Patriotic Song: A book of English verse, being an anthology of the patriotic poetry of the British Empire, from the defeat of the Spanish Armada till the death of Queen Victoria
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Patriotic Song: A book of English verse, being an anthology of the patriotic poetry of the British Empire, from the defeat of the Spanish Armada till the death of Queen Victoria
English poetry; Patriotic poetry, English
When the British warrior queen 36
Where Foyle her swelling waters 216
Where the remote Bermudas ride 28
Who ’as ’eard the Ram a callin’ on the green fields o’ the sea 141
Who carries the gun 144
Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight 229
Who is he that cometh, like an honour’d guest 85
Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he 48
‘Who’ll serve the King?’ cried the sergeant aloud 57
Whom for thy race of heroes wilt thou own 78
Who to the murmurs of an earthly string 50
Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace? We have made them
a curse 89
Why is it that ye grieve, O weak in faith 249
Why lingers my gaze where the last hues of day 166
Wide are the plains to the north and the westward 262
Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro 150
Ye Mariners of England 59
Yes, let us own it in confession free 78
You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease 81
You brave heroic minds 8
Printed by BALLANTINE, HANSON & CO.
Edinburgh & London
Transcriber’s Notes
As this is a collection of poems written by many different people,
variations in punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were not changed,
although simple typographical errors were corrected.
Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Page xii: “like an individual” was printed as “like an admiral”, but
has been changed in accordance with the Erratum on page xiii.
In the Contents, the lifespan dates for several poets were omitted.
The book printed the names of the Poets at the top of each page; in this
eBook, their names precede their first poem.
Accent marks have been retained, even though other books do not
necessarily use them in the same poems. One example of this may be
found on page 13, in the ninth line of “King Harry To His Soldiers”:
“aspèct”.
Page 78: “who saw me tried too sorely” was misprinted as “tired”.
Page 186: The verse “Knell for the onset!” was printed unindented, but
the pattern of the poem suggests that it should be indented, and other
books do indent it.
Page 261: “I bid thee, Hail!” was misprinted as “the”.
The hyphenation in some Index entries was changed to match the
referenced pages.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Patriotic Song, by Various
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