To Ronald Ross
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
To Ronald Ross is a poem written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in The Poems of Arthur Conan Doyle by John Murray on 21 september 1922.
Editions
- in The Poems of Arthur Conan Doyle - Collected Edition (21 september 1922, John Murray [UK])
- in The Poems of Arthur Conan Doyle - Collected Edition (14 september 1928, John Murray [UK])
To Ronald Ross
[Who was torpedoed in the Gulf of Corinth in 1917, and was thus enabled to visit Parnassus.]
I've read of many poets, Latin, Greek,
And bards of Tarragona or Toledo,
But you, dear Ross, are surely quite unique,
Blown to Parnassus by a Boche torpedo.