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 ...
In lands that are now forgotten, In the old wild days of yore,The Four Strong Men made compact That they ...
It was the steamship Dinkinbar,From the Gulf of MexicoFor Liverpool in time of warWith a thousand mules below,And a bunch ...
In Salthouse Dock as I did pass one day not long ago,I chanced to meet a sailorman that once I ...
In the field the farm-folk call, One and ...
I had ridden far from the battle, from the red wrack, and the lastLost hope that had clung to hope ...
It was the good ship Caroline,That ploughed the Channel foam,All for the sake of England's fame,Of country, king, and home.Staunch ...
I never did 'ave no use for Germans (said Bill the bosun to me,As he sat on the after hatchway ...
O, hearts leapt up lightly, and steel flashed out ready, When the Light Dragoons formed for combat that day,To ...
Now farewell, you kindly folk, For our rest is ended:Out into the wind and rainGo the roving men again, ...
When Drake sailed out from Devon to break King Phillip's pride,He had great ships at his bidding and little ones ...
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 ...
This is the yarn that M'Larty told by the brazier fire,Where over the mud-filled trenches the star-shells blaze and expire ...
Hushed is the midnight rush and roar, At rest the pulse that all day long Throbbed onward like the endless ...
From where the City's seething tide Rolls on unceasing, day by day,To yonder soaring dome aside A little turn, a ...
When you've marshalled your navies and gloried your fillIn the latest they show of invention and skill,The lion in strength ...
It was in the high midsummer, and the sun was shining strong,And the lane was rather flinty, and the lane ...
"The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon." Through the years — from the far day of Flodden,From the gardens ...
There's an office back in London, and the dusty sunlight fallsWith its swarms of dancing motes across the floor,On the ...
'Er keel was laid in Seventy-four,Let 'er go — let 'er go!They built 'er cheap, an' they scamped 'er sore,'Er ...
As I looked over the water — as I looked over the foam,I saw an old-time packet-ship come cheerily plunging ...
To-day, as when the musket-rattle O'er Belgian lowlands spoke,And 'mid the rush and roar of battle The famed ...
Take the boat to the bounds of the ocean, Away to the ends of the earth:We've a heritage no one ...
I MOTHER of ...
There's a town I know in Flanders, an' there ain't much else to say,But it's pretty much like most towns ...
Nigh Bethlehem town poor shepherds heardBeside their cotes a wondrous word:"Nowell, Nowell" (the song did pour),"Nowell, Nowell, from ship to ...
Saint George he was a fighting man, as all the tales do tell;He fought a battle long ago, and fought ...
A man there was, called — what you will; he came of an ancient breed:Sprung from the loins of the ...
Squadron on squadron came galloping on, Furiously charging, and sweeping the field,The squares were hard pressed and the cavalry ...
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