The poems are listed by title. Click here for a listing by first line; and here by the collections in which they appear.
Title | Article/Story | First line | Notes |
The Beginnings | Mary Postgate | It was not part of their blood, | ![]() |
The Children | The Honours of War | These were our children who died | ![]() |
The Comforters | The Dog Hervey | Until thy feet have trod the Road | ![]() |
The Fabulists | My Son’s Wife | When all the world would keep a matter hid, | ![]() |
The Floods | My Son’s Wife | The rain it rains without a stay | ![]() |
Harwich Ladies | The Fringes of the Fleet | Farewell and adieu to you, Harwich Ladies, | ![]() |
Helen all Alone | In the Same Boat | There was darkness under Heaven | ![]() |
Jobson’s Amen | In the Presence | Blessed be the English and all their ways and works. | ![]() |
The Land | Friendly Brook | When Julius Fabricius, Sub-Prefect of the Weald, | ![]() |
The Legend of Mirth | The Horse Marines | The four Archangels, so the legends tell, | ![]() |
The Lowestoft Boat | The Fringes of the Fleet | In Lowestoft a boat was laid | ![]() |
MacDonough’s Song | As Easy as ABC | Whether the State can loose and bind | > ![]() |
Minesweepers | The Fringes of the Fleet | Dawn off the Foreland – the young flood making | ![]() |
The North Sea Patrol | The Fringes of the Fleet | When the East wind is brewed fresh and fresh every morning | ![]() |
The Press | The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat | The Soldier may forget his Sword, | ![]() |
Rebirth | The Edge of the Evening | Ifany God should say, | ![]() |
A Song in Storm | The Fringes of the Fleet | Be well assured that on our side | ![]() |
The Song of Seven Cities | The Vortex | I was Lord of Cities very sumptuously builded. | ![]() |
Tin Fish | The Fringes of the Fleet | The ships destroy us above | ![]() |
The Trade | Tales of “The Trade” | They bear, in place of classic names | ![]() |
A Translation | Regulus | There are whose study is of smells, | ![]() |
The Verdicts | Destroyers at Jutland | Not in the thick of the fight | ![]() |