O SHIP of Liberty! Our hearts go forth with thee. Not with the thunder of guns Shalt thou assault the Huns; Not through the winter drear Shalt thou keep vigil clear Where lies the caged foe, His fleet a futile show; Not thine to leap the wave With instinct of the brave, Hunting the hidden craft That aims the coward shaft. No; but not less thine aid To Freedom's cause is made. Across the winter waste Thy eager breath shall haste To bear our heart-sent food To Freedom's brotherhood; To take thy share of souls That Freedom war-ward rolls -- The strange, new tide that breaks On France's shore and shakes From their foundation stones The tottering Teuton thrones. O Ship of Liberty! Our hearts go forth with thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM THE SEA by ROBERT BROWNING SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 110 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI SACRIFICE by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL THE NEW TIMON AND THE POETS by ALFRED TENNYSON NOW PRECEDENT SONGS, FAREWELL by WALT WHITMAN BEVERLY SHORE IN WINTER by THOMAS GOLD APPLETON THE LAST MAN by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE WRITTEN ON RETURNING TO THE P. OF I. ON 10 JANUARY 1827 by EMILY JANE BRONTE |