Christopher Wordsworth

Christopher Wordsworth

Christopher Wordsworth (30 October 1807 – 20 March 1885) was an English intellectual and a bishop of the Church of England.

Quotes

• The spires of Moscow glittering from afar
  In the pale lustre of yon silver star,
  Her steel-clad bastions, and embattled walls,
  Her domes, her fanes, and gold-bespangled halls.
  • The Invasion of Russia, by Napoleon Buonaparte, in The Oriental Herald, vol. 18, no. 56 (August 1828), pp. 231–6

• Thy children, Moscow, rear thy funeral pyre,
  Plant the red torch, and fan the pious fire.
  For wilt thou, wilt thou thy destroyer greet,
  Drest with the garlands of thy own defeat;
  Or bid thy vaulted domes with loud acclaim
  Attune their echoes to a tyrant’s name;
  Or see by feet unblest thy temples trod,
  And blood-red eagles waved above the shrine of God?
  • The Invasion of Russia, by Napoleon Buonaparte

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Christopher Wordsworth on Wikipedia