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Sir Owen Seaman's Poetry, by popularity

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  • Tactless Tactics
    Were I a burglar in the dock
    With every chance of doing time,
    34 lines
  • Tactless Tactics.
    Were I a burglar in the dock
        With every chance of doing time,
    34 lines
  • Probation: To A King's Recruit
    Now is your time of trial, now
        When into dusk the glamour pales
    28 lines
  • The Prophetic Present
      By nature they abhor the light,
        But here in this their latest tract
    34 lines
  • The Avengers
    Not only that your cause is just and right --
        This much was never doubted; war or play,
    38 lines
  • The Wayside Calvary
    Now with the full year Memory holds her tryst
    Heavy with such a tale of bitter loss
    27 lines
  • T.M.G
    Farewell, my CONSTANTINE! A guardian navy
      Facilitates your exit on the blue;
    40 lines
  • For the Red Cross
    Ye that have gentle hearts and fain
        To succour men in need,
    25 lines
  • To the Memory of Field-Marshall Earl Roberts
    He died, as soldiers die, amid the strife,
        Mindful of England in his latest prayer;
    33 lines
  • To Belgium In Exile
    Land of the desolate, Mother of tears,
    Weeping your beauty marred and torn,
    18 lines
  • Dies Irae
    To the German Kaiser
    Amazing Monarch! who at various times,
    50 lines
  • Thomas Of The Light Heart
    Facing the guns, he jokes as well
    As any Judge upon the Bench;
    24 lines
  • Fashions For Men
      There are who hanker for a touch of colour,
        So to relieve their sombre air;
    47 lines
  • The Rhyme Of The Kipperling
    Away by the haunts of the Yang-tse-boo,
    Where the Yuletide runs cold gin,
    87 lines, 5 comments
  • Pro Patria
    England, in this great fight to which you go
    Because, where Honour calls you, go you must,
    32 lines
  • The Uses of Ocean
    To people who allege that we
    Incline to overrate the Sea
    38 lines, 1 comment
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