The Three Ships (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I had tramped along through dockland till the day was all but spent,But for all the ships I there did ...
I had tramped along through dockland till the day was all but spent,But for all the ships I there did ...
I never did 'ave no use for Germans (said Bill the bosun to me,As he sat on the after hatchway ...
A ship there sailed in the nitrate trade,And she went by the name of the Captive Maid . . .Built ...
Twelve o' the clock! the nightmare hours Crawl through my brain like years;All the hot sleepless night I hear ...
He has learnt the ways of the ships at seaIn most of the sorts of ships there be, —In most ...
Hushed is the midnight rush and roar, At rest the pulse that all day long Throbbed onward like the endless ...
Between the dark and the day,To the King's room where he layWith crucifix and winding-sheet,And chanting brethren two or three,Queen ...
Gallant Gordons! Evermore on your rugged native shore Shall your valour honoured be,For a fight well fought and won ...
As I went down by London Bridge(And I not long on land),I met a lad from the North Country,And gripped ...
Five boats there was, says Bristol Tim, "in the steamship Albacore — She used to sail on the Far East ...
Oh, it is not in the papers and we cannot always knowWhere to find the Silent Service whose address is ...
I don't know who Saint Mawes was, but he surely can't have beenA stiff old stone gazebo on a carved ...
They brought her to the crowded paddock, The red sun glinting on skin like jet,Lightning, the winner of twenty ...
Oh, some will save their Navy pay and take their ease ashoreAnd some will sit at an office desk and ...
All honour be to merchantmen,And ships of all degree,In warlike dangers manifoldWho sail and keep the sea, —In peril of ...
Across the veld the homeless wind goes wailing, O'er leagues of heath and grassland wild and brown,And the broad ...
When gorse-pods are popping And heather's in bloomAnd nuts begin dropping In coppice and cwm,Then down through the valleysThat echoed ...
She took her tide and she passed the Bar with the first o' the morning light;She dipped her flag to ...
'Frisco City's grand and gay (Sacramento, Sacramento!) And the roaring night's as bright as dayAnd many ships go, small and ...
Hark, the bugles call us out! Hark, the chargers restless neigh!Who will tread the beaten track? Who will ...
Fare you well, you Sydney girls, time for us to go!The Peter's at the fore truck, and five thousand bales ...
Thou, mounted on thy gallant steed, A mighty man dost ride,And I, thy little serving-boy, Run singing at ...
Ships . . . they go, said Murphy, "like a spent pay-roll . . . They're sunk in the deep ...
IHere, a soldier plain, I kneel,Sword on thigh, spur on heel.If I fall or if I stand,Lord, my times are ...
Good-night! the horn's faint musicThrough the twilight fades away:The cold night mists come creeping —O'er the fields we've ranged all ...
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