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Poems: New and Old

By Henry Newbolt

Newbolt, Henry John (1862-1938)

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Songs of the Fleet

Ode for Trafalgar Day, 1905

The Hundredth Year

The Fighting Téméraire

The Bright Medusa

The Quarter-Gunner's Yarn

For a Trafalgar Cenotaph

The Death of Admiral Blake

The King's Highway

A Chanty of the Emden

A Ballad of John Nicholson

The Guides at Cabul

The Gay Gordons

A Letter From the Front

He Fell Among Thieves

The Non-Combatant

St. George's Day

Sacramentum Supremum

To Belgium, 1914

The Sailing of the Long-ships

The Grenadier's Good-Bye

The Schoolfellow

The School at War

By the Hearth-Stone

April on Waggon Hill

The Fourth of August

A Ballad of Sir Pertab Singh

The Best School of All

Victoria Regina

The King of England

Hope the Hornblower

The Final Mystery

From Generation to Generation

When I Remember

The Viking's Song

The Sufi in the City

To Edward Fitzgerald

Among the Tombs

To a River in the South

On the Death of a Noble Lady

Ad Matrem Dolorosam

Sir Hugh the Palmer

The Presentation

The Inheritance

The Pedlar's Song

Benedick's Song

Egeria's Silence

Against Oblivion

The Adventurers

The Return of Summer: An Eclogue

Song of the Children in Paladore

The Cicalas: An Idyll

Fidele's Grassy Tomb

A Song of Exmoor

Nel Mezzo Del Cammìn

Pereunt Et Imputantur

Ireland, Ireland

The Building of the Temple

An Essay on Criticism

Le Byron de Nos Jours; or, The English Bar and Cross Reviewers

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Nel Mezzo Del Cammìn

Whisper it not that late in years
Sorrow shall fade and the world be brighter,
Life be freed of tremor and tears,
Heads be wiser and hearts be lighter.
Ah! but the dream that all endears,
The dream we sell for your pottage of truth—
Give us again the passion of youth,
Sorrow shall fade and the world be brighter.