The Quest Of The Queen (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
All on a windy morn in lusty March,Rode Godwin hawking thro' his father's woodsAnd singing as he rode: stalwart was ...
All on a windy morn in lusty March,Rode Godwin hawking thro' his father's woodsAnd singing as he rode: stalwart was ...
IShe was spoken off Saint Vincent, outward bound . . .Some lumber-laden barque from Puget Sound,Heaving her sodden deck-load through ...
Eighty men of Devon stood out to sweep the sea, To plough the Spanish Main, my boys, to plough ...
As I was walking beside the docks I met a pal o' mineI sailed with once on the Colonies' run ...
Now farewell, you kindly folk, For our rest is ended:Out into the wind and rainGo the roving men again, ...
When Drake sailed out from Devon to break King Phillip's pride,He had great ships at his bidding and little ones ...
O, hearts leapt up lightly, and steel flashed out ready, When the Light Dragoons formed for combat that day,To ...
Twelve o' the clock! the nightmare hours Crawl through my brain like years;All the hot sleepless night I hear ...
Father, I gave my gold and gear, Cattle and goods full tale,To save my soul from utter dark: ...
He has learnt the ways of the ships at seaIn most of the sorts of ships there be, —In most ...
From where the City's seething tide Rolls on unceasing, day by day,To yonder soaring dome aside A little turn, a ...
Ever the story liveth of the fight on the far hillside,Fraught with the ancient sorrow that is brother born of ...
Oh, have you been to Rio Grande, or yet to 'Frisco town,Or west away to Mobile Bay where they roll ...
There's an office back in London, and the dusty sunlight fallsWith its swarms of dancing motes across the floor,On the ...
Home from the fields the kine came slowly winding, Thro' the soft summer twilight, calm and still,Up the steep ...
Flag that has flown o'er a thousand fields victorious,Flag that art first on the land and the seas,When hast thou ...
I MOTHER of ...
Out of the sword's swift lightning, And the cannon's withering breath,And the legions stern and eager, And the ...
Oh, it is not in the papers and we cannot always knowWhere to find the Silent Service whose address is ...
They laid him down, — the soldier slain in war, —Fresh from the midnight flame, the midnight roar,To sleep his ...
The old flag's flying from the rampart, The old flag's blown upon the breeze,And the old shame's blotted from ...
I wandered in a garden-square, By pathways walled with straight-clipt yew,And over-arched by jasmine fair, ...
Oh, sweet is life in living, And earth is fair and sweet,When limbs are strong and supple, And ...
Close-locked in fight, — beat by battle's raging passion, A stern wall of steel on a hillside drenched with ...
They brought her to the crowded paddock, The red sun glinting on skin like jet,Lightning, the winner of twenty ...
We're a score of men together To drink to the days of yore,To the little joys and sorrows ...
We the vanguard of a nation in the lands of desolation, We who live and die unknown,We who ...
Long after the shadow of war is fled And the last battle is foughtMen will remember the Little ...
Why do you smile so glad, sons of the English? Why do your eyes gaze forward, happy and glowing?"Only ...
Beside the Shanghai river,Alone with the Veldt and sky,The heroes of Wilson's patrolBy the shrines of the heathen lie,The sons ...
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