NEW YEAR, be good to England. Bid her name Shine sunlike as of old on all the sea: Make strong her soul: set all her spirit free: Bind fast her homeborn foes with links of shame More strong than iron and more keen than flame: Seal up their lips for shame's sake: so shall she Who was the light that lightened freedom be, For all false tongues, in all men's eyes the same. O last-born child of Time, earth's eldest lord, God undiscrowned of godhead, who for man Begets all good and evil things that live, Do thou, his new-begotten son, implored Of hearts that hope and fear not, make thy span Bright with such light as history bids thee give. @3Jan.@1 1, 1889. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AMERICA: SONNET 2 by SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL SONNET TO A NEGRO IN HARLEM by HELENE JOHNSON THE STORY OF URIAH by RUDYARD KIPLING LONG ISLAND SOUND by EMMA LAZARUS THE COMING STORM' (A PICTURE BY R. S. GIFFORD) by HERMAN MELVILLE |