The Old-Timer (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Times, they say, must change, and folks must change with 'em too:That's how it is in the West, now the ...
Times, they say, must change, and folks must change with 'em too:That's how it is in the West, now the ...
It was before the hour of dawn, Ere the birds 'gan to sing,There came to Galahad's chamber The ...
I don't 'old with grousin' about weather,Nor never did, that's flat:I jus' takes the good an' bad togetherAn' lets it ...
When the thunder of the battle rolls no more, And the last bugles blow o'er the plain,They'll be many ...
Shipmates o' mine, are you sleeping fair an' sound, Mates fair an' foul, friend an' foe,Lyin' where lost ships ...
By Murphy's Hotel as I loitered alongI heard an old shellback a-singing his song,A crazy old chorus, a song of ...
Beside the Shanghai river,Alone with the Veldt and sky,The heroes of Wilson's patrolBy the shrines of the heathen lie,The sons ...
We're all buying SpitfiresAs fast as we can buySpitfires and HurricanesFor battles in the sky . . . The girls ...
Hans Dans an' me was shipmates once, an' shared the wind an' weather,An' many a job o' work in them ...
Don't you take no sail off 'er,The Ol' Man said,Wind an' sea rampagin'Fit to wake the dead, — Thrashin' through ...
A health to our soldiers and sailors true That guard Britannia's throne;To England under the southern blue, To ...
A pub there is of far renown,A pub that seamen knowIn every street of SailortownOr sea where they in ships ...
O it's "ah fare ye well," for the deep sea's crying,You thought you could forget it, but it's no use ...
I think some spiteful fairyMy natal day did graceAnd leave me for a dowryA sympathetic face.Or why do people tell ...
Fife, fife and drum, and the feet along the highway, Crying: "Follow, O my masters, to the field of ...
Ships are like folks, said Murphy, "the way there's good an' badAn' weak an' strong among 'em, an' steady ones ...
Gather ye, galloping cross-country riders, Saddle your horses and arm for the right;Show now the scoffers and fireside deriders ...
Silent they stood upon that stranded wreck Fast on a hidden shoal,Drawn up in line upon the leaning deck ...
By the Liverpool Docks at the break of the day,I saw a flash packet, bound westward away;And well did I ...
We in our citied ease, Far from the noise of war,Often we think on you, Sentries by gates ...
When gorse-pods are popping And heather's in bloomAnd nuts begin dropping In coppice and cwm,Then down through the valleysThat echoed ...
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 ...
'Frisco City's grand and gay (Sacramento, Sacramento!) And the roaring night's as bright as dayAnd many ships go, small and ...
Who will drink a health with me?Drink together, messmates all!To the men who sat aforetime Where we sit to-night;Brothers they, ...
Beneath the golden eagle's shade Gleam restless eyes of steely grey,That look out calmly, unafraid, From brows deep-tann'd ...
Here the inscrutable purpose of my God Set me, to be to men a thing of hate,Watching the way where ...
Tho' the days of the drowsy hamlet, Of arrow and bow, be done,Tho' we live 'mid forges and foundries, ...
Brave land of young To-morrow! In hope and strength arise!Draw forth our teeming thousands To dwell 'neath wider ...
Fraser river's flooding high,Cold and deep and cruel flowing,All lonely stand the hills nearby,And man may drown and no one ...
Ho, ye valiant mariners, ho, my merry men,Sought ye gems of Ophir, or gold of Darien?Sank ye in the outer ...
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