Poems of Byron selected by Paul Muldoon

Author:Lord Byron [Byron, Lord]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-02-25T18:09:19.285000+00:00

Besides there were the Spaniard, Dutch, and Dane;

In short, an universal shoal of shades

From Otaheite’s Isle to Salisbury Plain,

Of all climes and professions, years and trades,

Ready to swear against the good king’s reign,

Bitter as clubs in cards are against spades:

All summon’d by this grand ‘subpoena,’ to

Try if kings mayn’t be damn’d, like me or you.

When Michael saw this host, he first grew pale,

As angels can; next, like Italian twilight,

He turned all colours – as a peacock’s tail,

Or sunset streaming through a Gothic skylight

In some old abbey, or a trout not stale,

Or distant lightning on the horizon by night,

Or a fresh rainbow, or a grand review

Of thirty regiments in red, green, and blue.

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