Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ENGLAND TO FREE MEN, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poet's Biography First Line: Men of my blood, you english men! Last Line: Come inbefore my clock strikes twelve! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain | ||||||||
MEN of my blood, you English men! From misty hill and misty fen, From cot, and town, and plough, and moor, Come inbefore I shut the door! Into my courtyard paved with stones That keep the names, that keep the bones, Of none but English men who came Free of their lives, to guard my fame. I am your native land who bred No driven heart, no driven head; I fly a flag in every sea Round the old Earth, of Liberty! I am the Land that boasts a crown; The sun comes up, the sun goes down And never men may say of me, Mine is a breed that is not free. I have a wreath! My forehead wears A hundred leavesa hundred years I never knew the words: "You must!" And shall my wreath return to dust? Freemen! The door is yet ajar; From northern star to southern star, O ye who count and ye who delve, Come inbefore my clock strikes twelve! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OXFORD IN WAR-TIME by LAURENCE BINYON EXPEDITIONAL by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB LINES WRITTEN IN SURREY, 1917 by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE A CHANT OF LOVE FOR ENGLAND by HELEN GRAY CONE ENGLAND'S ENEMY by JOHN FREEMAN THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1776 by MAURICE HENRY HEWLETT SUBALTERNS: A SONG OF OXFORD by MILDRED HUXLEY TO THE OXFORD MEN IN THE WAR by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY |
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