Summary
The speaker goes into more specific detail about her vision of God. She depicts it as a force present at every level of existence, causing all creation and action. She links this image to her idea of the eternal.
Analysis
In the later part of the poem, the speaker offers a more specific idea of God's all-powerful presence. She describes all of the different ways in which God is omnipresent while also looming large above all creation. This is important to her own faith, as her image of God is such a powerful one. For her, her belief is tied to an undeniable power.
She opens the fifth stanza with a statement about God's omnipotence: "With wide-embracing love / Thy spirit animates eternal years." The phrase "animates eternal years" means that he wills every part of the world into being. However, the speaker's inclusion of the phrase "wide-embracing love" suggests that God does so as an act of generosity, not out of a desire to display power. She then lists more aspects of God's influence: "Pervades and broods above, / Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates and rears." The line "pervades and broods above" implies that God is present in all things. The list of verbs in the next line ("changes, sustains, dissolves, creates and rears") is an attempt to capture the totality of what God is involved in. As the list suggests, the range is unthinkably wide. In the speaker's mind, God is everywhere. The next stanza amplifies this idea: "Though earth and moon were gone / And suns and universes ceased to be / And Thou wert left alone / Every Existence would exist in thee." The speaker is saying that in the event that every planet and star disappeared, leaving the universe empty, all parts of existence would still be present in God. This fits with the earlier idea that God is present in every action that occurs, as these lines suggest that he is the summation of everything in the universe.
The final stanza closes on this same idea: "There is not room for Death / Nor atom that his might could render void." For the speaker, God has power over every "atom" in such a way that negates "death" itself, as He is eternal. The last two lines delve deeper into this depiction: "Since thou art Being and Breath / And what thou art may never be destroyed." This ties back to the speaker's repeated descriptions of God's immortality and eternality. She is presenting him as something that exists everywhere and has no end. While the focus of the poem seems to shift here, it is actually hugely important to the speaker's early declaration of faith. She portrays her faith as strong and certain precisely because the thing she believes in is so all-powerful. She draws security from the knowledge that she has a connection to such an omnipotent force.
As its title clearly shows, "No Coward Soul Is Mine" is a poem about the speaker's religious fervor. Throughout the poem, she depicts her faith in God as an unshakably solid thing. She feels this largely informed by the undeniable fact of his omnipotence and immortality. She finds power in feeling a bond with this incredible force that animates the universe.
