The Rhyme Of The Four Strong Men (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
In lands that are now forgotten, In the old wild days of yore,The Four Strong Men made compact That they ...
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 ...
The king was lonely, the king was sad,Sad in his youth, when the world was glad:Sick at heart on his ...
A ship there sailed in the nitrate trade,And she went by the name of the Captive Maid . . .Built ...
When Drake sailed out from Devon to break King Phillip's pride,He had great ships at his bidding and little ones ...
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 ...
"The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon." Through the years — from the far day of Flodden,From the gardens ...
In Lady Dock, in Lady Dock, the ships from far and wideLay down their loads of fragrant deals the dusky ...
He had done with fleets and squadrons, with the restless, roaming seas,He had found the quiet haven he desired,And he ...
'Er keel was laid in Seventy-four,Let 'er go — let 'er go!They built 'er cheap, an' they scamped 'er sore,'Er ...
There be poets in plenty have sung in the praiseOf the famous old names out of Old Navy days,Of Victory, ...
Yonder she sails on her paper sea —Masts just a trifle too tall, maybe —Chain-plates and whiskers, all, in short,That ...
I MOTHER of ...
Of all the names of ford and town,Hamlet and bridge and furzy down.That makes sweet music to the earBy troutful ...
About the dead dark o' the night,Ere the first cock clapped his wing,The Hun Lord's soul had wandered far —A ...
I 'ave a conversation book, I brought it out from 'ome;It tells the French for knife and fork, an' likewise ...
'There's a deal o' ports,' said Murphy, 'an' I guess I've sampled most,Round about the Gulf o' Guinea, and up ...
Signing on in the Emerald IsleUp comes a bloke in shellback style,All fish hooks spunyarn and Stockholm tar,Fist like a ...
Across the field, beyond the church. You see the sign post stand.And towards the highway lean and lurch. ...
Oh, sweet is life in living, And earth is fair and sweet,When limbs are strong and supple, And ...
To Arms! the maddening bugles call; Make ready-ready for the fray.Be true to Britain, one and all, We ...
Clang out, wild bells, your glad acclaim:Roar, deep-mouthed cannon, honour to her name!To her whom England loves to hailOldest and ...
Guido Sebaldi the mason Worked at a house of stone:Guido Sebaldi the mason Sand at his work alone.Till ...
When the racing sea-tides flow, And the strong ships seaward go,When the voice of the ocean's crying, And the ...
All honour be to merchantmen,And ships of all degree,In warlike dangers manifoldWho sail and keep the sea, —In peril of ...
Times, they say, must change, and folks must change with 'em too:That's how it is in the West, now the ...
Beside the Shanghai river,Alone with the Veldt and sky,The heroes of Wilson's patrolBy the shrines of the heathen lie,The sons ...
In Animal House (by which title I callA dwelling whose true name is not that at all)There are dogs on ...
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