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 ...
The king was lonely, the king was sad,Sad in his youth, when the world was glad:Sick at heart on his ...
In the days when every seaport had its figureheads to show —Queens, princesses, sea-nymphs, witches, girls of all sorts, row ...
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 ...
Now farewell, you kindly folk, For our rest is ended:Out into the wind and rainGo the roving men again, ...
We sighted her one day early; the forenoon watch was begun,There was mist like wool on the water, and a ...
Ever the story liveth of the fight on the far hillside,Fraught with the ancient sorrow that is brother born of ...
When you've marshalled your navies and gloried your fillIn the latest they show of invention and skill,The lion in strength ...
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 sword of the Lord, and of Gideon." Through the years — from the far day of Flodden,From the gardens ...
He had done with fleets and squadrons, with the restless, roaming seas,He had found the quiet haven he desired,And he ...
Oh, down by Millwall Basin as I went the other day, I met a skipper that I knew, and to ...
I MOTHER of ...
Nigh Bethlehem town poor shepherds heardBeside their cotes a wondrous word:"Nowell, Nowell" (the song did pour),"Nowell, Nowell, from ship to ...
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 Witch-wife dwells by the Northern Sea And it's oh but the wind pipes shrill!Alone on the waveworn shore ...
Queens' ships, Queens' ships.Gloriana's mariners,Putting forth to seaAfire to beard the SpaniardWherever he may be .Hanging on the Plate fleets' ...
Seized from strong foes by England's might, Gleaned from the world's-end far and wide,The trappings and the pomp of fight ...
I've put the old mare's tail in plaits &mdash now ain't she lookin' gay,With ribbons in 'er mane likewise, you'd ...
To Arms! the maddening bugles call; Make ready-ready for the fray.Be true to Britain, one and all, We ...
As I was a-walking on Chilbolton Down,I saw an old farmer there driving to town,A-jogging to market behind his old ...
Clang out, wild bells, your glad acclaim:Roar, deep-mouthed cannon, honour to her name!To her whom England loves to hailOldest and ...
Grey gloom the storm-clouds in the Orient far, Foreshadowing dark and anxious hours to be,Where Britain's rivals to her ...
Queen of the waves of ocean, Sister to stars and dew,Flung wide to the sun and tempest, A ...
It was before the hour of dawn, Ere the birds 'gan to sing,There came to Galahad's chamber The ...
IN the hedgerow, in the hollow, between the brown hills,When all with dark and shadows the silent valley fills,'Tis there ...
Prison'd king! What worlds of woe In thy weary, gold-brown eyes —Thoughts of roaming long ago Under Afric's ...
Beside the Shanghai river,Alone with the Veldt and sky,The heroes of Wilson's patrolBy the shrines of the heathen lie,The sons ...
Daily the sound of the drums and trumpets' braying Tolled out a victim's knell:Daily above the bosom bared for ...
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