WHAT is the strength of England, and her pride Among the nations, when she makes her boast? Has the East heard it, where her far-flung host Hangs like a javelin in India's side? Does the sea know it, where her navies ride, Like towers of stars, about the silver coast, Or from the great Capes to the uttermost Parts of the North like ocean meteors glide? Answer, O South, if yet where Gordon sank, Spent arrow of the far and lone Soudan, There comes a whisper out of wasted death! O every ocean, every land, that drank The blood of England, answer, if ye can, What is it that giveth her immortal breath? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...W'EN I GITS HOME by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 5 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI IMPROMPTU: TO FRANCES GARNET WOLSELEY by ALFRED AUSTIN EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 1. THE MARVELLOUS SEED OF LOVE by PHILIP AYRES IN MEMORIAM, NINTH OF AB by BEN AVROM HE DIED FOR ME by GEORGE WASHINGTON BETHUNE PSALM 7; UPON WORDS OF CHUSH THE BENJAMITE; AUGUST 14, 1653 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |