The Ballad Of The (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
It was the steamship Dinkinbar,From the Gulf of MexicoFor Liverpool in time of warWith a thousand mules below,And a bunch ...
It was the steamship Dinkinbar,From the Gulf of MexicoFor Liverpool in time of warWith a thousand mules below,And a bunch ...
It was the good ship Caroline,That ploughed the Channel foam,All for the sake of England's fame,Of country, king, and home.Staunch ...
Did you see the poor old hooker, by the ocean wharf she lay?Her decks are foul with harbour grime, she ...
This is the lot of the English; — in many a page it is written, — To weep for ...
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 ...
Not for the wealth of thy teeming markets, Roaring factory, thronging way,Stern strong city of toil and commerce ...
As by the pool I wandered that lies so clear and stillWith tall old trees about it, hard by the ...
This is the Song of the Sword, A proud and a ringing song,The song of the tempered blade ...
Hearken, hearken, hearken!Give ear, O ye nations, from afarTo the voice of the children of the Lion,As they gather from ...
Oh, Grimsby is a pleasant town as any man may find,An' Grimsby wives are thrifty wives, an' Grimsby girls are ...
They laid him down, — the soldier slain in war, —Fresh from the midnight flame, the midnight roar,To sleep his ...
When the racing sea-tides flow, And the strong ships seaward go,When the voice of the ocean's crying, And the ...
Great captains of the bygone days, — Whose spirits 'mid our spirits lurk, —Who fearless trod the ocean ways, Look ...
Queen of the waves of ocean, Sister to stars and dew,Flung wide to the sun and tempest, A ...
It is the close of day:Over the hill and townThe sun goes down:Clearly from hillside fields with evening grayI hear ...
The rally round the mother-land Is spreading far and near,For to every loyal Englishman That mother-land is dear.Although ...
Why do you smile so glad, sons of the English? Why do your eyes gaze forward, happy and glowing?"Only ...
Daily the sound of the drums and trumpets' braying Tolled out a victim's knell:Daily above the bosom bared for ...
A health to our soldiers and sailors true That guard Britannia's throne;To England under the southern blue, To ...
Drake looked out to the English shoreFrom the port of Dead Man's Bay;He heard the din and the thunder of ...
Where rest the dead for England? . . .In fields of France afar,And shell-torn plains of Flanders,Once loud with England's ...
If I might leave this harbour, if I might cross the sea,'Tis I that know full well where a little ...
She took her tide and she passed the Bar with the first o' the morning light;She dipped her flag to ...
In the seagirt land of the North,By the endless ebb and flow of the streaming tide,The tower keeps silent ...
Where the Cape frowns out o'er the waters, Staunchly she takes her stand,With the flag that the English follow ...
O England, merry England! The whole wide world can showNo land so sweet as England Where'er the four ...
Oh, sailed you by the Goodwins,Oh, came you by the Sound?And saw you there my true love.That was homeward bound?"Oh, ...
I saw the mowers swingingTheir scythes in the English hay . . . What swathes of dead are lyingIn fields ...
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