Macaulay as Poet. Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864). Descriptive Poems: I. Personal: Great Writers. Bliss Carman, et al., eds. 1904. The World's Best Poetry. VII. Descriptive: Narrative

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VII. Descriptive: Narrative. 1904.

Descriptive Poems: I. Personal: Great Writers

Macaulay as Poet

Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)


THE DREAMY rhymer’s measured snore
Falls heavy on our ears no more;
And by long strides are left behind
The dear delights of womankind,
Who wage their battles like their loves,	5
In satin waistcoats and kid gloves,
And have achieved the crowning work
When they have trussed and skewered a Turk.
Another comes with stouter tread,
And stalks among the statelier dead.	10
He rushes on, and hails by turns
High-crested Scott, broad-breasted Burns;
And shows the British youth, who ne’er
Will lag behind, what Romans were,
When all the Tuscans and their Lars	15
Shouted, and shook the towers of Mars.