If perhaps these rhymes of mine should sound not well in strangers' ears, They have only to bethink them that it happens so with theirs; For so long as words, like mortals, call a fatherland their own, They will be most highly valued where they are best and longest known. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ORACLES by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN THE MAN-OF-WAR HAWK by HERMAN MELVILLE FAREWELL TO CYNTHIA by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS ON A YOUNG BRIDE DROWNED IN THE BOSPHORUS by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS |