The Siren (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Dear, O homeland, and dear, O sweet land of mine, Dear, yea, very dear, O land of my birth;But ...
Dear, O homeland, and dear, O sweet land of mine, Dear, yea, very dear, O land of my birth;But ...
Fife, fife and drum, and the feet along the highway, Crying: "Follow, O my masters, to the field of ...
Where rest the dead for England? . . .In fields of France afar,And shell-torn plains of Flanders,Once loud with England's ...
Not here the grace of the sonnet's flow,The blithe ballade and the smooth rondeau,The minstrel's tale and the wooer's sighs,And ...
Morn, and a world of wonder! Oh, the timeOf winds like trumpet calls, and seas that gleam,And sounding sunlit roads ...
Brave land of young To-morrow! In hope and strength arise!Draw forth our teeming thousands To dwell 'neath wider ...
So they couldn't save the old Frenchie at the finish,Bill said, "an' now she's gone —Gone, an' left the little ...
O I stood by the watersideAnd heard the stream run by.I saw the gnarled trees stand darkAgainst the pale gold ...
I brood not now upon the printed page, A nobler voice is in mine ears to-night,A voice in every ...
I rather think I would not wish,If I might choose, to be a fish.They cannot play with bat or ball.For ...
When this 'ere war's finished, Bill said,"If we ain't all dead,Most of the crowd's all for quittin' the sea.Joe's goin' ...
England's woods are green to-day;Every day and all day longIn among the trees do strayThe birds' song and the winds' ...
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