotted, with scowl of a cur, having heart of a deer, thou!Never to join to thy warriors armed for ...
These, then, he left, and away where ranks were now clashing the thickest,Onward rushed, and with ...
Not the sea-wave so bellows abroad when it bursts upon shingle,Whipped from the sea's deeps up ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
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