The Battle of Talavera

When Almanzor, the Moorish King of Seville, ravaged Gallicia, the divine interposition preserved, by a miraculous storm of lightning, the temple of Compostella from plunder and...

These lines were written before the intentions of government as to the hero’s funeral were known, or probably had been fixed; but I could not refrain from expressing my hope tha...

Hot and impetuous they pursued, And wild with carnage, drunk with blood, Rush’d on the plain below; The wily Frenchman saw and stood-- Screen’d by the verges of the wood He turn...

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Period of honour as of woes, What bright careers ’twas thine to close!-- Mark’d on thy roll of blood what names To Britain’s memory, and to Fame’s, Laid there their last immorta...