The After-Comers

ex noto fictum carmen…
…licuit semperque
licebit signatum præsente nota producere [carmen].
HOR. A. P. 240, 58, 59.

More poems by Robert Traill Spence Lowell

The Brave Old Ship, the Orient

Woe for the brave ship Orient!
Woe for the old ship Orient!
For in broad, broad light, and with land in sight, …
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[September 25, 1857]
O, THAT last day in Lucknow fort!
We knew that it was the last; …