 | The poems (1925) |  |
II.
In England, Shaw sees nothing but.
“Corruption raging like a dire disease,
And sighs and groans come winged by ev'ry breeze,”
And sighs and groans come winged by ev'ry breeze,”
and then addresses his readers thus.
“Britannia see abandon'd to despair,
Unplume her martial brows, and tear her hair!
Those eyes that with stern majesty look'd down,
On vanquish'd worlds, that trembled at her frown!
Now drown'd in tears, ingloriously confess
No ray of power, no passion but distress.”
Unplume her martial brows, and tear her hair!
Those eyes that with stern majesty look'd down,
On vanquish'd worlds, that trembled at her frown!
Now drown'd in tears, ingloriously confess
No ray of power, no passion but distress.”
| The poems (1925) | |