<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348273" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnets of the Empire:Gloriana’s England</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forth sped thy gallant sailors, blithe and free, <br>Fearing nor foeman’s hate, nor iron clime, <br>Nor Lima’s flame, nor Plata’s fever-slime, <br>So they might give thee far Cathay in fee; <br>Yet swept thy poets o’er a vaster sea, <br>’Neath fairer gales to Indies more sublime, <br>Questing along the golden shores of Rhyme <br>For all the treasure of eternity. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">One will, one end, one pulse of deep desire, <br>Drove Hudson through the ice to joy and death, <br>Sped Drake to glory through the long South roll: <br>And kindled Marlowe’s eager heart with fire, <br>Set Spenser voyaging ’neath the spirit’s breath, <br>And won the world for Shakespeare’s captain soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Archibald+Thomas+Strong">Archibald Thomas Strong</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=348273" data-title="Sonnets of the Empire:Gloriana’s England de Archibald Thomas Strong" data-description="Forth sped thy gallant sailors, blithe and free, Fearing nor foeman’s hate, nor iron clime, Nor Lima’s flame, nor Plata’s fever-slime, So they might give thee far Cathay in fee; Yet swept thy poets o’er a vaster sea, ’Neath fairer g..."></div> </div> </div>

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