English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 662. Home-thoughts, from the Sea |
| | | Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
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| NOBLY, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-west died away; | |
| Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay; | |
| Bluish ’mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay; | |
| In the dimmest North-east distance dawn’d Gibraltar grand and gray; | |
| ‘Here and here did England help me: how can I help England?’—say, | 5 |
| Whoso turns as I, this evening, turn to God to praise and pray, | |
| While Jove’s planet rises yonder, silent over Africa. | |
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