Arthur Conan Doyle Stand Poems

  • 1.
    [The French Army, including a part of the Irish Brigade, under Marshal Villeroy, held the fortified town of Cremona during the winter of 1702. Prince Eugene, with the Imperial Army, surprised it one morning, and, owing to the treachery of a priest, occupied the whole city before the alarm was given. Villeroy was captured, together with many of the French garrison. The Irish, however, consisting of the regiments of Dillon and of Burke, held a fort commanding the river gate, and defended themselves all day, in spite of Prince Eugene's efforts to win them over to his cause. Eventually Eugene, being unable to take the post, was compelled to withdraw from the city.]

    The Grenadiers of Austria are proper men and tall;
    The Grenadiers of Austria have scaled the city wall;
    ...
  • 2.
    [Lost, with her crew of three hundred boys, on the last day of her voyage, March 23, 1876. She foundered off Portsmouth, from which town many of the boys came.]

    Up with the royals that top the white spread of her!
    Press her and dress her, and drive through the foam;
    ...
  • 3.
    Who carries the gun?
    A lad from over the Tweed.
    Then let him go, for well we know
    He comes of a soldier breed.
    ...
  • 4.
    What marks the frontier line?
    Thou man of India, say!
    Is it the Himalayas sheer,
    The rocks and valleys of Cashmere,
    ...
  • 5.
    The Eastern day was well-nigh o'er
    When, parched with thirst and travel sore,
    Two of McPherson's flanking corps
    Across the Desert were tramping.
    ...
  • 6.
    It was the hour of dawn,
    When the heart beats thin and small,
    The window glimmered grey,
    Framed in a shadow wall.
    ...
  • 7.
    Christopher Davis was up upon Mavis
    And Sammy MacGregor on Flo,
    Jo Chauncy rode Spider, the rankest outsider,
    But HE'D make a wooden horse go.
    ...
  • 8.
    With acknowledgment to my friend Sir A. Quiller-Couch.

    'Twas in the shadowy gloaming
    Of a cold and wet March day,
    ...
  • 9.
    It's up and away from our work to-day,
    For the breeze sweeps over the down;
    And it's hey for a game where the gorse blossoms flame,
    And the bracken is bronzing to brown.
    ...
Total 9 Stand Poems by Arthur Conan Doyle

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