Dramatic romances
dc.contributor | Gallacher, Gordon Computing Centre Kings College London |
dc.contributor.author | Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:18:49Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:18:49Z |
dc.date.created | 1845 |
dc.date.issued | 1988-10-17 |
dc.identifier | ota:2262 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/2262 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/2262 |
dc.description.abstract | Mode of access: Online. OTA website Contents: Incident of the French camp. The patriot. My last duchess. Count Gismond. The boy and the angel. Instans tyrannus. Mesmerism. The glove. Time's revenges. The Italian in England. The Englishman in Italy. In a gondola. Waring. The twins. A light woman. The last ride together. The pied piper of Hamlin. The flight of the duchess. A grammarian's funeral. The heretic's tragedy. Holy-Cross Day. Protus. The statue and the bust. Porphyria's lover. "Childe Roland to the dark tower came". Christmas-Eve & Easter-Day |
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dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
dc.rights.label | PUB |
dc.subject.lcsh | Poems -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
dc.title | Dramatic romances |
dc.type | Text |
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branding | Oxford Text Archive |
files.size | 297607 |
files.count | 2 |
otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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DRAMATIC ROMANCES.
INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP.
I
YOU know, we French stormed Ratisbon:
A mile or so away,
On a little mound, Napoleon
Stood on our storming-day;
With neck out-thrust, you fancy how,
Legs wide, arms locked behind,
As if to balance the prone brow
Oppressive with its mind.
II
Just as pethaps he mused " My plans
" That soar, to earth may fall,
" Let once my army-leader Lannes
" Waver at yonder wall,"-
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Out 'twixt the battery-smokes there flew
A rider, bound on bound
Full-galloping; nor bridle drew
Until he reached the mound.
III
Then off there flung in smiling joy,
And held himself erect
By just his horse's mane, a boy:
You hardly could suspect--
(So tight he kept his lips compressed,
Scarce any blood came through)
You looked twice ere you saw his breast
Was all but shot in two. . . .