The Rhyme Of The Four Strong Men (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
In lands that are now forgotten, In the old wild days of yore,The Four Strong Men made compact That they ...
Cicely Fox Smith Poems on Fairness (40 Poems)
The King’s Grief (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
The king was lonely, the king was sad,Sad in his youth, when the world was glad:Sick at heart on his ...
The Three Ships (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I had tramped along through dockland till the day was all but spent,But for all the ships I there did ...
How We Took The Great Galleon (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Eighty men of Devon stood out to sweep the sea, To plough the Spanish Main, my boys, to plough ...
The Fight Of The Caroline (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
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 ...
Small Craft (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
When Drake sailed out from Devon to break King Phillip's pride,He had great ships at his bidding and little ones ...
Lieutenant Shellback R.N.R. (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
He has learnt the ways of the ships at seaIn most of the sorts of ships there be, —In most ...
Coastwise (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
The ships that trade foreign, to London they bearTheir cargoes unnumbered both common and rare,Their bales and their gunny-sacks, tea-chests ...
The Lay Of The White Heifer (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Home from the fields the kine came slowly winding, Thro' the soft summer twilight, calm and still,Up the steep ...
Might Have Been (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
If I was a bloke as could paint,Bill said, "which I ain't,Lord! The pictures I'd doOf ships runnin' freeIn the ...
The Ballad Of Rosalie (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
There came a knight to the river-side — Ah, Rosalie!With his false cousin at his side — Ah, ...
Bill Brewster (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
In Burke's Saloon, among the crowd,I heard Bill Brewster boasting loud,Boasting loud and boasting longA lot of longshore stiffs among.And ...
Luck (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Lucksaid Dan,"Never no luckcome my way, sonny!None o' them widders with a nice little pileLookin' for a sailor manLooked at ...
The Gordons At Dargai (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Gallant Gordons! Evermore on your rugged native shore Shall your valour honoured be,For a fight well fought and won ...
Rolling Home (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Oh, there's places up and down that are queer and quaint and pretty;Sydney's a pleasant port, Frisco's a giddy city;But ...
Ciudad Rodrigo (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
"Who's for the breach?" they said,At the chill dark close of a wintry day,"For the Light Division who ...
The Five Ricks (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Five ricks in a rowStand in my father's field, I know,Five ricks beside the hedgeThat marks the long field's topmost ...
Paradise Street (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
As I was a-walking down Paradise Street,A bonny young maiden I chanced for to meet;She gave me good-morning all as ...
A Contrast (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I wandered in a garden-square, By pathways walled with straight-clipt yew,And over-arched by jasmine fair, ...
Whom The Gods Love (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Oh, sweet is life in living, And earth is fair and sweet,When limbs are strong and supple, And ...
Streets (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Many streets have the citiesNear and far,Underneath the tropic sunAnd Northern star . . .Wide streets and narrow streets,Grim streets ...
Conall’s Daughter (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Wind from the eastward whose breath goes seaward surely Over the cold grey rollers that hold me apart,Would I ...
Omdurman (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
September 9, 1898Glory for these glad tidings, far and near, That come to-day across the plunging main;Shattered the Dervish ...
The Plains Of Mexico (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
There's a country wild and weary, and a scorching sun looks downOn the thirsty cattle ranges and a queer old ...
The Fairies’ Child (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
She lived beside the edge of a sweep of heather In a lone cot by the rill,Where the wold ...
The Eve Of Battle (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
We're a score of men together To drink to the days of yore,To the little joys and sorrows ...
By The Old Pagoda Anchorage [1924] (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
By the old Pagoda Anchorage they lay full fifteen strong,And their spars were like a forest, and their names were ...
A Castle In Spain (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
On a hill-top brown it stands:One side, open tablelands Stretch to meet the sky:On the other, winding dales,Prospects fair ...
Sailor’s Farewell (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Lovely is the white town, and smiling it liesWith little green gardens underneath the blue skies,Days so full of sunshine, ...
The Calling Of The Birds (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Have you heard the seagull calling, the seagull out at sea? And sorry is its voice, though its wings ...