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 ...
All on a windy morn in lusty March,Rode Godwin hawking thro' his father's woodsAnd singing as he rode: stalwart was ...
IShe was spoken off Saint Vincent, outward bound . . .Some lumber-laden barque from Puget Sound,Heaving her sodden deck-load through ...
In lands that are now forgotten, In the old wild days of yore,The Four Strong Men made compact That they ...
In Daly's Bar, when night is come, and the lighted gas-lamps glow,All red and gold the drinks do shine, and ...
It was the steamship Dinkinbar,From the Gulf of MexicoFor Liverpool in time of warWith a thousand mules below,And a bunch ...
All alone I went a-walking by the London Docks one day,For to see the ships discharging in the basins where ...
As I was walking beside the docks I met a pal o' mineI sailed with once on the Colonies' run ...
A ship there sailed in the nitrate trade,And she went by the name of the Captive Maid . . .Built ...
We sighted her one day early; the forenoon watch was begun,There was mist like wool on the water, and a ...
A ship there was, and she went to sea(Away O, my Clyde-built clipper!)In eighteen hundred and seventy-three,Fine in the lines ...
Stormy's dead, I heard them say, "he's dead and gone to rest";Of all the skippers I have known old Stormy ...
When you've marshalled your navies and gloried your fillIn the latest they show of invention and skill,The lion in strength ...
Houses have ghosts, they say; well like enough they may have — Folks that have lived within their walls ...
If I was a bloke as could paint,Bill said, "which I ain't,Lord! The pictures I'd doOf ships runnin' freeIn the ...
She wasn't much to brag about, she wasn't much to see,A rusty, crusty hooker as a merchant ship could be;They ...
As I went down the Portsmouth Road, a careless, rambling fellow,The stormcock whistled on the bough, a stave both loud ...
I've loops o' string in the place o' buttons, I've mostly holes for a shirt;My boots are bust and my ...
Ain't it rum? said Dan one day,Yarning while he worked awayAt his model, all but done,Of the clipper ship Keemun ...
Throned like an empress on the south-most height, Keen, clear and brave, her eyes gaze northward farTo where, still ...
I ain't no glutton for work, said Bill, "though I done my whack in my day,An' I'd never say 'No' ...
There's a town I know in Flanders, an' there ain't much else to say,But it's pretty much like most towns ...
This is the ship the Man built . . .In time's grey dawn, by the unsailed sea,Hairy and lonely and ...
In the old raftered loftWhere the winds blowLike thin querulous voicesOut of long ago,And the cobwebs swayTo and fro, to ...
(Baa, baa, black sheep! — whose fault but your ownThat you're here on the western prairie, herding the sheep alone, ...
As I went down by London Bridge(And I not long on land),I met a lad from the North Country,And gripped ...
What says the Lizard, Swinging high his shining spear? . . ."Pass along, my lady, I've known, ye ...
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 ...
I 'ave a conversation book, I brought it out from 'ome;It tells the French for knife and fork, an' likewise ...
As late I went a-walking by the sea,I thought I heard men talking, I heard them call to me:"Oh, sorrow ...
Who were the builders of Great Zimbabwe?No man knows . . .Who were thoseThat quarried, chiseled, hewed,Laid stone on stone,Till ...
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