Paul Jones House (R J Gilker Poems)
Portsmouth will you forget the manWho helped to glorify thy name,And guided to a foreign strandYour ship, your flag, your ...
Portsmouth will you forget the manWho helped to glorify thy name,And guided to a foreign strandYour ship, your flag, your ...
A Skipper of mark was Von Muller,The humorous naval leg-puller.With ubiquitous easeHe raided the seasAnd his bag became fuller and ...
"THOU, bright Futurity! whose prospect beams, In dawning radiance on our day-light dreams; Whose lambent meteors and ethereal forms Gild ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
``Come and listen to my ditty.'' On that fam'd and ancient station Where to Thames the Medway runs, When in ...
When PHARAOH chased the chosen Jew, and perished in the sea,Things seemed to hint at failure in the PHARAOH policy.For ...
(Battleships of the Coronation Naval Review, Spithead, England, June 24,1911.) Hail, sceptered Mars, great god of wars! ...
Away with those whimsical bubbles of airWhich only excite a momentary stare;Attention to plans of utility pay,Weigh anchor, and steer ...
BRAVE Nelson 's successor in naval command,The first in the rank of those heroes must stand,Who are now to pass ...
El alto golfo de Leon navega Garin, y en tablas de inmortal memoria Ve de romana gente, y persa, y ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
PREFACE If---and the thing is wildly possible---the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
The perilous yellow sun follows with its slant eyes masts of the shuddered grove steaming up to capsize in the ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
Alas! Lord and Lady Dalhousie are dead, and buried at last, Which causes many people to feel a little downcast; ...
Alas! Now o'er Britannia there hangs a gloom, Because over 400 British Tars have met with a watery tomb; Who ...
'Twas on the 22nd of March, in the year 1885, That the Arabs rushed like a mountain torrent in full ...
Ye sons of Mars, come list to me, And I will relate to ye A great and heroic naval fight, ...
Ye sons of Mars, come join with me, And sing in praise of Sir Herbert Stewart's little army, That made ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
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