"As, near Porto Bello lying, On the gently swelling flood, At midnight, with streamers flying, Our triumphant navy rode."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
"Admiral Hosier's Ghost", st. 1 (1739)<!--;
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Glover_(poet)
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Richard Glover (poet)
Richard Glover (1712 – 25 November 1785) was an English poet and politician.
6 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Richard Glover (poet) →
Related Quotes
"Heed, oh heed! my fatal story, I am Hosier's injur'd ghost; You who now have purchas'd glory At this place where I wa…"
"To have fall'n, my country crying, He has play'd an English part, Had been better far than dying Of a griev'd and bro…"
"Sent in this foul clime to languish Think what thousands fell in vain, Wasted with disease and anguish, Not in glorio…"
"Hence with all my train attending From their oozy tombs below, Through the hoary foam ascending Here I feed my consta…"
"After this proud foe subduing, When your patriot friends you see, Think on vengeance for my ruin, And for England sha…"
""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"
"Auribus immensis quondam donatus asellus institit ut caudam posset habere parem. cauda suo capiti quia se conferre ne…"
"Daddy Neptune one day to Freedom did say, If ever I live upon dry land, The spot I should hit on wou'd be little Brit…"
"Then a very great war man, call'd Billy the Norman, Cried "D--n it, I never lik'd my land.""
"The Dons came to plunder the island; But, snug in the hive, the Queen was alive, And "buzz" was the word in the island."