Bathed in war's perfume -- delicate flag! (Should the days needing armies, needing fleets, come again,) O to hear you call the sailors and the soldiers! flag like a beautiful woman! O to hear the tramp, tramp, of a million answering men! O the ships they arm with joy! O to see you leap and beckon from the tall masts of ships! O to see you peering down on the sailors on the decks! Flag like the eyes of women. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WOLF AND THE DOG by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A CHARACTER by ALFRED TENNYSON ROOTS AND LEAVES THEMSELVES ALONE by WALT WHITMAN PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 93. AL-NOOR by EDWIN ARNOLD MAGDALEN by GEORGE KENYON ASHENDON THREE THROWS AND ONE by JANE BARLOW |