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Subject: GREAT BRITAIN - NAVY
Matches Found: 7

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CAPTAINS ADVENTUROUS, by NORAH M. HOLLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Captains adventurous, from your ports of quiet
Last Line: Captains adventurous, the masters of the sea.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; World War I; First World War


DESTROYERS OFF JUTLAND, by REGINALD MCINTOSH CLEVELAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: They had hot scent across the spumy sea
Last Line: These hounds that england suckled at the birth.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; Jutland; World War I; First World War


OFF HELIGOLAND, by JESSIE EDGAR MIDDLETON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ghostly ships in a ghostly sea
Last Line: Stands the spirit, all silver-bright.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; World War I; First World War


ON THE BRITISH COMMERCIAL DEPREDATIONS, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As gallant ships as ever ocean stemm'd
Last Line: And plunder'd countries, to make commerce free
Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; Prisons And Prisoners; Ships And Shipping; Tyranny And Tyrants


THE LOSS OF H.M.S. VICTORIA, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let england mourn for these her gallant sons
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie
Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; Shipwrecks


THR DEATH OF CAPTAIN HUNT, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The watch on board the unicorn
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie
Subject(s): Sea Battles; Great Britain - Navy; Death; Naval Warfare; Dead, The


WATCHMEN OF THE NIGHT, by CECIL EDRIC MORNINGTON ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lords of the seas' great wilderness
Last Line: For sons who guard thee night and day!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; World War I; First World War