The Old Ships (1919) (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
They called 'em from the breakers' yards, the shores of Dead Men's Bay,From coaling wharves the wide world round, red-rusty ...
They called 'em from the breakers' yards, the shores of Dead Men's Bay,From coaling wharves the wide world round, red-rusty ...
They called them from the breakers' yards, the shores of Dead Men's Bay,From coaling wharves the wide world round, red-rusty ...
When Drake sailed out from Devon to break King Phillip's pride,He had great ships at his bidding and little ones ...
He has learnt the ways of the ships at seaIn most of the sorts of ships there be, —In most ...
There be poets in plenty have sung in the praiseOf the famous old names out of Old Navy days,Of Victory, ...
Oh, down by Millwall Basin as I went the other day, I met a skipper that I knew, and to ...
Seized from strong foes by England's might, Gleaned from the world's-end far and wide,The trappings and the pomp of fight ...
Oh, it is not in the papers and we cannot always knowWhere to find the Silent Service whose address is ...
We in our citied ease, Far from the noise of war,Often we think on you, Sentries by gates ...
Hark, the bugles call us out! Hark, the chargers restless neigh!Who will tread the beaten track? Who will ...
Over the hills of heather Wakens the windy morn,In the island of Inisfalen Where my fathers were bred and born.Round ...
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