Richard Francis Burton Long Poems

• 1. The First Song
  A POET writ a song of May
  That checked his breath awhile;
  He kept it for a summer day,
  Then spake with half a smile:
  ...
• 2. The Forefather
  HERE at the country inn,
  I lie in my quiet bed,
  And the ardent onrush of armies
  Throbs and throbs in my head.
  ...
• 3. The Polar Quest
  UNCONQUERABLY, men venture on the quest
  And seek an ocean amplitude unsailed,
  Cold, virgin, awful. Scorning ease and rest,
  And heedless of the heroes who have failed,
  ...

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