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 ...
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 ...
I had tramped along through dockland till the day was all but spent,But for all the ships I there did ...
In Daly's Bar, when night is come, and the lighted gas-lamps glow,All red and gold the drinks do shine, and ...
In the days when every seaport had its figureheads to show —Queens, princesses, sea-nymphs, witches, girls of all sorts, row ...
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 ...
When I leave this Western ocean, to the South'ard I will steerIn a tall Colonial clipper, far an' far enough ...
By Chinese Charley's junk-store, by the Panama Saloon,Where 'longshore loafers lean and spit, at morning, night, and noon, —All among ...
Eighty men of Devon stood out to sweep the sea, To plough the Spanish Main, my boys, to plough ...
They called 'em from the breakers' yards, the shores of Dead Men's Bay,From coaling wharves the wide world round, red-rusty ...
They called them from the breakers' yards, the shores of Dead Men's Bay,From coaling wharves the wide world round, red-rusty ...
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 ...
All alone I went a-walking by the London Docks one day,For to see the ships discharging in the basins where ...
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 ...
When I was a lad and went to seaIn Seventy-seven or six maybe,There was ten tall ships on MerseysideDid sail ...
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 ...
In a sailormen's restaurant Rotherhithe way,Where the din of the docksides is loud all the day,And the breezes come bringing ...
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 ...
The grey wolf stood in the ruin hoar, The wolf that hunts alone:His shadow lay along the floor, ...
O, hearts leapt up lightly, and steel flashed out ready, When the Light Dragoons formed for combat that day,To ...
The Western Ocean rolls and roarsFrom Sandy Hook to Europe's shores,From Fastnet Light to Portland, Maine,And Newport News and back ...
Fiddler John he used to dwellA long while since, so I've heard tell,In an old thatched house with a leaning ...
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