Ellina, the Bride of Montross (poemat Williama Vicarsa Lawrance’a)
Ellina, the Bride of Montross - a poem by an American lawyer, prose writer and poet William Vicars Lawrance, published in 1873 by Riverside Press. The work was dedicated to General Wells S. Jones. It consists of six parts: The Meeting, The Capture, The Prison, The Escape, The Mountain Camp and The Bridal. The poem is preceded by Introduction, written in the Spessorist stanza. These are but pictures of the things that were And are, and live in memories fresh and bright; No visions painted of the empty air, That take their shadings in our fancy's light; But such as live forever in the sight Of eyes that saw in all their darkness shown, Of hearts that felt, amid this horror's night, The depths of grief unfathomable, known To those who suffered in the shock alone. Na stronie tytułowej widnieje motto: Who dares and does not win,/Fails not so far as he who never dares,/ Or, daring wins unworthily. In one volume with the poem Ellina, the Bride of Montross was released the song Ian...