Antarctica

  Ceaseless frost round the vast solitude 
  Bound its broad zone of stillness. 
   - SHELLEY.

                     And Thor 
  Set his shoulder hard against the stern 
  To push the ship through... 
  ...and the water gurgled in 
  And the ship floated on the waves and rock'd. 

By SIR CLEMENTS R MARKHAM, K.C.B.

  The ice was here, the ice was there, 
  The ice was all around: 
  It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, 
  Like noises in a swound. 
   - COLERIDGE.

by Charles Turley

  And the deed of high endeavour 
    Was no more to the favoured few. 
  But brain and heart were the measure 
    Of what every man might do. 
   - RENNELL RODD.

BY SIR J. M. BARRIE, BART.

                ...Yet I argue not 
  Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot 
  Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer 
  Right onward. 
   - MILTON.