Ye mariners of England That guard our native seas ! Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze! Your glorious standard launch again To match another foe: And sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle... The Book of Georgian Verse - Page 962edited by - 1909 - 1313 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jean Broadhurst - Patriotic poetry - 1919 - 404 pages
...still. ALFRED AUSTIN. By permiition, Austin, ENGLISH LYBICS, Macmillan Co. YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND Ye mariners of England, That guard our native seas; Whose...every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave: Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow,... | |
| Georgine Burchill, William Louis Ettinger, Edgar Dubs Shimer - Readers - 1919 - 280 pages
...him on his return as the rich and famous Sir William Phips. — HAWTHORNE. YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND Ye mariners of England, That guard our native seas, Whose...rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. The spirit of your fathers Shall start from every wave ; For the deck it was tbeir field of fame, And ocean... | |
| Arthur Mee - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 690 pages
...the great battle of Trafalgar when the poet Campbell was 28 years of age. V/E mariners of England, 1 That guard our native seas ; Whose flag has braved,...stormy winds do blow ; While the battle rages loud and lone;, And the stormy winds do blow. The spirit of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For... | |
| James Champlin Fernald - English language - 1921 - 304 pages
...Copperfield," ch. 55. Would you have a battle-song? Take Campbell's historic lay: YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND "Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose...do blow : While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er... | |
| Mary Fontaine Laidley - English language - 1922 - 410 pages
...first sentence in the following stanza? What is the predicate verb of the first principal clause? Ye mariners of England That guard our native seas! Whose...do blow; While the battle rages loud and long And the stormy winds do blow. If we read the above stanza thoughtlessly we might Consider standard the... | |
| Schelling anniversary papers - Literature - 1923 - 362 pages
...the prospect of a Russian war. What Englishman would not thrill on hearing the splendid stanzas? Ye Mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose...every wave!— For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave: Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow,... | |
| Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...and his eight handred Shall plough the wave no more.' 3« William Confer. VE MARINERS OF ENGLAND YE Mariners of England ! That guard our native seas ;...spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave I — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave: Where Blake and mighty Nelson... | |
| Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - Lake poets - 1923 - 398 pages
...and exultation compressed into the last four lines of this stanza : — " Ye Mariners of England I That guard our native seas ; Whose flag has braved...do blow ; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. And observe the expression of pride in England's sovereignty of the sea :... | |
| Schelling anniversary papers - Literature - 1923 - 354 pages
...thousand years, The battle and the breeze ! Your glorious standard launch again To match another foe I And sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds...every wave! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave: Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow,... | |
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