SPEAK once again, with that great note of thine, Hero withdrawn from Senates and their sound Unto thy home by Cambria's northern bound, -- Speak once again, and wake a world supine. Not always, not in all things, was it mine To follow where thou led'st: but who hath found Another man so shod with fire, so crowned With thunder, and so armed with wrath divine? Lift up thy voice once more! The nation's heart Is cold as Anatolia's mountain snows. O, from these alien paths of dire repose Call back thy England, ere thou too depart -- Ere, on some secret mission, thou too start With silent footsteps, whither no man knows. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS EDEN BOWER by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI SEVEN SAD SONNETS: 1. THE HAPPENING by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS THE BIRDS: THE WEDDING CHANT by ARISTOPHANES SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 1 by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 2. THE FLOWER ASLEEP by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) TWELVE SONNETS: 4. LONELY SEASONS by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |