{"id":140,"date":"2009-02-03T20:13:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T00:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=140"},"modified":"2026-10-13T13:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:23:22","slug":"the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-alfred-lord-tennyson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"The Charge of the Light Brigade – Alfred, Lord Tennyson"},"content":{"rendered":"

1.
\nHalf a league, half a league,
\nHalf a league onward,
\nAll in the valley of Death
\n<\/span>Rode the six hundred.
\n“Forward, the Light Brigade!
\n“Charge for the guns!” he said.
\nInto the valley of Death
\n<\/span>Rode the six hundred.<\/p>\n

2.
\n“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
\nWas there a man dismay’d?
\nNot tho’ the soldier knew
\n<\/span>Someone had blunder’d.
\n<\/span>Theirs not to make reply,
\n<\/span>Theirs not to reason why,
\n<\/span>Theirs but to do and die.
\n<\/span>Into the valley of Death
\n<\/span>Rode the six hundred.<\/p>\n

3.
\nCannon to right of them,
\nCannon to left of them,
\nCannon in front of them
\n<\/span>Volley’d and thunder’d;
\nStorm’d at with shot and shell,
\nBoldly they rode and well,
\nInto the jaws of Death,
\nInto the mouth of Hell
\n<\/span>Rode the six hundred.<\/p>\n

4.
\nFlash’d all their sabres bare,
\nFlash’d as they turn’d in air,
\nSabring the gunners there,
\nCharging an army, while
\n<\/span>All the world wonder’d:
\nPlunged in the battery-smoke
\nRight thro’ the line they broke;
\nCossack and Russian
\nReel’d from the sabre stroke
\n<\/span>Shatter’d and sunder’d.
\nThen they rode back, but not,
\n<\/span>Not the six hundred.<\/p>\n

5.
\nCannon to right of them,
\nCannon to left of them,
\nCannon behind them
\n<\/span>Volley’d and thunder’d;
\nStorm’d at with shot and shell,
\nWhile horse and hero fell,
\nThey that had fought so well
\nCame thro’ the jaws of Death
\nBack from the mouth of hell,
\nAll that was left of them,
\n<\/span>Left of six hundred.<\/p>\n

6.
\nWhen can their glory fade?
\nO the wild charge they made!
\n<\/span>All the world wondered.
\nHonour the charge they made,
\nHonour the Light Brigade,
\n<\/span>Noble six hundred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

excerpt read by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. audio from Poetry Speaks: Expanded. 1. Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! “Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. 2. “Forward, the Light […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-battery-smoke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}