The Fighting Merchantmen (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
As I looked over the water — as I looked over the foam,I saw an old-time packet-ship come cheerily plunging ...
As I looked over the water — as I looked over the foam,I saw an old-time packet-ship come cheerily plunging ...
With genuflexions to Kipling's _"The Ladies"_We've taken our cooks where we've found 'em; We've answered many an ad;We've had our ...
I HAVE a little kinsman Whose earthly summers are but three, And yet a voyager is he Greater than Drake ...
Oh, the auld house, the auld house, What tho' the rooms were wee! Oh, kind hearts were dwelling there, And ...
The pigeons of the Abbey, the pigeons of Saint Paul's,That woo in windy niches of grey and grimy walls,The pearl-grey ...
'Tis true, I'have lov'd already three or four, And shall three or four hundred more; I'll ...
IN THE EAST INDIES,BEWAILS THE MISERIES BOUGHT UPON HIS COUNTRY.HIS SONG. FROM Balagata's wavy browThe Genius cast his eyes below,Survey'd ...
Droppin' down to Rio on a buckin' wooden tramp;Takin' water for'r'd till her rotten planks were damp;Pitchin' like a bronco ...
Forth sped thy gallant sailors, blithe and free, Fearing nor foeman's hate, nor iron clime, Nor Lima's flame, ...
West and away the wheels of darkness roll, Day's beamy banner up the east is borne,Spectres and fears, the nightmare ...
WE deem them moderate, but Enough implore, What barely will suffice, and ask no more: Who say, (O Jove) a ...
When I am in New York, I like to drop around at night, To visit with my honest, genial friends, ...
A Mine there is no Man would own But must it be conferred, Demeaning by exclusive wealth A Universe beside ...
There is fog upon the river, there is mirk upon the town; You can hear the groping ferries as they ...
WILL ye go to the Indies, my Mary, And leave auld Scotia's shore? Will ye go to the Indies, my ...
HAIL, thairm-inspirin', rattlin' Willie! Tho' fortune's road be rough an' hilly To every fiddling, rhyming billie, We never heed, But ...
This English Thames is holier far than Rome, Those harebells like a sudden flush of sea Breaking across the woodland, ...
Let Dew, house of Dew rejoice with Xanthenes a precious stone of an amber colour. Let Round, house of Round ...
"Poet and veteran of childhood, look! See in me the obscene, for you have love, For you have hatred, you, ...
Over the borders, a sin without pardon, Breaking the branches and crawling below, Out through the breach in the wall ...
On the Victory Obtained by Blake over the Spaniards in the Bay of Santa Cruz, in the Island of Tenerife, ...
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