<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sir William Gomm: Sonnets</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.<br>AT threescore years and five aroused anew<br>To rule in India, forth a soldier went<br>On whose bright-fronted youth fierce war had spent<br>Its iron stress of storm, till glory grew<br>Full as the red sun waned on Waterloo.<br>Landing, he met the word from England sent<br>Which bade him yield up rule: and he, content,<br>Resigned it, as a mightier warrior’s due;<br>And wrote as one rejoicing to record<br>That ‘from the first’ his royal heart was lord<br>Of its own pride or pain; that thought was none<br>Therein save this, that in her perilous strait<br>England, whose womb brings forth her sons so great,<br>Should choose to serve her first her mightiest son.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Glory beyond all flight of warlike fame<br>Go with the warrior’s memory who preferred<br>To praise of men whereby men’s hearts are stirred,<br>And acclamation of his own proud name<br>With blare of trumpet-blasts and sound and flame<br>Of pageant honour, and the titular word<br>That only wins men worship of the herd,<br>His country’s sovereign good: who overcame<br>Pride, wrath, and hope of all high chance on earth,<br>For this land’s love that gave his great heart birth.<br>O nursling of the sea-winds and the sea,<br>Immortal England, goddess ocean-born,<br>What shall thy children fear, what strengths not scorn,<br>While children of such mould are born to thee?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Algernon+Charles+Swinburne">Algernon Charles Swinburne</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342064" data-title="Sir William Gomm: Sonnets de Algernon Charles Swinburne" data-description="I. AT threescore years and five aroused anew To rule in India, forth a soldier went On whose bright-fronted youth fierce war had spent Its iron stress of storm, till glory grew Full as the red sun waned on Waterloo. Landing, he met the word from E..."></div> </div> </div>

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