Bathed in war's perfume -- delicate flag! (Should the days needing armies, needing fleets, come again,) O to hear you call the sailors and the soldiers! flag like a beautiful woman! O to hear the tramp, tramp, of a million answering men! O the ships they arm with joy! O to see you leap and beckon from the tall masts of ships! O to see you peering down on the sailors on the decks! Flag like the eyes of women. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SUMMER DAYS by WATHEN MARK WILKS CALL VOLPONE: TO CELIA by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS THE KINGFISHER by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES MESSIAH; A SACRED ECLOGUE IN IMITATION OF VIRGIL'S POLLIO by ALEXANDER POPE THE SPINNING-WHEEL [SONG] by JOHN FRANCIS WALLER LOST LOVE'S FLIGHT by DONN BORING TO THE DUKE OF DORSET by GEORGE GORDON BYRON EPITAPH ON THE LADY SALTER, WIFE TO SIR WILLIAM SALTER by THOMAS CAREW TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A MESSAGE COMMITTED TO THE WAVES by EDWARD CARPENTER |