The Poetry Corner

Home-Thoughts, From The Sea

By Robert Browning

Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-west died away; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay; Bluish mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay; In the dimmest North-east distance dawned Gibraltar grand and gray; Here and here did England help me: how can I help England? say, Whoso turns as I, this evening, turn to God to praise and pray, While Joves planet rises yonder, silent over Africa.