Archibald Thomas Strong
Who is Archibald Thomas Strong
Sir Archibald Thomas Strong (30 December 1876 – 2 September 1930) was an Australian scholar and poet.
Early life
Strong was born at South Yarra, Melbourne, the son of Herbert Strong, professor of classics at the University of Melbourne, and his wife Helen Campbell, née Edmiston.Strong and his family moved to Liverpool, England, in 1883 when Prof. Herbert Strong became professor of Latin at University College, Liverpool.
Archibald was educated at Sedbergh School and University College, Liverpool, where he graduated B.A. in 1896 with first-class honours in classics. Strong then went to Magdalen College, Oxford; however, a long illness prevented any possibility of a first in "Greats". Strong graduated in Literae Humaniores (1900) and spent several months a...
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Archibald Thomas Strong Poems
- Vain Death
ALL the first night she might not weep
But watched till morning came,
And when she slept at dawn, she heard
The dead man call her name.
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- Sonnets Of The Empire:gloriana-s England
Forth sped thy gallant sailors, blithe and free,
Fearing nor foemanâ??s hate, nor iron clime,
Nor Limaâ??s flame, nor Plataâ??s fever-slime,
So they might give thee far Cathay in fee;
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- Sonnets Of The Empire: Australia To England
By all the deeds to Thy dear glory done,
By all the life blood spilt to serve Thy need,
By all the fettered lives Thy touch hath freed,
By all Thy dream in us anew begun;
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- Sonnets Of The Empire: Dawn At Liverpool
The Sunlight laughs along the serried stone
About whose feet the wastrel tide runs free;
Light lie the shipmasts, fairy-like to see,
Athwart the royal cityâ??s splendour thrown; ...
- Australia To England
By all the deeds to Thy dear glory done,
By all the life blood spilt to serve Thy need,
By all the fettered lives Thy touch hath freed,
By all Thy dream in us anew begun; ...
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