Poem by Louise Imogen Guiney

Writ in My Lord Clarendon’s “History of the Rebellion”

How life hath cheapened, and how blank
The Worlde is! like a fen
Where long ago unstainèd sank
The starrie gentlemen:
Since Marston Moor and Newbury drank
King Charles his gentlemen.

If Fate in any air accords
What Fate denied, O then
I ask to be among your Swordes,
My joyous gentlemen;
Towards Honour’s heaven to goe, and towards
King Charles his gentlemen!

1. The Old Dial of Corpus
2. Winter Boughs
3. A Friend’s Song for Simoisius
4. Friendship Broken
5. Heathenesse

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