At Gibraltar (George Edward Woodberry Poems)
IEngland, I stand on thy imperial ground,Not all a stranger; as thy bugles blow,I feel within my blood old battles ...
IEngland, I stand on thy imperial ground,Not all a stranger; as thy bugles blow,I feel within my blood old battles ...
COME, tumble up, Lord Nelson, the British Fleet's a-looming!Come, show a leg, Lord Nelson, the guns they are a-booming!'Tis a ...
LAURELS, bring laurels, sheaves on sheaves, Till England's boughs are bare of leaves! Soon comes the flower more ...
TELL me what prince, detested of mankind,By force of terror Magna Charta signed?Tell me what poet struck his sounding lyre,And ...
THE Sun tells to Trafalgar Square His old and radiant story, And touches in the young spring air ...
You yell at everything; you yell and yell:You would be horrified if all went well.You yelled at Papandreou, worthy man,A ...
THE daughter of Augustus name, Who, though belov'd and fair,Was sent to mourn her spotted fame, Far from ...
IN grappled ships around The Victory, Three boys did England's Duty with stout cheer, While one dread truth was kept ...
1.-For Downing StreetWe do not think that everything is well,But we do know the obstacles are large;So we are worried ...
At last, in spite of you, the picture's plain:At last the world knows where to look for 'lies'.Why don't you ...
"A Priest in Spite of Himself" "How far is St. Helena from a little child at play!" What makes you ...
See you the ferny ride that steals Into the oak-woods far? O that was whence they hewed the keels That ...
I'll tell you a seafaring story, Of a lad who won honour and fame Wi' Nelson at Battle 'Trafalgar, Joe ...
"ROWSES, Rowses! Penny a bunch!" they tell you-- Slattern girls in Trafalgar, eager to sell you. Roses, roses, red in ...
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget; For we are the people of England, that ...
Who was frightened by a Passing Motor, and was brought to Reason "Oh murder! What was that, Papa!" "My child, ...
I. My heart sank with our Claret-flask, Just now, beneath the heavy sedges That serve this Pond's black face for ...
Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-west died away; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay; Bluish ...
Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, ...
TO mute and to material things New life revolving summer brings; The genial call dead Nature hears, And in her ...
As I stood upon London Bridge and viewed the mighty throng Of thousands of people in cabs and 'busses rapidly ...
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