The Voyage Of The 'ophir' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIHI JKJKLMLM ANONPQRQ| Men of our race we send you one | A |
| Round whom Victoria's holy name | B |
| Is halo from the sunken sun | A |
| Of her grand Summer's day aflame | B |
| The heart of your loved Motherland | C |
| To them she loves as her own blood | D |
| This Flower of Ocean bears in hand | C |
| Assured of gift as good | E |
| - | |
| Forth for our Southern shores the fleet | F |
| Which crowns a nation's wisdom steams | G |
| That there may Briton Briton greet | F |
| And stamp as fact Imperial dreams | G |
| Across the globe from sea to sea | H |
| The long smoke pennon trails above | I |
| Writes over sky how wise will be | H |
| The Power that trusts to love | I |
| - | |
| A love that springs from heart and brain | J |
| In union gives for ripest fruit | K |
| The concord Kings and States in vain | J |
| Have sought who played the lofty brute | K |
| And fondly deeming they possessed | L |
| On force relied and found it break | M |
| That truth once scored on Britain's breast | L |
| Now keeps her mind awake | M |
| - | |
| Australian Canadian | A |
| To tone old veins with streams of youth | N |
| Our trust be on the best in man | O |
| Henceforth and we shall prove that truth | N |
| Prove to a world of brows down bent | P |
| That in the Britain thus endowed | Q |
| Imperial means beneficent | R |
| And strength to service vowed | Q |
George Meredith
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about The Voyage Of The 'ophir' poem by George Meredith
Best Poems of George Meredith