Category: Poetry
As will be observed in the following pages, Mr. Cousins not only excels as a sonneteer; but in “The Legend of the Blemished King” he performs the remarkable feat of producing a poem of classical character, containing forty-eight stanzas, cast perfectly in the no less difficult...
’Twas thus--and thus, when thrice a year had sped King Fergus of his blemish happed to know:-- “I go to mine ablutions (so he said Unto his bond-maid), girl, the task you know O...
1. CANTO IV 42As will be observed in the following pages, Mr. Cousins not only excels as a sonneteer; but in “The Legend of the Blemished King” he performs the remarkable feat of producing a...
2. CANTO I.Eastward in Eireann lay the Lough of Rory. The Moon, like some pale huntress, landward led Her white-toothed hounds betwixt the promontory And its far twin. Thither King Fergus...
3. CANTO II.Thenceforth, King Fergus, strong in power new born, Recked not a restful hour, but, passion-fired, And strong in strength un’customed, night and morn Probed to the farthest deep...
4. CANTO III.Not far the sun had fallen, when he drew The chargers’ reins beside the circling sweep Of Royal walls. The gathering clansmen knew From foam and steam no slow and leisured creep...