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 ...
Cicely Fox Smith Poems on Nature (29 Poems)
Missing (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
IShe was spoken off Saint Vincent, outward bound . . .Some lumber-laden barque from Puget Sound,Heaving her sodden deck-load through ...
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 ...
Fiddler John: A Country Tale (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Fiddler John he used to dwellA long while since, so I've heard tell,In an old thatched house with a leaning ...
Sailor, Sailor – (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
"Sailor, Sailor, why did you go — Why did you go for a sailor?Why didn't ...
Christmas Night (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
IWe shipped a sea on Christmas night — On Christmas night, on Christmas night! — From ...
The Prairie Shepherd (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
(Baa, baa, black sheep! — whose fault but your ownThat you're here on the western prairie, herding the sheep alone, ...
News From The North (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
As I went down by London Bridge(And I not long on land),I met a lad from the North Country,And gripped ...
Hollinshead Hall (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Silent the ruined house, slowly rotting and falling;Empty the great barns, dumb and lifeless and blind;But for the thin voices ...
The Five Ricks (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Five ricks in a rowStand in my father's field, I know,Five ricks beside the hedgeThat marks the long field's topmost ...
Man The Conqueror (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
To the home of primal Nature, to her woodlands wild and bright, Came a race of alien folk,And the virgin ...
The Grand Tour (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I always wished to see the world, I 'ad no chanst before,Nor I don't suppose I should 'ave if there ...
One Summer’s Day (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
High on the bank the tall trees idly dream, Bough and green leaf against an infinite sky,And fleck with ...
Fulfilment (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
The last grim fight was over, the last red trench was wonAbout the taken and re-taken hill,And far beyond the ...
The Siren (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Dear, O homeland, and dear, O sweet land of mine, Dear, yea, very dear, O land of my birth;But ...
The Workers (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Tho' the days of the drowsy hamlet, Of arrow and bow, be done,Tho' we live 'mid forges and foundries, ...
The Windmill (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
High on its curving hillside The windmill stands and seesBelow it copse and pasture And hamlet bowered in ...
Prairie Wind (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I looked out as the dusk fell on the prairie waste and wide,There was no dog that barked there, nor ...
Troll’s Gold (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
O I stood by the watersideAnd heard the stream run by.I saw the gnarled trees stand darkAgainst the pale gold ...
The Enchanted Forest (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
The gnarled boughs hand darkling down, And biers sweep my knees;The moon is low, like a gold lamp, ...
Calm Before Storm (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
There is silence on yon fair valley, And calm on yon purple hill:But the trees are moaning together ...
The Casuarina Tree (Southern Rhodesia) (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Whence came you,Wind from the sea,Singing throughThe casuarina tree?Across what lands forlornWhere your breath passesOver granite and gnarled thornAnd bending ...
Our Country (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
O England, merry England! The whole wide world can showNo land so sweet as England Where'er the four ...
Little Gorilla (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Little Gorilla, why do you look so sad? . . .Are you thinking about the glorious times that you hadIn ...
Bewitched (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
O none may share the sorrow, And none may break the spell,For I ha' crost the weird water ...
The Lowland Sea (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Oh, sailed you by the Goodwins,Oh, came you by the Sound?And saw you there my true love.That was homeward bound?"Oh, ...
Mist (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Between the grey hill and the skyThe chill west wind goes wandering byWhere mists upon the moorland lie,White as wool, ...
The Plovers’ Wind (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
The plovers' wind is blowing — A lusty wind and strongIn viewless torrents going The leafless boughs ...
Flanders’ Woods (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
England's woods are green to-day;Every day and all day longIn among the trees do strayThe birds' song and the winds' ...