Showing posts with label Admiral Nelson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Admiral Nelson. Show all posts

Monday, September 5, 2016

happy warrior


Wordsworth's Admiral Lord Nelson poem :
Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he
That every man in arms should wish to be?
—It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought
Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought
Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought:
Whose high endeavours are an inward light
That makes the path before him always bright;
Who, with a natural instinct to discern
What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn;
Abides by this resolve, and stops not there,
But makes his moral being his prime care;
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain,
And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train!
Turns his necessity to glorious gain ...
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Friday, March 11, 2016

Nelson and Wellington


The only thing Napoleon liked about being incarcerated on St. Helena was the coffee.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Saturday, October 31, 2009

"Thank God I have done my duty."


J.M.W. Turner's H.M.S. Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805.

Reputed to be Nelson's [1758-1805] final words.