Biography of Charles Sackville
Charles Sackville may refer to:Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset (1643–1706), English poet and courtier
Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset (1711–1769), British politician, opera impresario and cricketer
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset (1643–1706), English poet and courtier
Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset (1711–1769), British politician, opera impresario and cricketer
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by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
I thought to do a deed of chivalry,
An act of worth, which haply in her sight
Who was my mistress should recorded be
And of the nations. And, when thus the fight
Faltered and men once bold with faces white
Turned this and that way in excuse to flee,
I only stood, and by the foeman's might
Was overborne and mangled cruelly.
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