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 ...
Cicely Fox Smith Poems on Gold (34 Poems)
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 ...
News In Daly’s Bar (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
In Daly's Bar, when night is come, and the lighted gas-lamps glow,All red and gold the drinks do shine, and ...
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 Comrade (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Father, I gave my gold and gear, Cattle and goods full tale,To save my soul from utter dark: ...
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 ...
Songs Of The City (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Hushed is the midnight rush and roar, At rest the pulse that all day long Throbbed onward like the endless ...
A Yarn Of Dan’s (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Now 'ere's a yarn as is true, said Dan, "An' you can't say that o' most:I was in the packet ...
Queen Radegund (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Between the dark and the day,To the King's room where he layWith crucifix and winding-sheet,And chanting brethren two or three,Queen ...
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, ...
Peninsular Ballads: Prologue (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
This is the lot of the English; — in many a page it is written, — To weep for ...
South Africa – 1899 (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Throned like an empress on the south-most height, Keen, clear and brave, her eyes gaze northward farTo where, still ...
New Heavens – New Earth (Christmas, 1916) (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Nigh Bethlehem town poor shepherds heardBeside their cotes a wondrous word:"Nowell, Nowell" (the song did pour),"Nowell, Nowell, from ship to ...
Lumber (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
If I'd got to choose aloneOne of all the freights I've known —All my cargoes live and dead,Bacon pigs and ...
Deep Sea Plunderings (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
If one could be mine for the askingOf all the ships there be,The great and small and swift and tallThat ...
John Company’s Ships (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
John Company's ships, they sailed the seas —The Merchant's Hope and the Trade's Increase ,Globe and Dragon and Hector too,Thames ...
The Song Of The Mill (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
As by the pool I wandered that lies so clear and stillWith tall old trees about it, hard by the ...
A Coral Island (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Girded by wastes of sounding foam, Slumbers unseen the fruitful isle;Day in, day out, the cloudless dome Looks down with ...
Great Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Who were the builders of Great Zimbabwe?No man knows . . .Who were thoseThat quarried, chiseled, hewed,Laid stone on stone,Till ...
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, ...
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 ...
The Caged Monarch (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Prison'd king! What worlds of woe In thy weary, gold-brown eyes —Thoughts of roaming long ago Under Afric's ...
The Clock With One Finger (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
The clock with one finger Was made in the daysWhen time used to linger By leisurely ways —When nobody reckoned(Or ...
The Lost Galleon (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Her decks are drowned in sea-wrack, her guns are sunk in sand,Where she lies in the still water, hard by ...
Spring In Hampshire: 1916 (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Blackthorn winter is over and done with(Pale gold sunsets and brimming rivers,And the robin's note where the bare copse shivers);And ...
The Builders (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Not here the grace of the sonnet's flow,The blithe ballade and the smooth rondeau,The minstrel's tale and the wooer's sighs,And ...
Early Spring (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Swiftly along these woodland ways, Where squirrels scud and thrushes sing,From the long trance of wintry days Wakes ...
The Lost Land (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Widershins and round about Among the gorse and whin!Open, gates o' Fairyland, Ope and let me in!Cold ...
Honour The Brave! (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
England! Not vainly yetThine eyes with sorrow wet For solace crave:Still in hearts true as gold,And, like their fathers, ...
Troll’s Gold (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
O I stood by the watersideAnd heard the stream run by.I saw the gnarled trees stand darkAgainst the pale gold ...