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 ...
Down at Devine's Hotel — where night and dayThe noises of the harbour find their way,The endless stir of ships ...
The king was lonely, the king was sad,Sad in his youth, when the world was glad:Sick at heart on his ...
In the days when every seaport had its figureheads to show —Queens, princesses, sea-nymphs, witches, girls of all sorts, row ...
By Chinese Charley's junk-store, by the Panama Saloon,Where 'longshore loafers lean and spit, at morning, night, and noon, —All among ...
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 ...
The ships that trade foreign, to London they bearTheir cargoes unnumbered both common and rare,Their bales and their gunny-sacks, tea-chests ...
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 ...
It was in the high midsummer, and the sun was shining strong,And the lane was rather flinty, and the lane ...
"Sailor, Sailor, why did you go — Why did you go for a sailor?Why didn't ...
There's an office back in London, and the dusty sunlight fallsWith its swarms of dancing motes across the floor,On the ...
This is the lot of the English; — in many a page it is written, — To weep for ...
When I was a lad No more than a nipper ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nigh Bethlehem town poor shepherds heardBeside their cotes a wondrous word:"Nowell, Nowell" (the song did pour),"Nowell, Nowell, from ship to ...
O FAIR to see, scudding with gull-like motion, Or hovering poised on shadowing wings of snow;The ships that won ...
On the scroll of our island's proud story, Where brave deeds shine brightly as stars,You may read of the power ...
The sun and the clouds above them Their lights and shadows weave,And nought on earth shall glad them ...
Who hath heard the legions tramping? Who hath heard the chargers champing? Who hath looked upon the arming ...
Hearken, hearken, hearken!Give ear, O ye nations, from afarTo the voice of the children of the Lion,As they gather from ...
Seized from strong foes by England's might, Gleaned from the world's-end far and wide,The trappings and the pomp of fight ...
I'm weary of the summer lanes, and of the blackbird's lay;I'm weary of the red cock that crows at dawn ...
I always wished to see the world, I 'ad no chanst before,Nor I don't suppose I should 'ave if there ...
Oh, sweet is life in living, And earth is fair and sweet,When limbs are strong and supple, And ...
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