Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO THE BRITISH NAVY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography First Line: We do not like to own it Last Line: Hurrah for johnny bull! Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; World War I; English Navy; First World War | ||||||||
We do not like to own it, We wish it were not so; It's useless to bemoan it, Or hide what all may know: That we're not in the gravy, That still our fortune's full, We owe the British Navy By grace of Johnny Bull. We count our golden dollars, We count our bags of grain, -- They'd all wear German collars If William ruled the main. Poor Russia is a slavey, Poor Belgium is a hell; Without the British Navy Their fate were ours as well. That we are our own masters And hold our banner high, That infinite disasters Have passed our nation by, That still in progress wavy Our skiff of state we pull, We owe the British Navy: Hurrah for Johnny Bull! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A BATTLE SONG (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR) by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS |
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