POEMS,

LEGENDARY AND HISTORICAL.

BY

RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES.

1st baron Houghton

A NEW EDITION.

LONDON:

EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET.

MDCCCXLIV.

LONDON:

BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

Amid the factions of the field of life
The Poet held his little neutral ground,
And they who mixed the deepest in the strife
Their evening way to his seclusion found.

There, meeting oft the antagonists of the day, Who near in mute defiance seemed to stand, He said what neither would be first to say, And, having spoken, left them hand in hand.