Retrospect (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Ain't it rum? said Dan one day,Yarning while he worked awayAt his model, all but done,Of the clipper ship Keemun ...
Ain't it rum? said Dan one day,Yarning while he worked awayAt his model, all but done,Of the clipper ship Keemun ...
The "Bride" o' Leith swings out to sea, Breasting the snow-white foam,And the pier is thronged with waving hands, ...
All in the slime of the stagnant Arm, the mouldering slips beside,Where dark as sin slinks out and in the ...
Flag that has flown o'er a thousand fields victorious,Flag that art first on the land and the seas,When hast thou ...
To-day, as when the musket-rattle O'er Belgian lowlands spoke,And 'mid the rush and roar of battle The famed ...
Yonder she sails on her paper sea —Masts just a trifle too tall, maybe —Chain-plates and whiskers, all, in short,That ...
Take the boat to the bounds of the ocean, Away to the ends of the earth:We've a heritage no one ...
I ain't no glutton for work, said Bill, "though I done my whack in my day,An' I'd never say 'No' ...
Saint George he was a fighting man, as all the tales do tell;He fought a battle long ago, and fought ...
A man there was, called — what you will; he came of an ancient breed:Sprung from the loins of the ...
If I'd got to choose aloneOne of all the freights I've known —All my cargoes live and dead,Bacon pigs and ...
This is the ship the Man built . . .In time's grey dawn, by the unsailed sea,Hairy and lonely and ...
In the old raftered loftWhere the winds blowLike thin querulous voicesOut of long ago,And the cobwebs swayTo and fro, to ...
Lucksaid Dan,"Never no luckcome my way, sonny!None o' them widders with a nice little pileLookin' for a sailor manLooked at ...
Not for the wealth of thy teeming markets, Roaring factory, thronging way,Stern strong city of toil and commerce ...
About the dead dark o' the night,Ere the first cock clapped his wing,The Hun Lord's soul had wandered far —A ...
"Who's for the breach?" they said,At the chill dark close of a wintry day,"For the Light Division who ...
Squadron on squadron came galloping on, Furiously charging, and sweeping the field,The squares were hard pressed and the cavalry ...
O FAIR to see, scudding with gull-like motion, Or hovering poised on shadowing wings of snow;The ships that won ...
It was the old Vindictive out of Dover put to sea,And she sailed to the Lowlands low,With cruisers and with ...
As by the pool I wandered that lies so clear and stillWith tall old trees about it, hard by the ...
To the home of primal Nature, to her woodlands wild and bright, Came a race of alien folk,And the virgin ...
The gipsy wife came to my door with pegs and brooms to sellThey make by many a roadside fire and ...
Follow, follow, you who sicken where the throngs pulsate and thicken, Leave your doubting and your dreaming and your ...
Out of the sword's swift lightning, And the cannon's withering breath,And the legions stern and eager, And the ...
This is the Song of the Sword, A proud and a ringing song,The song of the tempered blade ...
Thro' the roaring dark of the tempest We had struggled the whole night long,With seas that broke on the ...
The sun and the clouds above them Their lights and shadows weave,And nought on earth shall glad them ...
'There's a deal o' ports,' said Murphy, 'an' I guess I've sampled most,Round about the Gulf o' Guinea, and up ...
The watchfires died away from the bivouac on the hill,And o'er the mountain-tops the dawn crept cold and slow,And in ...
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