"What have I done for you,
England, my England?
What is there I would not do,
England, my own?"
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903), British poet, critic, editor. England, My England (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
"For it's home, dearie, home—it's home I want to be.
Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea.
O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree
They're all growing green in the old countrie."
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903), British poet, critic, editor. Falmouth (l. 23-26). . .
Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company. |
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