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 Success (45 Poems)
How We Took The Great Galleon (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Eighty men of Devon stood out to sweep the sea, To plough the Spanish Main, my boys, to plough ...
The Waters Of Oblivion (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I had ridden far from the battle, from the red wrack, and the lastLost hope that had clung to hope ...
The Charge Of The 23rd Light Dragoons At Talavera (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
O, hearts leapt up lightly, and steel flashed out ready, When the Light Dragoons formed for combat that day,To ...
Saint Paul’s (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
From where the City's seething tide Rolls on unceasing, day by day,To yonder soaring dome aside A little turn, a ...
Isandula (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Ever the story liveth of the fight on the far hillside,Fraught with the ancient sorrow that is brother born of ...
Bullington (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
It was in the high midsummer, and the sun was shining strong,And the lane was rather flinty, and the lane ...
Sold Foreign (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
In Lady Dock, in Lady Dock, the ships from far and wideLay down their loads of fragrant deals the dusky ...
The Red Rose (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
"The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon." Through the years — from the far day of Flodden,From the gardens ...
Peninsular Ballads: Prologue (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
This is the lot of the English; — in many a page it is written, — To weep for ...
Torpedo Boats (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
There be poets in plenty have sung in the praiseOf the famous old names out of Old Navy days,Of Victory, ...
Mafeking (May 16th, 1900) (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Flag that has flown o'er a thousand fields victorious,Flag that art first on the land and the seas,When hast thou ...
Sailor’s Picture Model (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Yonder she sails on her paper sea —Masts just a trifle too tall, maybe —Chain-plates and whiskers, all, in short,That ...
South Africa – 1899 (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Throned like an empress on the south-most height, Keen, clear and brave, her eyes gaze northward farTo where, still ...
New Heavens – New Earth (Christmas, 1916) (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Nigh Bethlehem town poor shepherds heardBeside their cotes a wondrous word:"Nowell, Nowell" (the song did pour),"Nowell, Nowell, from ship to ...
Saint George Of England (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Saint George he was a fighting man, as all the tales do tell;He fought a battle long ago, and fought ...
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 ...
Then And Now (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
O FAIR to see, scudding with gull-like motion, Or hovering poised on shadowing wings of snow;The ships that won ...
The Song Of The Mill (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
As by the pool I wandered that lies so clear and stillWith tall old trees about it, hard by the ...
The Convalescent (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
We've billiards, bowls an' tennis courts, we've teas an' motor-rides;We've concerts nearly every night, an' 'eaps o' things besides;We've all ...
God’s Gift (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Out of the sword's swift lightning, And the cannon's withering breath,And the legions stern and eager, And the ...
True Blue (Song for Music) (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
On the scroll of our island's proud story, Where brave deeds shine brightly as stars,You may read of the power ...
The Burial Of General Craufurd At Ciudad Rodrigo (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
They laid him down, — the soldier slain in war, —Fresh from the midnight flame, the midnight roar,To sleep his ...
Whom The Gods Love (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Oh, sweet is life in living, And earth is fair and sweet,When limbs are strong and supple, And ...
The Die-Hards: Albuera (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Close-locked in fight, — beat by battle's raging passion, A stern wall of steel on a hillside drenched with ...
Omdurman (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
September 9, 1898Glory for these glad tidings, far and near, That come to-day across the plunging main;Shattered the Dervish ...
Diamond Jubilee (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Clang out, wild bells, your glad acclaim:Roar, deep-mouthed cannon, honour to her name!To her whom England loves to hailOldest and ...
The Vanguard (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
We the vanguard of a nation in the lands of desolation, We who live and die unknown,We who ...
The Bond Of Brotherhood (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Not for their grandsires' homes they fell, — For names passed down from sire to son;Not for the soil ...
The Broken Brigade (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
We who are gone from the lands that are dear to us, We who were merry in days that ...