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 ...
In lands that are now forgotten, In the old wild days of yore,The Four Strong Men made compact That they ...
Down at Devine's Hotel — where night and dayThe noises of the harbour find their way,The endless stir of ships ...
I had tramped along through dockland till the day was all but spent,But for all the ships I there did ...
In Daly's Bar, when night is come, and the lighted gas-lamps glow,All red and gold the drinks do shine, and ...
It was the steamship Dinkinbar,From the Gulf of MexicoFor Liverpool in time of warWith a thousand mules below,And a bunch ...
In Salthouse Dock as I did pass one day not long ago,I chanced to meet a sailorman that once I ...
They called 'em from the breakers' yards, the shores of Dead Men's Bay,From coaling wharves the wide world round, red-rusty ...
I had ridden far from the battle, from the red wrack, and the lastLost hope that had clung to hope ...
All alone I went a-walking by the London Docks one day,For to see the ships discharging in the basins where ...
I never did 'ave no use for Germans (said Bill the bosun to me,As he sat on the after hatchway ...
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 ...
As I was walking beside the docks I met a pal o' mineI sailed with once on the Colonies' run ...
A ship there sailed in the nitrate trade,And she went by the name of the Captive Maid . . .Built ...
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 ...
Father, I gave my gold and gear, Cattle and goods full tale,To save my soul from utter dark: ...
Come all you young seamen, take heed now to me,A hard case old sailorman bred to the sea,As had sailed ...
If ghosts should walk in Deptford, as very well they may,A man might find the night there more stirring than ...
Oh, have you been to Rio Grande, or yet to 'Frisco town,Or west away to Mobile Bay where they roll ...
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 ...
Stormy's dead, I heard them say, "he's dead and gone to rest";Of all the skippers I have known old Stormy ...
In Lady Dock, in Lady Dock, the ships from far and wideLay down their loads of fragrant deals the dusky ...
"The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon." Through the years — from the far day of Flodden,From the gardens ...
There's an office back in London, and the dusty sunlight fallsWith its swarms of dancing motes across the floor,On the ...
Houses have ghosts, they say; well like enough they may have — Folks that have lived within their walls ...
If I was a bloke as could paint,Bill said, "which I ain't,Lord! The pictures I'd doOf ships runnin' freeIn the ...
As I looked over the water — as I looked over the foam,I saw an old-time packet-ship come cheerily plunging ...
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