My northern blood exults to face
The rapture of this rough embrace,
Glowing in every vein to feel
The cordial caress of steel
From spear-blue air and sword-blue sea,
Armour of England's liberty.

(C) Alfred Austin
03/10/2017


Best Poems of Alfred Austin

• To Arms!
• Agatha
• Victoria
• An Autumn Homily
• Dead!
• A Te Deum
• Mafeking
• Longing
• Sorrow-s Importunity
• The Lover-s Song
• Before, Behind, And Beyond
• Invocation
• At Shelley-s Grave
• Free
• At Delphi
• A Meeting
• Primroses
• Love-s Fitfulness
• A Question
• Sisyphus