The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON

Blow, Bugle, Blow

1808

Albert the Good

Morte D'Arthur

Opening of the "Ode on the Death of the

SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS DOYLE

The Private of the Buffs; or, the British Soldier

. 1877

1877

. 1879

1881

BRITISH POETS

FROM 1784
To 1809

ALLAN CUNNINGHAM

SCOTLAND, 1784-1842

A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea

A

WET sheet and a flowing sea,

A wind that follows fast,

And fills the white and rustling sail,
And bends the gallant mast-
And bends the gallant mast, my boys,
While, like the eagle free,

Away the good ship flies, and leaves
Old England on the lee.

"O for a soft and gentle mind!" I heard a fair one cry;

But give to me the snoring breeze

And white waves heaving highAnd white waves heaving high, my boys, The good ship tight and free; The world of waters is our home,

And merry men are we.

There's tempest in yon hornèd moon,

And lightning in yon cloud;
And hark the music, mariners!

The wind is piping loud-
The wind is piping loud, my boys,
The lightning flashing free;
While the hollow oak our palace is,
Our heritage the sea.