Ships That Pass (An Episode Of The Cruiser Patrol) (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
We sighted her one day early; the forenoon watch was begun,There was mist like wool on the water, and a ...
Cicely Fox Smith Poems (461 Poems)
Words Of Wisdom (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Come all you young seamen, take heed now to me,A hard case old sailorman bred to the sea,As had sailed ...
Ghosts In Deptford (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
If ghosts should walk in Deptford, as very well they may,A man might find the night there more stirring than ...
Lieutenant Shellback R.N.R. (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
He has learnt the ways of the ships at seaIn most of the sorts of ships there be, —In most ...
After Preston Fight (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Twelve o' the clock! the nightmare hours Crawl through my brain like years;All the hot sleepless night I hear ...
The Comrade (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Father, I gave my gold and gear, Cattle and goods full tale,To save my soul from utter dark: ...
Galloping Horses (After The Flower Show) (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Come for the prizesAll are allotted, Leaving the ranks ofCut flowers and potted, ...
The Clyde-Built Clipper (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
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 ...
The Ballad Of The Only Love (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Oh, have you been to Rio Grande, or yet to 'Frisco town,Or west away to Mobile Bay where they roll ...
A Declaration Of War (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
This is the yarn that M'Larty told by the brazier fire,Where over the mud-filled trenches the star-shells blaze and expire ...
Coastwise (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
The ships that trade foreign, to London they bearTheir cargoes unnumbered both common and rare,Their bales and their gunny-sacks, tea-chests ...
Songs Of The City (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Hushed is the midnight rush and roar, At rest the pulse that all day long Throbbed onward like the endless ...
Saint Paul’s (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
From where the City's seething tide Rolls on unceasing, day by day,To yonder soaring dome aside A little turn, a ...
Isandula (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Ever the story liveth of the fight on the far hillside,Fraught with the ancient sorrow that is brother born of ...
Old Stormy (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Stormy's dead, I heard them say, "he's dead and gone to rest";Of all the skippers I have known old Stormy ...
Light Cruisers (Old) (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
When you've marshalled your navies and gloried your fillIn the latest they show of invention and skill,The lion in strength ...
A Yarn Of Dan’s (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Now 'ere's a yarn as is true, said Dan, "An' you can't say that o' most:I was in the packet ...
Queen Radegund (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
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 ...
The Lay Of The White Heifer (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Home from the fields the kine came slowly winding, Thro' the soft summer twilight, calm and still,Up the steep ...
The Haunted Ship (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Houses have ghosts, they say; well like enough they may have — Folks that have lived within their walls ...
Odyssey (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
It's all very well these 'ere blessed flim-flammers — These 'ere bloomin' OMERS an' suchlikeWritin' books about the ol' ...
Might Have Been (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
If I was a bloke as could paint,Bill said, "which I ain't,Lord! The pictures I'd doOf ships runnin' freeIn the ...
Poor Old Ship (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
She wasn't much to brag about, she wasn't much to see,A rusty, crusty hooker as a merchant ship could be;They ...
Bullington (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
It was in the high midsummer, and the sun was shining strong,And the lane was rather flinty, and the lane ...
Sold Foreign (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
In Lady Dock, in Lady Dock, the ships from far and wideLay down their loads of fragrant deals the dusky ...
The Red Rose (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
"The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon." Through the years — from the far day of Flodden,From the gardens ...
The Portsmouth Road (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
As I went down the Portsmouth Road, a careless, rambling fellow,The stormcock whistled on the bough, a stave both loud ...
Sailor, Sailor – (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
"Sailor, Sailor, why did you go — Why did you go for a sailor?Why didn't ...
The Call 2 (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
There's an office back in London, and the dusty sunlight fallsWith its swarms of dancing motes across the floor,On the ...
The Ballad Of Rosalie (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
There came a knight to the river-side — Ah, Rosalie!With his false cousin at his side — Ah, ...