Off Scarborough (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(SEPTEMBER, 1779)I"Have a care!" the bailiffs cried From their cockleshell that layOff the frigate's yellow side, Tossing on Scarborough Bay,While ...
(SEPTEMBER, 1779)I"Have a care!" the bailiffs cried From their cockleshell that layOff the frigate's yellow side, Tossing on Scarborough Bay,While ...
South Mountain towered on our right, Far off the river lay,And over on the wooded height We held their line ...
It was the good ship Caroline,That ploughed the Channel foam,All for the sake of England's fame,Of country, king, and home.Staunch ...
Trumpeter, what are you scrounging now;Is it the call I'm seeking?The dinner smells good, p'rhaps it's suetty pud,Or they're bringing ...
A capital ship for an ocean tripWas the "Walloping Window Blind"No wind that blew dismayed her crewOr troubled the captain's ...
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death ...
Before our trenches at CambraiWe saw their columns cringe away.We saw their masses melt and reelBefore our line of leaping ...
She hauled through the dock-gates when morning was youngAnd chill on the water the river mist hung,And the chaps on ...
Half a league, half a league,Half a league onward —'That is, unless some damnedAirman has blundered,If the map isn't rightWe'll ...
The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful little explosions and trails of sparks up the back of the chimney. ...
Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool, I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my ...
Through the Plagues of Egyp' we was chasin' Arabi, Gettin' down an' shovin' in the sun; An' you might 'ave ...
(Mobile Columns of the Boer War) Out o' the wilderness, dusty an' dry (Time, an' 'igh time to be trekkin' ...
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. ...
I. Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six ...
'Twas Driver Smith of Battery A was anxious to see a fight; He thought of the Transvaal all the day, ...
What have the cavalry done? Cantered and trotted about, Routin' the enemy out, Causin' the beggars to run! And we ...
The Boers were down on Kimberley with siege and Maxim gun; The Boers were down on Kimberley, their numbers ten ...
The Boers were down on Kimberley with siege and Maxim gun; The Boers were down on Kimberley, their numbers ten ...
Ye sons of Mars, come join with me, And sing in praise of Sir Herbert Stewart's little army, That made ...
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