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Cicely Fox Smith's Poetry, by first line

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  • War Risks
    "Let go aft" . . . and out she slides,
    Pitching when she meets the tides . . .
    33 lines
  • The Red Rose
    "The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon."
    Through the years — from the far day of Flodden,
    70 lines
  • The Call
    There's an office back in London, and the dusty sunlight falls
    With its swarms of dancing motes across the floor,
    27 lines
  • The Day's Work
    "A woman's work is never done,
    Or so I've heard," said Dan;
    49 lines
  • Retrospect
    "Ain't it rum?" said Dan one day,
    Yarning while he worked away
    62 lines, 2 comments
  • Bill's Choice
    "All that sort o' guff," said Bill, "they may keep
    About 'ow nice it is bein' buried at sea,
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • Boys
    "B'ys is the divvle," says Chips, says he,
    "Plaguey young varmints as ever I see,
    16 lines
  • The Bugle-Call
    "Beware! Beware!"
    The shrilling bugles blare.
    19 lines
  • The Charge Of The 21st Lancers
    "Charge!"
        And down to the clash and the flashing of spears,
    22 lines
  • Bill's Christmases
    "Christmas," said Bill, "on Christmas cards, it's winders all aglow,
    An' lots o' stuff to eat an' drink an' a good three feet o' sno
    42 lines, 2 comments
  • Words Of Wisdom
    "Come all you young seamen, take heed now to me,
    A hard case old sailorman bred to the sea,
    52 lines
  • Sea Sorrow
    "Didn't you sail with Billy Riley las' v'yage —
    Bloke I used to know
    43 lines
  • The Old Bellringer
    "Don't sound," old Job, the ringer, said,
        "No muffled peal for I,
    28 lines
  • Hoodoo
    "Don't you sign in that 'ooker,
    Reid's Gulistan;
    39 lines
  • What The Old Man Said
    "Don't you take no sail off 'er,"
    The Ol' Man said,
    45 lines
  • The Comrade
    "Father, I gave my gold and gear,
        Cattle and goods full tale,
    79 lines
  • Witches
    "Finns, they're witches," said Murphy, "'tis born in 'em maybe,
    The same as fits, an' freckles, an' follerin' the sea,
    10 lines
  • The Boats Of The Albacore
    "Five boats there was," says Bristol Tim, "in the steamship Albacore —
    She used to sail on the Far East run 'tween Hull an' S
    27 lines
  • A Job O' Work
    "I ain't no glutton for work," said Bill, "though I done my whack in my day,
    An' I'd never say 'No' to a boss's job if such was to c
    30 lines
  • A Parting
    "I come ashore off a Cardiff tramp — the worst as ever I see:
    She was all the things you could name," said Bill, "as a ship's
    21 lines
  • Rain
    "I don't 'old with grousin' about weather,
    Nor never did, that's flat:
    35 lines
  • Mainsail Haul
    "I don't want none of 'is stuff," said Bill, "nor I don't want none of 'is gear,
    I don't want things as I've known 'im use nor thing
    39 lines
  • Squareheads
    "I never did 'ave no use for Germans" (said Bill the bosun to me,
    As he sat on the after hatchway coaming, smoking and drinking his
    53 lines
  • Home For Christmas — Old Style
    "I'm goin' to get 'er 'ome
    For Christmas," said the skipper
    65 lines, 1 comment
  • Curios
    "I've 'ad," said Dan, "a sight o' curios,
    But where they've gone, Lord knows!
    20 lines
  • Dan's Fortune
    "I've made my fortune once," said Dan,
    "A nice little pile for a sailorman,
    52 lines
  • Dan's Odyssey
    "I've sailed in a deal o' ships," said Dan,
    "Since first my sailorin' days began:
    63 lines
  • The Orkney Man
    "I've sailed onst with an Orkney man,
    A deal o' years ago," said Dan,
    10 lines
  • Ice: The Bosun's Story
    "Ice," said the bosun, sniffing like a dog
    Across the rail to wind'ard in the Cape Horn fog, —
    24 lines
  • All Sorts
    "It takes all sorts to make a world, an' the same to make a crew;
    It takes the good an' middlin' an' the rotten bad uns too;
    23 lines, 2 comments
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