Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.
Mortal CombatMary Elizabeth Coleridge (18611907)
I
I fought you as the devil fights.
Whatever fortune God may send,
For once I set the world to rights.
And stabb’d you twice and twice again,
Because you dared take off your crown,
And be a man like other men.