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Title: Poems: New and Old

Author: Henry Newbolt

Release Date: January 22, 2008 [EBook #24405]

Language: English

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POEMS: NEW AND OLD

BY HENRY NEWBOLT

LONDON

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

1912

TO

ADMIRAL SIR REGINALD CUSTANCE

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AUTHOR'S NOTE

This volume forms a complete collection of all my published work in
verse from 1897 to 1912. It includes the contents of four previous
volumes: _Admirals All_ (1897), _The Island Race_ (1898), _The Sailing
of the Long-Ships_ (1902), and _Songs of Memory and Hope_ (1909),
together with a number of pieces added to the later editions of the
first two of these, and ten poems which have not hitherto appeared in
book form--namely, _Sailing at Dawn, The Song of the Sou' Wester, The
Middle Watch, The Little Admiral, The Song of the Guns at Sea,
Farewell, Mors Janua, Gold, The Faun_, and _Rilloby-Rill_.

The volumes above mentioned were dedicated respectively to ANDREW LANG,
to ROBERT BRIDGES, to SIR EDWARD GREY, and to LAURENCE BINYON; and I
delight to repeat these names once more, in a volume which commemorates
also the inspiration of a later friendship.

H. N.

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CONTENTS

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SONGS OF THE FLEET:
I. SAILING AT DAWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. THE SONG OF THE SOU' WESTER . . . . . . . 3
III. THE MIDDLE WATCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
IV. THE LITTLE ADMIRAL . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
V. THE SONG OF THE GUNS AT SEA . . . . . . . 9
VI. FAREWELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
ODE FOR TRAFALGAR DAY, 1905 . . . . . . . . . . 12
THE HUNDREDTH YEAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
DRAKE'S DRUM . . . .