Poem Lake | The Greatest Poems of All Time

The Return of Napoleon from St - Helena by Lydia Huntley Sigourney Ho! city of the gay! Paris! what festal rite Doth call thy thronging million forth, All eager for the sight? Thy soldiers line the streets In fixed and stern array, With buckled helm and bayonet, As on the battle-day. By... Poet:	Napoleon and the British Sailor I Love contemplating—apart From all his homicidal glory— The traits that soften to our heart Napoleon’s glory! ’T was when his banners at Boulogne Armed in our island every freeman, His navy chanced to capture one Poor British... Poet: Thomas Campbell	The Bronze Statue of Napoleon Anonymous translation from the French THE WORK is done! the spent flame burns no more, The furnace fires smoke and die, The iron flood boils over. Ope the door, And let the haughty one pass by! Roar, mighty river, rush upon your course, A... Poet: Henri Auguste Barbier	Napoleon From the French from Fraser’s Magazine “Tu domines notre âge; ange ou démon, qu’importe!” ANGEL or demon! thou—whether of light The minister, or darkness—still dost sway This age of ours; thine eagle’s soaring flight Bears us, all breathless,... Poet: Victor Hugo
Napoleon From “Childe Harold,” Canto III. THERE sunk the greatest, nor the worst of men, Whose spirit antithetically mixed One moment of the mightiest, and again On little objects with like firmness fixed, Extreme in all things! hadst thou been betwixt,... Poet: Lord Byron