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Poems: New and Old

By Henry Newbolt

Newbolt, Henry John (1862-1938)

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Songs of the Fleet

I.

I Sailing at Dawn

II.

II The Song of the Sou' Wester

III.

III The Middle Watch

IV.

IV The Little Admiral

V.

V The Song of the Guns at Sea

VI.

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

On Spion Kop

The School at War

By the Hearth-Stone

April on Waggon Hill

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The Fourth of August

SONG OF THE SHADOW-ELVES

SONG OF THE FLOWER-SPIRITS

SONG OF THE SUN-FAYS

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

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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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On Spion Kop

Foremost of all on battle's fiery steep
Here Vertue fell, and here he sleeps his sleep.
A fairer name no Roman ever gave
To stand sole monument on Valour's grave.

Major N. H. Vertue, of the Buffs, Brigade-Major to General Woodgate, was buried where he fell, on the edge of Spion Kop, in front of the British position.