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Subject: DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS (1540-1596)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FAREWELL TO SIR JOHN NORRIS AND SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, by GEORGE PEELE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have done with care, my hearts! Aboard amain
Last Line: Whose honour and whose glory you defend.
Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); English Invasion Of Portugal - 1589; Norris, Sir John (1547-1597)


A GLIMPSE OF OCEAN, by F. H. MCMAHON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down from the crest of one great oak
Last Line: Before he comes to die.
Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Sea; Ocean


DRAKE'S DRUM, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Drake he's in his hammock an' a thousand mile away
Last Line: They shall find him ware an' wakin', as they found him long ago!
Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596)


EPIGRAM ON SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "sir drake, whom well the world's end knew"
Last Line: His fellow traveller
Subject(s): "consolation;drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596);travel;" Journeys;trips


FRANCIS DRAKE; A TRAGEDY OF THE SEA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good-morrow, winter. / still the winds are foul
Last Line: Drake. Christ comfort me!
Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tragedy; Ocean


LAST VOYAGE OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, AND SIR JOHN HAWKINS, by CHARLES FITZ-GEFFREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whenas a royal fleet, with joyful minds
Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Hawkins, Sir John (1532-1595); Sea


ODE. SITTING AND DRINKING IN THE CHAIR ..., by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chear up my mates, the wind does fairly blow
Last Line: Take for thy sail this verse, and for thy pilot mee.
Subject(s): Chairs; Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Sea; Ocean


ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 12. TO SIR FRANCIS HENRY DRAKE, BARONET, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold; the balance in the sky
Last Line: Or I have eyes for her alone.
Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596)


OF THE GREAT AND FAMOUS ... SIR FRANCIS DRAKE ..., by ROBERT HAYMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dragon that our seas did raise his crest
Last Line: To joy, annoy, friends, foes; but 'twill not be.
Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596)


SOUL OF DRAKE, by FLORENCE RIPLEY MASTIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the hour of england's peril
Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596)


TAKING OF CARTAGNA, by THOMAS GREEPE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mariners the while provide
Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Sea


THE FIRST AMERICAN SAILORS, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Five fearless knights of the first renown
Last Line: Upon american sailors.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (1539-1583); Grenville, Sir Richard (1542-1591); Hawkins, Sir John (1532-1595); Sailing & Sailors


THE SPANISH ARMADA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "some years of late, in eighty-eight"
Last Line: As they did you know when a!
Subject(s): "drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596);spanish Armada;


THE VOICE OF FRANCIS DRAKE (FROM NOMBRE DE DIOS BAY, 1919), by ETHELEAN TYSON GAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh england, mother england, the blue waves
Last Line: Down to death and victory.
Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); England; English


UPON SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S RETURN FROM HIS VOYAGE ABOUT THE WORLD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "sir francis, sir francis, sir francis is home"
Last Line: And he ne'er came home again. God bless the queen!
Subject(s): "drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596);


UPON THE CHAIR MADE OUT OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S SHIP ..., by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To this great ship, which round the globe has run
Last Line: To her in oxford, and to him in heaven.
Subject(s): Chairs; Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Librarians & Libraries; Oxford University; Library; Librarians